Tanzania captain Mbwana Samatta and Ugandan keeper Denis Onyango have been nominated for the African Player of the Year award.
The Genk striker and the Mamelodi Sundowns goalkeeper will battle it out for the top award during the ceremony set to be held early next year in Egypt.
There is no place for the Kenyan captain Victor Wanyama who has been a peripheral player at Tottenham Hotspur during the past year.
Egypt star Mohamed Salah, Idrissa Gueye of Senegal and Paris Saint-Germain, Hakim Ziyech of Morocco and Ajax, Ghana and Crystal Palace's Jordan Ayew, Naby Keita of Guinea and Liverpool and Arsenal's Nicolas Pepe are players set to give the East Africans a challenge.