CAN 2025: it is official, it will take place from December 21, 2025 to January 18, 2026 in Morocco
After long deliberations, the African Football Confederation has finally made a decision, and the most logical hypothesis prevails: the AFCON, organized in Morocco, will take place at the end of 2025 and the beginning of 2026.
Initially scheduled au Morocco in the summer of 2025, so as not to deprive many European clubs of their African internationals in January-February, the 35e edition of the AFCON se would then be overlapped with the Club World Cup with 32 teams, which FIFA is organizing in the United States from June 15 to 13 July 2025.
The opening match will therefore take place on December 21, 2025, and the final on January 18, 2026, it was indicated by the CAF On its website. The Women's Africa Cup will take place from July 5 to July 26, 2025.
The draw of thequalificationsFor this Africa Cup of Nations has not yet been carried out among the 48 remaining teams, after the playoffs in March,whoThey saw Chad, Liberia, South Sudan, and Eswatini join the qualifiers for this final phase.
The following edition of theCANis organized in three countries: Uganda, Kenya, and Tanzania. Scheduled for 2027, it could alsoto bedécalée.
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