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 35^e 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 the qualifications For this Africa Cup of Nations has not yet been carried out among the 48 remaining teams, after the playoffs in March, who They saw Chad, Liberia, South Sudan, and Eswatini join the qualifiers for this final phase.

The following edition of the CAN is organized in three countries: Uganda, Kenya, and Tanzania. Scheduled for 2027, it could also to be décalée.