2025 Africa Cup of Nations

The 2025 Africa Cup of Nations, known for short as the 2025 AFCON or CAN 2025, is scheduled to be the 35th edition of the biennial African international association football tournament organized by CAF.[1]

2025 Africa Cup of Nations
  • Coupe d'Afrique des Nations 2025
  • كأس الأمم الأفريقية 2025
Tournament details
Host countryTBD
DatesTBA
Teams24

The edition of the tournament will be the 2nd to take place in the northern summer since the 2019 edition to reduce scheduling conflicts with European club teams and competitions.[2][3][4][5]

Guinea was the set to be the original host of the tournament but CAF stripped it of hosting rights after affirming its inadequacy of hosting preparations.[6]

Host selection

Host shift

CAF stripped Cameroon from hosting the 2019 edition on 30 November 2018 due the lack of speed of progress in preparations,[7] but accepted former CAF President Ahmad Ahmad's request to stage the next edition in 2021. Consequently, the original hosts of 2021, Ivory Coast, became hosts of the 2023 edition with Guinea instead hosting the 2025 edition.[8] CAF President confirmed the timetable shift after a meeting with Ivorian President Alassane Ouattara in Abidjan, Ivory Coast on 30 January 2019.[9]

Fresh host bidding

On 30 September 2022, CAF president Dr. Patrice Motsepe announced that Guinea was stripped of hosting the 2025 edition due to inadequacy and speed of progress in hosting preparations. Consequently, a new process was re-opened for a replacement host bidder.[10]

Bids:

Bidding process timelines:[16]

  • 11 November 2022: Deadline for submitting the Declaration of Interest form
  • 16 November 2022: Deadline for CAF to send the hosting documents to Member Associations that have declared their interest.
  • 16 December 2022: Deadline for Member Associations to submit their final bid, including all bidding and hosting documents (hosting agreement, host cities agreement, Government guarantees)
  • 20 March–2 April 2023: Inspection visits
  • 15 August 2023: Appointment of Host Country/Countries by the CAF Executive Committee[17]

Qualification

Qualified teams

The following teams have qualified for the tournament.

Team Method of
qualification		 Date of
qualification		 Finals
appearance		 Last
appearance		 Previous best
performance		 FIFA ranking
at start of event

Venues

CAF has established the following requirements for the expected 6 stadiums for this edition of the tournament:[18]

Number of StadiumsCapacity
(Minimum)
2 Stadiums40,000
2 Stadiums20,000
2 Stadiums15,000

References
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  2. "Africa Cup of Nations to switch from January staging to June in 2019". The Guardian. 21 July 2017. Retrieved 20 July 2018.
  3. "Africa Cup of Nations: Date switch makes African players more attractive, say agents". BBC Sport. 21 July 2017. Retrieved 25 July 2017.
  4. Imary, Gerald (21 July 2017). "African Cup of Nations finally moved away from mid-season and expanded from 16 to 24 teams". The Independent. Archived from the original on 25 July 2017. Retrieved 25 July 2017.
  5. "FIFA Council makes key decisions for the future of football development". FIFA. 26 October 2018. Archived from the original on 26 October 2018. Retrieved 26 October 2018.
  6. "Guinea stripped of 2025 Africa Cup of Nations: CAF president". beIN Sports. 30 September 2022. Retrieved 23 December 2022.
  7. "Cameroon stripped of hosting 2019 Africa Cup of Nations". BBC Sport. 30 November 2018. Retrieved 1 December 2018.
  8. "CAN 2019 : le pays hôte sera connu le 9 janvier" [CAN 2019: the host country will be known on January 9]. Le Monde (in French). 10 December 2018. Retrieved 1 February 2019.
  9. "COTE D'IVOIRE AGREES CAF TIMETABLE SHIFT". CAFOnline.com. 30 January 2019. Archived from the original on 22 May 2019. Retrieved 1 February 2019.
  10. Diallo, Abubakr (1 October 2022). "CAF : qui va organiser la CAN 2025 retirée à la Guinée ?" [CAF: who will organize the CAN 2025 withdrawn from Guinea?]. Afrik (in French). Retrieved 1 December 2022.
  11. "ALGÉRIE : LES FENNECS VEULENT REMPLACER LA GUINÉE POUR ORGANISER LA CAN 2025 !" [🚨 Algeria: the Fennecs want to replace Guinea to organize CAN 2025!]. Onze Mondial (in French). 1 October 2022. Retrieved 1 December 2022.
  12. Football, CAF-Confedération Africaine du. "CAF receives declaration of interest from six countries for the Africa Cup of Nations 2025 hosting". CAFOnline.com. Retrieved 7 May 2023.
  13. "Source fédérale: le Maroc candidat à l'organisation de la CAN 2025" [Federal source: Morocco candidate for the organization of CAN 2025]. Le 360 Morocco (in French). 1 October 2022. Retrieved 5 October 2022.
  14. "AFCON 2025: CAF to name new host In 2023". Blueprint Newspapers Nigeria. 28 October 2022. Retrieved 1 December 2022.
  15. Musisi, Frederic (15 January 2023). "Six nations bid to replace Guinea as 2025 Africa Cup hosts". Monitor Uganda. Retrieved 1 December 2022.
  16. "CAF re-opens bidding process for the TotalEnergies Africa Cup of Nations 2025 hosting rights". CAFOnline.com. 26 October 2022. Retrieved 1 November 2022.
  17. Football, CAF-Confedération Africaine du. "CAF Executive Committee unanimously supports Morocco's FIFA World Cup 2030 bid". CAFOnline.com. Retrieved 6 April 2023.
  18. Wandji, Arthur (13 August 2017). "CAN 2019 : ce que prévoit le nouveau cahier de charges" [CAN 2019: what the new specifications provide]. Camfoot (in French). Retrieved 23 December 2017.
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