At the beginning of February, Patrice Motsepele, president of the Confederation of African Football (CAF), still refused to give a precise date for the next edition of the CAN.
Initially scheduled for January and February 2025 in Morocco, it was postponed to an indefinite date.
We now know more about the calendar.
It will be held in the summer... and while the International Federation (Fifa) is organizing its first major Club World Cup with 32 teams from June 15 to July 13 in the United States.
A traffic jam of competitions during the summer which risks causing serious headaches for certain clubs who would be deprived of their players for a long period of time.
On Monday, an official of the committee in charge of competitions told AFP on condition of anonymity that there was "an agreement in principle between CAF and the Moroccan Football Federation for the CAN to be held during the summer, more precisely in July and August » 2025.
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“This agreement was reached under the aegis of Fifa after talks that began several months ago and which intensified during the last edition concluded this month in Ivory Coast,” he continued. .
“The currently proposed dates are from July 20 to August 16 or 17, 2025,” he concluded.
The two previous African Cup of Nations have already been postponed.
CAN 2021 was played in January-February 2022 in Cameroon, and the latest African Cup, still officially called CAN 2023, began on January 13 in Ivory Coast before being won by the host country on February 11.
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Furthermore, the qualifications for CAN 2025 have still not started.
A preliminary round is scheduled from March 18 to 26 according to the CAF calendar.
CAN 2027 must be organized in three countries, Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda.