2025 Africa Cup of Nations

The 2025 Africa Cup of Nations (also referred to as AFCON 2025 or CAN 2025) is scheduled to be the 35th edition of the Africa Cup of Nations, the biennial international men's football championship of Africa organized by the Confederation of African Football (CAF). The tournament is scheduled to be hosted by Guinea, thus making it the first time ever in Guinean history that the country is awarded to host the tournament.[1] The Confederation of African Football changed the dates of the tournament to June and July rather than the usual January, which will come into play as of the 2019 Tournament.[2][3] It will allow the tournament to not conflict with other major tournaments as well as allowing big name players to play for their nations in the tournament without missing games for their European club side.[4][5]

2025 Africa Cup of Nations
Coupe d'Afrique des Nations 2025
Tournament details
Host countryGuinea
DatesJune – July 2025
Teams24 (expected) (from 1 confederation)

Host selection

Host change

On 30 November 2018, CAF stripped Cameroon from hosting the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations.[6] However, CAF President Ahmad Ahmad told Cameroon accepted to host the 2021 Africa Cup of Nations. Consequently, Ivory Coast, original hosts of 2021, would host the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations, and Guinea, original hosts of 2023, would host the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations.[7]

On 30 January 2019, CAF President confirmed the timetable shift, after a meeting with Ivorian President Alassane Ouattara in Abidjan, Ivory Coast.[8]

Qualification

Qualified teams

The following teams qualified for the tournament.

Team Qualified as Qualified on Previous appearances in tournament1
 GuineaHosts8 January 201912 (1970, 1974, 1976, 1980, 1994, 1998, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2012, 2015, 2019) (may qualify in 2021, 2023)
1 Bold indicates champion for that year. Italic indicates host for that year.

Venues

With the Africa Cup of Nations expanded to 24 teams, six venues are expected to be used. The CAF has established the following requirements for stadiums:[9]

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

The host cities list will probably contain the cities which had been chosen to host the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations: Conakry, Kankan, Labé and Nzérékoré

References
  1. "Caf president Ahmad confirms Guinea will host 2025 Nations Cup". BBC Sport. 7 January 2019.
  2. "Africa Cup of Nations to switch from January staging to June in 2019". The Guardian. 21 July 2017.
  3. "Africa Cup of Nations: Date switch makes African players more attractive, say agents". BBC. 21 July 2017.
  4. "African Cup of Nations finally moved away from mid-season and expanded from 16 to 24 teams". The Independent. 21 July 2017.
  5. "FIFA Council makes key decisions for the future of football development". FIFA. 26 October 2018. Retrieved 26 October 2018.
  6. "Cameroon stripped of hosting 2019 Africa Cup of Nations". BBC. 30 November 2018.
  7. "CAN 2019 : le pays hôte sera connu le 9 janvier". Le Monde (in French). 10 December 2018.
  8. "COTE D'IVOIRE AGREES CAF TIMETABLE SHIFT". CAF. 30 January 2019.
  9. "CAN 2019 : ce que prévoit le nouveau cahier de charges" (in French). Camfoot. 13 August 2017.


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