Morocco to host the next AFCON from July to August 2025
The next Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) to be hosted by Morocco will now take place from July to August 2025.
It was originally planned to take place from January- to February 2025, but the competition will now be held in the summer.
The Confederation of African Football (CAF) has agreed in principle for the competition to be held in July-August 2025 in Morocco.
The first 32-team Club World Cup is scheduled for June 2025 and to avoid interfering with the AFCON, the competition had to be slatted for July-August.
On Monday, an official from the committee in charge of competitions reportedly told RFI 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.
CAF President Patrice Motsepe has not given a signal of the exact dates for the postponed AFCON.
Qualifying for the AFCON 2025 are now for March 20 to 26 starting with a preliminary round.
This agreement was reached under the aegis of FIFA after a series of talks which intensified during the last edition held in Cote d’Ivoire,” they continued. The official concluded stating that the currently proposed dates are from around July 20 to August 17, 2025.
The two previous CANs had been postponed by CAF due to adverse weather conditions.
CAN 2021 was played in January through February of 2022 in Cameroon and was won by Senegal, while the latest African Cup began on January 13, 2024, in Cote d’Ivoire, resulting in the hosts lifting the winning trophy.
