CAF announces date for Morocco 2025 Africa Cup of Nations

By Oyediji Oluwaseun Babatunde

The Confederation of African Football (CAF) announced the date for the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) at its Executive Committee meeting on Friday.

The next AFCON which suppose to hold early or middle of 2025 in Morocco has been shifted to take place at the end of the year.

The opening match of AFCON 2025 has been scheduled for Sunday 21 December 2025 with the final natch on Sunday 18 January 2026.

The President of CAF Dr Patrice Motsepe said: “I am confident that the CAF TotalEnergies AFCON Morocco 2025 will be extremely successful and will be the best AFCON in the history of this competition.

“I am also impressed by the enormous growth of Women’s Football in Africa and I am expecting the CAF TotalEnergies WAFCON Morocco 2024 to be immensely successful. The announcement of the dates of the CAF TotalEnergies AFCON Morocco 2025 took much longer than expected, as there were complex and at times challenging discussions with various interested parties, in the light of the extensive International and Domestic Match Calendars. CAF is committed to protecting and advancing the interests of African players, playing in football clubs in Europe and worldwide.

“CAF is also committed to building mutually beneficial relationships with the ECA, UEFA, other Football Confederations and FIFA. We will continue to make significant progress in developing and ensuring that African Football is globally competitive and amongst the best in the World. CAF is grateful to King Mohamed VI of Morocco, the Fédération Royale Marocaine de Football (“FRMF”), its President Fouzi Lekjaa, the Government and people of Morocco for hosting the CAF TotalEnergies AFCON Morocco 2025 and the CAF TotalEnergies WAFCON Morocco 2024.”

The Fédération Royale Marocaine de Football President Mr Fouzi Lekjaa said: “We hope that the CAF TotalEnergies AFCON Morocco 2025 will be the best event to honour Africa and Morocco will make available the best conditions to host the rest of Africa and the World.”

CAF EXCOS also announced the date for the 2024 Women’s Africa Cup of Nations (WAFCON) taking place in Morocco for the middle of 2025.