Morocco set to edge Nigeria-Benin to AFCON 2025 hosting rights

Ahead Thursday’s 45th CAF Ordinary General Assembly be hosted in Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire on 13 July 2023, the CAF Executive Committee will discuss key issues about African football.

The meeting will deliberate on a number of matters including the on-going bidding process of  CAF Africa Cup of Nations 2025 and CAF Africa Cup of Nations 2027.

The front runners for the two events are Morocco and Algeria respectively. It is anticipated that Morocco, owing to facilities available and the organizational skills that the kingdom has shown, it is expected to be named as hosts of the 2025 edition.

That will most likely put the continent’s premier competition back on its originally set timetable.

Since the 2013 edition when CAF opted for the odd year in the hosting of the competition, the Africa Cup of Nations has never been held on the expected time and location.

The 2019 edition for instance had a change of hosting rights while that of 2021 had to be held in 2022. Again, the 2023 edition will hold in 2024.

The 2025 edition was originally slated for Guinea before the hosting rights were cancelled. Morocco have a chain of success to lean on for the kingdom as the favourable hosts for the 2025 edition.