French newspaper “L’Equipe” announced that the start date of the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations competition scheduled in Morocco has been postponed to the beginning of 2026.
The delay, according to the sports newspaper is due to the overlap of the African competition with the Club World Cup finals, which will be held in the summer of 2025 in the United States of America, with the participation of 32 teams.
The newspaper added, quoting Veron Mosengo-Omba, the secretary general of the African football governing body, that “CAF” decided to postpone the AFCON finals to early 2026, to make way for the Club World Cup in its new version, between June 15 and July 13, 2025.
“We could program the AFCON finals after the Club World Cup in the summer, but that would not be in favor of African players who would have to participate in the World Cup in America and then return to participate directly in the AFCON; it is not easy for them after a hard season,” Mosengo-Omba explained.
Hesport had previously reported through its own sources that the African Football Confederation, in coordination with FIFA and the Moroccan Football University, reached an agreement to postpone the Africa Cup of Nations finals scheduled for the summer of 2025 to between the end of 2025 and the beginning of 2026.
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