Morocco will host the 2025 African Cup of Nations but it will not start until late December with the final taking place at the start of 2026.Morocco will host the 2025 African Cup of Nations but it will not start until late December with the final taking place at the start of 2026.. Which is something, given neither of the past two Cups of Nations were played in the right year. But it won’t end in 2025, kicking off on 21 December and finishing on 18 January.
For two decades the schedule remained the same, with Issa Hayatou, the longtime president of Caf, robustly defending the principle that the Cup of Nations should be played every two years. It is, after all, the biggest source of revenue for the African game, generating far more money than the club competitions and, given how few qualifying slots there are for African nations at the World Cup , it was the only way most African countries could experience international competition.
That he presided over an institution that was dysfunctional and often corrupt is obvious , but on certain fundamentals of the African game he was impressively immovable.
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