AFCON 2025: qualifying draw date confirmed
The road to AFCON 2025 in Morocco will officially get under way on Thursday 4 July 2024 with the draw for the qualifiers
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One doubt has been cleared up over the organisation of AFCON 2025. While the exact dates of the tournament are still being debated, the Confederation of African Football has confirmed when the qualifying draw will take place. It will be held on 4 July, staged from Johannesburg at the SuperSport studios at 12:30 GMT.
48 nations, including the four winners of the preliminary round (Chad, Eswatini, Liberia and South Sudan), will be split into 12 groups of four teams.
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Reigning African champions Ivory Coast head the list of nations confirmed for the draw, along with Algeria, Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Verde, the Central African Republic, Chad, the Comoros, Congo, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Eswatini and Ethiopia.
Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Morocco, Mauritania, Mozambique and Namibia will also be in the draw.
The other countries involved are Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sao Tome and Principe, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Tunisia, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
The qualifiers for AFCON 2025 are due to kick off in September 2024. Only 23 teams will qualify for AFCON 2025. They will join Morocco, who have already qualified as hosts.