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The 2024 African Nations Championship, known as the 2024 CHAN for short and the TotalEnergies African Nations Championship for sponsorship purposes, is scheduled to be the 8th edition of the biennial association football tournament organized by the Confederation of African Football (CAF), featuring national teams consisting of players currently playing in their respective local leagues. It was to be hosted by Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda from 1 to 28 February 2025,[1] however on 14 January 2025 it was postponed to August 2025 in the same 3 countries. [2] This will be the first edition to be hosted by three countries.[3]
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| Tournament details | |
|---|---|
| Host countries | Kenya Tanzania Uganda |
| Dates | August 2025 |
| Teams | 19 (from 1 confederation) |
← 2022 2026 → | |
Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda were named as co-hosts of the 2024 edition on 17 December 2023 as a dress rehearsal of the 2027 Africa Cup of Nations.[4]
On January 14th 2025, the day before the Final Draw took place, CAF announced that the tournament would be postponed to August 2025 to allow more time for preparations and for another qualifying round to take place to decide the final two participants.[5][6]
| City | Stadium | Capacity |
|---|---|---|
 Dar es Salaam |
Benjamin Mkapa National Stadium | 60,000 |
 Kampala |
Namboole Stadium | 45,000 |
 Nairobi |
Nyayo National Stadium | 18,000 |
| Moi International Sports Centre | 55,000 | |
| Zanzibar City |
Amaan Stadium | 20,000 |
The qualification procedures were unveiled at the CAF headquarters in Cairo, Egypt on 9 September 2024 with the qualification itself running from 25 October to 29 December 2024.[7] Libya, Morocco and Tunisia qualified for the final tournament automatically.[8] However, Libya subsequently announced its withdrawal citing a scheduling conflict.[9][10]
The following teams qualified for the main tournament:
| Team | Zone | Date of qualification |
Appearance | First appearance |
Last appearance |
Previous best performance |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Morocco |
Northern Zone | 9 October 2024 | 5th | 2014 | 2020 | Champions (2018, 2020) |
 Guinea |
Western Zone A | 28 December 2024 | 4th | 2016 | 2020 | 3rd Place (2020) |
 Senegal |
28 December 2024 | 4th | 2009 | 2022 | Champions (2022) | |
 Mauritania |
29 December 2024 | 4th | 2014 | 2022 | Quarter-finals (2022) | |
 Niger |
Western Zone B | 27 December 2024 | 5th | 2011 | 2022 | 4th Place (2022) |
 Burkina Faso |
28 December 2024 | 4th | 2014 | 2020 | Group Stage (2014, 2018, 2020) | |
 Nigeria |
28 December 2024 | 4th | 2014 | 2018 | 3rd Place (2014) | |
 Central African Republic |
Central Zone | 28 December 2024 | 1st | None | None | Debut |
 DR Congo |
28 December 2024 | 7th | 2009 | 2022 | Champions (2009, 2016) | |
 Equatorial Guinea |
21 January 2025[11] | 2nd | 2018 | 2018 | Group Stage (2018) | |
| Kenya (co-hosts) |
Central Eastern Zone | 26 September 2024 | 1st | None | None | Debut |
| Tanzania (co-hosts) |
26 September 2024 | 3rd | 2009 | 2020 | Group stage (2009, 2020) | |
| Uganda (co-hosts) |
26 September 2024 | 7th | 2011 | 2022 | Group stage (2011, 2014, 2016, 2018, 2020, 2022) | |
 Sudan |
28 December 2024 | 4th | 2011 | 2022 | 3rd Place (2011, 2018) | |
 Zambia |
Southern Zone | 15 December 2024 | 5th | 2009 | 2020 | 3rd Place (2009) |
 Angola |
28 December 2024 | 5th | 2011 | 2022 | Runner-up (2011) | |
 Madagascar |
29 December 2024 | 2nd | 2022 | 2022 | 3rd Place (2022) | |
 To be confirmed |
Repêchage winner | TBC | ||||
| To be confirmed |
Repêchage winner | TBC |
The draw was held on 15 January 2025 at the Kenyatta International Conventional Centre in Nairobi.[12]
On the morning of the draw, CAF announced the draw pots and procedure, however no formula for the seeding system was provided other than that it took into account performances in the last three editions. [13]
| Seeded | Pot A | Pot B | Pot C |
|---|---|---|---|
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The following tiebreakers will be applied to determine rankings in the groups:
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tanzania (H) |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Qualification to knockout stage |
| 2 | Madagascar |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 3 | Mauritania |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 4 | Burkina Faso |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 5 | Central African Republic |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Uganda (H) |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Qualification to knockout stage |
| 2 | Niger |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 3 | Guinea |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 4 | Team 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 5 | Team 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Senegal |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Qualification to knockout stage |
| 2 | Equatorial Guinea |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 3 | Sudan |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 4 | Nigeria |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
In the knockout stage, extra time and penalty shoot-out are used to decide the winner if necessary, except for the third place match where penalty shoot-out (no extra time) is used to decide the winner if necessary (Regulations Article 75).
| Quarter-finals | Semi-finals | Final | ||||||||
| August 2025 | ||||||||||
| Winners Group A | ||||||||||
| August 2025 | ||||||||||
| Runners-up Group B | ||||||||||
| W37 | ||||||||||
| August 2025 | ||||||||||
| W40 | ||||||||||
| Winners Group D | ||||||||||
| August 2025 | ||||||||||
| Runners-up Group C | ||||||||||
| W41 | ||||||||||
| August 2025 | ||||||||||
| W42 | ||||||||||
| Winners Group C | ||||||||||
| August 2025 | ||||||||||
| Runners-up Group D | ||||||||||
| W39 | ||||||||||
| August 2025 | ||||||||||
| W38 | Third place match | |||||||||
| Winners Group B | ||||||||||
| August 2025 | ||||||||||
| Runners-up Group A | ||||||||||
| L41 | ||||||||||
| L42 | ||||||||||
| A1 | Match 37 | B2 |
|---|---|---|
| B1 | Match 38 | A2 |
|---|---|---|
| C1 | Match 39 | D2 |
|---|---|---|
| D1 | Match 40 | C2 |
|---|---|---|
| W37 | Match 41 | W40 |
|---|---|---|
| W39 | Match 42 | W38 |
|---|---|---|
| L41 | Match 43 | L42 |
|---|---|---|
| W41 | Match 44 | W42 |
|---|---|---|
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