Showing posts with label Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers. Show all posts

30 October 2024

Lost an official elimination game

On 15 October Libya and Nigeria were supposed to play its group D qualifying match for the Africa Cup of nations 2025/26. But prior of their arrival the visiting players were mistreated at the airport by the local people and after a long wait they decided to return back home.
Therefore, the organizers of the event brought a verdict that this game will never be replayed, Libya automatically looses this duel 3:0, and also its football association have to pay a financial fine of 50,000 dollars (46,223 euros).

19 October 2024

Awaiting for the decision

On Tuesday Libya and Nigeria had to entertain each other from qualifiers of the Africa Cup of nations 2025/26, however prior to that, this duel was cancelled because of an unusual incident.
This game got postponed because the visitors have complained of poor treatment and reception of its players and staff from locals that was stuck at Baninah airport for more than 12 hours without any food, communications, and transport for someone to collect and took them to the hotel. Angrily and exhausted the footballers have decided to return back, although they were aware that the game might be lost. Immediately the Disciplinary committee of the African football organization is reviewing the whole case, and the final outcome of who is to blame and who is not will be announced in Ethiopia when the Executive committee meeting is scheduled for 22 October.

16 October 2024

Quickest opener of these qualifiers was achieved

Elimination matches for Africa Cup of nations - Morocco 2025 / 2026, duel 4, night 3 of 3:

Lesotho - Gabon 0:2 (neutral terrain)

Scorers: 0:1 54 Shavy Babicka
               0:2 84 Rody Effaghe

Tanzania - Democratic Republic of Congo 0:2

Scorer: 0:1 87 Meschack Elia
             0:2 90+2 Meschack Elia

Chad - Zambia 0:1 (neutral place)

Scorer: 0:1 69 Kennedy Musonda

- Marius Mouandilmadji has failed to convert a penalty for Chad at 84.

Sudan - Ghana 2:0

Scorers: 1:0 62 Ahmed al-Tash
               2:0 64 Mohamed Abdel Raman

South Sudan - Uganda 1:2

Scorers: 0:1 14 Denis Omedi
               1:1 20 Yohanna Juma
               1:2 65-own goal Alfred Leku

Malawi - Senegal 0:1

Scorer: 0:1 90+5 Sadio Mane

Guinea-Bissau - Mali 0:0

Rwanda - Benin 2:1

Scorers: 0:1 42 Andreas Hountondji
               1:1 69 Innocent Nshuti
               2:1 75-pen Djihad Bizimana

Sierra Leone - Ivory coast 1:0 (neutral stadium)

Scorer: 1:0 84 Amadou Bakayoko

Botswana - Cape Verde 1:0

Scorer: 1:0 52 Thabang Sesinyi

Congo - South Africa 1:1

Scorers: 0:1 33 Elias Mokwana
               1:1 45+2 Mons Bassouamina

Niger - Angola 0:1 (neutral arena)

Scorer: 0:1 01 (48 seconds) Ambrosini Cabaca

Mauritania - Egypt 0:1

Scorer: 0:1 88 Ibrahim Adel

Central African Republic - Morocco 0:4 (neutral ground)

Scorers: 0:1 34 Eliesse ben Seghir
               0:2 37 Eliesse ben Seghir
               0:3 49-pen Youssef en Nesyri
               0:4 65 Abdessamad Ezzalzouli

Ethiopia - Guinea 0:3 (neutral location)

Scorers: 0:1 15 Serhou Guirassy
               0:2 19 Abdoulaye Toure
               0:3 23-pen Serhou Guirassy

Comoros - Tunisia 1:1 (neutral soil)

Scorers: 1:0 49 Faiz Selemani
               1:1 68 Yassine Meriah

Libya - Nigeria suspended

- The guests have returned home (this Monday night) after they were badly treated at the Libyan airport.

15 October 2024

Collected all prey in stoppage time

Elimination matches for Africa Cup of nations - Morocco 2025 / 2026, duel 4, night 2 of 3:

Kenya - Cameroon 0:1 (neutral location)

Scorer: 0:1 63 (62.43) Boris Enow

Gambia - Madagascar 1:0 (neutral stadium)

Scorer: 1:0 62 Musa Barrow

- Gambia could have taken the lead at 28, but the 11 metre punishment from Musa Barrow was perfectly saved.

Liberia - Equatorial Guinea 1:2

Scorers: 0:1 19 Luis Asue
               1:1 53 William Gibson
               1:2 90+4 Dorian Hanza

Togo - Algeria 0:1

Scorer: 0:1 18-pen (17.29) Ramy Bensebaini

Zimbabwe - Namibia 3:1 (neutral place)

Scorers: 1:0 49 Walter Musona
               2:0 60-pen Walter Musona
               3:0 89 Prince Dube
               3:1 90 Godwin Silveador Claudius Eiseb

Eswatini - Mozambique 0:3 (neutral soil)

Scorers: 0:1 10 Elias Gaspar
               0:2 40 Stanley Ratifo
               0:3 59 Geny Catamo

14 October 2024

Alone match

Elimination match for Africa Cup of nations - Morocco 2025 / 2026, duel 4, night 1 of 3:

Burundi - Burkina Faso 0:2 (neutral location)

Scorers: 0:1 04 (04.11) Mohamed Konate
               0:2 90+4-pen (93.38) Bertrand Traore

13 October 2024

Hattrick number one for end of round three

Elimination matches for Africa Cup of nations - Morocco 2025 / 2026, duel 3, night 3 of 3:

Guinea - Ethiopia 4:1 (neutral place)

Scorers: 1:0 18-pen (17.48) Serhou Guirassy
               2:0 37 (36.47) Serhou Guirassy
               3:0 45+1 (46.14) Serhou Guirassy
               4:0 47 (47.08) Seydouba Cisse
               4:1 52 (52.09) Kenean Markneh

Morocco - Central African Republic 5:0

Scorers: 1:0 17 (17.12) Abdessamad Ezzalzouli
               2:0 37 (37.11) Azzedine Ounahi
               3:0 45 (44.35) Achraf Hakimi
               4:0 45+2 (46.28) Azzedne Ounahi
               5:0 71-pen (70.21) Soufiane Rahimi

12 October 2024

Different fates of three punishments on one match

Elimination matches for Africa Cup of nations - Morocco 2025 / 2026, duel 3, night 2 of 3:

Mozambique - Eswatini 1:1

Scorers: 1:0 73 Stanley Ratifo
               1:1 79 Thubelihle Mavuso

Equatorial Guinea - Liberia 1:0

Scorer: 1:0 33-pen (33.16) Ivan Salvador

Zambia - Chad 0:0

Madagascar - Gambia 1:1 (neutral arena)

Scorers: 1:0 45+2 Clement Couturier
               1:1 90+7 Yankuba Minteh

Cameroon - Kenya 4:1

Scorers: 1:0 08-pen Vincent Aboubakar
               2:0 39 Martin Hongla
               2:1 40 Michael Olunga
               3:1 42 Bryan Mbeumo
               4:1 54 Christian Bassogog

Egypt - Mauritania 2:0

Scorers: 1:0 69 Mahmoud Ibrahim Hassan
               2:0 79 Mohamed Salah

Benin - Rwanda 3:0

Scorers: 1:0 07 Steve Mounie
               2:0 67 Andreas Hountondji
               3:0 69 Hassane Imourane

Uganda - South Sudan 1:0

Scorer: 1:0 47 Bevis Mugabi

Nigeria - Libya 1:0

Scorer: 1:0 87 Fisayo Dele-Bashiru

South Africa - Congo 5:0

Scorers: 1:0 12 Teboho Mokoena
               2:0 27 Teboho Mokoena
               3:0 37 Bathusi Jurry Aubaas
               4:0 52 Lyle Foster
               5:0 78 Iqraam Rayners

Mali - Guinea-Bissau 1:0

Scorer: 1:0 62 El Bilal Toure

Tunisia - Comoros 0:1

Scorer: 0:1 63 Rafiki Said

Gabon - Lesotho 0:0

Ivory coast - Sierra Leone 4:1

Scorers: 1:0 03 Nicolas Pepe
               1:1 43 Alhassan Koroma
               2:1 50 Franck Kessie
               3:1 75-pen Franck Kessie
               4:1 87-pen Oumar Diakite

- At 37 the home midfielder Franck Kessie has hit the bar from 11 metres.

Senegal - Malawi 4:0

Scorers: 1:0 35 Pape Gueye
               2:0 68 Sadio Mane
               3:0 70 Boulaye Dia
               4:0 77 Nicolas Jackson

- Brighton Munhali (Malawi) received a direct red card at 15.

Angola - Niger 2:0

Scorers: 1:0 75-pen Agostinho Cristovao Paciencia
               2:0 84 Felicio Milson

11 October 2024

Night games were more excited than daily ones

Elimination matches for Africa Cup of nations - Morocco 2025 / 2026, duel 3, night 1 of 4:

Namibia - Zimbabwe 0:1 (neutral arena)

Scorer: 0:1 34-pen Khama Billiat

Ghana - Sudan 0:0

Democratic Republic of Congo - Tanzania 1:0

Scorer: 1:0 63-own goal Clement Mzize

Cape Verde - Botswana 0:1

Scorer: 0:1 02 Tumisang Orebonye

Algeria - Togo 5:1

Scorers: 1:0 10 Thibault Klidje
               1:1 29 Said Benrahma
               2:1 54-pen Said Benrahma
               3:1 68 Hossem Aouar
               4:1 85 Amine Gouiri
               5:1 90+4 Mohamed Amoura

Burkina Faso - Burundi 4:1 (neutral location)

Scorers: 0:1 04 Bienvenue Kanakimana
               1:1 32 Dango Ouattara
               2:1 34 Sacha Banse
               3:1 44 Dango Ouattara
               4:1 49 Issoufou Dayo

07 October 2024

Same pair will meet each other twice

Some teams are resting, but plenty of them are engaging from all 6 confederations: playing qualifying and official matches for 3 major tournaments (out of which 1 is sharing the same name with the other).
Elimination duels for the Africa cup of nations 2025 / 2026 are entering into the middle phase, so this month 2 teams will meet each other 2 times in a space of few days / nights in reverse sequence. Because it is extremely difficult to find the exact schedule, the following games have to start like this: 

Game 3
09 October, Wednesday at 15.00 CEt: Namibia - Zimbabwe (playing at Johannesburg, South Africa).

10 October, Thursday at 18.00 CEt: Cape Verde - Botswana.
10 October, Thursday at 18.00 CEt: Democratic Republic of Congo - Tanzania.
10 October, Thursday at 18.00 CEt: Ghana - Sudan.
10 October, Thursday at 21.00 CEt: Algeria - Togo.
10 October, Thursday at 21.00 CEt: Burkina Faso - Burundi (playing at Abidjan, Ivory coast).

11 October, Friday at 15.00 CEt: Equatorial Guinea - Liberia.
11 October, Friday at 15.00 CEt: Mozambique - Eswatini.
11 October, Friday at 15.00 CEt: Zambia - Chad.
11 October, Friday at 18.00 CEt: Benin - Rwanda.
11 October, Friday at 18.00 CEt: Cameroon - Kenya.
11 October, Friday at 18.00 CEt: Egypt - Mauritania.
11 October, Friday at 18.00 CEt: Madagascar - Gambia (playing at Casablanca, Morocco).
11 October, Friday at 18.00 CEt: Nigeria - Libya.
11 October, Friday at 18.00 CEt: Uganda - South Sudan.
11 October, Friday at 19.00 CEt: South Africa - Congo.
11 October, Friday at 21.00 CEt: Angola - Niger.
11 October, Friday at 21.00 CEt: Gabon - Lesotho.
11 October, Friday at 21.00 CEt: Ivory coast - Sierra Leone.
11 October, Friday at 21.00 CEt: Mali - Guinea-Bissau.
11 October, Friday at 21.00 CEt: Senegal - Malawi.
11 October, Friday at 21.00 CEt: Tunisia - Comoros.

12 October, Saturday at 18.00 CEt: Guinea - Ethiopia (playing at Abidjan, Ivory coast).
12 October, Saturday at 21.00 CEt: Morocco - Central African Republic.

Game 4
13 October, Sunday at 18.00 CEt: Burundi - Burkina Faso (playing at Abidjan, Ivory coast).

12 September 2024

Hardly earned three points after comeback deep into stoppage time

Elimination matches for Africa Cup of nations - Morocco 2025 / 2026, duels 2, night 3 of 3:

Mozambique - Guinea-Bissau 2:1

Scorers: 1:0 04 Ricardo Martins Guimaraes
               1:1 24 Mama Balde
               2:1 73 Elias Macamo

Eswatini - Mali 0:1 (neutral location)

Scorer: 0:1 Yves Bissouma

Rwanda - Nigeria 0:0

South Sudan - South Africa 2:3

Scorers: 1:0 14-pen Tito Okello
               1:1 17 Oswin Appollis
               1:2 45+2 Oswin Appollis
               2:2 57 Valentino Kuach Yuel
               2:3 90+5 Thalenthe Mbatha

Namibia - Kenya 1:2 (neutral spot)

Scorers: 0:1 57 John Avire
               0:2 75 Duke Abuya
               1:2 90+4 Deon Hotto

Gabon - Central African Republic 2:0

Scorers: 1:0 10-pen Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang
               2:0 39 Shavy Warren Babicka

Botswana - Egypt 0:4

Scorers: 0:1 04 Mahmoud Trezeguet
               0:2 29 Mahmoud Trezeguet
               0:3 55 Mohamed Salah
               0:4 90+3 Mostafa Fathi

Liberia - Algeria 0:3

Scorers: 0:1 17 Amine Gouiri
               0:2 24 Adem Zorgane
               0:3 79 Bahdad Bounedjah

Guinea - Tanzania 1:2 (neutral place)

Scorers: 1:0 57 Mohamed Bayo
               1:1 60 Feisal Salum
               1:2 88 Mudathir Yahya

Zimbabwe - Cameroon 0:0 (neutral venue)

Cape Verde - Mauritania 2:0

Scorer: 1:0 28-pen Ryan Mendes
             2:0 74 Ryan Mendes

Zambia - Sierra Leone 3:2

Scorers: 1:0 28 Kennedy Musonda
               1:1 33 Augustus Kargbo
               2:1 69 Kelvin Kampamba
               2:2 73 Hindolo Mustapha
               3:2 84 Kings Kangwa

Benin - Libya 2:1 (neutral terrain)

Scorers: 0:1 09-pen Faisal al Badri
               1:1 49 Steve Mounie
               2:1 62-pen Junior Olaitan

Chad - Ivory coast 0:2 (neutral stadium)

Scorers: 0:1 45+3 Jean-Philippe Krasso
               0:2 54 Oumar Diakite

Burkina faso - Malawi 3:1 (neutral arena)

Scorers: 1:0 36 Lassina Traore
               2:0 38 Lassina Traore
               3:0 59-pen Boureima Hassane Bande
               3:1 79 Zeliat Nkhoma

10 September 2024

After leading twice, the hosts have missed to retain the whole prey

Elimination matches for Africa Cup of nations - Morocco 2025 / 2026, duels 2, night 2 of 3:

Burundi - Senegal 0:1 (neutral place)

Scorer: 0:1 70-pen Ismailla Sarr

Equatorial Guinea - Togo 2:2

Scorers: 1:0 17 Luis Nlavo Asue
               1:1 44 Roger Aholou
               2:1 74 Jannick Buyla
               2:2 90+5 Kodjo fo-doh Laba

Niger - Ghana 1:1 (neutral stadium)

Scorers: 0:1 44 Alidu Seidu
               1:1 80 Oumar Sako

Uganda - Congo 2:0

Scorers: 1:0 20 Aziz Abdu Kayondo
               2:0 85 Jude Ssemugabi

Madagascar - Comoros 1:1 (neutral arena)

Scorers: 1:0 09 Charles Carolus Andriamatsinoro
               1:1 40 Youssouf M'Changama

Angola - Sudan 1:1

Scorers: 1:0 49-pen Agostinho Cristovao Paciencia
               1:1 80 Randy Nteka

Lesotho - Morocco 0:1 (neutral terrain)

Scorer: 0:1 90+3 Brahim Diaz

Ethiopia - Democratic Republic of Congo 0:2 (neutral location)

Scorers: 0:1 62 Theo Bongonda
               0:2 75 Fiston Mayele

09 September 2024

Lonely match

Elimination matches for Africa Cup of nations - Morocco 2025 / 2026, duel 2, night 1 of 3:

Gambia - Tunisia 1:2 (neutral location)

Scorers: 1:0 10 Ali Abdi
               1:1 14 Ali Sowe
               1:2 74 Mohamed ali ben Romdhane

07 September 2024

Home victories all the way

Elimination matches for Africa Cup of nations - Morocco 2025, stage 1, night 4 of 4:

Mauritania - Botswana 1:0

Scorer: 1:0 84 Sidi Bouna Amar

Nigeria - Benin 3:0

Scorers: 1:0 45+1 Ademola Lookman
               2:0 78 Victor Osimhen
               3:0 83 Ademola Lookman

Cameroon - Namibia 1:0

Scorer: 1:0 64 Vincent Aboubakar

Valuable points were saved in stoppage times for three teams

Elimination matches for Africa Cup of nations - Morocco 2025, stage 1, night 3 of 4:

Kenya - Zimbabwe 0:0

Togo - Liberia 1:1

Scorers: 1:0 78 Steeve Kevin Denkey
               1:1 90+2 William Gibson

Democratic Republic of Congo - Guinea 1:0

Scorer: 1:0 27 Edoard Kayembe

South Africa - Uganda 2:2

Scorers: 1:0 14 Lyle Foster
               1:1 50 Denis Omedi
               1:2 52 rogers Mato
               2:2 90+5 Thalenthe Mbatha

Sierra leone - Chad 0:0 (neutral location)

Egypt - Cape Verde 3:0

Scorers: 1:0 19 Rami Rabia
               2:0 45 Omar Marmoush
               3:0 69 Ibrahim Adel

Morocco - Gabon 4:1

Scorers: 1:0 09-pen Hakim Ziyech
               2:0 25-pen Hakim Ziyech
               2:1 39-pen Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang
               3:1 59 Brahim Diaz
               4:1 82 Ayoub el Kaabi

- On 15 Gabon had a punishment, but the 11 metre shot from Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang hit the bar. 

Senegal - Burkina faso 1:1

Scorers: 1:0 15 Sadio Mane
               1:1 90+4 Ousseni Bouda

Mali - Mozambique 1:1

Scorers: 0:1 37 Geny Catamo
               1:1 52 Yves Bissouma

Ivory coast - Zambia 2:0

Scorer: 1:0 69 Jean-Philippe Krasso
             2:0 84 Jean-Philippe Krasso

06 September 2024

Identical results were written four times

Elimination matches for Africa Cup of nations - Morocco 2025, stage 1, night 2 of 4:

Malawi - Burundi 2:3

Scorers: 0:1 22-own goal Chimwemwe Idana
               1:1 30 Chawanangwa Kaonga
               1:2 33 Jean Claude Girumugisha
               2:2 74 Lanjesi Nkhoma
               2:3 84 Mokono Eldhino

Guinea-Bissau - Eswatini 1:0

Scorer: 1:0 14 Bura Nogueira

Congo - South Sudan 1:0

Scorer: 1:0 12 Chandrel Massanga Matondo

Central African Republic - Lesotho 3:1 (neutral arena)

Scorers: 1:0 01 (36 seconds) Loius Mafouta
               2:0 24 (23.39) Louis Mafouta
               2:1 56 (55.21) Sera Motebang
               3:1 61 (61.09) Goduine Koyalipou

Ghana - Angola 0:1

Scorer: 0:1 90+2 Felicio Mendes Joao Milson

Algeria - Equatorial Guinea 2:0

Scorers: 1:0 69 Houssem Aouar
               2:0 90+5 Amine Gouiri

- Riyad Mahrez (Algeria) did not convert a penalty on 24.

Tunisia - Madagascar 1:0

Scorer: 1:0 90+7 Ferjani Sassi

05 September 2024

Were not moved from one

Elimination matches for Africa Cup of nations - Morocco 2025, stage 1, night 1 of 4:

Sudan - Niger 1:0 (neutral spot)

Scorer: 1:0 50 Abobaker Eisa

Comoros - Gambia 1:1 (neutral place)

Scorers: 1:0 37 Youssouf M'Changama
               1:1 45 Musa Barrow

Libya - Rwanda 0:0

Tanzania - Ethiopia 1:1

Scorers: 1:0 15 Subhi Mabrouk al Dhawi
               1:1 47 Innocent Nshuti

02 September 2024

New qualifying cycle is starting

For the first time teams from all 6 confederations are engaging in various games where most of them are qualifiers mainly for 4 final tournaments.

In July 48 teams were equally divided into 12 groups for the main elimination process of the next edition for the Africa Cup of nations. We are searching for 23 participants and those will come when the top 2 teams from 11 groups plus 1 (the best) from group B are going to book their tickets to the finals in Morocco at December 2025 / January 2026.
The qualifying period will end this November, but for now everything begins with 48 matches that are scheduled to be held in seven days and nights. Because it is extremely difficult to find the whole and exact layout, every kick off below together with date have to be taken with reserve.

Game 1
04 September, Wednesday at 17.00 CEt: Comoros - Gambia (playing in El Jadida, Morocco).
04 September, Wednesday at 18.00 CEt: Libya - Rwanda.
04 September, Wednesday at 18.00 CEt: Tanzania - Ethiopia.
04 September, Wednesday at 21.00 CEt: Sudan - Niger (playing in Juba, South Sudan).

05 September, Thursday at 15.00 CEt: Malawi - Burundi.
05 September, Thursday at 17.00 CEt: Central African Republic - Lesotho (playing in El Jadida, Morocco).
05 September, Thursday at 18.00 CEt: Congo - South Sudan.
05 September, Thursday at 18.00 CEt: Ghana - Angola.
05 September, Thursday at 18.00 CEt: Guinea-Bissau - Eswatini.
05 September, Thursday at 21.00 CEt: Algeria - Equatorial Guinea.
05 September, Thursday at 21.00 CEt: Tunisia - Madagascar.

06 September, Friday at 15.00 CEt: Kenya - Zimbabwe.
06 September, Friday at 18.00 CEt: Democratic Republic of Congo - Guinea.
06 September, Friday at 18.00 CEt: Sierra leone - Chad (playing in Monrovia, Liberia).
06 September, Friday at 18.00 CEt: South Africa - Uganda.
06 September, Friday at 18.00 CEt: Togo - Liberia.
06 September, Friday at 20.00 CEt: Morocco - Gabon.
06 September, Friday at 21.00 CEt: Egypt - Cape Verde.
06 September, Friday at 21.00 CEt: Ivory coast - Zambia.
06 September, Friday at 21.00 CEt: Mali - Mozambique.
06 September, Friday at 21.00 CEt: Senegal - Burkina faso.

07 September, Saturday at 18.00 CEt: Cameroon - Namibia.
07 September, Saturday at 18.00 CEt: Mauritania - Botswana.
07 September, Saturday at 18.00 CEt: Nigeria - Benin.

Game 2
08 September, Sunday at 17.00 CEt: Gambia - Tunisia (playing in El Jadida, Morocco).

09 July 2024

Groups have been formed

Forty eight teams that was divided in 12 groups of 4 have learned their fate of who is meeting who from the major elimination stages of the Africa Cup of nations 2025 competition. The draw that separated them was conducted on 04 July in Johannesburg, South Africa.
Now each one of them has to play twice this September, October and November only to see if they can be placed in the first 2 positions that are direct ones for the final event. Here is how everything turned out to be:

Group A: Tunisia, Madagascar, Comoros, Gambia.
Group B: Morocco, Gabon, Central Africa Republic, Lesotho.
Group C: Egypt, Cape Verde, Mauritania, Botswana.
Group D: Nigeria, Benin Libya, Rwanda.
Group E: Algeria, Equatorial Guinea, Togo, Liberia.
Group F: Ghana, Angola, Sudan, Niger.
Group G: Ivory coast, Zambia, Sierra Leone, Chad.
Group H: Democratic Republic of Congo, Guinea, Tanzania, Ethiopia.
Group I: Mali, Mozambique, Guinea Bissau, Eswatini.
Group J: Cameroon, Namibia, Kenya, Zimbabwe.
Group K: South Africa, Uganda, Congo, South Sudan.
Group L: Senegal, Burkina Faso, Malawi, Burundi.

Because Morocco have already qualified for the final tournament as hosts, it means that only one team will be eliminated from group B.

01 July 2024

Revealed date when elimination groups will be formed

Next year the African Cup of nations will take place in Morocco which is going to be staged for the thirty fifth time. But to know who are the best 24 teams of the continent plenty of qualifying duels have to be played. And because of that the date is now familiar of when everything would be established.
On 12 June it was announced that the 48 teams would know their fate of who is going where at 04 July. The draw is going to take place at one of the Supersport channel studios in Johannesburg, South Africa. Everything would begin at 14.30 local time where 12 groups will appear with an equal amount of teams in them. All duels would finish in 2024 as 2 phases are going to be played in each month: at September, October and November.
However, what is more interesting and unusual are the dates of the final tournament. Organizers have revealed that this continental championship would be held from 21 December 2025 until 18 January 2026.

27 March 2024

Double lead got easily melted without any consequence

Preliminary duels for Africa Cup of nations - Morocco 2025, leg 2, single night:

Eswatini - Somalia 2:2 (neutral place)

Scorers: 1:0 46 Sabelo Ndzinisa
               2:0 49 Bongwa Matsebula
               2:1 76 Mohammed Awad
               2:2 84 Yusuf Ahmed

Mauritius - Chad 1:2

Scorers: 1:0 45+1 Jeremy Villeneuve
               1:1 74 Charles Tchouplaou
               1:2 90+9 Ousmane Hissein Hassan

Liberia - Djibouti 0:0

South Sudan - Sao Tome e Principe 0:0 (neutral arena)

Additional information: into the main qualifying round will also participate Eswatini, Chad, Liberia together with South Sudan as last four entrants.