2025 AFCON Qualifier: CAF Announces Kickoff Date

2025 AFCON Qualifier: CAF Announces Kickoff Date

By Sampson Adedeji

With the 2023 African Cup of Nations yet to kick off, the African Soccer ruling body has announced the kick-off date for the qualifiers of the 2025 edition, BSNSports.com.ng reports.

The 2023 edition of the competition is expected to run from January 13th to February 11th, 2024 in Ivory Coast.

According to CAF, the kick-off date for the 2025 qualifier will be March 18 to 26 for the preliminary round.

The first and second rounds of the match will run from September 2nd to 10th and the 3rd to 4th round of games from 7th to 15th while the final rounds of matches are slated for November 11th to 19th, 2024.

Morocco has been announced as the host of the competition after Guinea was stripped of the hosting right.