Why is the next Afcon in 2023?
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ANKARA Show The 2023 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) has been postponed to 2024 due to adverse weather conditions in Ivory Coast, Africa’s football authority said Sunday. In a press conference in the Moroccan capital Rabat, Confederation of African Football (CAF) President Patrice Motsepe confirmed the new dates for the tournament. "The TotalEnergies Africa Cup of Nations AFCON Cote d'Ivoire will now be held in January-February of 2024," said Motsepe. "We don't want to run the risk of having a competition that's going to be washed out. It's not good for African football, for our image, and we have to work on that basis," he added. The AFCON was due to be played in June and July 2023, but the CAF postponed it to avoid Ivory Coast's rainy season. Ivory Coast is set to host an AFCON tournament for the first time since 1984. Founded in 1957, the AFCON is Africa's main international football competition. Egypt won seven AFCON titles to be the record holders. The defending champions are Senegal. Anadolu Agency website contains only a portion of the news stories offered to subscribers in the AA News Broadcasting System (HAS), and in summarized form. Please contact us for subscription options. By DEWAH Fabrice TEH Sports writer, Kick442.com-Cameroon While the rest of Africa join the Confederation of African Football continue to celebrate Cameroon’s 2021 Africa Cup of Nations tournament organization success, this Pan-African sports news portal can reveal that the 2023 tournament which was initially scheduled to take place in June and July 2023 can longer go as planned. The 2023 event to be hosted by Ivory Coast, will not maintain its original schedule due to the congested international calendar in the next five years per findings and analysis by this portal. In March 2022, shortly after the end of the 2021 edition of the AFCON in Cameroon, they will be the continuation of the qualifiers to the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar with ten African countries to get engaged in the knock-out stages of the planetary football festival. Three months after the 2022 World Cup qualifiers, they will be start of the preliminary stage of the qualifiers to the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations. Between September and October 2022, countries to participate in the 2022 FIFA World Cup will be holding preparations ahead of the tournament. The 2022 World Cup event will be organized between November and December 2022. Three months later in March 2023, the first and second games of the group stages of qualifiers to the 2023 AFCON will be held. In June of the same year, day 3 and 4 matches of qualifiers to the 2023 AFCON will be staged. The final two days of the qualification games will be played in September 2023. This calendar automatically imposes the need for the postponement of the 2023 tournament with Ivory Coast to stage the event in January and February 2024 at least. The tournament could also be pushed to June and July of 2024 though the climatic condition of the West African country makes the organization of the tournament during that period extremely complicated and almost impossible since the Ivory Coast has summer periods between December and February like the case of Cameroon and not between June and July. AFCON 2021 schedule still unchanged The president of the Confederation of African Football-CAF, Dr. Patrice Motsepe is presently in Cameroon to hold discussions with Cameroonian authorities on the effective organization of the Pan-African football festival. The visit of the continent’s football boss comes barely a day after CAF executive members met in Doha-Qatar on Sunday December 19 and voted in favour of the the holding of the 2021 event as planned for January 9 to February 6, 2022. A total of 24 nations will compete to replace Algeria as African champions during the 2021 Africa Cup of Nations tournament in Cameroon. FIFA Calendar and possible activities between now and January 2024 March 2022: FIFA World Cup Qualifiers Play Off The decision about the 2023 tournament will be made during the CAF Executive committee meeting before the end of the 2021 tournament in January-February 2022 in Cameroon. Copyright©2021 kick442.com All rights reserved. This material and any other digital content on this platform may not be reproduced, published, broadcast, written, or distributed in full or in part, without written permission from our management. This site is not responsible for the content displayed by external sites Is the next Afcon in 2023?Consequently, the September 2022 TotalEnergies Africa Cup of Nations Cote d'Ivoire match day three and match day four qualifiers have been moved to 20-28 March 2023. Match day five will now be on 12-20 June 2023 while match day six will be played on 4-12 September 2023.
Is Afcon 2023 postponed?Africa cup nations
The decision to delay the qualifiers was eased when the finals, originally scheduled to be held in June and July 2023 in Ivory Coast, were postponed to early 2024 in a bid to avoid the rainy season.
Which country will host next Afcon 2023?After the final vote at the CAF Executive Committee meeting, on 20 September 2014, the CAF announced the hosts for the 2019, 2021 and 2023 AFCON tournaments: 2019 to Cameroon, 2021 to the Ivory Coast, and 2023 to Guinea.
Who will host Africa Cup of nation 2025?Morocco, which hosted this year's Women's Africa Cup of Nations finals in July, intends to apply to host the 2025 men's finals, a source within the Royal Moroccan Football Federation indicated.
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