2025 Africa Cup of Nations
The 2025 Africa Cup of Nations (also referred to as AFCON 2025 or CAN 2025), known as the TotalEnergies 2025 Africa Cup of Nations for sponsorship reasons, is scheduled to be the 35th edition of the Africa Cup of Nations, the biennial international men’s football championship of Africa organised by the Confederation of African Football (CAF). The tournament will be hosted by Morocco for the second time, and the first time since 1988 (Morocco was originally scheduled to host the 2015 edition, but the tournament was moved after the country’s Ebola virus outbreak).
This edition of the tournament is scheduled to be the second after 2019 to take place during the northern hemisphere’s summer (June–July), in order to reduce scheduling conflicts with European club teams and competitions;[1][2][3][4] the previous 2023 edition was moved to January and February 2024 owing to the adverse summer weather conditions in Ivory Coast.[5][6]
Guinea was set to be the original host of the tournament, but had its hosting rights stripped after affirming its inadequacy of hosting preparations.[7][8] After a second bidding process, Morocco was named as host on 27 September 2023.[9]