2027 Africa Cup of Nations

The 2027 Africa Cup of Nations, also known as the 2027 AFCON or CAN 2027, is scheduled to be the 36th edition of the biennial African international association football tournament organized by CAF.

2027 Africa Cup of Nations
  • Coupe d'Afrique des Nations 2027
  • كأس الأمم الأفريقية 2027
Tournament details
Host countryTBD
DatesTBA
Teams24

The edition of the tournament is expected to be the 3rd to take place in the northern summer since the 2025 edition in order to reduce scheduling conflicts with European clubs.

Host selection

On 7 April 2023, a decision was taken by CAF that the hosts for the 2025 and 2027 Africa Cup of Nations will be chosen at the same day. They also announced that there's four bids for the 2027 edition.[1]

Bidding timeline

On 27 April 2023, the CAF Executive Committee announced the bidding process of the tournament.[2]The bidding timeline is as follows:

  • 23 May 2023: Deadline for Member Associations to submit their final bid, including all bidding and hosting documents (hosting agreement, host cities agreement, government guarantees, etc.), which should be duly signed.
  • 1 June-15 July 2023: Inspection visits
  • 15 August 2023: CAF Executive Committee decision

Confirmed to bid
  • Algeria Algeria[3] – Has also bid for the 2025 edition.
  • Egypt Egypt[2]
  • Botswana Botswana[2] – Initially a joint bid with Namibia but on 19 April 2022, Namibia pulled out after the national government failed to approve on a budget.[4]
  • Tanzania Tanzania, Uganda Uganda and Kenya Kenya – On 7 October 2022 Kenya's newly-elected government submitted a bid to co-host with Tanzania and Uganda.[5] Kenya is currently suspended by FIFA and they hope their bid can lead to their membership being restored, as the country’s teams are currently banned from international competitions including AFCON. In order to host the 2027 edition, Kenya will also need to invest millions into upgrading and possibly building new stadiums, training facilities, transport infrastructure, and accommodation.[6][7][8]

Abandoned bids

Qualification

Qualified teams

The following teams have qualified for the tournament.

Team Method of
qualification		 Date of
qualification		 Finals
appearance		 Last
appearance		 Previous best
performance		 FIFA ranking
at start of event

Venues

CAF has established the following requirements for the expected 6 stadiums for this edition of the tournament:[12]

Number of StadiumsCapacity
(Minimum)
2 Stadiums40,000
2 Stadiums20,000
2 Stadiums15,000

References
  1. CAF Executive Committee unanimously supports Morocco’s FIFA World Cup 2030 bid 6 April 2022
  2. "CAF receives declaration of interest from six countries for the Africa Cup of Nations 2027 hosting". cafonline.com. Confederation of African Football. 27 April 2023. Retrieved 27 April 2023.
  3. "CAF receives declaration of interest from six countries for the Africa Cup of Nations 2027 hosting". cafonline.com. Confederation of African Football. 27 April 2023. Retrieved 27 April 2023.
  4. "Namibia pulls out of joint bid to host Afcon 2027 with Botswana". supersport.com. Supersport. 19 April 2023. Retrieved 19 April 2023.
  5. "Ruto's Multi-Million Plan to Host Afcon in Kenya". cafonline.com. businesstoday. 28 October 2022. Retrieved 28 October 2022.
  6. "Kenya to submit bid to co-host 2027 Africa Cup of Nations alongside Tanzania & Uganda". v. goal. 29 October 2022. Retrieved 29 October 2022.
  7. Kenya launches bid to co-host Africa Cup of Nations in 2027 7 December 2022
  8. Afcon 2027: Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda mount joint bid for tournament BBC,27 April 2022
  9. Botswana, Namibia join forces to bring AFCON back to Southern Africa
  10. CAN 2027 : LE SÉNÉGAL CANDIDAT À L’ORGANISATION. Africa Top Sports, 6. June 2022.
  11. "LIST OF COUNTRIES THAT WANT TO HOST AFCON 2027 GROWING." The Patriot On Sunday. 7 July 2022. Retrieved 8 April 2023.
  12. Wandji, Arthur (13 August 2017). "CAN 2019 : ce que prévoit le nouveau cahier de charges" [CAN 2019: what the new specifications provide]. Camfoot (in French). Retrieved 23 December 2017.
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