CAN 2025: inspection visits to candidate countries in March and April

An Algerian player holding up the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations trophy after winning the final against Senegal in Cairo on July 19, 2019 © AFP/Archives

Text by: Farid Achache Follow

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The Confederation of African Football will begin inspection visits to the five candidate nations for the organization of CAN 2025.

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On March 20, an independent evaluation committee will travel to Zambia for the start of an inspection tour.

For the time being, it is a question of examining the various infrastructures necessary for the smooth running of a CAN, such as the stadiums, the connections between each city and the accommodation offer.

Each visit should last two days per country.

A report will be submitted to the CAF Executive Committee which will have the final say.

The announcement of the host country will only be unveiled next summer, in principle in Cotonou, Benin, during a general assembly.

Zambia and Benin have never hosted the CAN

Of the 5 candidate countries, Zambia and Benin have never hosted the prestigious continental tournament.

Morocco organized the event in 1988 for the 16th edition, and withdrew in 2015 due to the Ebola pandemic, replaced at short notice by Equatorial Guinea.

Algeria, a neighboring country, hosted the CAN during the next edition in 1990.

As for Nigeria, it was in 1980 that the country of Jay-Jay Okocha organized it for the first time, with a victory at home.

The Super Eagles nation had allied with Ghana for a double organization, the first in the history of the CAN, in 2000 with the victory of Cameroon of Samuel Eto'o, Rigobert Song, Patrick Mboma or Marc Vivien Foé .

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