2025 AFCON, Morocco

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2024 Cosafa Cup, Group C matchday 1 results, 28 June

Lesotho 1-1 Seychelles
Angola 0-0 Namibia

https://cosafa.com/draws-all-round-in-g ... osafa-cup/

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2024 Cosafa Cup, Group A matchday 2 results, 29 June

Mozambique 0-0 Eswatini
South Africa 0-0 Botswana

https://cosafa.com/tight-group-a-at-hol ... -cup-2024/

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2024 Cosafa Cup, Group B matchday 2 results, 30 June

Kenya 0-2 Comoros
Zambia 0-2 Zimbabwe

https://cosafa.com/en-fr-pr-zimbabwe-ge ... es-zambia/

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2024 Cosafa Cup, Group C matchday 2 results, 1 July

Angola 3-2 Seychelles
Namibia 2-1 Lesotho

https://cosafa.com/angola-namibia-win-a ... -cup-2024/

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2024 Cosafa Cup, matchday 3 results, 2 July

Group B
Comoros 1-0 Zambia
Kenya 2-0 Zimbabwe

Group A
South Africa 1-0 Eswatini
Mozambique 3-1 Botswana

https://cosafa.com/mozambique-comoros-i ... 024-semis/

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2024 Cosafa Cup, matchday 3 results, 3 July

Group C
Lesotho 1-3 Angola
Namibia 3-1 Seychelles

Final group standings
Group A
Mozambique - 5 pts (Q; won group on goal difference)
South Africa - 5 pts
Eswatini - 2 pts
Botswana - 2 pts

Group B
Comoros - 6 pts (Q; won group on three-way head-to-head)
Kenya - 6 pts
Zimbabwe - 6 pts
Zambia - 0 pts

Group C
Angola - 7 pts (Q; won group on goal difference)
Namibia - 7 pts (Q; as best runners-up)
Seychelles - 1 pt
Lesotho - 1 pt

Semi-finals, 5 July
Comoros vs Angola
Mozambique vs Namibia

https://cosafa.com/semifinal-line-up-co ... -cup-2024/

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AFCON-winning coach Emerse Faé named as Draw Assistant for the TotalEnergies CAF Africa Cup of Nations Morocco 2025 Qualifiers Draw on Thursday

https://www.cafonline.com/caf-africa-cu ... -thursday/

Countdown to the TotalEnergies CAF Africa Cup of Nations 2025 Qualifiers Draw

https://www.cafonline.com/caf-africa-cu ... iers-draw/

Morocco readies for TotalEnergies CAF AFCON return after 36-year hiatus

https://www.cafonline.com/caf-africa-cu ... ar-hiatus/

Draw Assistants Confirmed for the TotalEnergies CAF AFCON Morocco 2025 Qualifiers Draw on Thursday

https://www.cafonline.com/caf-africa-cu ... -thursday/

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https://www.cafonline.com/caf-africa-cu ... rocedures/

CAF confirms TotalEnergies CAF Africa Cup of Nations Morocco 2025 Qualifiers Draw Procedures
Published: Wednesday, 03 July 2024

TotalEnergies CAF AFCON Morocco 2025 Draw to take place in Johannesburg on Thursday, 04 July
A total of 48 teams to be engaged in the official draw
Teams seeded according to latest FIFA Rankings issued on 20 June 2024

Ahead of the official draw of the TotalEnergies CAF Africa Cup of Nations Morocco 2025 qualifiers, the Confédération Africaine de Football (CAF) officially released the draw procedures of CAF’s flagship competition qualifiers.

Set to take place in Johannesburg on Thursday 04 July at 14h30 Local Time (12h30 GMT), the draw will see a total of 48 African nations engaged to determine who qualifies for the 35th edition of the biggest event on African soil.

The engaged teams will be grouped into four pots of 12.

The highest ranked nations as per the latest FIFA Rankings issued out on 20 June 2024 will occupy Pot 1, with the same procedure to be followed for Pot 2, 3 and 4 to make up the 48 nations.

The concluded draw of the qualifiers will be made up of 12 Groups of 4 teams (Group A to L), where the first and runners-up in the eleven (11) groups that do not involve tournament hosts Morocco, will gain qualification to the competition.

For teams that finish first and second in a group consisting of Morocco, who by virtue of being tournament hosts gain automatic qualification, the following scenarios will be applied:

If the host is ranked first, the host is qualified in addition to the second of the group.
If the host is ranked second, the host will qualify in addition to the first of the group.
If the host is ranked third or fourth, the host will qualify in addition to the first of the group.

TotalEnergies CAF AFCON Morocco 2025 Draw Procedures:

The first ball will be drawn from Pot 4 and will go to position A4.
The procedure will be repeated for the remaining teams of Pot 4 who will go to positions B4, C4, D4, E4, F4, G4, H4, I4, J4,K4 & L4 according to the draw order.
The same procedure as above will be repeated for Pot 3, Pot 2 and finally Pot 1.

48 African nations to be engaged as per latest FIFA Rankings issued 20 June 2024

FIFA rankings, 20 June 2024

Pot 1
Morocco (Host) 12
Senegal 18
Egypt 36
Côte d’Ivoire 37
Nigeria 38
Tunisia 41
Algeria 44
Cameroon 49
Mali 50
South Africa 59
DR Congo 61
Ghana 64

Pot 2
Cape Verde 65
Burkina Faso 67
Guinea 77
Gabon 83
Equatorial Guinea 89
Zambia 90
Benin 91
Angola 92
Uganda 94
Namibia 97
Mozambique 103
Madagascar 104

Pot 3
Kenya 108
Mauritania 112
Congo 113
Tanzania 114
Guinea Bissau 115
Libya 118
Comoros 119
Togo 120
Sudan 121
Sierra Leone 122
Malawi 125
Central Africa 127

Pot 4
Niger 128
Zimbabwe 129
Rwanda 131
The Gambia 132
Burundi 140
Liberia 142
Ethiopia 143
Botswana 145
Lesotho 149
Eswatini 154
South Sudan 167
Chad 178

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All-time AFCON participations









Ten teams are yet to qualify for AFCON finals:

Central African Republic
Chad
Djibouti
Eritrea
Eswatini
Lesotho
São Tomé and Príncipe
Seychelles
Somalia
South Sudan

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https://www.cafonline.com/caf-africa-cu ... iers-draw/

WATCH LIVE 12h30 GMT: TotalEnergies CAF Africa Cup of Nations Morocco 2025 Qualifiers Draw
Published: Thursday, 04 July 2024

The Draw for the TotalEnergies CAF Africa Cup of Nations Morocco 2025 will be conducted today, 04 July in Johannesburg, South Africa.

The draw will take place at 14h30 Local Time (12h30 GMT) and will be live streamed on CAF’s Official YouTube channel, CAF TV

A total of 48 nations will be engaged in the draw for the qualifiers – see draw procedures HERE.

Head coach of the Cote d’Ivoire national team, Emerse Faé along with Moroccan legend, Marouane Chamakh will be assisting in conducting the draw.

For more information on TotalEnergies CAF Africa Cup of Nations Morocco 2025 Qualifiers, please visit www.cafonline.com

TotalEnergies AFCON 2025 Qualifiers Draw (English): https://www.youtube.com/live/neSLHFs2NKs

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[Lorric]

Why is Morocco in there? It's not to do with seeding, they're assigned to A1.

I looked at the final tournament, and we had the talk about 24 team formats here, I see in that one it's full host advantage, winner vs 3rd and a quarter final against a runner up or if 2nd, 2nd vs 2nd.

[Shing]

They always include host in qualifiers. Maybe just to give more matches to host teams. I will not be surprised if they include Morocco in 2030 WCQ

[Lorric]

They always include host in qualifiers. Maybe just to give more matches to host teams. I will not be surprised if they include Morocco in 2030 WCQ

Although, come to think of it, there's been quite a bit of upheaval with host nations not being able to host. Maybe this is a good thing, in case the host loses it, they can still compete if they proved they could qualify.

[ThreeLions]

They always include host in qualifiers. Maybe just to give more matches to host teams. I will not be surprised if they include Morocco in 2030 WCQ

Although, come to think of it, there's been quite a bit of upheaval with host nations not being able to host. Maybe this is a good thing, in case the host loses it, they can still compete if they proved they could qualify.

They started doing it after 2015 when Morocco were stripped, presumably for that reason. Morocco was DQ despite being clearly amongst the top 16 (if not the top 5) at that time.