CAF scraps four-year Afcon plan and returns to a two-year cycle
CAF's executive committee has overturned the 2025 decision to hold the Africa Cup of Nations every four years. President Patrice Motsepe said the 2027 tournament in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda will go ahead, followed by editions in 2028, 2031 and 2033.
The Confederation of African Football (CAF) has dropped its plan to make the Africa Cup of Nations (Afcon) a four-year tournament. Its executive committee vetoed the 2025 announcement and restored the traditional two-year cycle, Daily Maverick reported on Thursday. Money drove the reversal. When CAF President Patrice Motsepe announced the four-year plan last year, he said a new African Nations League would start in 2029. Modelled on the European Nations League, it would have run in the years without an Afcon, ending with a final and a trophy. CAF now says the league would need several years before it could raise the large sums African football needs to stay "globally competitive and self-supporting". Motsepe said the decision protects the interests of African football and CAF's 54 member associations. He said it also protects African players at clubs outside Africa. He added that CAF was worried about how long the new league would take to make a real financial and development contribution. The next Afcon will take…
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