The 2024 African Nations Championship, known as the 2024 CHAN for short and the TotalEnergies African Nations Championship for sponsorship purposes, is scheduled to be the 8th edition of the biennial association football tournament organized by the Confederation of African Football (CAF), featuring national teams consisting of players currently playing in their respective local leagues. It was to be hosted by Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda from 1 to 28 February 2025,[1] however on 14 January 2025 it was postponed to August 2025 in the same 3 countries.[2] This will be the first edition to be hosted by three countries.[3]
On January 14, 2025, the day before the Final Draw took place, CAF announced that the tournament would be postponed to August 2025 to allow more time for preparations and for another qualifying round to take place to decide the final two participants.[5][6] The preparation of Kenyan venues to host the tournament was considered as "miles behind" by the officials.[7]
The qualification procedures were unveiled at the CAF headquarters in Cairo, Egypt on 9 September 2024 with the qualification itself running from 25 October to 29 December 2024.[8]Libya, Morocco and Tunisia qualified for the final tournament automatically.[9] However, Libya subsequently announced its withdrawal citing a scheduling conflict.[10][11]
Qualified teams
The following teams qualified for the main tournament:
The draw was held on 15 January 2025 at the Kenyatta International Conventional Centre in Nairobi.[13]
On the morning of the draw, CAF announced the draw pots and procedure, however no formula for the seeding system was provided other than that it took into account performances in the last three editions.[14]
Teams will be ranked according to the three points for a win system (3 points for a win, 1 for a draw, 0 points for a loss), and if tied on points, the following tiebreaking criteria are applied, in the order given, to determine the rankings:
Goals scored in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
If more than two teams were tied, and after applying all head-to-head criteria above, if two teams are still tied, all head-to-head criteria above are applied exclusively to these two teams;
First match(es) will be played: August 2025. Source: CAF Rules for classification: Tiebreakers
Knockout stage
In the knockout stage, extra time and penalty shoot-out are used to decide the winner if necessary, except for the third place match where penalty shoot-out (no extra time) is used to decide the winner if necessary (Regulations Article 75).
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Dar es Salaam 
Kampala 
Nairobi 
Morocco 
Guinea 
Senegal 
Mauritania 
Niger 
Burkina Faso 
Nigeria 
Central African Republic 
DR Congo 
Equatorial Guinea 
Sudan 
Zambia 
Angola 
Madagascar 
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