Date For 2022 AFCON Tournament Finally Revealed
The Africa Cup of Nations tournament will be staged in Cameroon from January 9 to February 6 2021, a Confederation of African Football (Caf) official confirmed on Thursday.
A virtual executive committee meeting chaired by recently elected president Patrice Motsepe from South Africa also decided that, a draw to divide the 24 qualifiers into six groups will be held on June 25.
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Algeria, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Comoros, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau and Ivory Coast have qualified.
Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Nigeria, Senegal, Sudan, Tunisia and Zimbabwe have also qualified.
The remaining place rests between Benin and Sierra Leone, whose fixture in Freetown this week did not take place because the visitors challenged Covid-19 results after five of their key players tested positive.
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A statement endorsed by CAF indicates the match had been rearranged for the May 31-June 15 international window, following which Sierra Leone launched an appeal against that decision.
