2024 African Nations Championship

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]

Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda were named as co-hosts of the 2024 edition on 17 December 2023 as a dress rehearsal of the 2027 Africa Cup of Nations.^[4]

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]

City	Stadium	Capacity
Dar es Salaam	Benjamin Mkapa National Stadium	60,000
Kampala	Mandela National Stadium	45,000
Nairobi	Nyayo National Stadium	18,000
	Moi International Sports Centre	55,000
Zanzibar City	Amaan Stadium	15,000

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]

The following teams qualified for the main tournament:

Team	Zone	Date of qualification	Appearance	First appearance	Last appearance	Previous best performance
Morocco	Northern Zone	9 October 2024	5th	2014	2020	Champions (2018, 2020)
Guinea	Western Zone A	28 December 2024	4th	2016	2020	3rd Place (2020)
Senegal		28 December 2024	4th	2009	2022	Champions (2022)
Mauritania		29 December 2024	4th	2014	2022	Quarter-finals (2022)
Niger	Western Zone B	27 December 2024	5th	2011	2022	4th Place (2022)
Burkina Faso		28 December 2024	4th	2014	2020	Group Stage (2014, 2018, 2020)
Nigeria		28 December 2024	4th	2014	2018	3rd Place (2014)
Central African Republic	Central Zone	28 December 2024	1st	None	None	Debut
DR Congo		28 December 2024	7th	2009	2022	Champions (2009, 2016)
Equatorial Guinea		25 January 2025[12]	2nd	2018	2018	Group Stage (2018)
Congo		17 June 2025[a]	5th	2014	2022	Quarter-finals (2018, 2022)
Kenya (co-hosts)	Central Eastern Zone	26 September 2024	1st	None	None	Debut
Tanzania (co-hosts)		26 September 2024	3rd	2009	2020	Group stage (2009, 2020)
Uganda (co-hosts)		26 September 2024	7th	2011	2022	Group stage (2011, 2014, 2016, 2018, 2020, 2022)
Sudan		28 December 2024	4th	2011	2022	3rd Place (2011, 2018)
Zambia	Southern Zone	15 December 2024	5th	2009	2020	3rd Place (2009)
Angola		28 December 2024	5th	2011	2022	Runner-up (2011)
Madagascar		29 December 2024	2nd	2022	2022	3rd Place (2022)
Algeria	Second qualifying stage winner	9 May 2025	3rd	2011	2022	Runners-up (2022)
South Africa	Second qualifying stage winner	11 May 2025	3rd	2011	2014	Quarter-finals (2011)

The draw was held on 15 January 2025 at the Kenyatta International Conventional Centre in Nairobi.^[14]

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.^[15]

CAF announced the tournament schedule on 27 June 2025.^[16][17]

The top two teams of each group will advance to the quarter finals.

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:

1. Points in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
2. Goal difference in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
3. Goals scored in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
4. 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;
5. Goal difference in all group matches;
6. Goals scored in all group matches;
7. Drawing of lots.

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Kenya (H)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Qualification to knockout stage
2	Morocco	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
3	Angola	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
4	DR Congo	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
5	Zambia	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Tanzania (H)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Qualification to knockout stage
2	Madagascar	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
3	Mauritania	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
4	Burkina Faso	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
5	Central African Republic	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Uganda (H)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Qualification to knockout stage
2	Niger	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
3	Guinea	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
4	Algeria	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
5	South Africa	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Senegal	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Qualification to knockout stage
2	Congo	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
3	Sudan	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
4	Nigeria	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

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).

• Official home of the 2024 edition at CAFOnline.com