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Pulse Sports brings you everything you need to know as CAF conducts the draw for the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers with Kenya hoping for a favourable pairing.
Confederation of African Football (CAF) will conduct the draw for the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers in Cairo, Egypt on Tuesday.
Kenya are among the 52 nations that will take part in the qualifiers that will start from the preliminary round, although it is 48 teams that will eventually square it off at the group stage qualifiers, to determine the 24 sides that will play next year’s tournament in Morocco.
Harambee Stars are exempted from the preliminary round due to their FIFA ranking (ranked 111 globally and 26 in Africa) and will go straight into the group stage qualifiers of which their opponents will be known on Tuesday.
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FOOTBALL AFCON 2025: FIFA, CAF reach agreement on when next year’s tournament will be held
FIFA and CAF have reportedly settled on dates for the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations set to be held in Morocco, ending a standoff that threatened to delay the tournament.
When will the qualifiers begin?
The 2025 AFCON qualifiers will start at the preliminary round where the eight lowest ranked teams will face off in the next international window between March 18 and 26 after which the four winners seal their place in the group stage of the qualifiers set to kick off in September.
Somalia, Djibouti, Sao Tome, Chad, Mauritius, South Sudan, Liberia, and Eswatini are the eight teams who will have to qualify from the preliminary round.
How many teams will be in the draw?
There will be a total of 52 nations in the draw with 44 already through to the group stage qualifiers while eight others will face off to determine the other four who will make up a total of 48 before the qualifiers proper begin.
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15:42 - 19.02.2024
FOOTBALL Harambee Stars set to learn their fate as CAF conducts AFCON 2025 qualifying draw
Harambee Stars will learn who they will face in the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers when CAF conducts the draw in Cairo on Tuesday.
Time & where to watch the draw
The draw will take place at 3pm Kenyan time in Cairo, Egypt and will be available on the CAF YouTube channel.
When will the group stage qualifiers take place?
The group stage qualifiers are scheduled to take place in September with matchday one and two primed between September 2 and 10, 2024 with the third and fourth round slated for October 7-15 before the final round is held from November 11-19 this year.
What else?
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FOOTBALL Why CAF does not know when AFCON 2025 will be held
Confederation of Africa Football is in dilemma on when the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations in Morocco will be held given a number of competing competitions on the proposed dates.
The dates for the 2025 AFCON tournament have not been confirmed although reports in Morocco on Monday suggested FIFA and CAF have settled on July 22-August 21, 2025.
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