{"id":146153,"date":"2025-11-18T09:48:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T09:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/146153\/"},"modified":"2025-11-18T09:48:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T09:48:07","slug":"afcon-2025-which-premier-league-teams-will-lose-most-players-to-afcon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/146153\/","title":{"rendered":"Afcon 2025: Which Premier League teams will lose most players to Afcon?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Africa Cup of Nations kicks off earlier than usual this year &#8211; with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/c4g8nrpx7njo\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">up to 17 Premier League clubs set to be affected<\/a> by players jetting off to host country Morocco.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The tournament runs from 21 December until 18 January. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">There has been no official announcement about which date clubs will have to release their players by &#8211; and it could vary depending on agreements.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Players could miss up to six, or in some cases seven, Premier League matches &#8211; plus FA Cup and Carabao Cup games &#8211; if they reach the final.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The group stages end on 31 December, so quickly eliminated players may only miss half that amount. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Arsenal, Chelsea and Leeds do not have any players due to play in the 2025 Afcon &#8211; with Sunderland and Wolves losing the most players.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">BBC Sport looks at which teams are due to lose players.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Africa Cup of Nations kicks off earlier than usual this year &#8211; with up to 17 Premier&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":146154,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-146153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146153\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}