The Africa Cup of Nations will be held every two years, not four as was planned, governing body the Confederation \u2060of African Football (CAF) announced after reversing an earlier decision.<\/p>\n
AFCON has traditionally been staged every two years, but CAF’s surprise decision last December to move to a four-year cycle was not widely welcomed.<\/p>\n
“The Confederation of African Football (CAF) Executive Committee today unanimously decided that the CAF Africa Cup of Nations will return to taking place every two years,” \u200cCAF said in \u2060a statement.<\/p>\n
Under the previous plan, AFCON would have moved to a four-year cycle, with the proposed CAF Nations League becoming the continent’s biennial competition.<\/p>\n
CAF President Patrice Motsepe said at a strategy conference in Cape Verde earlier this \u200cmonth that the organisation was considering returning AFCON to a two-year cycle.<\/p>\n
CAF said the Nations \u2060League would take years to generate enough revenue to sustain \u200cAfrican football.<\/p>\n
“The decision by the CAF Executive Committee to reinstate \u2060the organization \u200cof the AFCON every two years aims to advance, protect and promote the interests of African football and the 54 CAF Member Associations, as well as \u2060those of African players playing for clubs outside the continent,” Motsepe said \u2060in a statement.<\/p>\n
Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda will co-host the next edition in 2027, with subsequent tournaments to be held in 2028, 2031 and 2033.<\/p>\n
There will be no AFCON in 2030, with CAF maintaining its tradition of not staging the tournament in a \u200cWorld Cup year.<\/p>\n
Last January’s final between Senegal and Morocco was mired in controversy.<\/p>\n
Senegal are contesting CAF’s decision to declare Morocco champions, despite Senegal beating the hosts 1-0 after extra-time in Rabat.<\/p>\n
Senegal walked off the pitch for 14 minutes after a penalty was awarded against them late in regulation time, with several players returning to the dressing room in protest before they resumed play.<\/p>\n
Morocco failed to convert the spot kick, sending the match into extra time, where Senegal scored the winner to secure victory.<\/p>\n
However, they were stripped of the title two months later after CAF’s Appeal Board ruled that Senegal had forfeited the match by walking off the pitch, overturning the result and awarding a 3-0 victory to Morocco.<\/p>\n
Senegal quickly followed with an appeal to CAS, which was lodged on 25 March but only heard earlier this month. Senegal want to be reinstated as winners and a panel will listen to arguments from Senegal, Morocco and CAF.<\/p>\n
A decision is expected by the end of November.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Africa Cup of Nations will be held every two years, not four as was planned, governing body…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":669778,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-669777","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\/669777","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=669777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669777\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/669778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=669777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=669777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=669777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}