{"id":360407,"date":"2025-12-20T18:27:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T18:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/360407\/"},"modified":"2025-12-20T18:27:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T18:27:09","slug":"caf-president-announces-new-four-year-cycle-for-africa-cup-of-nations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/360407\/","title":{"rendered":"CAF President announces new four-year cycle for Africa Cup of Nations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/SportsArchive\/CAF-President-announces-new-four-year-cycle-for-Africa-Cup-of-Nations-2014663?gallery=1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/38253430.295.jpg\" alt=\"CAF President, Dr. Patrice Motsepe\" title=\"CAF President, Dr. Patrice Motsepe\" width=\"295\" height=\"166\" \/> <\/a>CAF President, Dr. Patrice Motsepe<\/p>\n<p id=\"article-123\">The Confederation of African Football (CAF) has announced that the Africa Cup of Nations tournament (AFCON) will be held every four years after the 2028 edition. <\/p>\n<p>The 2029 edition, originally scheduled for the standard two-year cycle, will be brought forward to align with the new schedule according to CAF President, Dr Patrice Motsepe.<\/p>\n<p>The Africa Cup of Nations has taken place every two years since the 1968 edition in Ethiopia, with a one-year gap between the 2012 and 2013 editions in Gabon &amp; Equatorial Guinea and South Africa respectively.<\/p>\n<p>CAF President, Dr Patrice Motsepe made this announcement on Saturday, December 20, after meeting the Executive Committee in Morocco before the start of the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have the most exciting new structure for African football. I do what is in the interests of Africa. The global calendar has to be significantly more synchronised and harmonised.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Caf has increased the prize money for the winners of Afcon from $7m (\u00a35.2m) to $10m (\u00a37.5m).<\/p>\n<p>JE<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CAF President, Dr. Patrice Motsepe The Confederation of African Football (CAF) has announced that the Africa Cup of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":360408,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-360407","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-soccer","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=360407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360407\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/360408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}