Did you enjoy the 2025 African Cup of Nations? Good, you’re going to have a lot of them in the coming years. While the CAN will pass over a four-year cycle from 2028, two editions will follow in 2027 and 2028. You will therefore have to wait only a year and a half to attend the next competition during the summer of 2027, then a year for the next one in the summer of 2028.
The host country for this second tournament has, however, not yet been designated. For 2027, the fate is sealed and a trio composed of Tanzania, Uganda and Kenya was chosen. Three stadiums will be elected in each country to host the matches. The Benjamin Mkapa Stadium (Tanzania) and the Talanta Sports Stadium (Kenya) are expected to be the largest with 60,000 seats.
A solution would be to return to Morocco
For 2028, the suspense remains. On December 30, Egypt raised the possibility of submitting an official application to host the competition but would, according to various sources, not be completely convinced by this option. Three days later, Ethiopia announced that it was one of the candidates but currently does not have a stadium approved by the Confederation of African Football (CAF), which complicates things.
One solution would be to return to Morocco, host country of the current tournament. Two years before the 2030 World Cup in Spain, Portugal and Morocco, this CAN 2028 would represent a great dress rehearsal for the Moroccans, who have proven that they have the infrastructure to host such a tournament. CAF could announce its decision this Friday following a meeting of its executive committee in Rabat.
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