It’s a small revolution in African football. While it has taken place every two years since 1968, the African Cup of Nations will now take place every four years after the edition scheduled for 2027 in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania.
Present this Sunday at a press conference before the start of the CAN (scheduled for December 21 to January 18) in Morocco, whose organization he praised, the president of the CAF, Patrice Motsepe, announced this measure with the addition of the creation of an African League of Nations (CAF Nations League), which will have the same model as that of UEFA and will be organized on Fifa dates from 2028.
This change is part of the desire to restructure football on the African continent so that its “calendar around the world is more harmonized”, declared Patrice Motsepe.
Note that the president of Fifa, Gianni Infantino, has been campaigning for several years for a CAN every four years “to make it more commercially viable and attractive”. It is now done.
