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CAF confirms Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania as CHAN 2024 Hosts

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Senegal are the last CHAN winners

The Confédération of African  Football, CAF has confirmed that Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania as co-host Nations of the  Africa Nations Championship (CHAN). It will run from February 1 to 28 next year.

However, the host stadiums and training venues are yet to be confirmed. The qualifying series will begin on the weekend of 25-27 October 2024 and continue on November 1 to 13.

The Second Round of the Qualifiers will be played on 20-22 December and 27-27 December 2024.

The qualification slots for the tournament have been allocated as follows:

Zones WAFU A, WAFU B, UNAF, UNIFFAC, and COSAFA will each have three qualifying teams.

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The CECAFA zone, which includes the three host countries, will receive an additional slot due to their automatic qualification as hosts. As a result, the total number of teams qualifying for the final tournament will be increased to 19 teams.

Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania will participate in the Qualifiers and in addition to their automatic qualification as hosts, the team achieving the best result in the CECAFA qualifiers will also advance to the final tournament. Senegal won the last edition held in Algeria last year.

Kunle Solaja is the author of landmark books on sports and journalism as well as being a multiple award-winning journalist and editor of long standing. He is easily Nigeria’s foremost soccer diarist and Africa's most capped FIFA World Cup journalist, having attended all FIFA World Cup finals from Italia ’90 to Qatar 2022. He was honoured at the Qatar 2022 World Cup by FIFA and AIPS.

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Will Nigeria overcome Ghana this time in CHAN qualifiers? 

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Ghana and Nigeria are paired together for the third time in the qualifying series for the African Nations Championship. They had met in the 2009 and the 2022 series. The aggregate results were in Ghana’s favour.

First in the 2009 qualifiers, Nigeria squandered a 2-0 first-half lead in Accra and lost 3-2. But going into the return leg played in Calabar, they could not score a goal that could have seen them through on away goal rule as they ended the match 0-0.

In the last edition, Nigeria for the 2023 edition, Nigeria lost 2-0 in Accra but levelled up in Abuja after a late 2-0 win. But in the eventual penalty shoot-out, the Nigerian team lost 5-4.

Will they overcome Ghana this time?

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North African teams take free ride to CHAN finals

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There will be no qualifying series for the African Nations Championship (CHAN) in North Africa. This is sequel to the withdrawal of Algeria and Egypt.

With the region entitled to three teams, the remaining three – Morocco, Tunisia and Libya qualify automatically.

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CAF sets up another ‘Jollof’ derby as Nigeria faces Ghana in CHAN qualifiers

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The age-long rivalry has again been rekindled as the draw for the 2025 African Nations Championship has pitched Ghana and Nigeria together.

Both teams have a rivalry that dates back to 1951 and will have a confrontation that determines which country will qualify for the tournament which is opened only to domestic players.

It is also a measure of the relative strength of the domestic leagues of the countries. Ghana and Nigeria will play just in the second round of the West Africa Zone B qualifier while Togo and Benin will the first round and the winner play against Niger Republic.

The rivalry of Nigeria and Ghana has gone beyond sports, especially in football, It extends to the culinary industry as each claims to be better in the cooking of Jollof rice, hence the ‘Jollof Rice’ controversy.

In another West Africa Zone B qualifiers, Cote d’Ivoire will face Burkina Faso. The first round of qualifiers will be played on the weekend of 25 – 27 October and 01 – 03 November 2024, with the second round confirmed for 20 – 22 December and 27 – 29 December 2024.

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Three nations qualify for the tournament from each zone except the East, where one country qualifies with co-hosts Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda.

Finals to be played from Feb 1-28, 2025 in Nairobi, Dar es Salaam and Kampala.

North Region

Libya, Morocco and Tunisia qualify automatically

West A region

First Round

  • Sierra Leone v Liberia

Second Round

  • Sierra Leone or Liberia v Senegal (holders)

Mauritania v Mali

Guinea v Guinea-Bissau

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West B region

First Round

Togo v Benin

Second Round

Togo or Benin v Niger

Ivory Coast v Burkina Faso

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Ghana v Nigeria

Central region

Second Round

Equatorial Guinea v Congo Brazzaville

Central African Republic v Cameroon

Chad v Democratic Republic of Congo

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East region

First Round

Burundi v Somalia

Ethiopia v Eritrea

Sudan v Tanzania (co-hosts)

South Sudan v Kenya (co-hosts)

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Djibouti v Rwanda

Second Round

Burundi or Somalia v Uganda (co-hosts)

Ethiopia or Eritrea v Sudan or Tanzania

South Sudan or Kenya v Djibouti or Rwanda

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South region

First Round

Zimbabwe v Eswatini

Lesotho v Namibia

Second Round

Zimbabwe or Eswatini v Madagascar

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Lesotho or Namibia v Angola

Mozambique v Zambia

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