The 2025 Africa Cup of Nations will have all their biggest football stars present, according to The Confederation of African Football (CAF) President Dr. Patrice Motsepe.
Africa’s premier football event has come under the microscope in recent times with the bloated global scheduling of football and the newly expanded FIFA Club World Cup taking centre stage during the period when AFCON was due to be hosted in Morocco.
There have now been concerns that the elite clubs around the globe and potentially the players would have reservations about the mid-year AFCON, with the dates set for 21 December 2025 and 16 January 2026.
It takes on a first, where the major tournament will be played during the festive season and new year, but Motsepe, in conversation with Zayn Nabi in London, stated there will be no such issues for African football fans to be concerned about.
“I grew up in a business family and we were taught at a very young age that the customer is always king, so in football, the spectator, the football fan, the tv viewer who always gets excited about African football, they are the people that determine and judge if African football is as exciting and pleasant to watch as Europe, Asia,” he said via OTW Podcast.
“The AFCON in Morocco next year, I am enormously excited, it’s going to be the most successful, and we have had enormous success in Côte d’Ivoire because they are exceptionally talented, experienced people in the leadership of football.
“People come to watch football, not the President, and leadership, but exceptionally talented players, so all of them will be there.”
Motsepe looks set to be up for reelection for CAF Presidency when his term ends in March 2025.
