# 2024 African Nations Championship

The 2024 African Nations Championship, known as the 2024 CHAN for short and the TotalEnergies African Nations Championship for sponsorship purposes, is scheduled to be the 8th edition of the biennial association football tournament organized by the Confederation of African Football (CAF), featuring national teams consisting of players currently playing in their respective local leagues. It was to be hosted by Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda from 1 to 28 February 2025, however on 14 January 2025 it was postponed to August 2025 in the same 3 countries. This will be the first edition to be hosted by three countries.

## Host selection

Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda were named as co-hosts of the 2024 edition on 17 December 2023 as a dress rehearsal of the 2027 Africa Cup of Nations.

## Postponement

On January 14, 2025, the day before the Final Draw took place, CAF announced that the tournament would be postponed to August 2025 to allow more time for preparations and for another qualifying round to take place to decide the final two participants. The preparation of Kenyan venues to host the tournament was considered as "miles behind" by the officials.

## Venues

| City | Stadium | Capacity |
| Dar es Salaam | Benjamin Mkapa National Stadium | 60,000 |
| Kampala | Namboole Stadium | 45,000 |
| Nairobi | Nyayo National Stadium | 18,000 |
| Nairobi | Moi International Sports Centre | 55,000 |
| Zanzibar City | Amaan Stadium | 20,000 |

## Qualification

The qualification procedures were unveiled at the CAF headquarters in Cairo, Egypt on 9 September 2024 with the qualification itself running from 25 October to 29 December 2024. Libya, Morocco and Tunisia qualified for the final tournament automatically. However, Libya subsequently announced its withdrawal citing a scheduling conflict.

### Qualified teams

The following teams qualified for the main tournament:
| Team | Zone | Date of qualification | Appearance | First appearance | Last appearance | Previous best performance |
| Morocco | Northern Zone | 9 October 2024 | 5th | 2014 | 2020 | Champions (2018, 2020) |
| Guinea | Western Zone A | 28 December 2024 | 4th | 2016 | 2020 | 3rd Place (2020) |
| Senegal | Western Zone A | 28 December 2024 | 4th | 2009 | 2022 | Champions (2022) |
| Mauritania | Western Zone A | 29 December 2024 | 4th | 2014 | 2022 | Quarter-finals (2022) |
| Niger | Western Zone B | 27 December 2024 | 5th | 2011 | 2022 | 4th Place (2022) |
| Burkina Faso | Western Zone B | 28 December 2024 | 4th | 2014 | 2020 | Group Stage (2014, 2018, 2020) |
| Nigeria | Western Zone B | 28 December 2024 | 4th | 2014 | 2018 | 3rd Place (2014) |
| Central African Republic | Central Zone | 28 December 2024 | 1st | None | None | Debut |
| DR Congo | Central Zone | 28 December 2024 | 7th | 2009 | 2022 | Champions (2009, 2016) |
| Equatorial Guinea | Central Zone | 25 January 2025 | 2nd | 2018 | 2018 | Group Stage (2018) |
| Kenya (co-hosts) | Central Eastern Zone | 26 September 2024 | 1st | None | None | Debut |
| Tanzania (co-hosts) | Central Eastern Zone | 26 September 2024 | 3rd | 2009 | 2020 | Group stage (2009, 2020) |
| Uganda (co-hosts) | Central Eastern Zone | 26 September 2024 | 7th | 2011 | 2022 | Group stage (2011, 2014, 2016, 2018, 2020, 2022) |
| Sudan | Central Eastern Zone | 28 December 2024 | 4th | 2011 | 2022 | 3rd Place (2011, 2018) |
| Zambia | Southern Zone | 15 December 2024 | 5th | 2009 | 2020 | 3rd Place (2009) |
| Angola | Southern Zone | 28 December 2024 | 5th | 2011 | 2022 | Runner-up (2011) |
| Madagascar | Southern Zone | 29 December 2024 | 2nd | 2022 | 2022 | 3rd Place (2022) |
| N/A | Second qualifying stage winner | TBC | | | | |
| N/A | Second qualifying stage winner | TBC | | | | |

## Draw

The draw was held on 15 January 2025 at the Kenyatta International Conventional Centre in Nairobi.
On the morning of the draw, CAF announced the draw pots and procedure, however no formula for the seeding system was provided other than that it took into account performances in the last three editions.
| Seeded | Pot A | Pot B | Pot C |
| Kenya (A1 - Host) Tanzania (B1 - Host) Uganda (C1 - Host) Senegal (D1 - Holders) | Morocco Niger Equatorial Guinea Madagascar | Mauritania Guinea Sudan Angola | DR Congo Zambia Burkina Faso Nigeria Central African Republic To be confirmed To be confirmed |

## Group Stage
### Tiebreakers

Teams will be ranked according to the three points for a win system (3 points for a win, 1 for a draw, 0 points for a loss), and if tied on points, the following tiebreaking criteria are applied, in the order given, to determine the rankings:
* Points in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
* Goal difference in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
* Goals scored in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
* If more than two teams were tied, and after applying all head-to-head criteria above, if two teams are still tied, all head-to-head criteria above are applied exclusively to these two teams;
* Goal difference in all group matches;
* Goals scored in all group matches;
* Drawing of lots.

### Group A

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
| 1 | Kenya (H) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Qualification to knockout stage |
| 2 | Morocco | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Qualification to knockout stage |
| 3 | Angola | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 4 | DR Congo | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 5 | Zambia | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |

### Group B

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
| 1 | Tanzania (H) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Qualification to knockout stage |
| 2 | Madagascar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Qualification to knockout stage |
| 3 | Mauritania | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 4 | Burkina Faso | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 5 | Central African Republic | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |

### Group C

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
| 1 | Uganda (H) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Qualification to knockout stage |
| 2 | Niger | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Qualification to knockout stage |
| 3 | Guinea | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 4 | Team 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 5 | Team 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |

### Group D

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
| 1 | Senegal | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Qualification to knockout stage |
| 2 | Equatorial Guinea | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Qualification to knockout stage |
| 3 | Sudan | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 4 | Nigeria | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |

## Knockout stage

In the knockout stage, extra time and penalty shoot-out are used to decide the winner if necessary, except for the third place match where penalty shoot-out (no extra time) is used to decide the winner if necessary (Regulations Article 75).

### Bracket

| Quarter-finals | Quarter-finals | Semi-finals | Semi-finals | Final | Final |
| August 2025 | August 2025 | | |
| Winners Group A | | | |
| Winners Group A | | August 2025 | August 2025 | |
| Runners-up Group B | | August 2025 | August 2025 |
| Runners-up Group B | | W37 | |
| August 2025 | August 2025 | | W37 | |
| August 2025 | August 2025 | W40 | |
| Winners Group D | | W40 | |
| Winners Group D | | | | August 2025 | August 2025 |
| Runners-up Group C | | | | August 2025 | August 2025 |
| Runners-up Group C | | | | W41 | |
| August 2025 | August 2025 | | | | W41 |
| August 2025 | August 2025 | | | W42 | |
| Winners Group C | | | | W42 | |
| Winners Group C | | August 2025 | August 2025 | | |
| Runners-up Group D | | August 2025 | August 2025 | | |
| Runners-up Group D | | W39 | | | |
| August 2025 | August 2025 | | W39 | | |
| August 2025 | August 2025 | W38 | | Third place match | Third place match |
| Winners Group B | | W38 | | Third place match | Third place match |
| Winners Group B | | | | August 2025 | August 2025 |
| Runners-up Group A | | | | August 2025 | August 2025 |
| Runners-up Group A | | | | L41 | |
| | | | | L42 | |