2020 African Nations Championship
The 2020 African Nations Championship, known as the Total African Nations Championship (also referred to as CHAN 2020) was the 6th edition of the African Nations Championship, a biennial football tournament organized by the Confederation of African Football (CAF) exclusively featuring players from the respective national championships. The tournament was held in Cameroon from 16 January to 7 February 2021. Originally it was scheduled to be played from 4 to 25 April 2020. However, CAF announced on 17 March 2020 that the tournament had been postponed to a later date due to the COVID-19 pandemic. On  30 June, CAF announced that the tournament would be rescheduled to January 2021. Ethiopia were formerly awarded as host of the tournament, but the EFF admitted it was not ready to host this competition, and hosting rights were awarded to Cameroon instead. The final tournament was originally to be played during January and February 2020, but it was moved to April 2020, before being postponed again. Unlike the Africa Cup of Nations, the competing national teams must be composed of players playing in their domestic league. For example, a Cameroonian player is only eligible to play for the Cameroon national  team if he is playing for a Cameroonian club. CAF has delivered a satisfactory certificate to Cameroon in which they indicated the percentage of attendance in line with health exigencies outlined by FIFA. Twenty five percent of spectators were admitted in the different stadia during the first phase of the competition, that is group matches and It could rise to 50 per cent in the knock-out phases of the competition. Morocco were the defending champions, and successfully defended their title, defeating Mali in the final. Host selection. Ethiopia were originally officially appointed to host the tournament on 4 February  2018, after the final of the previous tournament in Morocco. Cameroon were appointed to replace Ethiopia to host the tournament on 13 April 2019. Qualification. The qualifying rounds took place in 2019. Djibouti and Gabon were banned as they withdrew during the 2018 African Nations Championship qualification. Djibouti, along with the original hosts Ethiopia were later reinstated. Qualified teams. The following 16 teams qualified for the final tournament. Tunisia qualified for the tournament but withdrew in January 2020. On 20 January 2020, Libya, which were eliminated by Tunisia in the qualifying round, were invited to take part in place and  given a deadline of 28 January 2020 to decide whether to participate. Libya decided to accept the invitation. Tunisia were banned from the next edition of the African Nations Championship. Venues. Matches were held in four venues at three cities: Yaoundé, Limbe and Douala. The fixtures were announced on 24 February 2020. Squads. Each squad can contain a maximum of 23 players (Regulations Article 72). Match officials. The following 43 match officials officiated during the 2020 African Nations Championship. Draw. The draw of the final tournament was held on 17 February 2020, 19:00 WAT (), at the Palais Polyvalent des Sports  de Yaoundé in Yaoundé. The 16 teams were drawn into four groups of four teams. Teams were allocated into four pots, with the hosts Cameroon seeded in Group A and the defending champions Morocco seeded in Group C. Group stage. The top two teams of each group advance to the quarter-finals. Teams are ranked according to points (3 points for a win, 1 point 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 (Regulations Article 74): All times are local, WAT  (). Group A. <onlyinclude> </onlyinclude> Group B. <onlyinclude> </onlyinclude> Group C. <onlyinclude> </onlyinclude> Group D. <onlyinclude> </onlyinclude> 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). Awards. The following awards were given at the conclusion of the tournament: