CAF Withdraws Guinea AFCON 2025 Hosting Rights
Confederation of African Football (CAF) President, Patrice Motsepe Friday met with the Guinea Transition President, Colonel Mamadi Doumbouya to discuss the withdrawal by CAF of the TotalEnergies Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) Guinea 2025, due to the infrastructure and facilities in Guinea not being ready to host a world-class AFCON competition.
He was accompanied by CAF General Secretary, Mr Véron Mosengo-Omba.
President Motsepe said: “I visited Guinea today out of respect to the people of Guinea to discuss CAF’s willingness to advise and work together with the football stakeholders to construct and build football infrastructure and facilities in this country. This will enable Guinea to bid with other competing nations for the African Nations Championships (CHAN) which will take place after the CHAN to be hosted by Algeria in 2023, in the light of the decision by CAF not to proceed with the TotalEnergies AFCON 2025 in Guinea.”
Despite the assurance by the Guinean leader that all the facilities will be ready before the AFCON kickoff in 2025, the president of CAF said they are withdrawing the hosting right from the West African country.
Before meeting with Colonel Doumbouya, Dr Motsepe held talks with the leadership of the Fédération Guinéenne de Football (FEGUIFOOT), the Minister of Youth and Sports, Lansana Bea Diallo, and Prime Minister Dr Bernard Goumou.
The CAF Executive Committee will be meeting on Saturday, 1 October 2022 in Algiers, the Algerian capital and will take a decision to re-open the bidding process for the TotalEnergies AFCON 2025.
Meanwhile, the draw for 2023 takes place later today in Algiers.
The 18 countries that secured a place in the finals will be divided into five groups.
Host Algeria are in pot 1 with Morocco, Mali, Cameroon and DR Congo.
Congo, Libya, Sudan, Uganda and Angola are in pot 2 of the draw.
Ghana eliminated Nigeria from the race to reach Algeria for the 2023 CHAN are in pot 3 with Niger Republic, Cote D’Ivoire, Mauritania, Ethiopia, Senegal, Mozambique and Madagascar.
Morocco are the defending champions.
