From January 13 - February 14 Ivory Coast will be hosting the African Cup Of Nations also known as the TotalEnergies Africa Cup of Nations for sponsorship reasons and the preparations are still going on. AFCON 2024 was previously scheduled to be held in the summer 2023 but later shifted to 2024. Ivory Coast as host will be the second West African country to host the tournament consecutively after Cameroon hosted the last edition in 2021. The competition will be attended by 24 different African countries and 52 matches will be played in total. These were drawn into 6 groups, each group with 4 t

From January 13 - February 14 Ivory Coast will be hosting the African Cup Of Nations also known as the TotalEnergies Africa Cup of Nations for sponsorship reasons and the preparations are still going on.

AFCON 2024 was previously scheduled to be held in the summer 2023 but later shifted to 2024. Ivory Coast as host will be the second West African country to host the tournament consecutively after Cameroon hosted the last edition in 2021.

The competition will be attended by 24 different African countries and 52 matches will be played in total. These were drawn into 6 groups, each group with 4 teams as shown below:

Group A

Ivory Coast

Nigeria

Equatorial Guinea

Guniea-Bissau

Group B

Egypt

Ghana

Cape Verde

Mozambique

Group C

Senegal

Cameroon

Guinea

Gambia

Group D

Algeria

Burkina Faso

Mauritania

Angola

Group E

Tunisia

Mali

South Africa

Namibia

Group F

Morocco

DR Congo

Zambia

Tanzania 

The news from Ivory Coast confirms that all the 6 stadiums which will host the tournament are ready to do so, which are:

    ■Alassane Ouattara Stadium, Abidjan – 60,000 capacity

    ■Felix Houphouet Boigny Stadium, Abidjan – 33,000 capacity

    ■Stade de la Paix, Bouaké – 40,000 capacity

    ■Amadou Gon Coulibaly Stadium, Korhogo – 20,000 capacity

    ■Laurent Pokou Stadium, San Pédro – 20,000 capacity

    ■Charles Konan Banny Stadium, Yamoussoukro – 20,000 capacity

Each stadium among these will host 6 group stage games, where the final will be played at Alassane Ouattara Stadium while the third-place game will be played at Felix Houphouet Boigny Stadium. 

Only one country, Tanzania, is presenting East Africa in the tournament while other countries like Rwanda, Uganda, Kenya, Burundi, South Sudan and others failed to qualify. 

Current champions Senegal are among the best contenders to win the tournament alongside Morocco, Cameroon, Nigeria as well as the host Ivory Coast which has won the competition two times lastly in 2015.

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