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The Africa Cup of Nations (Afcon) will be held every four years from 2028, Confederation of African Football president Patrice Motsepe has announced.

The tournament has taken place every two years since 1968, with a one-year gap between the 2012 and 2013 editions.

But the tournament will switch to a four-year cycle after the 2027 Afcon in East Africa and a 2028 edition.

Motsepe has instead announced the creation of an African Nations League which will take place annually from 2029.

"We have the most exciting new structure for African football," Motsepe said.

"The global calendar has to be significantly more synchronised and harmonised."

Meanwhile, Caf has increased the prize money for the winners of Afcon from $7m (£5.2m) to $10m (£7.5m).

The surprise announcement about the future of Afcon was made by Motsepe after a meeting of Caf's executive committee in Morocco before the start of the 2025 finals in Rabat on Sunday.

The biennial hosting of Afcon has long caused issues with the football calendar - with the vast majority of recent tournaments held midway through the European club season.

Caf had made a resolution for Afcon to be held in a June-July slot from 2019 onwards and began its new plan in Egypt that year.

But the Covid-19 pandemic and weather conditions in host nations in West Africa meant the 2021 and 2023 editions in Cameroon and Ivory Coast respectively were staged in January and February instead.

This year's Afcon in Morocco will take place over Christmas and the New Year for the first time, with the final on 18 January.

The dates for the finals in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda in 2027 are yet to be announced, and that will be swiftly followed by another Afcon in 2028 - with the hosts of that edition yet to be decided.

After that, the continent's biggest tournament will become a quadrennial tournament taking place in the same year as the European Championships.

Motsepe said the decision had been made in conjunction with Fifa president Gianni Infantino and the world governing body's general secretary Mattias Grafstrom.

source: //www.bbc.com/sport/football

muyico:
include oyo state??
only one federal University!
No state University

reread the topic. private owned university are much

flamingfire24:
Good for Nigeria, where is wizzy, Buena boy. Davido the real goat proving himself timelessly.

you mean african ant turn alhaji

fc fans wont like this at all

most hated president in nigeria history

GanagiBitrus:
Interesting. But I bet, you fought to make money/fame not for the sake of enjoying fighting.

Anyway for me...
A sport that the objective is to inflict max pain to your opponent & possibly knock him out?

A sport that exposes you to brain damage & related illness even after retirement?

Anyone who enjoys seeing pain being inflicted on a fellow human being, must have barbaric or sadist tendencies, to say the least.

not for fame really i loved boxing though my family was against it, i enjoyed the sport and every win was like a high or climax for me, humans are different where we derive joy can never be the same.

keep hitting them up all the saboteurs and sympathizers shall be apprehended soonest.

next time let see pictures, seeing is believing

GanagiBitrus:
Abeg, Boxing is too brutal & barbaric.
Person go dey throw deadly blows with somebody he never quarelled with.

It should be banned as a sport.

for you.

for me its the best sport, i fought and even challenge for wabu featherweight and lost in benin republic in early 2000s. it my best sport with UFC

Lanretoye:
The other one too swore that he will never leave ABUGA

you mean the man agulu

evil that men do follow after them

weytin dey pain me na that benz, we wey dey manage matriz dey pamper am like piken its well it show how life can never be balance

Love800:
Lol.

Baddest guy.

Normally sha, na reverend sister i wan marry. They look so intelligent.

that one dey, your net go catch one

action specks louder

Love800:
Nop.

It will block your appendix junction. The appendix and large intestine abi na small intestine are very close.
When this particular intestine start the process of turning food-waste to excreta(shit), some hard food-particles or foreign materials(which the orange seed is among) can mistakenly block your appendix opening.

This will now result to the popular appendix pains people often experience, and eventually lead to appendix surgery operation at the hospital.

This is why is always best to drink water immediately you finish eating food and choose food that are not too hard to digest and process to waste.
Avoid foreign bodies/particles too like hard-seeds from fruits, stones from rice and beans, etc.

lol na joke na relax

WizardOfNG:
Lol. The best is the reply from guy who said they should remove South West from the South west to balance the equation lol.

He knows the losers just can't accep that ,factually, they are nobody in the Nigerian hierarchy.

dot

south yeast home of billionaires what is happening

the national assembly of money launderers

adecares:
This is so wrong, I hate it when those that ought to help extort in the name of helping, this is nothing but extortion in the name of contribution.

OP, my advice; save using opay or reliable similar app, they have different savings option which “AJO” is part of, most people don’t know, you can as well set the date you wish to withdraw your money with interest. Then move to the market and buy your desires and more.

i will advise he arrest those responsible and charge them to court

arrest those in charge, they cheated you,

Afriifa:
I don't know why they are so pretentious about it

because they enjoy it and will want it to continue before terrorism became prominent in 2000s in kaduna we witness what our mouth cant say

yarimo:
This list must be fake without at least 10 minimum audio billionaires from south east Nigeria.

you mean people from the yeast

he is among those to receive the punishment

Afriifa:
I live in northern Nigeria as a southerner. I can tell you for free that the only moderate Muslim that may never carry out Jihad or be apologetic to religious violence against non-muslims is perhaps the Yoruba Muslims. I can't even be sure about that. Muslims generally are okay with violence against non-muslims in Northern Nigeria.

am a northerner and you absolutely right, we non muslims have been to hell and back on earth.

PlsStayAlive:
Please don't do it, 48 laws of power is for manipulators and people who love playing with people's head, it'll come back to bite you because guess what? Everyone has read that nonsense book and will smell out your tactics as soon as you start. Sha don't say you weren't told

not everyone has read it, maybe the preambles and that does not give a complete insight into each law

REALretep:
Good Good
Your comprehension is now good.
This is a better response

you guys come online claiming to know it all, funny enough we know how ye all are

48laws of power is not for casual reading, read and practices it in your daily life and see how far you go in life

i do no like it when people disrespect any uniform personnel, regardless of what transpired

REALretep:
It appears you have difficulty comprehending English cos you just went off-point

The pressure from Trump is obvious on your boss

english teacher something must drive the actions of man, be it trump or nigerians my boss your president acted shikena

ipman don fight and lose, if you cant beat them join them

nigeria and semis for afcon na 5 and 6 we try too much finalist and get trashed by morrocans