2025 Africa Cup of Nations

The 2025 Africa Cup of Nations (also referred to as AFCON 2025 or CAN 2025) is scheduled to be the 35th edition of the Africa Cup of Nations, the biennial international men's football championship of Africa organized by the Confederation of African Football (CAF). The tournament is scheduled to be hosted by Guinea, thus making it the first time ever in Guinean history that the country is awarded to host the tournament. The Confederation of African Football changed the dates of the tournament to June and July rather than the usual January, which will come into play as of the 2019 Tournament. It will allow the tournament to not conflict with other major tournaments as well as allowing big name players to play for their nations in the tournament without missing games for their European club side.

Host change
On 30 November 2018, CAF stripped Cameroon from hosting the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations. However, CAF President Ahmad Ahmad told Cameroon accepted to host the 2021 Africa Cup of Nations. Consequently, Ivory Coast, original hosts of 2021, would host the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations, and Guinea, original hosts of 2023, would host the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations.

On 30 January 2019, CAF President confirmed the timetable shift, after a meeting with Ivorian President Alassane Ouattara in Abidjan, Ivory Coast.

Qualified teams
The following teams qualified for the tournament.


 * 1 Bold indicates champion for that year. Italic indicates host for that year.

Venues
With the Africa Cup of Nations expanded to 24 teams, six venues are expected to be used. The CAF has established the following requirements for stadiums:

The host cities list will probably contain the cities which had been chosen to host the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations: Conakry, Kankan, Labé and Nzérékoré