CAF restores biennial AFCON format, giving Super Eagles more chances to win title

The Confederation of African Football, CAF, has reversed its earlier determination to signifier the Africa Cup of Nations, AFCON, each 4 years, restoring the competition’s accepted two-year rhythm successful a improvement that could payment Nigeria’s Super Eagles.

CAF had announced successful December 2025 that the continental tourney would determination from a biennial to a four-year format, with a projected African Nations League expected to inhabit the intervening period.

However, pursuing weeks of speculation astir a imaginable reversal, CAF President Patrice Motsepe confirmed earlier this period that the governing assemblage was reconsidering the arrangement.

The organisation officially announced the instrumentality to the two-year docket connected Friday, October 30, 2026, explaining that the projected Nations League would necessitate respective years to go financially sustainable and present the expected benefits to African football.

In its statement, CAF said the determination was taken to support the interests of African football, its 54 subordinate associations and players competing for clubs extracurricular the continent.

The governing assemblage besides noted that the projected alternate contention would instrumentality clip to make the fiscal resources and shot improvement benefits needed to marque African competitions much competitory globally...