CAF reverts AFCON to two-year cycle

The Confederation of African Football, CAF, has returned the Africa Cup of Nations to a two-year cycle.

The determination was unanimously agreed during the CAF enforcement committee gathering connected Thursday.

President of CAF, Patrice Motsepe, precocious announced astatine the continent's strategy league successful Cabo Verde that the CAF Exco would beryllium re-assessing and reconsidering the determination it took past year, for the AFCON to instrumentality spot each 4 years.

CAF earlier projected that the caller Africa Nations League would regenerate the AFCON and instrumentality spot each 2 years.

The body, however, stated that the Africa Nations League would necessitate respective years successful bid to beryllium successful a presumption to beryllium globally competitory and self-supporting.

Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda volition co-host the adjacent variation of the AFCON scheduled for 2027.

CAF reverts AFCON to two-year cycle