Egypt hosted the previous edition of the competition and the country will take up the responsibility again, and the 2025 U-20 AFCON has been rescheduled to start on April 27. The Flying Eagles are ...

The Confederation of African Football, CAF, has confirmed Egypt as new hosts of the 2025 Africa U-20 Cup of Nations. CAF took the decision following Cote d’Ivoire’s withdrawal as host of the ...

Cote d’Ivoire have pulled out from hosting the 2025 Africa U-20 Cup of Nations, DAILY POST reports. In a press release, the president of the Ivorian Football Federation, FIF, Yacine Idriss ...

Côte d’Ivoire has surprisingly withdrawn from hosting the U20 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) just weeks before kickoff, throwing the tournament into turmoil. The competition, set for April 26 to ...

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Egypt will host the U20 African Cup of Nations (AFCON) after Cote D’Ivoire withdrew at the last minute last Tuesday, citing “unforeseen circumstances.” The Confederation of African ...

Under20 AFCON serves as a gateway to the Under20 World Cup in Chile in September this year, where four African teams will join 20 others. Egypt hosted the last edition in 2023 with Senegal winning for ...

“This time we had a different and much bigger motivation because the team failed to qualify for the AFCON and so we needed to put that behind us and move on, and also try and make it up to the whole ...