2024 WAFCON and 2025 AFCON Facing Potential Postponement

The Confederation of African Football (CAF) has revealed that the highly anticipated 2024 Women’s Africa Cup of Nations (WAFCON) and the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) may be postponed.

Originally slated to take place in Morocco in 2024, the WAFCON’s schedule remains uncertain as CAF struggles to finalize a suitable timeframe for the event.

Speaking to BBC reporters, CAF’s General Secretary, Veron Mosengo-Omba acknowledged the challenges in accommodating the competition within an already congested calendar.

“We are supposed to play this year but we have teams engaged in the Olympics, so we have to find another date,” Mosengo-Omba explained to BBC Sport Africa.

“We are talking with Uefa, because most of the players are playing in Europe, the European Club Association and also with Fifa in order to find [a] suitable date.”

Additionally, the 2025 AFCON faces a potential delay of six months due to FIFA’s introduction of a new inter-club FIFA World Cup, slated for the same summer as the continental tournament.

“For the men, we need to make sure that the dates that we’ll be choosing will be in the interests of the players,” said the Swiss-Congolese, highlighting issues around the workload of the continent’s elite players.

“For this we need to balance different aspects and also discuss with our partners and then we complete [the dates]. Scheduling is a nightmare for everybody,” He said.