{"id":49546,"date":"2026-10-30T14:57:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-30T12:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=49546"},"modified":"2026-10-30T14:57:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T12:57:09","slug":"caf-reverses-decision-keeps-afcon-biennial","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/caf-reverses-decision-keeps-afcon-biennial\/","title":{"rendered":"CAF reverses decision, keeps AFCON biennial"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">The Africa Cup of Nations\u00a0 (AFCON) will be held every two years, not four as was planned, \u200bgoverning body the Confederation of African Football (CAF) announced on \u200cThursday after reversing an earlier decision.<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">AFCON has traditionally been staged every two years, but CAF&#8217;s surprise decision last December to move to a four-year \u200bcycle was not widely welcomed.<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">CAF \u200bExecutive Committee today unanimously decided that the CAF Africa \u2060Cup of Nations will return to taking place every \u200bTwo Years,&#8221; CAF said in a statement.<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">Under the previous plan, AFCON \u200bwould have moved to a four-year cycle, with the proposed CAF Nations League becoming the continent&#8217;s biennial competition.<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">CAF President Patrice Motsepe said at a strategy \u200bconference in Cape Verde earlier this month that the \u200borganisation was considering returning AFCON to a two-year cycle.<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">CAF said the Nations League \u200cwould \u2060take years to generate enough revenue to sustain African football.<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">&#8220;The decision by the CAF Executive Committee to reinstate the organization of the AFCON every two years aims to advance, protect \u200band promote the \u200binterests of \u2060African football and the 54 CAF Member Associations, as well as those of African players playing \u200bfor clubs outside the continent,&#8221; Motsepe said \u200bin a \u2060statement.<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda will co-host the next edition in 2027, with subsequent tournaments to be held in 2028, 2031 and \u20602033.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">There \u200bwill be no AFCON in 2030, \u200bwith CAF maintaining its tradition of not staging the tournament in a World \u200bCup year.<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">&#8211;Reuters&#8211;<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":21698,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[20],"class_list":["post-49546","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-sport","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda will co-host the next edition in 2027, with subsequent tournaments to be held in 2028, 2031 and \u20602033.","published_date":"","news_description":"Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda will co-host the next edition in 2027, with subsequent tournaments to be held in 2028, 2031 and \u20602033.","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/49546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/49546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49548,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/49546\/revisions\/49548"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=49546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}