The Confederation of African Football (CAF) has announced that the draw for the TotalEnergies CAF African Nations Championship (“CHAN”) 2024 will take place on Wednesday, January 15, 2025, at 20h00 local time (17h00 GMT / 19h00 Cairo time) at Nairobi’s Kenyatta International Conventional Centre.
The highly anticipated tournament, which will be co-hosted by Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania from February 1 to 28, 2025, is exclusively for African footballers competing in their domestic leagues.
Zambia qualified for the CHAN without kicking a ball after their opponent, Mozambique, pulled out of the qualifiers due to ongoing political instability. This will be Zambia’s fifth appearance at the tournament, which is exclusive to domestic league-based players.
The teams that have qualified are Morocco, Guinea, Senegal, Mauritania, Niger, and Burkina Faso.
Others are Nigeria, the Central Africa Republic (CAR), the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Sudan, Angola, Madagascar, and the three hosts.
Senegal are the reigning champions of this competition; they defeated 2022 hosts Algeria in the final in Algiers three years ago to win the title for the first time.
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