Ten teams, including Morocco, automatically qualified, have validated their ticket for the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations which will take place in the Kingdom. The last selections to secure their place, Equatorial Guinea, thanks to Togo’s defeat against Liberia (1-0), and Ivory Coast after a draw between Chad and Sierra Leone (1-1).
Equatorial Guinea and Ivory Coast therefore join Morocco, host country, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Algeria, DR Congo, Senegal, Egypt and Angola who are all expected at Moroccan stadiums for the African Cup of Nations which will take place from December 21, 2025 to January 18, 2026.
The qualification of Equatorial Guinea came even before the match scheduled against Algeria on Thursday, for the fifth day of the Group E qualifiers. The Equatorial Guinean team benefited from Togo’s defeat against Liberia, which is imposed 1-0 thanks to a penalty from Mohamed Sangaré in the 83rd minute.
Liberia accumulates four points and takes third place in the group, while Togo remains two points behind, at the bottom of the standings.
Algeria, already qualified with a faultless run (12 points in four matches), dominates the group, followed by Equatorial Guinea with seven points. In the event of a tie on points between Equatorial Guinea and Liberia at the end of qualifying, direct confrontations (favorable to Equatorial Guinea) would decide between the two teams.
For its part, Ivory Coast was able to count on the draw between Sierra Leone and Chad (1-1) to put its title of African champion at stake during the next competition. Sierra Leone faces elimination if Zambia beat Ivory Coast on Friday.
