Senegal will face Liberia at the end of December in the second round of qualifying for the 2024 African Nations Football Championship (CHAN) in zone A of the Union of West African Football Federations (UFOA-A).
Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania will jointly host the eighth edition of the African Nations Football Championship (CHAN), scheduled from February 1 to 28, 2025.
Senegal, winner of the seventh edition of CHAN, which took place in Algeria (January 13-February 4, 2023), was exempted from the first round. He was to face in the second round, back and forth, the winner of the only match in the first round between Sierra Leone and Liberia.
Seven countries were involved in these UFOA Zone A qualifications: Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Mali, Mauritania, Liberia, Senegal and Sierra Leone.
The other matches in the second round will pit Mauritania against Mali and Guinea against Guinea-Bissau.
This second round will take place from December 20 to 22 and December 27 to 29, 2024.
The CHAN is a competition created by CAF since 2009 to “serve as a showcase for the exceptional talent and quality of African football” in evolution.
Nineteen nations will take part in this competition instead of the sixteen countries which usually participated.
Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania are automatically qualified for CHAN.
Each of the five zones of the continent namely the Union of West African Football Federations zone A (UFOA-A), the UFOA-B, the North African Football Union, the Union of Football Federations of Central Africa and the Council of Southern African Football Associations, will be represented by three teams.
The Council of East and Central African Football Associations (CECAFA) zone, “including the three organizing countries, will benefit from an additional place due to its automatic qualification as a host zone”.
The host countries will take part in the qualifiers and will be joined in the final tournament by the team with the best result in the CECAF zone qualifiers.
Morocco and the Democratic Republic of Congo, with two trophies, are the most successful nations in this competition.
The African Nations Championship is organized every two years alternating with the CAN.
