AFCON 2025 - LIVE. The draw for the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations takes place this evening, as the build-up to the tournament kicks into gear. All eyes will be on the Mohammed V National Theatre in Rabat, Morocco, as the 24 teams involved learn their group-stage opponents.
Morocco are automatically in Pot 1 as hosts, as they look to be crowned AFCON champions for the first time since 1976. Defending champions Ivory Coast join them, after their eventful run to victory on home soil last year, with Nigeria, Senegal and Egypt among the other nations who will go into the tournament firmly believing they can win.
Cameroon and DR Congo are two sides in Pot 2 most will be keen to avoid, while Angola reached the quarter-finals at AFCON 2023 but are only in Pot 3. Ghana have failed to qualify for the tournament for the first time since 2004, after failing to win a single qualifying match, with Cape Verde and Guinea, both beaten in the last-eight a year ago, also not involved. Follow all the action from the AFCON draw with Standard Sport’s LIVE blog below!.
Hello and welcome to Standard Sport’s LIVE coverage of the draw for AFCON 2025!. Less than a year now until the tournament kicks off in Morocco, and this evening the 24 teams involved will learn their group-stage opponents. We’ll have all the latest build-up right here before full coverage of the draw, which will begin at 6pm GMT.
