Ivory Coast will host the next Africa Cup of Nations in 2024, not 2023, according to Confederation of African Football (CAF) president Patrice Motsepe. The tournament was scheduled to take place in June–July 2023, the wettest month of the year on the Ivory Coast.
The finals will be delayed rather than moved up since the World Cup in Qatar will take place in November and December of this year.
After this year’s competition in Cameroon, it means that the Nations Cup will be contested in January and February for the second consecutive year.
CAF announced in 2017 that it would reschedule in an effort to avoid further disagreements with European teams obliged to release players in the middle of the season and move the finals from their customary January-February timeframe to June-July.
“The European clubs make January a less than ideal time”, said Motsepe.
