The Africa Cup of Nations Opens Across Three Countries

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The Africa Cup of Nations Opens Across Three Countries · Chronopin

The 2027 Africa Cup of Nations is the 36th edition of CAF's tournament, hosted by Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania from 19 June to 17 July 2027 - a day earlier than the pin's end date - with 24 teams across 10 venues in 7 host cities^[1]
It is the first AFCON hosted by three countries and the first in five decades to be staged in the CECAFA region, since Ethiopia in 1976^[1]
It is branded for sponsorship as the TotalEnergies CAF Africa Cup of Nations PAMOJA 2027, "pamoja" meaning together in Swahili, an official language of all three hosts^[1]
It marks the Africa Cup of Nations' 70th anniversary and will be the last held in an odd-numbered year, after CAF announced in December 2025 that AFCON becomes a quadrennial tournament from 2028^[1]
CAF chose the hosts on 27 September 2023, having decided on 7 April 2023 to pick the 2025 and 2027 hosts on the same day; the losing bids were Botswana and Zambia, Nigeria and Benin, and Senegal^[1]
The three co-hosts qualified automatically on 27 September 2023: Kenya making a 7th appearance with a best of the group stage, Tanzania a 5th with a round of 16 in 2025, and Uganda a 9th with runners-up in 1978^[1]
The remaining places are decided in FIFA windows in March 2026 (preliminary round), September/October 2026 (matchdays 1-4) and November 2026 (matchdays 5-6)^[1]
The venue list is unsettled and the article contradicts itself: the body says the plan grew from nine stadiums, three per country, toward up to ten host cities, and that in Kenya "Nairobi now remains the only proposed host city after the exclusion of Eldoret and Kakamega" - yet the page's own stadium navbox and location map still list Eldoret's Kipchoge Keino Stadium, so the pin's inclusion of Eldoret follows the older plan^[1]
Tanzania is expected to host in Dar es Salaam, Arusha and Zanzibar, and Uganda has put forward Kampala, Hoima and Lira^[1]
The candidate grounds are Mandela National Stadium in Kampala at 64,125 after renovation, the Benjamin Mkapa Stadium in Dar es Salaam and the new Raila Odinga International Stadium in Nairobi at 60,000 each, Nairobi's Moi International Sports Centre at 55,000 after renovation, Fumba Stadium in Zanzibar at 35,000, the new Samia Suluhu Hassan Stadium in Arusha and Nyayo National Stadium at 30,000, Hoima City Stadium and Akii Bua Stadium in Lira at 20,000, and Amaan Stadium in Zanzibar at 15,000 - while the navbox names a partly different set including Talanta Sports Stadium, Chamazi Stadium, CCM Kirumba Stadium in Mwanza and Nakivubo Stadium^[1]
Morocco go in as defending champions, "after being controversially awarded the 2025 title after an appeal and despite Senegal originally winning 1-0 in the final"^[1]