The qualifying draw for the 2025 Africa Cup of International locations (Afcon) will speed playground in Johannesburg on Thursday, 4 July.

The 48 competing groups shall be fracture into 12 teams of 4, with the supremacy two in each and every crew achieving the finals in Morocco.

The event hosts shall be incorporated within the draw however, given the Atlas Lions are already confident of qualification, just one group of their crew will reserve a price ticket to North Africa.

The dates for the 2025 Afcon finals are but to be introduced through the Confederation of African Soccer (Caf).

Caf had prior to now dedicated to degree its flagship males’s event on the finish of the Eu membership season, in a June-July slot, however the ones dates upcoming future will hit with Fifa’s inaugural 32-team Membership International Cup.

Previous this day Caf secretary normal Veron Mosengo-Omba informed BBC Recreation Africa that scheduling is “a nightmare” and admitted that the 2025 finals may just doubtlessly be performed in early 2026.

“We need to make sure that the dates that we’ll be choosing will be in the interests of the players,” said the Swiss-Congolese, highlighting issues around the workload of the continent’s elite players.

Qualifiers for the 2025 Afcon will take place in September, October and November this year.

Chad, Eswatini, Liberia and South Sudan all improved via a initial spherical to tie the continent’s 44 highest-ranked international locations within the crew draw.