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participating countries (more to be added soon)

Egypt HOSTS (coach) Javier Aguirre (Mex)

Madagascar (coach) Nicolas Dupuis (Fra)

Tunisia (coach) Alain Giresse (Fra)

Senegal (coach) Aliou Cissé (Sen)

Morocco (coach) Hervé Renard (Fra)

Nigeria (coach) Gernot Rohr (Ger)

Uganda (coach) Sébastien Desabre (Fra)

Mali (coach) Mohamed Magassouba (Mal)

Guinea (coach) Paul Put (Bel)

Algeria (coach) Djamel Belmadi (Alg)

Mauritania (coach) Corentin Martins (Fra)

Ivory Coast (coach) Ibrahim Kamara (CIV)

Kenya (coach) Sébastien Migne (Fra)

Ghana (coach) James Kwesi Appiah (Gha)

Angola (coach) Srdan Vasiljevic (Srb)

Burundi (coach) Olivier Niyungeko (Bur)

Cameroon (coach) Clarence Seedorf (Ned)

Guinea-Bissau (coach) Baciro Candé (G-Bs)

Namibia (coach) Ricardo Nametti (Nam)

Zimbabwe (coach) Sunday Chidzambwa (Zim)

DR Congo (coach) Florent Ibengé (DRC)

Benin (coach) Michel Dussuyer (Fra)

Tanzania (coach) Emmanuel Amunike (Nig)

South Africa (coach) Stuart Baxter (Eng)

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Format

Only the hosts will receive an automatic qualification spot, the other 23 teams will qualify through a qualification tournament. At the finals, the 24 teams will be drawn into six groups of four teams each. The teams in each group play a single round robin. After the group stage, the top two teams and the four best third-placed teams will advance to the round of 16. The winners will advance to the quarter-finals. The winners of the quarter-finals will advance to the semi-finals. The losers of the semi-finals will play in third place play-off, while winners of the semi-finals will play in final.

Stadium information

Cairo International stadium = capacity of 74.100

30 June stadium Cairo = capacity of 30.000

Al Salam stadium = capacity of 30.000

Alexandria stadium = capacity of 19.767

Suez stadium = capacity of 27.000

Ismaïlia = capacity of 18.525

official sponsors of africa cup 2019

- title sponsor = Total

- Visa, Orange, 1XBet, Continental, Yamaha, Gilead, Temmy's

- official supporters: Oppo, Egyptair, H&D Bank, swvl

Prize Money

Champions: US$ 4.5 million
RunnerUp: US$ 2.5 million
Semi finalists: US$ 2.0 million
Quarterfinalists: US$ 800.000


https://twitter.com/caf_online

official twitter page, to follow everything from africa cup too

https://www.youtube.com/user/MyAfricanFootball

official YouTube account of CAF

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Only the hosts will receive an automatic qualification spot, the other 23 teams will qualify through a qualification tournament. At the finals, the 24 teams will be drawn into six groups of four teams each. The teams in each group play a single round robin. After the group stage, the top two teams and the four best third teams will advance to the round of 16. The winners will advance to the quarterfinals. The quarterfinal winners will advance to the semifinals. The semifinal losers will play in third place match, while semifinal winners will play in final.

this years africa cup format, how it works

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former dutch international and star of ac milan Clarence Seedorf made it to africa as manager of Cameroon this year

[Mystic Mock]

Good luck to the Penguins Of Madagascar.

[Nicky91]

Originally Posted by Mystic Mock

Good luck to the Penguins Of Madagascar.

if i'm correct (not sure tho) it might be first african Island to appear at africa cup


Zimbabwe i can see making it, and that would be awesome, considering how far they have come


also having some favouritism for Liberia, bc of their football president and icon George Weah

[Mystic Mock]

Originally Posted by Nicky91

if i'm correct (not sure tho) it might be first african Island to appear at africa cup


Zimbabwe i can see making it, and that would be awesome, considering how far they have come


also having some favouritism for Liberia, bc of their football president and icon George Weah

Well I hope that they (Madagascar) can make a big impact.

[Nicky91]

yep Zimbabwe made it, same as democrat rep congo, benin, Tanzania, south africa

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groups are

Group A

Egypt
DR Congo
Uganda
Zimbabwe

Group B

Nigeria
Guinea
Madagascar
Burundi

Group C

Senegal
Algeria
Kenya
Tanzania

Group D

Morocco
Ivory Coast
South Africa
Namibia

Group E

Tunisia
Mali
Mauritania
Angola

Group F

Cameroon
Ghana
Benin
Guinea-Bissau

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dates for this are

21nd of June till 19th of July

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Meet Tut, the mascot of this years africa cup of nations

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every bit of detail about this in the OP

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some facts

Nigeria back at africa cup, after missing out of main stage the last 2 times (before that though they had become 3rd quite a few times, won the cup once, and also been runner up)


Tunisia is the most consistently active nation at africa cup, Always been there at main stage since them hosting it in 1994


Tanzania's first appearance was in 1980, they had failed to qualify every year until now


Madagascar had a few shock upsets last year in another african trophy, outing south africa with penalty's there in quarter finals, this is their debut at biggest african competition, they play a friendly en route for this against luxembourg today

[Calderyon]

Group D looks brutal. Poor Namibia.

Nigeria, Senegal and Tunisia can just walk to the quarterfinals basically.

[michael21]

I been betting on this

[Nicky91]

Originally Posted by Calderyon

Group D looks brutal. Poor Namibia.

Nigeria, Senegal and Tunisia can just walk to the quarterfinals basically.

not to forget, Egypt also has a quite easy group and home crowd advantage + most successful africa cup nation

[Calderyon]

Originally Posted by Nicky91

not to forget, Egypt also has a quite easy group and home crowd advantage + most successful africa cup nation

Very true, Egypt is going to be very tough. Especially if they have Salah in their team.

[Nicky91]

Originally Posted by Calderyon

Very true, Egypt is going to be very tough. Especially if they have Salah in their team.

yes and their one reserve goalkeeper, El Sayed who is now 47 yrs old, he has won quite a few africa cups already, also many cups and league titles in egyptian competition (of course just egyptian competition but still they have a very experienced player in him, good for motivating the team, and to keep a good combo of experience and talented youth)

[Nicky91]

10 days now till this starts too

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sorry for not keeping this up to date

but some highlights from this years africa cup so far

biggest sensation was Madagascar at their debut making the quarter finals, losing to Tunisia there


semi finalists are

Senegal vs Tunisia

Algeria vs Nigeria


some facts about these 4 countries

if senegal wins we have a new africa cup champion

if Algeria wins they win 29 years after their first title

if Tunisia wins they'll make their consistency even more successful with a second title

if Nigeria wins it would be their 4th title, and they would step up towards egypt into most successful africa cup country