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David GOMBE

CAF president Patrice Motsepe has confirmed the growth of AFCON 2027 from 24 groups to twenty-eight groups. The event is slated to be collectively hosted by Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania.

The expanded 28 workforce event would see the 28 certified nations cut up into seven teams of 4 groups apiece.

“We’ve got elevated the variety of contributors for the subsequent version of the AFCON,” Motsepe confirmed, making the growth official.

In the course of the group stage every workforce will play three matches. The Group winners and runners-up, totalling 14 groups, would advance robotically to the Spherical of 16.

The remaining two spots within the 16-team knockout bracket would doubtless go to the 2 finest third-placed finishers throughout all seven teams, with factors, purpose distinction and targets scored serving as tiebreakers the place needed, because it has been within the 24-team format.

CAF beforehand raised the variety of finalists from 16 to 24 forward of the 2019 event throughout the continental showpiece hosted in Egypt.