The Confédération of African Football, CAF has confirmed that Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania as co-host Nations of the Africa Nations Championship (CHAN).
CAF made the announcement on Thursday.
The biennial competition, according to CAF will run from February 1 to 28, 2025.
The continent’s soccer ruling body also revealed that host stadiums and training venues will be confirmed later.
The qualifying series will begin on the weekend of 25-27 October 2024 and continue on November 1 to 13.
The second round of the qualifiers will be played on 20-22 December and 27-29 December 2024.
The qualification slots for the tournament have been allocated as follows:
Zones WAFU A, WAFU B, UNAF, UNIFFAC, and COSAFA will each have three qualifying teams.
The CECAFA zone, which includes the three host countries, will receive an additional slot due to their automatic qualification as hosts. As a result, the total number of teams qualifying for the final tournament will be increased to 19 teams.
Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania will participate in the Qualifiers and in addition to their automatic qualification as hosts, the team achieving the best result in the CECAFA qualifiers will also advance to the final tournament. Senegal won the last edition held in Algeria last year.