The quarter-finals of the TotalEnergies CAF Africa Cup of Nations Morocco 2025 accompany calm a accumulating of teams whose accumulated full-blooded underlines the calibration of the claiming ahead, with the eight actual nations accepting collectively won the continental appellation 22 times.
Seven of the eight quarter-finalists are above African champions, a akin of actual absorption rarely apparent at this date of the competition, and one that sets the accent for a angrily aggressive altercation to the final.
Record seven-time winners Egypt already afresh advance the way, abutting by five-time champions Cameroon, three-time winners Cote d’Ivoire and Nigeria, as able-bodied as above champions Algeria, Senegal and hosts Morocco.
The alone barring is Mali, who abide in hunt of a aboriginal continental acme but accept becoming account for their animation and bendability over contempo editions.
Notably, all six accumulation winners — Morocco, Cote d’Ivoire, Senegal, Egypt, Algeria and Nigeria — progressed anon to the quarter-finals, reinforcing the faculty that the tournament’s arch contenders accept asserted themselves at the absolute stage.
Cameroon and Mali, both runners-up in their groups, additionally advanced, while all teams that able as best third-placed abandon were alone in the Round of 16.
The Round of 16 itself accent the weight of acquaintance agitated by the quarter-finalists.
Mali alone 2004 champions Tunisia on penalties, Egypt belted through added time, Nigeria delivered a account victory, and Algeria appropriate backward ball to progress, while hosts Morocco and holders Cote d’Ivoire adjourned close encounters beneath pressure.
One of the banderole accessories sees almanac seven-time winners Egypt lock horns with arresting champions Côte d’Ivoire in a high-profile quarter-final on Saturday.
Tournament hosts Morocco face a appalling claiming adjoin five-time champions Cameroon on Friday, in a challenge accepted to rank amid the best angrily contested matches of the aftermost eight.
Friday’s aperture quarter-final delivers an all–West African battle, with holders Senegal demography on a bent and able Mali side.
Nigeria and Algeria, two of the continent’s acceptable powerhouses, will go head-to-head in Saturday’s aperture tie.
With full-blooded and appetite on affectation beyond the board, the quarter-finals affiance a acute run of encounters as the clash moves afterpiece to its conclusion.
With so abundant full-blooded concentrated in the aftermost eight, the quarter-finals affiance a akin of acuteness and appropriate affection befitting the closing stages of Africa’s arch football competition.
History, apprehension and appetite now assemble as the actual teams hunt continental supremacy in Morocco.
AFCON titles amid the quarter-finalists
Egypt – 7 titles
Cameroon – 5 titles
Cote d’Ivoire – 3 titles
Nigeria – 3 titles
Algeria – 2 titles
Senegal – 1 title
Morocco – 1 title
Mali – 0 titles
Total titles represented: 22
AFCON 2025 Quarter-final accessories
(All admission times are in GMT)
Friday, 9 January 16:00 — Mali vs Senegal 19:00 — Cameroon vs Morocco
Saturday, 10 January 16:00 — Algeria vs Nigeria 19:00 — Egypt vs Côte d’Ivoire