The quarter-final agency for the
TotalEnergies CAF Africa Cup of Nations
Morocco 2025 has been confirmed, ambience up a alternation of ample clashes as Africa’s better football affray enters its absolute phase.
Defending champions Cote d’Ivoire and almanac seven-time winners Egypt are amid an arty last-eight agency that additionally includes above champions and accustomed contenders Senegal, Cameroon, Nigeria and Algeria, alongside aggressive West African rivals Mali and affray hosts Morocco. The eight nations avant-garde to the abode afterward Tuesday night’s cessation of an arresting Round of 16, as Africa’s flagship football antagonism continues to serve aperitive clashes.
Egypt, the best acknowledged nation in AFCON history, appointed their abode with a hard-fought extra-time achievement over Benin, while holders Cote d’Ivoire maintained their appellation defence by advantageous Burkina Faso 3-0 to accumulate animate hopes of back-to-back crowns.
Hosts Morocco, buoyed by home abutment and their celebrated cachet as the aboriginal African nation to ability a FIFA World Cup semi-final, belted accomplished Tanzania to progress.
Senegal, crowned champions in 2021, connected their absorbing bendability with achievement over Sudan, while Mali connected their acceptability as one of the tournament’s best airy abandon by acquisition Tunisia on penalties admitting spending ample periods of the bout with ten men.
Nigeria accent their advancing accreditation with a advantageous win over Mozambique, aggressive by a brace from Victor Osimhen, while Algeria appropriate added time to see off DR Congo, acting Adil Boulbina arresting backward to defended progression.
Among the standout ties is a blockbuster affair amid
Egypt
, the tournament’s best acknowledged nation with seven titles, and arresting champions
Cote d’Ivoire on Saturday.
Hosts
Morocco
will face a ascetic analysis adjoin
Cameroon
, five-time African champions, in what promises to be one of the tournament’s best acute quarter-finals on Friday.
An all–West African showdown sees ascendant champions
Senegal
booty on a airy and accomplished
Mali
ancillary in Friday’s aboriginal game.
Elsewhere,
Nigeria
will accommodated
Algeria
in a affray amid two continental heavyweights in the aboriginal bout of Saturday.
The quarter-final agenda offers a alternation of exicting encounters as the antagonism builds appear its climax.
The quarter-finals will be played over two days, with the winners advancing to the semi-finals as the chase for continental supremacy intensifies in Morocco.
AFCON 2025 Quarter-final accessories
(All admission times are bounded time in Morocco)
Friday, 9 January 17:00 — Mali vs Senegal 20:00 — Cameroon vs Morocco
Saturday, 10 January 17:00 — Algeria vs Nigeria 20:00 — Egypt vs Côte d’Ivoire