18:35 GMT – Morocco’s set-piece achievement has been a weapon at this tournament; Senegal’s aeriform backbone and organisation will be activated beneath pressure. 18:30 GMT – Expect fretfulness early: AFCON finals are rarely accessible from the alpha — the aperture 20 account generally ascertain the bounce for the absolute night. 18:25 GMT – Ndala’s officiating aggregation has been confirmed, with administration from DR Congo and Congo, additional a South African fourth official — and a bunch VAR unit. 18:20 GMT – Morocco accept bristles apple-pie bedding and Senegal accept four — the final could be absitively by one moment, one error, or one save. 18:15 GMT – Morocco’s final history: champions in 1976 (no absolute final), runners-up in 2004 — tonight is a adventitious to carbon a 50-year narrative. 18:10 GMT – Senegal’s final history: runners-up in 2002 and 2019, champions in 2021 — alone one ambition has been denticulate in their aftermost two finals combined. Both teams are out on the angle now withy a big annular of acclaim afterwards the closing commemoration performances ended. 18:05 GMT – Morocco accept denticulate nine goals at this AFCON and conceded one; Senegal accept denticulate 12 and conceded two — two complete teams congenital for knockout football. The line-ups are actuality and these are the men to action for the appellation tonight.
18:00 GMT – We are one hour from kick-off: Morocco v Senegal, Rabat, 19:00 GMT — the aftermost night of AFCON 2025 begins to feel real. 17:55 GMT – Two ambitions, one trophy: Morocco backpack homesickness and civic hunger; Senegal accompany abiding arete and the mentality of winners. 17:50 GMT – The bout brawl adventure adds ceremony: CAF and PUMA accept apparent a appropriate copy “ITRI” brawl with gold accents for tonight’s final. 17:45 GMT – Reminder: admission is 19:00 GMT — break with us as the amphitheater atmosphere builds and final-day astriction rises. 17:40 GMT – Expect a appropriate contest: Morocco’s controlled accession and set-piece backbone accommodated Senegal’s adeptness and adeptness to win bound knockout games. 17:35 GMT – Senegal are adverse the host nation in an AFCON final for the aboriginal time — they accept baffled Egypt on penalties in a final before. 17:30 GMT – Morocco are aiming to become the 12th host nation to win AFCON (excluding 1959, aback there was no final). 17:25 GMT – Senegal’s Mendy is block his own mark: four apple-pie bedding already, and a fifth would according Senegal’s best clean-sheet run at an AFCON. 17:20 GMT – Morocco’s clean-sheet calculation is already a civic talking point: Bounou is the aboriginal Moroccan babysitter with bristles at a distinct AFCON edition. 17:15 GMT – Senegal’s bulletin charcoal consistent: account the host nation, but amusement it as “11 v 11” aback the blare goes. 17:10 GMT – Morocco’s drillmaster Regragui says his abhorrence is the aggregation not arena advisedly beneath burden — tonight is about all-embracing the occasion, not shrinking from it. 17:05 GMT – Morocco are block a additional continental appellation — their aboriginal aback 1976 — while Senegal can win their additional afterwards appropriation the bays in 2021. 17:00 GMT – Teams activate to achieve into their final-day rhythms: Morocco with home expectation, Senegal with clash acquaintance and the calm of champions. 16:55 GMT – The adjudicator storyline is set: Jean-Jacques Ndala, who handled the aperture match, has been entrusted with the final — a allegorical “first blare to aftermost whistle” arc. 16:50 GMT – A agenda of continental balance: this is the ninth AFCON final amid West Africa and North Africa — the antecedent eight are breach analogously (4 wins each). 16:45 GMT – Morocco accept gone 477 account afterwards acceptance a goal; their aback band has angry Rabat into a breastwork this tournament. 16:40 GMT – Senegal accept not conceded added than one ambition in any bout aback 2017 — their arresting anatomy has become a long-running identity. 16:35 GMT – If tonight goes the distance, history is loud: nine AFCON finals accept been absitively on penalties — and several in contempo years concluded 0-0 afterwards 120 minutes. 16:30 GMT – Finals generally articulation on tiny details: AFCON history says the commonest scorelines are 1-0 and 0-0 — and contempo finals accept been abnormally tight. 16:25 GMT – Senegal’s Sadio Mané has confused into aristocratic company: his semi-final ambition was his 11th at AFCON, demography his all-embracing ambition involvements to 20. 16:20 GMT – Díaz is one ambition abroad from analogous Ahmed Faras’ AFCON almanac for Morocco; addition bang tonight would be a celebrated moment. 16:15 GMT – Morocco’s Brahim Díaz charcoal one of the tournament’s banderole names — denticulate in anniversary of his aboriginal bristles matches afore cartoon a bare in the semi-final. 16:10 GMT – Morocco advanced Eliesse Ben Seghir credibility to the affect in the camp: seeing chief players cry afterwards extensive the final shows what this agency to the country. 16:05 GMT – Senegal arch drillmaster Pape Thiaw strikes a accurate tone: “Today, it’s the angel of Africa that is at stake… we charge not blemish it.” 16:00 GMT – A key draft for Senegal: Kalidou Koulibaly is suspended, missing an AFCON final for the additional time — they additionally lose Habib Diarra to suspension. 15:55 GMT – Senegal backpack a big arresting agenda too: they’ve conceded alone two goals in the clash and accept been adamant in knockout control. 15:50 GMT – Senegal’s route: topped Group D, exhausted Sudan 3-1, belted Mali 1-0, again defeated Egypt 1-0 acknowledgment to Sadio Mané. 15:45 GMT – Morocco’s route: topped Group A, belted Tanzania, exhausted Cameroon 2-0, again captivated Nigeria to 0-0 afore acceptable on penalties. 15:40 GMT – Goalkeepers could be decisive: Morocco’s Yassine Bounou has bristles apple-pie sheets; Senegal’s Edouard Mendy has four. 15:35 GMT – The ambience is ready: the Prince Moulay Abdellah Amphitheater will host the showpiece, with Morocco arena their seventh bout in Rabat — Senegal accept played all endemic in Tangier until now.
15:30 GMT – Senegal’s Moussa Niakhaté summed up their mindset: finals accept become “a habit” — but he insists alone one aggregation will lift the bays tonight. 15:25 GMT – It’s a final affected by emotion: Regragui admits the burden is added on the hosts and says managing affect could be the difference.
15:20 GMT – Senegal accept denticulate in all six of their matches at this AFCON — a bendability that makes them a blackmail alike aback amateur tighten. 15:15 GMT – Morocco accept conceded aloof one ambition in the absolute tournament, the best arresting almanac branch into the final. 15:10 GMT – One carbon sets the tone: this is the aboriginal AFCON affair amid Morocco and Senegal, but their 32nd bout all-embracing — with Morocco historically ascendant (18 wins to Senegal’s six). 15:05 GMT – The admission begins: Morocco are block their aboriginal appellation aback 1976, while Senegal are actualization in their fourth AFCON final, aiming for a additional acme afterwards 2021. 15:00 GMT – We’re alive in Rabat for the final day of AFCON 2025, with Senegal v hosts Morocco the aftermost affiliate of a month-long adventure of pressure, pride and big moments. Good afternoon and acceptable to our alive advantage of the TotalEnergies CAF Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) Morocco 2025 final day.
One bout remains, and by the end of tonight Africa will accept a new champion. Hosts Morocco face Senegal beneath the Rabat lights at the Prince Moulay Abdellah Stadium, with admission at 19:00 GMT.
We will accompany you rolling updates throughout the afternoon and evening, with every key development, aggregation account and atmosphere analysis captured as it happens.
Morocco accept agitated a nation’s achievement all the way to the final, block a aboriginal AFCON appellation aback 1976.
Senegal access with the calm of champions, behest to add a additional acme to the one they aerial in 2021.
Afterwards a ages of tension, ball and knockout grit, it all comes bottomward to one aftermost night and one aftermost performance.
Break with us from 15:00 GMT as we body up to admission — all timings in GMT.