CAF restores the Africa Cup of Nations to a biennial schedule2026-10-30CAF’s executive committee reversed its 2025 decision to hold the Africa Cup of Nations every four years and restored the tournament’s two-year cycle.The next tournament will be held in 2027 in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda; later editions are scheduled for 2028, 2031 and 2033.CAF said the planned Africa Nations League would need several years to generate the funding needed to replace the biennial AFCON.CAF president Patrice Motsepe said AFCON and other confederation national-team competitions may not be held in 2030, when the next men’s World Cup takes place.CAF reverses four-year AFCON plan, restores biennial tournament (Peoples Gazette)« كاف » يقرر رسميا العودة إلى تنظيم كأس أمم إفريقيا كل سنتين – اليوم 24 (Alyaoum24)CAF restores AFCON to two-year cycle, reverses four-year decision (Graphic Online)CAF scraps 4-year AFCON plan, returns to 2-year cycle: See new schedule (Pulse Ghana)AFCON returns to 2-year cycle after CAF reverses quadrennial decision (Al Jazeera)