AFCON 2025 Qualifiers: Harambee Stars to learn their opponents as CAF conducts draw

AFCON 2025 Qualifiers: Harambee Stars to learn their opponents as CAF conducts draw

Joel Omotto 19:00 - 03.07.2024

Kenya will know who they will face in the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers as CAF will conduct the group stage draw in Johannesburg on Thursday, 4th July 2024.

Harambee Stars will learn their opponents for the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers when Confederation of African Football (CAF) conducts the draw in Johannesburg, South Africa on Thursday.

Kenya will be among the 48 nations in the group stage draw and will pray for a kind run of fixtures as they bid to seal a place at the 2025 tournament after missing the delayed 2023 edition having been kicked out of the qualifying campaign following a FIFA ban in early 2022.

Harambee Stars had initially been in the same group with Cameroon, Namibia and Burundi but the ban put paid to their campaign and they will want to make up for lost time.

Engin Firat’s men will hope for a favourable draw given the improved level of football displayed at the AFCON 2023 where there were a host of upsets from the so-called minnows.

The qualifiers are scheduled to start in September where the first two matches will be played followed by two more in October before the final round is played in November.

Kenya last featured at the AFCON in 2019 in Egypt when they suffered group stage elimination following losses to Senegal and Algeria coupled with a win against Tanzania.

Next year’s tournament will be played in Morocco from December 21, 2025 to January 18, 2026 owing to the expanded 32-team FIFA Club World Cup, scheduled between June 15 and July 13, 2025, in the United States when the AFCON was supposed to be held.