CAF touts Angola, Gabon, Nigeria as new hosts

Previous hosts Ango­la, Gabon and Nige­ria are now widely speculated to stage next year’s AFCON following Morocco’s disqualifica­tion by CAF on Tuesday.

The Confederation of African Football (CAF) has said it will soon name the new hosts of AFCON 2015 after Morocco insisted the tournament be staged on a later date on account of their concerns over the Ebola Vi­rus Disease. On Tuesday, CAF executives disqualified Morocco from the competi­tion and also stated they had by November 10 received some applications to host the tournament from Janu­ary 7 to February 8, 2015, as originally scheduled.
“These applications are currently under review, and the Executive Committee will finalize the selection of the successful National As­sociation shortly and con­firm the place and date of the draw of the final tourna­ment at the same time,” said CAF on Tuesday. This state­ment means that a proposal of four countries hosting the competition at the same time because of the short notice will now not see the light of day. South Africa and Ghana have announced they will not be hosting next year’s competition, but speculations have been rife about likely new hosts with Angola, Gabon and Nigeria widely mentioned.
Angola hosted the 2010 edition of the tournament and still have most of their facilities intact, so too Ga­bon, who co-hosted the biennial competition two years ago.