CHAN Eagles to play group phase games in Zanzibar

Nigeria’s home-essentially essentially based nationwide team, Extensive Eagles B, will play their Team B fits of the Eighth African Nations Championship in Zanzibar – a Tanzanian archipelago off the inch of East Africa. It is an island of decrease than two million of us. Nigeria is in Team B with Cup holders Senegal, Congo and Sudan.

Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda, the three East African countries which maintain been jointly awarded the earn hosting correct for the 2027 Africa Cup of Nations finals, maintain been mandated to host this 365 days’s African Nations Championship as precise costume rehearsal.

The occasion will almost definitely be staged from August 2 to 30. In accordance with an announcement by the Confederation of African Football (CAF), the day before today, the occasion’s opening match will preserve at the Benjamin Mkapa Stadium, in Dar es Salaam (mainland Tanzania), while the third and fourth fits will preserve at the Mandela Stadium in Kampala, Uganda.

The final match, on August 30, will almost definitely be performed at the Moi Global Sports Centre, Kasarani in Kenya’s capital, Nairobi. With the defenestration of Equatorial Guinea from the occasion following a ruling of the CAF Appeals Committee, Congo has been restored to Nigeria’s Team B.

The 2018 silver-medallists, Nigeria, who had been also bronze-medallists in South Africa in 2014, pleasant for this 365 days’s finals after a 3-1 mixture defeat of Ghana in their qualifying fixture in December final 365 days.

In accordance with the draws, Team A contains Kenya, Morocco, Angola, DR Congo, and Zambia, who will play in Nairobi, Kenya; Team B has Tanzania, Madagascar, Mauritania, Burkina Faso and Central African Republic (video games in Dar es Salaam), while Team C, comprising Uganda, Niger, Guinea, South Africa and Algeria, will play in Kampala.

Nigeria’s Team D, which also has Senegal, Congo and Sudan, will play in Zanzibar.