AFCON Team Line Up for the AFCON 23-2024?
Ivory Coast will host 23 other nations ahead of the 2023/24 Africa Cup of Nations. The AFCON team lineup comprises 24 football teams divided into 6 groups.
Here are the teams that will be participating in the competition.
Group A
- Ivory Coast
- Nigeria
- Equatorial Guinea
- Guinea-Bissau
Group B
- Egypt
- Ghana
- Cape Verde
- Mozambique
Group C
- Senegal
- Cameroon
- Guinea
- Gambia
Group D
- Algeria
- Burkina Faso
- Mauritania
- Angola
Group E
- Tunisia
- Mali
- South Africa
- Namibia
- Group F
- Morocco
- DR Congo
- Zambia
- Tanzania
Spotlight on the Key Teams
We’ve highlighted the 24 teams that will battle for Africa’s biggest football title when the tournament commences in January. While all teams will surely start on a clean slate, there’s no denying that some are favourites. Their pedigree in the competition and the quality of their squad gives them the edge. We will discuss the key teams for the 2023 AFCON, hoping our analysis aids your predictions.
Egypt, Nigeria, Ghana, Cameroon, Ivory Coast, Algeria, Senegal, Tunisia and Morocco will likely win this competition. We have done the research for the most successful AFCON team, and Egypt leads with 7 titles. They are followed closely by Cameroon, Ghana and Nigeria, who have won 5, 4 and 3 titles respectively. You will expect these teams to replicate their performances like in the previous years.
Furthermore, these nations have some of the key players in world football capable of pushing their teams to victory. The likes of Riyad Mahrez, Mohamed Salah, Victor Osimhen, Sadio Mane, Achraf Hakimi, and Franck Kessie will be in the AFCON team lineup for their teams and would likely make a difference on the big stage. Our research shows these teams are good picks for your AFCON predictions, bar any surprises.
Team Selection Process
The AFCON qualification phase took place between March 23, 2022, and October 17, 2023, to determine the football teams that would make the finals in Ivory Coast. 48 teams were initially placed into Groups A – L to participate in the qualifiers.
CAF reduced it to 46 teams as Kenya and Zimbabwe were disqualified after FIFA failed to lift their suspension from all international football activities. As a result, two groups had to settle with 3 teams while the rest had 4 each.
According to CAF, only the two highest-placed teams in each group would qualify. For the groups with 3 football teams, only 1 could go through.
The qualifiers met expectations, while we also experienced a few surprises. One of the best performances witnessed was from the Cape Verde team. They’ve only made the AFCON finals 3 times and didn’t seem a threat in a group with Burkina Faso, Togo and Eswatini. Surprisingly, they finished second in Group B, a point below the first-placed team Burkina Faso.
Equatorial Guinea were also brilliant, finishing joint top with Tunisia in Group J. Not so many would have predicted them to make it through in a group with Botswana and Libya. However, they proved everyone wrong and only lost a game during the qualifiers. Seeing their performances against Ivory Coast, Nigeria and Guinea-Bissau in Group A of the AFCON finals will be one to look forward to.
