Nigeria will play their group B matches of the 8th African Nations Championship in Zanzibar – a Tanzanian archipelago off the coast of East Africa alongside defending champions Senegal, Congo and Sudan who are all in group B as CAF reveal venues for the highly anticipated 2024 CHAN competition which is set to be hosted by Tanzania, Kenya and Uganda between 02 – 30 August, 2025, Nigeriasoccernet.com writes.
Marking a return to East African soil following the 2016 edition in Rwanda, Tanzania’s Benjamin Mkapa Stadium in Dar es Salaam will host the opening match on 02 August, a decision which is in tandem with the three Nations that will host this year’s tournament.
According to an announcement by the Confederation of African Football on Thursday, the tournament’s opening match will take place at the Benjamin Mkapa Stadium in Dar es Salaam (mainland Tanzania), while the third and fourth matches will hold at the Mandela Stadium in Kampala, Uganda.
The final match, on Saturday 30th August, will be played at the Moi International Sports Centre, Kasarani in Kenya’s capital, Nairobi.
With the defenestration of Equatorial Guinea from the tournament following a ruling of the CAF Appeals Committee, Congo has been restored to Nigeria’s group B.
The Super Eagles B, who were also bronze-medalists in South Africa in 2014, qualified for this year’s finals after a 3-1 aggregate defeat of Ghana in their qualifying fixture in December last year.
GROUP A: Kenya, Morocco, Angola, DR Congo, Zambia (Nairobi)
GROUP B: Tanzania, Madagascar, Mauritania, Burkina Faso, Central African Republic (Dar es Salaam)
GROUP C: Uganda, Niger, Guinea, South Africa, Algeria (Kampala)
GROUP D: Senegal, Congo, Sudan, Nigeria (Zanzibar)
By Oluwadamilola Olaleye