The next Africa Cup of Nations has been pushed back to 2024 due to weather concerns in the Ivory Coast with the tournament now being played in the winter.
Like the most recent AFCON, it will be contested in January and February - meaning several Premier League players could miss a chunk of the campaign. The Confederation of African Football (CAF) plus other executive boards have had to come to an agreement to postpone the tournament until 2024. "We cannot take the risk," CAF president Patrice Motsepe said in the Moroccan capital Rabat, via the BBC.
It was actually in 2017 that CAF announced that the traditional January-February slot would be no more in the near future to help avoid disputes with European clubs who have not been impressed by having to release their players mid-season in the past. Liverpool lost both Mohamed Salah and Sadio Mane last term, although the pair only missed two Premier League matches in the end due to the winter break.
