Race for 2027 AFCON heats up

Friday, August 05, 2022 | 440 Views |

Potential host: The National Stadium is amongst venues earmarked to host the 2027 finals

Botswana and Namibia will have to pull all the stops in their bid to win the race to host the 2027 Africa Cup of Nations finals, with seven countries in contention thus far.

With a bid project dubbed ‘BONA’, Botswana and Namibia will have to bring their A-game to convince CAF to award them the rights to organise the tournament.

A technical bid committee, headed by Ashford Mamelodi has been set up, with the two countries’ governments committing their support.

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