AFCON 2025: Nigeria To Battle Tunisia,Uganda,Tanzania In Group Stage

Nigeria’s Super Eagles have been drawn against Tunisia, Uganda and Tanzania in Group C of the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) which will be held in Morocco from December 21, 2025, to January 18, 2026.

The group stage draw was conducted at Mohamed V National Theatre in Casablanca yesterday’s night.

The 24 qualifying nations for the African soccer fiesta were divided into six groups of four teams to battle for the preliminary stage of the competition.

The top two teams from each group will automatically qualify for the knockout, while the best four third-placed teams will also get second-round slots.

Nigeria will hope to surpass their second-placed finish at the last edition in Cote d’Ivoire.

The Eagles will be facing Tunisia’s Carthage Eagles for the first time since they lost to the North Africans in the second round of AFCON 2021 held in Cameroon in 2022.

Nigeria last faced Uganda at the AFCON was in the semi-final of the 1978 edition, and the Eagles lost 2-1.

Tanzania was the first team Nigeria defeated en route to the country’s first-ever AFCON title. The Eagles trounced the East African 3-1 in the competition’s opening match.

.AFCON 2025 GROUP STAGE

Group A: Morocco, Mali, Zambia, Comoros

Group B: Egypt, South Africa, Angola, Zimbabwe

Group C: Nigeria, Tunisia, Uganda, Tanzania

Group D: Senegal, DR Congo, Benin, Botswana

Group E: Algeria, Burkina Faso, Equatorial Guinea, Sudan Group F: Cote d’Ivoire, Cameroon, Gabon, Mozambique.”