Succeed and it blows a hole in one half of the tournament. France v new zealandGhana Vs Central African Republic – a blockbuster on the opening weekend, as was the case four years ago with the all blacks against south africa. And south africa v ireland – the world champions against the world no 1. There are 48 african countries battling for the 24 berths available to the next africa cup of nations tournament (afcon) to be held beginning in january 2024 in the ivory coast. All materials on this site are available under license creative commons attribution 4.0 international.

Whether winning the group means anything is going to depend on what happens in groups d and f. Our model considers algeria one of the favourites, but as we stated above, group d contains both nigeria and egypt, two of the three teams most likely  to win the tournament according to our model. The winner of group e will take on the runners-up of group d in the last 16. The runners-up of group e, however, will play the winners of group f. That’s most likely to be tunisia but could also be mali. With all of this taken into consideration, cameroon have a 43.17% chance of reaching the quarter-finals, but their likelihood of reaching the semis plummets to 19.63%.

This involves placing bets on outcomes that you will have to wait for quite a while before they are settled. For example, for afcon 2021 you can bet on which team will be the winner or player to be the tournament’s top scorer/best player. If you place long term bets before the tournament starts, you stand to enjoy bigger odds  than once the tournament kicks off. Therefore, the expert afcon betting tips are based on the previous performance of countries in recent matches. It’s even better if there are recent head-to-head stats where we can see how the teams have performed against each other and work out if an angle exists. The 2019 afcon finalists, senegal, lead the 2021 africa cup of nations betting odds as the main favourite to win the african nations cup, priced as low as 5/1 on most online sports betting sites.

There will be fireworks when south africa and morocco take on each other at fnb stadium in the group k derby. Bafana bafana desperately needed a win against liberia and they managed to get one, with the team keeping their 2024 afcon qualifying hopes alive. Barring any fresh injury worries, head coach hugo broos is unlikely to make changes to the team that outplayed liberia.

The hosts don’t have great 2023 afcon odds and probably won’t reach too far in the competition. Unlike the european championship, the “africa cup of nations”, better known as the africa cup, does not take place every four but every two years. Around june/july (sometimes also january/february) , the best football nations from the second largest continent meet to play out their winners. The africa cup was played for the first time in 1957, when egypt prevailed. The tournament has been played every two years since 1968, and 16 teams have participated since 1998. In 2019, 24 african national teams took part for the first time.