AFCON Betting Tips from our Experts
AFCON 2025 Predictions
What are your predictions for the African Cup of Nations? It’s being held this winter between 21 December 2025 and 18 January 2026. The 35th African Cup of Nations promises to be a thrilling affair, with the best of African football on show. The host country, Morocco, will be joined by defending champions Côte d'Ivoire, as well as great teams from Senegal, Algeria, Cameroon, Nigeria and Egypt. It's a great programme, and one that should make for some fascinating and hopefully winning predictions about the 2025 African Cup of Nations. Prepare to be thrilled!
How the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations works
The African Cup of Nations works in a simple way. It is divided into two phases, with an initial group stage followed by a second knockout phase.
The first group phase sees the 24 participants divided into 6 groups of four. At the end of this group phase, the top two finishers in each group qualify for the Round of 16, as do the four best third-placed teams. For example, Cape Verde finished third in group B with a better points total than two other third-placed teams in other groups then they would qualify for the last 16.
The second knockout phase then follows a classic format, with a single round of 16, followed by quarter-finals, semi-finals and finally the eagerly-awaited grand final. All the African nations are aiming to be there on 18 January, 2025. Not that in this tournament, all the African players who play their trade overseas are able to play for their countries.
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AFCON 2025: Our expert opinion and free tip for the title
A superb competition awaits us next January and February. On the eve of the kick-off of the competition, it seems very difficult to decide which nation will lift the trophy on 18 January, 2026. Senegal, Algeria, Côte d'Ivoire, Morocco, Cameroon, Nigeria and Egypt are all in with a chance of lifting the trophy in January. In the view of our experts, although the defensive side of the team is their weak point, Nigeria are the favourites. Buoyed by Victor Osimhen and a host of quality players, José Peseiro's Super Eagles have a real chance of being successful in this year's tournament in Morocco, and could be the winners. There’ll be some great AFCON odds available for this exciting competition.
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How do you place good predictions on the 2025 African Cup of Nations?
Have you read the previous paragraphs? Then you know how the African Cup of Nations works, and its most important statistics. Of course, to make a good prediction that's not enough, and you need to take different factors into account before trying to predict the result of a match. Here is some advice from our football experts on how to bet on the 2025 African Cup of Nations:
- Analyse the latest performances of each selection
- Check the results of the last head-to-head meetings between the two teams
- Check the potential and confirmed absentees (injuries, suspensions)
- Look at the tactics employed by each side
- Consider the form of the star players
- Calculate each team's time between games
- Take into account how important the match is
If you follow these seven tips when making your predictions for the Africa Cup of Nations, you'll be able to achieve consistently better results. Don't forget that, just like a Euro or a Copa America, the Africa Cup of Nations is a tough competition in which just about anyone can beat anyone. The result of a match does not depend solely on a team's reputation or record, but on a multitude of surrounding factors. Whether you're a beginner or a prognosticator, don't be fooled.
Key statistics from the African Cup of Nations
To make the best possible predictions on the 2024 African Cup of Nations matches, which will be played at the beginning of 2024, you need to know a few useful statistics. These figures will help you to place your bets with the bookmakers, especially if you are in any doubt about a match in the competition. Here, according to our football prediction experts, are the figures you need to know about the African Cup of Nations. Figures taken from the last edition played in Egypt, under the same competition format.
- Home wins: 38%
- Draws: 38%
- Away wins: 23%
- Average goals: 2.29 goals per match
- +0.5 goals: 90%
- -0.5 goals: 10%
- +1.5 goals: 69%
- -1.5 goals: 31%
- +2.5 goals: 38%
- -2.5 goals: 62%
- +3.5 goals: 23%
- -3.5 goals: 77%
- +4.5 goals: 6%
- -4.5 goals: 94%
- ‘Both teams score : yes’: 46%
- Average goals per home game: 1.40
- Average goals per away game: 0.88
- Average shots per game: 19.23
- Victory by a margin of 2 goals or more (handicap): 28.7%
- Correct score 0-0: 9.6% of matches
- Correct score 1-1: 19.2% of matches
- Most frequent score: 1-0 or 0-1 (21.1% of matches)
Among other things, you should therefore avoid predicting too many games with goals during this AFCON 2025 played in Morocco think about betting on draws in the group stage from time to time, and why not try the correct score or the correct score multi chance from time to time. This should help you get as many reliable predictions on the competition as possible, and therefore increase your winnings on sports betting sites. The African Cup of Nations is not one in which there is a large number of high-scoring games, well not in the past anyway.
If you have closely read this article, then you have a good chance of placing successful bets for AFCON 2025. For even more help, check out our football predictions. Our experts' advice awaits you on every competition that counts.
