AFCON: Relief for European Clubs as FIFA Gives Fresh Date for Release of Players

Ahead the commencement of the Africa Cup of Nations, the Federation of International Football Association, FIFA has confirmed that clubs can now release their players latest December 15, 2025.
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‎With this announcement, there will be relative ease across European clubs, with majority of them set to lose their players for the biennial competition.
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‎Newsbuka learnt that clubs were earlier mandated to release invited players two weeks before the start of the competition.
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‎But after a fruitful deliberation between FIFA, CAF, and other major stakeholders, an agreement was reached to push the release date back by a week.
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‎However, it is yet to be seen if the agreement would affect majority of the countries, who have set up friendly games ahead the preparation.
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‎With this development also, Super Eagles friendly against Pharaohs of Egypt billed for Sunday, 14 December is now doubtful.
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‎Morocco is the host of the competition that will commence December, 21, 2025 to 18 January, 2026.