AFCON 2025: Liverpool’s Mohamed Salah, Man Utd’s Bryan Mbeumo among UK-based players selected for tournament | Football News

AFCON 2025 starts on Sunday December 21, when hosts Morocco take on Comoros in Rabat.

With 17 of the 24 competing nations having confirmed their squads for the tournament to date, a total of 45 players have been selected so far.

Benin, Comoros and Gabon are the only three not to include any UK-based players.

Read on to see the full list of players heading to Morocco…

Algeria

TBC

Angola

• EFL: Manuel Benson (Swansea)

Botswana

TBC

Burkina Faso

• Premier League: Dango Ouattara (Brentford), Bertrand Traore (Sunderland)
• EFL: Issa Kabore (Wrexham)
• Scotland: Landry Kabore (Hearts)

Cameroon

• Premier League: Carlos Baleba (Brighton), Bryan Mbeumo (Man Utd)
• EFL: Junior Tchamadeu (Stoke)

DR Congo

• Premier League: Arthur Masuaku (Sunderland), Axel Tuanzebe (Burnley), Noah Sadiki (Sunderland), Aaron Wan-Bissaka (West Ham)
• EFL: Edo Kayembe (Watford)
• Scotland: Ange Balikwisha (Celtic)

Egypt

• Premier League: Omar Marmoush (Man City), Mohamed Salah (Liverpool)

Equatorial Guinea

TBC

Ivory Coast

• Premier League: Emmanuel Agbadou (Wolves), Willy Boly (Nottingham Forest), Amad Diallo (Man Utd), Evann Guessand (Aston Villa), Ibrahim Sangare (Nottingham Forest)

Mali

TBC

Morocco

• Premier League: Noussair Mazraoui (Man Utd), Chemsdine Talbi (Sunderland)

Mozambique

• Premier League: Reinildo Mandava (Sunderland)
• Scotland: Alfonso Amade (Dunfermline Athletic)

Nigeria

TBC

Senegal

TBC

South Africa

• Premier League: Lyle Foster (Burnley)
• EFL: Tylon Smith (QPR)

Sudan

TBC

Tanzania

• EFL: Haji Mnoga (Salford)
• Non-League: Tarryn Allarakhia (Rochdale)

Tunisia

• Premier League: Hannibal Mejbri (Burnley)
• EFL: Yan Valery (Sheffield Wednesday)
• Scotland: Sebastian Tounekti (Celtic)

Uganda

• EFL: Toby Sibbick (Burton)
• Scotland: Uche Ikpeazu (St Johnstone), Jordan Obita (Hibernian)

Zambia

• Premier League: Patson Daka (Leicester)
• Scotland: Miguel Chaiwa (Hibernian)

Zimbabwe

• Premier League: Tawanda Chirewa (Wolves)
• EFL: Sean Fusire (Sheffield Wednesday), Brendan Galloway (Plymouth), Marvelous Nakamba (Luton), Andy Rinomhota (Reading)
• Scotland: Tawanda Maswanhise (Motherwell)
• Wales: Alec Mudimu (Flint Town)
• Non-League: Macauley Bonne (Maldon & Tiptree)

AFCON 2025 – The key dates

Clubs release players: December 15

Group stages: December 21 – December 31

Last 16: January 3 – January 6

Quarter-finals: January 9 – January 10

Semi-finals: January 14

Third-place play-off: January 17

Final: January 18