{"id":5624,"date":"2024-10-15T01:08:02","date_gmt":"2024-10-15T01:08:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/afcon-2025-burkina-faso-and-cameroon-qualify-for-finals-in-morocco\/"},"modified":"2024-10-15T01:08:02","modified_gmt":"2024-10-15T01:08:02","slug":"afcon-2025-burkina-faso-and-cameroon-qualify-for-finals-in-morocco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/afcon-2025-burkina-faso-and-cameroon-qualify-for-finals-in-morocco\/","title":{"rendered":"Afcon 2025: Burkina Faso and Cameroon qualify for finals in Morocco"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Burkina Faso and Cameroon have both booked places at the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations with two rounds of qualifying to spare.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Burkina Faso became the first side to reach the finals in Morocco following <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/football\/live\/c869eg54l4lt\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">a 2-0 away win<\/a> against Burundi on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Stallions are guaranteed a top-two finish in Group L after taking 10 points from the first four rounds of matches.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mohamed Konate put the West Africans ahead early on in neutral Abidjan and a stoppage-time penalty from former Aston Villa forward Bertrand Traore, who now plays for Ajax, sealed the three points.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Meanwhile, a 63rd-minute effort from Boris Enow gave Cameroon <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/football\/live\/c148534ngvyt\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">a 1-0 away victory<\/a> against Kenya in Kampala.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Indomitable Lions have 10 points in Group J and are guaranteed to finish above third-placed Kenya on head-to-head record.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Burundi and Kenya had to stage their games in Ivory Coast and Uganda respectively  because they do not have stadiums fit to host international football.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Algeria, Angola, DR Congo, Egypt and Ivory Coast could also secure their places at the finals by the time the fourth round of qualifiers culminates on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/football\/articles\/c99949d92vro\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">2025 Nations Cup<\/a> is scheduled to begin on 21 December next year, with the final on 18 January 2026.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/c9dy2dje717o\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Burkina Faso and Cameroon have both booked places at the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations with two rounds of qualifying to spare. Burkina Faso became the first side to reach the finals in Morocco following a 2-0 away win against Burundi on Sunday. The Stallions are guaranteed a top-two finish in Group L after taking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5625,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport-africa","category-world-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5624"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5626,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5624\/revisions\/5626"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}