AFCON 2025: Liverpool's Mohamed Salah, Man Utd's Bryan Mbeumo among UK-based players selected for tournament
Ahead of AFCON 2025 starting on December 21, all 24 nations have confirmed their squads for the upcoming tournament in Morocco; 62 UK-based players have been selected to take part, including Liverpool's Man Utd's Bryan Mbeumo and Brentford's Dango Ouattara
Saturday 13 December 2025 17:57, UK
AFCON 2025 starts on Sunday December 21, when hosts Morocco take on Comoros in Rabat.
All 24 competing nations have confirmed their squads for the tournament to date, with a total of 62 UK-based players selected.
Benin, Botswana, Comoros, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon and Sudan are the only six not to include any UK-based players.
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Read on to see the full list of players heading to Morocco...
Algeria
- Premier League: Rayan Ait-Nouri (Man City)
Angola
- EFL: Manuel Benson (Swansea)
Burkina Faso
- Premier League: Dango Ouattara (Brentford), Bertrand Traore (Sunderland)
- EFL: Issa Kabore (Wrexham)
- Scotland: Landry Kabore (Hearts), Nasser Djiga (Rangers)
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)
Ivory Coast
- Premier League: Emmanuel Agbadou (Wolves), Willy Boly (Nottingham Forest), Amad Diallo (Man Utd), Evann Guessand (Aston Villa), Ibrahim Sangare (Nottingham Forest)
Mali
- Premier League: Yves Bissouma (Tottenham)
- EFL: Mamadou Doumbia (Watford)
Morocco
- Premier League: Noussair Mazraoui (Man Utd), Chemsdine Talbi (Sunderland)
Mozambique
- Premier League: Reinildo Mandava (Sunderland)
- Scotland: Alfonso Amade (Dunfermline Athletic)
Nigeria
- Premier League: Calvin Bassey (Fulham), Samuel Chukwueze (Fulham), Alex Iwobi (Fulham), Frank Onyeka (Brentford)
- EFL: Semi Ajayi (Hull), Ryan Alebiosu (Blackburn), Bright Osayi-Samuel (Birmingham)
Senegal
- Premier League: Habib Diarra (Sunderland), El Hadji Malik Diouf (West Ham), Idrissa Gana Gueye (Everton), Iliman Ndiaye (Everton), Ismaila Sarr (Crystal Palace), Pape Matar Sarr (Tottenham)
South Africa
- Premier League: Lyle Foster (Burnley)
- EFL: Tylon Smith (QPR)
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