Watanni takwas kawai bayan wasan karshe na Afcon 2025 — sakamakon da har yanzu ake jayayya a gaban Kotun Sasantawa ta Wasannin Kiwon Lafiya — tseren zuwa Afcon 2027 ya fara. Kasashe 48 da suke cikin gasa za buga zagaye biyu na cancantar a cikin wannan dogon tagogin kasa da kasa, tare da wasanni karin a watan Nuwamba da kuma wasanni na karshe a watan Maris.

Manyan kasashe biyu a cikin tara daga cikin kungiyoyi 12 za ci gaba zuwa gasar karshe da ke dauke da manyan kasashe 24, wadanda za a gudanar a Kenya, Tanzania, da Uganda. Tun da kasashe masu masaukin baki uku suna da tabbacin shiga gasar, akwai gurbi daya ne kawai da ake bayarwa a kowane kungiyarsu — wanda hakan yana nufin matsayi na biyu na iya zama ba isashe ba.

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Mafi shahararren naɗi a wannan tago shi ne dawowar Hervé Renard a matsayin kocin Ivory Coast, fiye da shekaru 11 bayan ya fara jagorantar Elephants zuwa taken. Dan Faransa mai shekaru 57 — kadai koci da ya lashe taken nahiyar tare da kasashe biyu daban-daban — ya fara mulkinsa na biyu da wasan gida da Ghana a ranar Alhamis, a mafi shahararren wasan zagayen farko.

A gefen kishiyar, Carlos Queiroz ya koma jagorancin Black Stars bayan aikinsa a FIFA World Cup 2026. Duk da haka, Mohammed Kudus na Tottenham da sauran 'yan wasan farko da yawa sun janye daga tawagar.