AFCON 2025 prize money and five biggest shocks in tournament history
The Africa Cup of Nations has grown into one of world football’s most lucrative international tournaments, with AFCON 2025 in Morocco set to offer a record prize pool of 32 million dollars. According to CAF’s official breakdown, the champions will earn 7 million dollars, the runners up 4 million dollars and the two beaten semi finalists 2.5 million dollars each. Quarter finalists will receive 1.3 million dollars per team, while all eight nations knocked out in the Round of 16 get 800,000 dollars each. The two best third placed teams who fail to advance from the group stage will take home 700,000 dollars each and the remaining six fourth placed sides receive 500,000 dollars apiece. These figures highlight how far AFCON has come since earlier editions. In 2019 the winners, Algeria, received 4.5 million dollars and runners up Senegal earned […]
