- Chad will hosts Cote d’Ivoire on September 10 at the Amadou Ahidjo Stadium
- The game will mark Cote d’Ivoire’s first coming to Yaoundé since losing 4-1 to Cameroon in 2014
- This match day fixture will also mark the first meeting of the two nations at this stage of the competition
The Elephants of Cote d’Ivoire will be in Cameroon next month to face The Sao of Chad for what will be their second outing of the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) qualifiers.
Chad versus Cote d’Ivoire in Group G of the 2025 AFCON qualifiers has been scheduled three days after Cameroon hosts Namibia at the same venue.
CAF confirmed the arrangement via their competitions department headed by Samson Adamu who issued a recent release containing the various match schedules and venues.
The release and sources at the Chadian Football Federation have confirmed their decision to play home matches in Cameroon. Therefore, at 8pm on September 10, the historic Amadou Ahidjo Stadium will host the three-time African champions against Chad, making its debut in the group stage of the AFCON qualifier.
Coach Kevin Nacaise’s Chad team will have the privilege to welcome the Elephants at their adopted home in the chill Tuesday evening in what will count for match day two of the qualifiers.
The Chadian national team dreaming to reach the AFCON finals for the first time in their history will open their qualification campaign away to the Lone Stars of Sierra Leone on September 6, before returning home to welcome Emerse Faé and his boys who stunned the continent earlier this year by recovering from an improbable position to win the AFCON on home soil.
The game will mark Cote d’Ivoire’s first visit to Yaoundé since they were beaten 4-1 by the Vincent Aboubakar and Njie Clinton inspired Cameroon team in September 2014 en route to the continental jamboree in Equatorial Guinea. Subsequent visits for AFCON 2021 and the 2022 FIFA world cup qualification playoffs didn’t end well for the West Africans in Douala.
Whatever be the result in Chad’s away game against Sierra Leone, the home match against Cote d’Ivoire who face Zambia on match day one will be a cracker.
The coming of Cote d’Ivoire to Cameroon (la belle famille) is already a big event, talk less of Frank Kessie’s nation coming for an AFCON qualifier clash against Chad and in their status as African champions.
It’s worth noting that CAF’s stringent requirements for international matches to be played in a country have forced Chad and Central Africa Republic to adopt Cameroon as their new home for club and country matches.
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