The curtain fell on Sunday, January 18, on the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations, a competition marked by Senegal's victory after a thrilling final.
For a month, Africa vibrated to the rhythm of the 52 matches that make up the competition and hundreds of hours of more or less relevant commentary, heated debates, and highlights of the best moments of each match.
A new chapter begins: CAF officially announced at the end of December that, starting in 2028, the Africa Cup of Nations will be held every four years, following the model of the Euro, alternating with the World Cup.
Television channels will now turn their attention to the FIFA World Cup, which will take place from June 11 to July 19 in the United States, Canada, and Mexico. Nine African teams will participate for the first time, including Ivory Coast, Senegal, Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia.
As with the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations, NEW WORLD TV will market the matches under license to free-to-air channels in 43 sub-Saharan territories, particularly in French-speaking Africa. The package offered to channels includes live broadcasts of 34 matches (one per day).
Remember that this year's competition includes 104 matches (compared to 64 in previous years).
During the group stage, around half of these matches will be broadcast in Africa during the night due to the time difference, thus limiting the interest for free-to-air channels to claim, as they did for the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations, the broadcasting rights for all matches.
However, for soccer fans, all matches will be broadcast exclusively on New World TV's pay-TV platform in the following 19 territories: Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Congo, Ivory Coast, Gabon, Guinea, Madagascar, Mali, Mauritius, Niger, Central African Republic, DR Congo, Rwanda, Senegal, Seychelles, Chad, and Togo.
In English-speaking Africa, PAY TV rights have still not been allocated. Super Sport (CANAL+/Multichoice group) held the pay-TV rights for previous World Cups.