The Africa Cup of Nations 2025 takes center stage in December and early January, as 24 teams head to Morocco aiming to be crowned AFCON champs. This is going to be a brilliant tournament held in nine stadiums across six cities in Morocco.

Díaz sent Morocco through with a 1-0 win over Tanzania on Sunday before Cameroon held on to beat South Africa for the first time since 1992 thanks to goals from Junior Tchamadeu and Christian Kofane. They meet in the next round on Friday.

Host nation Morocco and South Africa have advanced to the Africa Cup of Nations’ knockout stage. Egypt star Mohamed Salah got a rest with his team already through.

Here is South Africa's World Cup group stage opponents, which stadiums they will play at, and the times for the games.

Trained by Justin Snaith, who is seeking his fifth King’s Plate winner, Eight on Eighteen has three G1 victories to his credit, including last year’s Cape Derby at Kenilworth and the Daily News 2000 at Greyville last May.

Surprises are part of selection and South Africa produced one of the biggest when they named Jason Smith, with only five international caps to his name, in the T20 World Cup squad. Smith was preferred over Tristan Stubbs,

Brahim Díaz kept Morocco’s Africa Cup of Nations title hopes on track while five-time winner Cameroon beat South Africa 2-1 for a showdown with the host nation in the quarterfinals.