Ranking all 24 teams that qualified for the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations ⎸ AFR 2.12

[@AirportAirforce]

🇿🇦 My Brother! thank you for the recognition, SOUTH AFRICA will win AFCON 2025! Watch the space! 🙏

[@tichaonaGwaze-rp9od]

Nonsense

[@alegbekehinde8753]

🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@tabisotysotee2878]

Dont forget about Morocco and Senegal

[@SiphoThenjwayo]

Ubhem' insango

[@malungisamaseko3155]

Africa is not ready for the arrogance if SA wins. 😂😂😂😂

[@Joe_Ndlozi]

Finally, someone is giving South Africa the credit it deserves! I really think they’ve hit their stride at just the right time. They've got an awesome team packed with young, local talent that really clicks together. They play smoothly, are super comfortable with the ball, and really gel on the field. South Africa's squad is ready to take on any challenge and pack a serious punch. Big shoutout to Hugo Broos for bringing out the best in our players; he’s definitely one of the best coaches we’ve ever had!

[@PRCREA]

@@Joe_Ndlozi Okay okay okay! All the praise of the world you are giving to South Africa because you are a South African yourself. With all the local and Young talented players you mention, how many CHAN did South Africa won? Because CHAN is exclusively an African competition for all the local players.

[@Joe_Ndlozi]

No need to be rude. Asking like that just doesn’t work. Just so you know, South Africa doesn’t bring in "first team" players for the CHAN and COSAFA tournaments. They go with younger guys playing in the lower leagues. Most of the players who finished third at AFCON are actually first team players, and a lot of them are from Mamelodi Sundowns and other top teams. These are the same guys who beat Morocco twice back to back and Nigeria also couldn't beat them in 90 minutes at AFCON and World cup qualifiers.

[@sharonkhalo]

South Africa at no. 4 favourites 😢? We prayed for times like these 🙏 Only losing 1 game in regulation time (against Mali) and the other in penalties (against Nigeria) the whole year. It's been a good year Indeed.

[@PAAKWAMEPAA]

BafanA ❤

[@mash288]

It has been good year for us but I understand why are fourth. There will be always a natural bias for countries with European based players

[@luyanda_kazi]

Man you know almost everything about any country in these 24 countries, I’m so impressed🙆🏽

[@modisemofokeng3651]

Yeah he is dope at his job❤

[@Africafactsguy]

He focuses on Africa. And he actually goes to watch games across the continent. He is a legit, proper journalist, sports writer, not your social media journalist.

[@DZWarrior23]

Underrated channel! You deserve more viewers and subscribers, brother! Proud Algerian here 🇩🇿🇩🇿🇩🇿

[@elvismutuma2008]

I'm from South Africa and my neighbors are from Algeria. We sometimes watch football together. Great people I tell you...!!

[@chinonsonnadi]

No one gave Nigeria the chance at the 2023 nationa cup, a lot of people thought we might be sent home at the group stage but we ended up playing the final, between now and 13 months a lot can change, once we figure out our coaching issues.

[@SaneleVezi-h4m]

So you know that attacking quality of the Nigerian team as the best in Africa but you are underrating them. Issorite we will see at the tournament proper. Only two countries has played more finals than Nigeria Egypt and Ghana. Whether you like it or not Nigeria knows how to perform at AFCON. Your analysis are very daft. Anyway opinions are like assholes everybody is entitled to one.

[@senzomemela1311]

Thank you from SA, love your unbiased analysis...🇿🇦❤️

[@Huckleberry42]

You're the very few channels in English who cover African football. Its highly appreciated.

[@AfricaFiveSide]

I try! Hope people continue to watch and engage and I'll make sure that the coverage gets better and better

[@empirei8513]

I sooooo agree with this original comment. Love your work and keep it up

[@lungani24]

You're an expert bro , it's good to see us mentioned amongst the best. Hugo has really done a great but we need to keep our feet on the ground , we can still go higher #BafanaPride #AFCONQ2025 🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦

[@tazzdamann]

🎉🎉Hugo broos at the wheel🎉🎉. Honestly I'm just happy to see Bafana performing as they should. I hope that they impose themselves on big teams more and not do what we did in Afcon where we only started playing aggressive once Nigeria scored

[@chuksheaven9749]

You’re good at what you do . Keep it up and all the best. Nigerian.

[@pauloloidi1158]

I think AFCON is the most difficult tournament to predict. Teams like Nigeria can pick up despite poor form. The tournament is about 12 months away and a lot can change. Morocco still remains favourites however, I think they might crumble as teams understand how they play. Also, pressure to win the tournament might play out.

[@AfricaFiveSide]

Agree with all of this!

[@ilyasabz2108]

As an East African it’s good that we have 3 teams ( 🇸🇩🇹🇿🇺🇬) compared to 2023 Afcon (🇹🇿)! I’ll be rooting for them

[@cephasdaka7279]

Southern Africa has 7, it's so hilarious how these regions that were weaping boys are now the dominant regions.

[@cholola1muyunda221]

How can Zambia the 2012 african champions a country that just topped an afcon qualifying group with the current african champion be a tier three team with sudan, Tanzania and comoros rated above them? Let's wait for the tournament.

[@eliasphiri6123]

And what is interesting is that he clearly does not have a proper reason for placing them there, 😂 he just have his doubts about them. I would not put zambia as a first tier team but second last in tier three behind teams like Mozambique, benin, tanzania,comoros,uganda, sudan, eq. Guinea, zimbabwe, is just is just too much, these are teams zambia can easily beat

[@jakenyax1691]

@@eliasphiri6123 come on bro don’t disrespect Tanzania like that! You just scrapped a draw against us in Afcon this year and we beat you at you own ground just few months ago at the worldcup qualifiers matches! I don’t know what you talking about saying Zambia can easily beat Tanzania

[@NgasaMaduhu]

​​@@jakenyax1691You can't shame the shameless broh 😂😂😂

[@eliasphiri6123]

​@@jakenyax1691 upsets are normal in the game of football 😂 but on a normal day Tanzania should not be a problem for zambia when it comes to football

[@jakenyax1691]

@@eliasphiri6123 😂😂 when was the last time Zambia beat Tanzania?

[@Kwazi218]

Morocco is on fire, it's the team to beat. Nigeria has the pedigree to win any tournament. SA depends on the performance of Sundowns and Pirates in the Caf Champions league. Good analyses.

[@juba9000]

I saw you on the SABC news❤ S.A we made it😂😂

[@AfricaFiveSide]

Haha, yes. I was on there recapping the qualifiers. Hopefully will be on in the future again. Thanks for watching!

[@kingskyflow7863]

Top analyst👑🇳🇬❤️💯

[@EmmeldahEmma]

Come afcon Zambia will shock you and this is a promise 🇿🇲🇿🇲🇿🇲

[@ezracagwe562]

I am enjoying listening to you benefiting from you knoladge about African football and players

[@AfricaFiveSide]

Thanks for the supportive comment

[@olugbengabamidele6286]

Nigeria chances of winning the cup is directly proportional to the amount of flogging they receive before entering into a game not minding the opponent. .. eg if dey game against a weak opponent and u gave eagles 1 Kane per player dey could draw the game . If dey have a game with strong team and u gave each 4 strokes of Kane dey will win the game. That is Nigeria for u

[@stevenlukwago8776]

I like your analysis bro

[@PRCREA]

But, I still have huge respect to teams/nations who always qualify even when we had 16 nations format. Of course with 24 nations it gives more slots to other nations to quality too. Nations like Cameroun, DR. Congo, Ghana, Tunisia, Nigeria, or even Zambia, they don't miss the AFCON easily, unfortunately for Ghana this time.

[@thecafcl8409]

Woah so many teams in tier 1. Morocco have been good in the last 3 qualifiers (2 AFCONs & 1 World Cup) because they play away matches at home. They still make Tier 1 though because North African sides are strong at home and they'll probably get a favorable group and KO draw. My tier 1 (title contenders) would be Morocco, Algeria, Egypt (home advantage and form) + South Africa and Senegal because they win matches they are supposed to win (to steal your line). I expect at least two of these teams in the semifinals.

[@mouna5252elle]

But we did beat gabon 5-1 in gabon its not our fault that many african nations dont have certified staduims so they play in morocco because the federation hosts them for free unlike cameron or south africa for exemple plus afcon is at home so there is no point of beating teams outside morocco

[@mtnchad69]

Algeria will NOT be having a homefield advantage in Morocco Closest team to have a homefield advantage here apart from Morocco is Cote d'Ivoire

[@mdalimtswatswe]

I love tha Zimbabwean boy who wore number 20 against South Africa 🇿🇦. He is Good😊

[@TharisonButhelezi-fv7ly]

He is so knowledgeable of African football in its entire continental fraternity

[@MrHelkeys]

I like your analysis

[@AfricaFiveSide]

Thank you!

[@mohammedkora6069]

Don't ever rule out NIGERIA Bruh...kudos to you from GAMBIA 🇬🇲🇬🇲🇬🇲

[@AfricaFiveSide]

Much love to The Gambia

[@mdalimtswatswe]

Yes God seem to love Nigeria 🇳🇬

[@IBG.GlobalEnterprise]

Exactly bro

[@olebogengmontshiwa11]

Sure brother your african football knowledge is on another lever, how are you so informed with all the teams🤔

[@TheOnlyTaps]

🙏🏿🫡 should be another interesting edition coming to us with some upsets here and there. The teams in the final phase of afcon tend to be the same names but the journey to get there is always so varied in the groups and early KO rounds.

[@humphreymwanza9298]

Zimbabwe have hired a German coach, it will be interesting if you revisit this video before the tournament just to see if your rankings are going to be the same, great video by the way

[@AfricaFiveSide]

Will definitely revisit it before the Afcon. Thanks for watching and commenting.

[@Mraymankarate]

Great video and analysis. I think Sudan can do it.

[@paulinewangila-cs6ys]

Congratulations brother ❤

[@bakangmasehla4798]

I'm subscribing

[@zulushanx7959]

If you are not subscribed to African Five-a-side podcast than what are you doing

[@nworahderek5023]

Your analysis is really good, you know a lot of African football in some good details and thats why I wouldn't totally dispute your opinions, but .... Firstly, in tournaments, especially the AFCON, there are teams that tou don't write off no matter the form they qualified with, a good example of that is nigeria, Nigeria makes it into the semi finals of every AFCON tournament at least, despite their coaching problems or lack of results in the qualifiers. Nigeria in terms of the AFCON Is a very strong tournament team and are ever hardly getting shocked or beaten by minnows unlike other big boys in the continent. Also you have to remember they are capable of going all the way in the next one considering they have individual talents that can turn up at the big stages. Ranking them second tier and behind countries like Angola and Dr Congo is a bit careless and doesn't really depict a team that is supposed to be feared . It is fair to say Nigeria has an FA and coaching problem in their football, however, when the chips are down, Nigeria is totally capable of beating any team in Africa on their good day, trust me. I can only talk about Morocco and senegal as teams that are capable of beating nigeria and going head to head with them in a major tournament as their match. Every other team is suspectible to losing to nigeria in a major tournament. Nigeria have a WC qualifiers to make up for when the time reaches next year and trust me , if by March 2025 Nigeria manages to win both games in that qualifiers, you are going to see a team in beast mood when the AFCON tournament reaches. Many teams in Africa are really good these days but not many teams are genuine AFCON tournament teams, even Morocco included. We would find out soon enough though.

[@chiedozieokoro8968]

No Mind the guy. When dance start, we go know who tie him wrapper strong for waist. We will be here to remind him.

[@presjohn3254]

He is Arab -bias. Nigeria have appeared in the Semis more times than any country in Africa. This means they have a higher chance to get there if they are on the tournament.

[@elviszvidzayi5029]

Tapera is not the coach of Zimbabwe.Micheal Nees is the new head coach of Zimbabwe from day 1 of this qualifications.Micheal nees is going to the first foreign coach to be in charge of Zimbabwe in AFCON and With Michael Ness Zimbabwe will reach far in this tournament.This team is a mixture of experienced and young players who are playing in Europe.

[@AfricaFiveSide]

Thanks for the correction, we'll watch a little more of Zimbabwe to see if I change my mind

[@tatendajokonya2786]

Zimbabwe’s coach is not Tapera it’s Nees. Zim qualified with one match to spare and doesn’t have an aging but young side, you got it wrong.

[@thebubblydreamz]

Zimbabwe 🇿🇼 🇿🇼

[@Arthwell1]

Southy here🇿🇦🔥

[@logisticsjeff]

You've lost your mind for putting Nigeria as tier 2 only losing one game in the qualifiers because we rested the core of our team. U know we getting a top manager ahead of the WC qualifiers and the AFCON in 2025 right? Maybe you should've waited till next year to make this list cause I wont be surprised Morrocco drops form, goes to the tournament and get taken out by Cameroon in the R16. Scoring 26 goals aint shii cause come tournament proper, its a different ball game and lots of teams will defend with their lives, play on the counter and expose Morocco. Just like South Africa did last AFCON.

[@ouailbakkari8750]

i agree witth u, and i'm moroccan

[@abodunrinabayomi8808]

Although I respect your concerns about Nigeria but history should have inform you that we're the kings of AFCON semis. No country has more semis than us. We reached 2 semis out the last 3 AFCONs and you put us in tier 2? 😂. Morocco favorites? 😂. We shall see!

[@peacenation9338]

Hahaha Thank you for hyping Bafana Bafana up 😂 But please. Say no more about us. We tend to fair better when we have the dark horse tag. I think being an unknown team suits our players better.

[@sharonkhalo]

@@peacenation9338 Unfortunately our stats have been good the whole year, we won't be able to fly under the radar if we keep things up going into the next Afcon

[@peacenation9338]

@@sharonkhalo I don’t think so. The continent still puts value on European based players more than stats. No EPL, Seria A or La Liga player in your team?! No worries! Works in our favour. Ofcourse if Downs do well in the CWC, this all changes quick and fast. The hunger element gives us the edge.

[@ThePlayerH8ters]

theres a skip in the audio @37:30

[@munyavision2070]

My brother Zimbabwe has a new coach from Germany called Michael Nee......he recently took over the team that's why they qualified .....he has changed the Zimbabwean game play and put in some new young players who play in Europe.....coach Tapera was fired

[@AfricaFiveSide]

Dope. I'll look him up and pay a little more attention to Zimbabwe. Thanks for watching and commenting.

[@mdalimtswatswe]

This Afcon is going to the SADEC Region

[@gambu7907]

The Zambia v Ivory Coast match was in Ndola and not Lusaka.

[@raphcannon]

Without a doubt, the greatest ⚽️ tournament is about a year away. This was a great rating. I was surprised that you had Nigeria in Tier 2 (rightly) cause sometimes you show too much ❤️ to the Super Eagles 😂. Comoros will shock ya'll again. You heard it here first. My prediction for the last 3 AFCON stands, an indigenous coach shall lift AFCON 2025 (I do respect Hugo Broos tho). I'm excited about the documentary. I love to see such projects.

[@samueljuliodjive7668]

Guys let's give Mozambique credit specially for Chiquinho Conde as coach of Mozambique national football team in group of Mali and Guinea Guinea

[@AfricaFiveSide]

He's been great

[@VictorOguntayo]

Well done for your analysis, but I don't believe most are entirely correct .

[@KatlehoMotake]

Definitely prayed for times like these.🥹

[@charleschimfwembe5528]

But going to Afcon final 13 months today is far away, where was the planning by CAF? Preliminaries should have gone up to June 25.

[@AfricaFiveSide]

Initially, the tournament was supposed to take place next summer. It was moved to accommodate the FIFA Club World Cup.

[@victorhilariouz5472]

I love the fact that what happened last AFCON is repeating itself, people undermining NIGERIA …. The country with the highest podium finish at the AFCON. They always turn up in this tournament

[@mvelompanza3803]

You're only as good as your last game. Nigeria have been shit, hope they improve in the WC Qualifiers, they still lack chemistry

[@victorhilariouz5472]

@ yet again, the misconception…..The AFCON is a whole different ball game, it’s not analyzed on form alone but also by proven statistics of teams that predominantly make it to the finals……Nigeria have been poor in so many qualifiers and still end up making top 3 or quarter final spots in the past 5 AFCONs

[@Gunners-zf7zg]

Zimbabwe can only lose to tier 1 teams. They are capable of beating everyone in tier 2 and can definitely beat all tier 3 teams. Zambia are far stronger than your assertion of them here. But generally l agree with most of your analysis.

[@AfricaFiveSide]

Appreciate the comment, I'll pay closer attention to Zambia and Zim

[@KMM5821]

He is underestimating Zambia 😅😂 once I saw Angola above us

[@petrosmachobomachovo974]

Zimbabwe, ummmm, now difficult to play against, whatever team they get, beware, i saw they had only one loss in all qualifiers, and it was even controversial against Cameroon

[@micok187]

DR congo made it to the semis last AFCON sir

[@Stenogy]

As a Nigerian, this is a fairly good analysis but I think the Zambian team is much better than your ranking. Anyway this is just your personal opinion and does not reflect what would happen in an actual tournament. You would be proved wrong in the next Afcon.

[@AfricaFiveSide]

Yeah, the bigger nations tend to step up and perform when Afcon rolls around

[@cephasdaka7279]

@@AfricaFiveSide Zambia is a powerhouse in African football with 19 tournament appearances, have been to 4 finals and won 1, and they just topped the group with the defending champions ivory coast, it's ridiculous to put them behind teams like Zimbabwe, Mozambique and Comoros who are teams from southern Africa where Zambia and South Africa are the powerhouses of the region. No team except South Africa from southern Africa and East Africa should be above Zambia.

[@jonjones3841]

When people write off Nigeria, that's when we are most dangerous. South Africa, Morocco and Algeria OTOH fumbles when expectations are high. We shall see. AFCON is still like a year away.

[@AfricaFiveSide]

Still a lot of time, for sure

[@luyanda_kazi]

Do the predictions for FIFA WORLD CUP qualifiers bro, I wanna see where you gonna place South Africa against Nigeria and Benin in our group 😂

[@olugbengabamidele6286]

South Africa 19 points, Nigeria 19poiint Benin republic 19¹/² points

[@luyanda_kazi]

@@olugbengabamidele6286 lol

[@AfricaFiveSide]

In due time!

[@mumbamwila213]

Like your analysis,but this is 2024 anything can happen.I See upsets in this tournament

[@ola...o1009]

I do hope CAF sanctions Libya. I heard Gernot Rohr was beating. Your channel is 👍. Politics + Football

[@LidiaMarubu-dz8zi]

Watch out for morrocco

[@MeuraMoses]

Tanzania 🇹🇿🇹🇿🇹🇿

[@AfricaFiveSide]

Yes, as a continent, we need East Africa to be strong

[@eloissha151]

Equatorial guinea !!🇬🇶🇬🇶

[@Prince666-y3g]

Why is somalia not playin afcon

[@stanleyeze1916]

They are currently handling jihad.

[@Prince666-y3g]

@stanleyeze1916 but they deserve to play I never saw them play

[@ms_0317]

@@Prince666-y3gno one “deserves” to play. If you qualify you play if you dont you do not play simple.

[@Trendlines_mc]

South africa 🇿🇦 is not good enough.They didn't play any tough teams in qualifying stages and they were defending in most of the last Afcon Nigeria 🇳🇬 will teach them a lesson again and again

[@sharonkhalo]

@@Trendlines_mc Which "strong" team played tough teams in these qualifying stages? Show us that group.

[@gebamedia]

SA scored 15 goals in this qualifying games with zero defeat. you will know Bafana Bafana comes next year world cup qualifiers.

[@hk_ballers]

Nigeria should be top 3

[@architect36ixtylastofhisna45]

Viva Palestine Viva peace in our lifetime, hope bafana can spring a surprise no cape Verde hotties this time.

[@Aaska2.0]

the way you pronouce Gabon makes me feel you speak french. but insighful very insightful.

[@AfricaFiveSide]

I definitely speak a little French

[@PAAKWAMEPAA]

❤

[@ngcaliclock2529]

Morocco play almost all games in Morocco. No pressure to qualify as they automatically did. Played no strong teams. When the pressure is on they crumble

[@z0rO999]

Ah yes. They really did crumbled in Gabon 🇬🇦 😢😢 they only won by 5-1 not 7-1

[@bach1246]

You’re a casual

[@ThulaniMalingana]

Hey man you know football , from south Africa

[@m.eladraoui2649]

What a mess of a video! 47 minutes without chapters????? Too bad, the guy is interesting but we have a life!

[@taterbtaterb9310]

I think you, yourself are total mess of a human being, mean spirited. I pity anyone under you. Forget about this video and go and work on yourself. If by your standard this video is poor quality. Your meanspirited life is by far extremely poor....