The Confederation of African Football (CAF) has confirmed that Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania have presented a joint bid to host the 2027 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON). The three East African nations submitted their declaration of interest along with three other countries and met the deadline the proposed deadline set by the organization.All interested countries were given till April 20 to have submitted their expression of interests to host the biennial tournament after Namibia and Botswana pulled out from their joint declaration to be the tournament hosts.Official: Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania wrote to CAF expressing interest to host AFCON 2027:⚽️CAF sent feedback to the 3 federations/governments.⚽️CAF to send bidding documents ⚽️ Deadline for countries to return bids is May 23.⚽️ Inspection set for June, awarding by September. pic.twitter.com/9RNAob1RTe— Eric Njiru (@EricNjiiru) April 27, 2023 The other countries / federations to have submitted their bids and received feedback include Algeria, Botswana and Egypt.”At the expiry of the deadline set by the administration, CAF recorded four bids from six countries,” a statement from CAF read. “The bidding nations are; Algeria, Botswana, Egypt and Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania.”Having ticked the first box of the long process, Member Associations will now embark on ensuring that the deadline to submit their final bid is done and all documents duly signed.##NAJAVA_MECA_7208831##The contents of the final bid will and should include; all bidding and hosting documents with the hosting agreement, host cities agreement and government guarantees, etc.The deadline for the final submission is set on 23 May 2023.
