Federation of International Football Association, FIFA, has confirmed clubs can now release their players latest December 15 for the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations.

FIFA’s decision will now ease concerns across European clubs, with majority of them set to lose their players for the biennial competition.

Clubs were earlier expected to release invited players two weeks before the start of the competition.

However, after a fruitful deliberation between FIFA, CAF, and other major stakeholders, an agreement was reached to push the release date back by a week.

The agreement could, however, affect the majority of the countries, who have set up friendly games ahead of the preparation.

Morocco will host the competition from December 21, 2025, to January 18, 2026.