Nigeria, Egypt pre-AFCON friendly moved to Dec 16
The 2025 AFCON warm-up friendly match between the Super Eagles and Pharaohs of Egypt earlier scheduled for Sunday, December 14, will now hold on Tuesday, December 16. According to the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), this change in date was necessitated by FIFA’s recent decision that clubs can hold on to their players until Monday, 15 […]
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The 2025 AFCON warm-up friendly match between the Super Eagles and Pharaohs of Egypt earlier scheduled for Sunday, December 14, will now hold on Tuesday, December 16.
According to the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), this change in date was necessitated by FIFA’s recent decision that clubs can hold on to their players until Monday, 15 December 2025 before they are released for the 35th Africa Cup of Nations in Morocco.
Aside from the postponement, the game will now be a practice match in order to allow the two teams to make use of more than five substitutes in the encounter, which will kick off at 8pm Egypt time (7pm Nigeria time) at the Cairo Stadium.
The Super Eagles are in Group C of the 35th Africa Cup of Nations finals alongside 2004 champions Tunisia, 1978 runners-up Uganda, and Tanzania. Nigeria’s first match is on Tuesday, 23 December against Tanzania’s Taifa Stars at the Complexe Sportif de Fes, where they will also tackle Tunisia’s Carthage Eagles (Saturday, 27 December) and the Cranes of Uganda (Tuesday, 30 December).
The Pharaohs, who hosted the finals in 2019, are in Group B alongside 1996 hosts and winners South Africa, 2010 hosts Angola, and Zimbabwe. Their matches will be at the Stade d’Agadir.