Football lovers who were eager to watch the African Cup of Nations (AFCON) on SuperSport channels are in for a shock.
Multichoice released a statement yesterday that SuperSport channels will not transmit the tournament to be held from January 13 to February 11, 2024.
AFCON will be held in Ivory Coast, and it features 24 teams who have dreams of being crowned champions of Africa.
In a statement Multichoice said the reason was, because the channel has not secured the rights to broadcast the tournament. However, AFCON 2023 games will be available through our partner broadcast stations on Free to Air (FTA) channels.
It continued to state their commitment to football in different leagues across the world.
Multichoice Africa remains committed to ensuring football fans across Africa continue to enjoy unrivalled access to entertainment and football games available on DStv and GOtv platforms including, the Premier League, LaLiga, Serie A, Zambian Super League and many more of football's most prestigious competitions, said the statement.
Bafana Bafana will be participating in the AFCON showpiece where they are in Group E, pitted against the North African heavyweights, Tunisia, Mali and neighbours, Namibia.
During the games to be played in the Ivory Coast, the Premier Soccer League and the First Division games have been paused, until after AFCON.
Meanwhile, the next AFCON tournament will be hosted by Morocco in 2025. This will be for the second time they host AFCON, after doing the honours in 1988.
Morocco was originally scheduled to host the 2015 edition, but the tournament was moved to Equatorial Guinea after the country's Ebola virus outbreak during that time.
