{"id":38569,"date":"2025-12-22T17:13:57","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T16:13:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/?p=38569"},"modified":"2025-12-22T17:14:01","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T16:14:01","slug":"afcon-2025-winner-to-receive-record-10-million-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/?p=38569","title":{"rendered":"AFCON 2025 Winner to Receive Record $10 Million Prize"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The champion of the Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) Morocco 2025 will receive a substantial financial reward of $10 million, announced CAF President Patrice Motsepe. This announcement followed a meeting of the Confederation of African Football (CAF) Executive Committee in Rabat, Morocco.<\/p>\n<p>The prize money represents a significant 43% increase compared to the 2023 edition, hosted and won by Cote d&#8217;Ivoire, where the reward was $7 million. In 2021, the winner&#8217;s prize was $5 million. This latest increase nearly doubles the prize money within a span of four years, marking an unprecedented 100% rise.<\/p>\n<p><strong>This historic increase highlights CAF&#8217;s commitment to investing in African football and incentivizing excellence on the field.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The runner-up in the tournament will also receive a considerable sum of $4 million. Teams reaching the semi-finals will each be awarded $2.5 million.<\/p>\n<p><em>The boosted prize money for AFCON 2025 promises to further intensify the competition and elevate the prestige of the tournament.<\/em> Football fans across the continent eagerly await the kickoff.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/?cat=40\">More Sports articles on DZWatch<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\">DZWatch &#8211; Your News Portal<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The champion of the Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) Morocco 2025 will receive a substantial financial reward of $10 million, announced CAF President Patrice Motsepe. This announcement followed a meeting of the Confederation of African Football (CAF) Executive Committee in Rabat, Morocco.The &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38570,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"rank_math_lock_modified_date":false,"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","iawp_total_views":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38569"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38571,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38569\/revisions\/38571"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/38570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}