{"id":219531,"date":"2026-01-07T10:40:16","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T08:40:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/africa-heavyweights-collide-as-afcon2025-quarter-final-clashes-confirmed\/"},"modified":"2026-01-07T10:40:16","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T08:40:16","slug":"africa-heavyweights-collide-as-afcon2025-quarter-final-clashes-confirmed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/africa-heavyweights-collide-as-afcon2025-quarter-final-clashes-confirmed\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa: Heavyweights Collide as #AFCON2025 Quarter-final Clashes Confirmed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\"><strong>The quarter-final line-up for the TotalEnergies CAF Africa Cup of Nations Morocco 2025 has been confirmed, setting up a series of heavyweight clashes as Africa\u2019s biggest football tournament enters its decisive phase.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">Defending champions <strong>Cote d&#8217;Ivoire<\/strong> and record seven-time winners\u00a0<strong>Egypt<\/strong> are among an imposing last-eight line-up that also includes former champions and established contenders <strong>Senegal<\/strong>, <strong>Cameroon<\/strong>, <strong>Nigeria<\/strong> and <strong>Algeria<\/strong>, alongside ambitious West African rivals <strong>Mali<\/strong> and tournament hosts&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202601070029.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Egypt\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/egypt\/\">Egypt<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The quarter-final line-up for the TotalEnergies CAF Africa Cup of Nations Morocco 2025 has been confirmed, setting up a series of heavyweight clashes as Africa\u2019s biggest football tournament enters its decisive phase. Defending champions Cote d&#8217;Ivoire and record seven-time winners\u00a0Egypt are among an imposing last-eight line-up that also includes former champions and established contenders Senegal, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":219532,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[338],"tags":[53344,258,256,12379,35229,8743,415,21316,257,19316,254],"class_list":["post-219531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-egypt","tag-afcon2025","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-clashes","tag-collide","tag-confirmed","tag-egypt-news","tag-heavyweights","tag-news","tag-quarterfinal","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219531\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}