{"id":1497,"date":"2025-11-19T02:19:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T02:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/?p=1497"},"modified":"2025-11-19T02:19:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T02:19:07","slug":"afcon-2025-which-premier-league-teams-will-lose-most-players-to-afcon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/?p=1497","title":{"rendered":"Afcon 2025: Which Premier League teams will lose most players to Afcon?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">The Africa Cup of Nations kicks off earlier than usual this year &#8211; with <\/b><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">up to 17 Premier League clubs set to be affected<\/b><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\"> by players jetting off to host country Morocco.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The tournament runs from 21 December until 18 January. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">There has been no official announcement about which date clubs will have to release their players by &#8211; and it could vary depending on agreements.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Players could miss up to six, or in some cases seven, Premier League matches &#8211; plus FA Cup and Carabao Cup games &#8211; if they reach the final.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The group stages end on 31 December, so quickly eliminated players may only miss half that amount. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Arsenal, Chelsea and Leeds do not have any players due to play in the 2025 Afcon &#8211; with Sunderland and Wolves losing the most players.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">BBC Sport looks at which teams are due to lose players.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Africa Cup of Nations kicks off earlier than usual this year &#8211; with up to 17 Premier League clubs set to be affected by players jetting off to host country Morocco. The tournament runs from 21 December until 18 January. There has been no official announcement about which date clubs will have to release<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1498,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1497\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}