Original text too short. How often is the Africa Cup held? Normally, the tournament is played every two years. The last discharge took place in 2019, originally the next Africa Cup would have been due in 2021. Due to the Corona pandemic, the competition was postponed by one year backwards and now takes place 2022 — though the organizers did not really want to play a world championship anymore. To get back in the well-known rhythm, the next discharge of the Africa Cup will take place 2023 — then in the Ivory Coast. Where is the Africa Cup 2022 take place? For the second time after 1972, the Africa Cup is held in Cameroon. Originally, the country had received the surcharge for 2019, less than a year before the discharge, the African Football Association CAF recognized the vote right and awarded the tournament instead of Egypt. Reason were infrastructural delays to the planned venues. For this, Cameroon got the contract for the tournament 2021, which was ultimately shifted by one y