Macron takes to the pitch at the 35th edition of the Africa Cup of Nations – AFCON 2025. The Macron Hero will feature on the chests of three national teams competing in the most important international tournament organised by the Confederation of African Football: Comoros, Equatorial Guinea and Benin. The 2025 edition will be staged in Morocco from 21 December 2025 to 18 January 2026. Six cities – Casablanca, Rabat, Tangier, Fez, Agadir and Marrakech – will host the 24 best teams on the African continent, who will compete for the trophy over the course of the tournament.
An identity pattern for Comoros
The Comoros national team, coached by Italian manager Stefano Cusin, have been drawn in Group A and will make their debut against hosts Morocco in the opening match, scheduled to take place in Rabat on Sunday 21 December. The Cœlacanths will then face Zambia (26 December) and Mali (29 December), both in Casablanca. Accompanying them onto the pitch will be a Game Set inspired by an elegant pattern created through the tone-on-tone repetition of the crescent moon flanked by four stars that appears on the national flag. The Home version comes in two shades of green with white details, complemented by thin blue, red and yellow stripes on the collar and sleeve cuffs. The Away version, meanwhile, is white with green details.
Equatorial Guinea: lightning bolts and symbols from the national coat of arms
Equatorial Guinea, making their fifth appearance in the final phase of the Africa Cup of Nations and drawn in Group E, will take to the field on 24 December in Casablanca to face Burkina Faso. The Nzalang Nacional, the nickname of the Equatoguinean national team, will then go on to play Sudan (28 December, Casablanca) and Algeria (31 December, Rabat). The dominant element of Equatorial Guinea’s Home Kit is the lightning bolt – a visual reference to the nickname Nzalang – represented through repeated lightning strikes that form vertical stripes in two distinct shades of red. The Away version, predominantly white, is characterised by the alternating, tone-on-tone repetition of two elements found on the national coat of arms: the cotton tree (also known as the “tree of God”) and the six-pointed star, symbolising the mainland united with the five islands that make up the country’s territory.
Benin brings their flag and symbolic animal onto the pitch
The third Macron national team taking part in the final phase of the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations is Benin. Les Écureuils (the Squirrels) will make their debut in Rabat on 23 December against the Democratic Republic of Congo, before facing Botswana (27 December, Rabat) and Senegal (31 December, Tangier). Benin’s Home shirt is yellow with green shoulder inserts and features, at the centre of the jersey, a waving Beninese flag alongside a tone-on-tone depiction of a leopard. The same design is also featured on the Away version, which is white with dark grey inserts.
A tournament of intensity, identity and top-level competition
The Africa Cup of Nations that is about to begin promises to be a highly competitive tournament, with intense, top-level clashes. As always, the Macron Hero will accompany its teams onto the pitch, alongside shirts that express the identity and sense of belonging to the colours and symbols of their respective countries. Macron extends its best wishes to Comoros, Equatorial Guinea and Benin for an Africa Cup of Nations full of satisfaction and sporting success.
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