The tournament will air on beIN in Arabic, English, and French, with all 51 matches available live on beIN AFCON Max channels.
BeIN Sports has announced its exclusive and comprehensive coverage strategy for the upcoming TotalEnergies Africa Cup of Nations Cote d’Ivoire 2023 (AFCON 2023), commencing on Saturday, January 13. Introducing four new dedicated beIN AFCON 2023 Max channels in Arabic, English, and French, BeIN ensures subscribers can experience every pass, tackle, goal, and save throughout the biennial month-long tournament.
The tournament, Africa’s most prestigious, first held in 1957, will showcase 24 national teams from across the continent, including reigning champions Senegal, Egypt, World Cup semi-finalists Morocco, and hosts Ivory Coast. With all 51 matches broadcasted live and exclusively, studios featuring some of the beIN’s best talent, and a range of original content, BeIN’s extensive coverage of AFCON 2023 underscores its commitment to bringing the diversity of African football to MENA audiences.
BeIN will provide dedicated Arabic studios for all AFCON matches on beIN AFCON 2023 Max 1 and Max 2, while Max3 and Max 4 will broadcast all matches live with English and French commentary, respectively. Additionally, beIN Sports News will offer over 16 hours of live continuous daily coverage. All five channels will simultaneously air a daily live morning show Sport Morning from 11:00 to 12:30 MECCA, covering the AFC Asian Cup Qatar 2023 simultaneously.
With five BeIN reporters on-site covering the five host cities, the broadcaster offers access to defining moments, behind-the-scenes stories, exclusive coverage, and insights. Extensive support programming includes documentaries, facts and figures episodes, highlights from past tournaments, interviews with previous winners, and much more. During the group stages, matchday kick-off times are at 17:00, 20:00, and 23:00 MECCA, with Arabic studio coverage starting at 16:00 and running until 01:30 MECCA.
BeIN’s AFCON 2023 programming encompasses five documentaries about Arab teams, nine episodes of Do You Know AFCON? testing viewers’ knowledge of previous tournaments, four episodes of Memories of Africa reliving some of the showpiece’s most memorable moments, 10 Witness programmes reviewing past AFCONs with the help of those who were there, two Games of My Life programmes featuring stars of yesteryear, and a dedicated documentary about Senegal and their maiden title from 2019. Broadcasts before the event’s grand finale on February 11 include each final since the 2004 tournament, along with more than 70 other mini-matches and fillers using archive footage to create best player compilations and much more.
BeIN has been a frontrunner in celebrating the talent and passion showcased at the AFCON and has been the official and exclusive broadcaster of CAF tournaments since 2009 across 40 countries, establishing itself as the undisputed home of African football in the region.
AFCON 2023 kicks off on January 13 with hosts Ivory Coast taking on Guinea-Bissau at 23:00 MECCA in Abidjan.
