{"id":105916,"date":"2023-06-25T14:07:38","date_gmt":"2023-06-25T13:07:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goalballlive.com\/?p=105916"},"modified":"2023-07-02T01:58:30","modified_gmt":"2023-07-02T00:58:30","slug":"afcon-u23-fixtures-and-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goalballlive.com\/afcon-u23-fixtures-and-results\/","title":{"rendered":"U23 AFCON 2023: Fixtures and Results"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The opening match of the U23 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) 2023 tournament had us on the edge of our seats until the last minute. In an interesting turn of events, it was the hosts who emerged victorious thanks to a last-minute penalty by Ezzalzouli Abdessamad. The Osasuna forward fired the host nation to victory with two second-half goals, after they trailed at the midway point of the match. Given that there are a fair few games left to play in this competition, we would like to provide a fixture guide for the U23 AFCON competition.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udea8 Ez Abde showcased a brilliant display for Morocco U23 last night. He guided his team to victory by successfully converting two penalties, including a crucial one in the final minute that he earned through his own efforts. Additionally, he was a constant threat with impressive\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Vn5lrEKZ19\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/Vn5lrEKZ19<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; barcacentre (@barcacentre) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/barcacentre\/status\/1672886712194703361?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">June 25, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2><a href=\"https:\/\/goalballlive.com\/u23-africa-cup-of-nations-afcon-2023\/\">U23 AFCON 2023 Format<\/a><\/h2>\n<p>First of all, it's important to note that there are two total groups containing eight teams; and these teams will meet each other in a round robin format, with the top two sides going through at the end of the group stages. That said, there will be two days of matches followed by a day of rest, and this will continue until the end of the competition.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Awesome start of the AFCON U23 yesterday as the host nation won 2-1 against Guinea.<\/p>\n<p>Here are Today\u2019s AFCON U23 Fixtures (June 25):<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\uddec\ud83c\uddedGhana VS Congo\ud83c\udde8\ud83c\uddec<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\uddea\ud83c\uddecEgypt VS Niger\ud83c\uddf3\ud83c\uddea<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\uddf2\ud83c\uddf1Mali VS Gabon\ud83c\uddec\ud83c\udde6 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/V7RJe4SPIS\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/V7RJe4SPIS<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Beyond Football \u2022 News & More \u2022 Sports Data INV (@sportsdatainv) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sportsdatainv\/status\/1672936425770164229?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">June 25, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>U23 AFCON 2023 Fixtures and Results<\/h2>\n<p>This is what the AFCON U23 schedule looks like; we'll update this page daily with the results at the end of each match.<\/p>\n<p><em>Please note that all times are in BST (GMT +1)<\/em><\/p>\n<h3>Round 1<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Morocco 2-1 Guinea:<\/strong> 24\/06\/2023 (21:00)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Ghana 3:2 Congo:<\/strong> 25\/06\/2023 (16:00)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Egypt 0:0 Niger:<\/strong> 25\/06\/2023 (18:00)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Mali 3:1 Gabon:<\/strong> 25\/06\/2023 (21:00)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Round 2<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Congo 1:3 Guinea:<\/strong> 27\/06\/23 (18:00)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Morocco 5:1 Ghana:<\/strong> 27\/06\/23 (21:00)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Egypt 1:0 Mali:<\/strong> 28\/06\/23 (18:00)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Gabon 0:1 Niger:<\/strong> 28\/06\/23 (21:00)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Round 3<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Congo 0:1 Morocco<\/strong> 30\/06\/2023 (21:00)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Guinea 1:1 Ghana<\/strong> 30\/06\/2023 (21:00)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Gabon 0:2 Egypt<\/strong> 01\/07\/2023 (21:00)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Niger 0:2 Mali<\/strong> 01\/07\/2023 (21:00)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The opening match of the U23 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) 2023 tournament had us on the edge of our seats until the last minute. In an interesting turn of events, it was the hosts who emerged victorious thanks to a last-minute penalty by Ezzalzouli Abdessamad. The Osasuna forward fired the host nation to victory [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1008,"featured_media":105920,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"no"},"categories":[13881,1],"tags":[],"table_tags":[],"acf":[],"modified_by":"Kelechi Udoka","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goalballlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105916"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goalballlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goalballlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goalballlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1008"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goalballlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105916"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/goalballlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":106730,"href":"https:\/\/goalballlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105916\/revisions\/106730"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goalballlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goalballlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goalballlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goalballlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105916"},{"taxonomy":"table_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goalballlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/table_tags?post=105916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}