Africa Cup of Nations: Morocco - Tanzania tickets

Slotting in as the third of the eight round-of-16 matches at the Africa Cup of Nations, Morocco met Tanzania on Sunday 4 January 2026 at 18:00 local time at the Prince Moulay Abdellah Stadium in Rabat. This was the first knockout hurdle of the tournament, the point where the group stage gives way to sudden-death football and a single result decides who continues towards the quarter-finals. For both nations the group phase had done its job in bringing them this far, and the encounter carried the straightforward weight of an elimination tie: win and stay in the competition, or bow out. Sitting in the middle of the round rather than opening or closing it, the meeting was one thread in a busy stretch of the calendar as the field narrowed on home soil in Morocco.