The government is committed to building a Stadium from scratch in the tourist capital Livingstone as a way of showing commitment as Zambia looks to win the bid of hosting the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations. The Football Association of Zambia President Andrew Kamanga confirmed the development in his weekly update on Monday. A four-member team from CAF was in the country to inspect selected facilities in line with Zambia’s proposed bid for the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations. The quartet comprising Tariq Ashraf, Mouhsine Aguedach, Antoine Bergue, and Mohammed Sedat arrived in the country on Friday afternoon and have since completed their mission and left the country Monday morning. “We had a team of inspectors from CAF checking on some of the facilities in our 2025 AFCON bid. The CAF inspectors inspected facilities in Lusaka and the Copperbelt. Among the facilities inspected were National Heroes, Nkoloma, Levy Mwanawasa, and Nkana stadia.” President Kamanga says that CAF also had an eye on other support facilities for the 2025 AFCON bid. With the AFCON set for June 2025, he believes that with the government support the association s enjoying and also the fact that Southern Africa has not hosted since 2013 it will boost Zambia's chances of hosting the tournament. “Some infrastructure is earmarked for an upgrade while the government has committed to building a stadium from scratch in Livingstone. The government had representation on the host support team to ensure that they have an appreciation of what needs to be done.” Kamanga wrote. Zambia has joined three other bidders for the 2025 AFCON that was initially given to Guinea before CAF stripped it of the rights after failure to meet several guarantees. Other bidders for the 2025 AFCON are Morocco, Algeria, and joint bid by Nigeria, and Benin. Successful bidders are expected to be named next month. Despite having appeared at the AFCON 17 times and won it once, Zambia has never hosted the prestigious tournament. In 2017 Zambia successfully hosted the Under-20 AFCON which was won by Beston Chambeshi’s Bola Na Lesa squad. FAZ