Where to watch AFCON 2027 in United States
Nobody has announced AFCON 2027 coverage for United States. These are the channels that carried the last edition.
CAF's international rights mandate lapsed after the previous edition and the current tender covers 2028 onwards, not 2027. Until a deal is announced, treat any country-by-country broadcaster list for 2027 — including this one — as last edition's picture.
Channels and what they actually hold
| Where to watch | Status | Rights confirmed for 2027 |
|---|---|---|
| beIN Sports XTRA
|
Free to air | Held rights for the 2025 edition |
| beIN Sports USA | Subscription | Held rights for the 2025 edition |
Each row states the edition a broadcaster is publicly confirmed for. Where that is an earlier edition, we say so rather than carrying it over to 2027.
Free options
Free-to-air coverage is recorded here: beIN Sports XTRA.
What time matches start here
Matches are played in East Africa, which runs on UTC+3 all year. United States is behind by 8 hours, so a fixture kicking off in the evening at the venues lands correspondingly earlier or later here.
This country changes its clocks seasonally, so check the offset again close to the tournament — East Africa does not, and the gap shifts by an hour.
Exact kick-off times have not been published by CAF, so no clock times are shown anywhere on this site.
Common questions
- Will AFCON 2027 be shown in United States?
- Not yet. No broadcaster has confirmed 2027 rights in this country. Rights to this edition are almost entirely unsold so far: only the national broadcasters of Kenya and Tanzania have been named. The 2 channels listed here hold rights to other editions.
- Is there a free way to watch in United States?
- Yes: beIN Sports XTRA. Check which edition, though: a free channel confirmed for the qualifiers will not necessarily carry the finals. The rights column in the table above states which edition each channel is confirmed for.
- Why do the lists I find elsewhere look different?
- Because almost all of them describe AFCON 2025, played in Morocco, without saying so. Rights are sold edition by edition and country by country: a 2025 broadcaster holds no claim on 2027. We label each channel with the edition it is confirmed for rather than copying an older list forward.