2019 AFC African Cup

The 2019 AFC African Cup, is scheduled to be the fourth edition of the African Cup, the biennial international men's championship of Africa organized by the African Football Confederation (AFC). The tournament will be hosted by Alternia. The competition will be held in July 2019.

Qualification
All the members of the African Football Confederation are able to qualify for the tournament.

Venues
After being awarded the hosting rights, Alternia started to seek four stadiums where to host the tournament. Several Alternian cities expressed their interests to use or build a venue for the tournament.

On 14th of January 2019, the , announced that the four stadiums were in ,  in ,  in  and  in.

Tiebreakers
Teams are ranked according to points (3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, 0 points for a loss), and if tied on points, the following tiebreaking criteria are applied, in the order given, to determine the rankings (Regulations Article 74):
 * 1) Points in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
 * 2) Goal difference in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
 * 3) Goals scored in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
 * 4) If more than two teams are tied, and after applying all head-to-head criteria above, a subset of teams are still tied, all head-to-head criteria above are reapplied exclusively to this subset of teams;
 * 5) Goal difference in all group matches;
 * 6) Goals scored in all group matches;
 * 7) Drawing of lots.