Hugo Broos' Bafana Bafana pride restoration project will come with the Belgian arriving at next year's AFCON finals as the oldest coach of all 24 countries at the tournament.
Broos has already become the first ever coach to guide Bafana to consecutive AFCON qualification campaigns, putting him amongst the top three to ever lead the senior national team since they played their first game in 1992 after readmission to FIFA the previous year.
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Notable is that he will arrive in Morocco having to dethrone the youngest of all the 24 coaches at the tournament if he is to deliver the AFCON title, which he previously won with Cameroon in 2017.
Bafana incredibly went all the way to a third-place finish earlier this year, doing so against all odds and having last done such in 2000.
An improvement to that will mean reaching the final and, to win it, the Belgian mentor will have taken the crown from 40-year-old Cote d'Ivoire coach Emerse Faé.
Of all the nations that have qualified, the French-Ivorian is the youngest, while Broos is the oldest.
The veteran gaffer is 72 and will have celebrated his next birthday by the time the tournament gets going from December 21, 2025, to January 18, 2026.
Below is the list of the ages and nationalities of the coaches currently in charge of all countries that have qualified.
Four – Augustine Eguavoen, Tom Saintfiet, Thierry Mouyouma, and Morena Ramoreboli – have either played or coached in South Africa before.
Benin – Gernot Rohr (71) – German
Zambia – Avram Grant (69) – Israeli
Uganda – Paul Put (68) – Belgian
Sudan – Kwesi Appiah (64) – Ghanaian
Burkina Faso – Brama Traore (62) – Burkinabe
Cameroon – Marc Brys (62) – Belgian
Algeria – Vladimir Petkovic (61) – Bosnian
Nigeria – Augustine Eguavoen (59) – Serbian
Egypt – Hossam Hassan (58) – Egyptian
Tunisia – Kais Yaakoubi (58) – Tunisian
Mozambique - Chiquinho Conde (58) – Mozambican
Zimbabwe – Michael Nees (57) – German
Comoros – Stefano Cusin (56) – Canadian
Tanzania – Hemed Morocco (54) – Tanzanian
Mali - Tom Saintfiet (51) – Belgian
Equatorial Guinea – Juan Micha (49) - Equatoguinean
Morocco – Walid Regragui (49) – Moroccan French
DR Congo – Sebastien Desabre (49) – French
Gabon – Thierry Mouyouma (49) – Gabonese
Angola – Pedro Gonçalves (48) – Portuguese
Botswana – Morena Ramoreboli (43) – South African
Senegal – Pape Thiaw (43) – Senegalese
Cote d'Ivoire – Emerse Faé (40) – French Ivoria