Tuesday, August 26 Kick-off: 4:30 pm Sudan vs Madagascar Madagascar and Sudan will meet for a place in the final of the CAF African Nations Championship (CHAN) 2024 when they clash in the last four in Dar es Salaam on Tuesday. The two sides are facing for the second time at the tournament. Their first clash came in the group stages of the 2022 edition, in a three-team group that also included Ghana. Madagascar won that decisive encounter 3-0 to advance as group winners alongside Ghana. Madagascar will be facing East African opposition for the fourth time at CHAN, with a record of one win, one draw and one loss. Their only defeat came earlier in this tournament against Tanzania. Sudan, meanwhile, is the first country that Madagascar have met twice at CHAN. For Sudan, this will be their third match against Southern African opposition. They previously beat Zambia in the 2018 quarter-finals but lost to Madagascar in the 2022 group stage. Both sides have scored six goals at this edition, though Madagascar have played one game more. They have produced 18 shots on target, while Sudan have registered 12 shots on target at a more efficient. The stakes are high with the winner of the match set to become the 12th different nation to reach a CHAN final. It will also continue the trend of fresh finalists, with each of the last four tournaments featuring at least one team in the final who had never previously been crowned champions. In 2022 both Senegal and Algeria were first-time winners, Mali reached their first final in 2020, while Morocco and Nigeria did so in 2018.
