Three Bafana Bafana bets to consider before AFCON 2025

Bafana Bafana may not be among the favourites to win AFCON 2025 but there are still plenty of patriotic punts available to South African fans.

The latest AFCON betting odds make Bafana Bafana 40/1 outsiders to go all the way, with Morocco, Egypt, Algeria, Senegal, Nigeria, Mali, Tunisia, Ivory Coast and Cameroon all fancied more by the bookmakers.

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If you don’t fancy backing South Africa at 40/1, Afrik-Foot ZA has rounded up three alternative options for you.

Below are three betting tips that should allow you to show your support for Hugo Broos and his team, while also giving you a decent chance of winning some money.

Best Bafana Bafana bets for AFCON 2025

Bafana Bafana to win Group B

Odds 3.50 (5/2)

How likely is it to happen?

Bafana Bafana are in Group B alongside seven-time champions Egypt as well as COSAFA duo Zimbabwe and Angola.

South Africa have a good record against the Pharaohs having won three out of the last five competitions across all competitions. The last time they met in AFCON was in 2019 where Mzansi won by a solitary goal.

Angola and Zimbabwe are not that strong as compared to Egypt meaning Hugo Broos’ men can end the group stage without dropping points.

Bafana Bafana to reach the quarter-finals

Odds: 3.00 (5/2)

How likely is it to happen?

If the 1996 team top their group, then they will play a better-ranked third-placed team from either Group A, C or D.

Basically, it means they can face either Zambia, Comoros, Uganda, Tanzania, Botswana or Benin. The aforementioned teams are seeminly the weaker ones in their pools.

If it happens so, then Bafana Bafana can fancy their chances of making the last eight in the biennial competition.

Bafana Bafana to reach the semi-finals

Odds: 7.00 (6/1)

How likely is it to happen?

Having finished third in the 2023 edition, Bafana Bafana will be motivated to go a step further.

In the last eight, they might come up against either Burkina Faso – whose chances of beating Algeria to the top spot look slim but are seemingly stronger than Sudan and Equatorial Guinea, or teh defending champions Ivory Coast who look odds on to finish at the summit of their pool.

Well, as seen in the past, in their recent form, South Africa can beat anyone on a good day.