Grant set to announce squad for Ivory Coast and Sierra Leone encounters 

Chipolopolo head coach Avram Grant is set to name his squad for the  back-to-back Morocco 2025 Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers. 

The ZamFoot Crew understands that the former Chelsea boss will reveal his squad for the matches against Ivory Coast and Sierra Leone in the next 72 hours.

It will be interesting to see if Fashion Sakala Jr will return to the set up after being left out for the back to back World Cup qualifiers against Morocco and Tanzania. 

Lameck Banda and Clatous Chota Chama who missed the two games also due to injury are now back and expected to be part of the squad. 

Grant will be hoping his main striker Patson Daka quickly recovers from the injury he suffered during Leicester City’s 1-0 loss to Lens in a friendly match. 

Zambia will be away to Ivory Coast in Bouake and then host Sierra Leone in Ndola.  

The two matches will be played in the window of September 2-10.

Match day 3 and 4 will be played between October 7-15 and will see Zambia face Chad in back to back games with N’djamena hosting the second match.

The November window will see the final two matches with Copper Bullets’ tie against the Elephants the one to look out for.

The final Group G fixture will be against the Leone Stars in Freetown.

The top two countries in each group will qualify for the 35th edition in Morocco.

The tournament will be held from 21 December 2025 to 18 January 2026.