Éric Chelle has set his sights on winning the 2027 Africa Cup of Nations title with the Super Eagles, reports Completesports.com.
Chelle guided the Super Eagles to third position at the just concluded AFCON 2025 finals in Morocco.
The Super Eagles caught the eye with their remarkable attacking brand of football at the competition.
The three-time champions scored the highest number of goals (14) in the competition, and didn’t concede in open play in the knockout rounds.
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The AFCON 2027 finals will be co-hosted by three countries; Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda.
Chelle hopes he will be on the winning end next at the end of that tournament.
“It’s pride. It’s a relief. I went to see my mom and dad, and told them I was coming back with the AFCON trophy. Mom, Dad, sorry, I’m only coming back with third place, but that’s already exceptional for me,” Chelle said in an interview with Canal + Sport Afrique.
“Thank you to this country for organising this AFCON so well. I had a lot of fun with my team. It was great. Thank you.
“It was extraordinary. And we’ll meet again in two years, and God willing, I’ll bring that trophy home.”
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nigeria will win it if osimhen is not in the team…if he must be in the then he needs to apoligises to legendary finidi George….
Somebody take this message to nff ..
I have been saying this thing for over a year now some of you think I am a mad man.. okay o…
If you stick around, this team will do wonders.
ONIGBESE NFF. give this man a competitive bump in pay, so he is not tempted out of our hands by other offers. Owed salaries and bonuses must be a thing of the past, never ever to be repeated! And effort must be made to improve our stadia and facilities. If Morocco can do it so admirably, WHY CAN’T WE?
Right again @Pompei, right again. Heaven bless Pompei and all prestigious pen pushers.
This a coach that’s determined Amen ooo by God’s grace we will afcon 2027
Chelle, please you have to.
Senegal wants to ridicule our legacy in under a decade.
God no dey forbid bad thing but e go forbid this one.
Our triumphs in 1980, 1994 and 2013 took 4 decades to get 3 trophies.
Senegal wants to do it between 2021 and 2028.
No na.
17 semi final appearances were ridiculed during the outgone afcon across Africa.
Now imagine what it would be if Senegal hits the mark?
Chelle, afcon is just 7 matches to win before the trophy lifting.
We got you.
Make us proud.
This is a good coach, a great coach. Nigerians love him. He is great. We believe in you!! May God guide you.
Mr. Man, go for further coaching education before blurting out vows you can’t keep.
The AFCON is no longer an 8-team tournament. It is now a 24-team tournament, meaning you play more games to win and must have multiple tactical strategies to maneuver your way to the trophy, something you clearly and vividly lack.
In addition, Pape Thiaw, the new prince of African coaching (a winner of both the CHAN and main AFCON tournaments) started the final with a back 4 consisting of two 20-year-olds, one 21-year-old, and a 22-year-old, and finished the game with a 17-year-old forward. Yes, he had faith even in a 17-year-old striker in an AFCON final against the best-ranked team in Africa, playing on their home soil.
You went to the same AFCON with 3 players under the age of 23, yet too cowardly to give them next to no minutes of playtime, even in supposedly dead rubber games. It is with your team of by then, 30-something years old, and your tactical myopia, you are hoping to win AFCON right…..? I say a LOUD AMEN to your prayers……LMAOooo.
I hope you know 9 African teams will feature at the coming World Cup, and they won’t return from the World Cup weaker, with the 2027 AFCON just 6 months ahead.
So once again, a loud amen to your prayers…….but you don’t do the same thing the same way and get a different result.
When are you going to stop this your toxicity and hatred against your styled Tuareg? He has proved you very wrong about both his credentials and capability yet you are still moaning! Hope you have chopped off your left arm and shipped it to Chelle as you promised to do? Perhaps your leprous remaining arm should also go because Chelle has beaten Egypt as well as Algeria that you vowed Chelle can never beat!
You even beat your ugly chest that Chelle would not stay beyond end of last year as Super Eagles coach and you failed in every of your predictions- from his beating Tunisia, nearer Nigeria’s ranking, to those higher in fifa rankings are you are still shamelessly typing rubbish, after you called the man Tuareg, herdsman and a pretender who cannot beat any national team ranked 90 and below- yet you still refuse to give the man his flowers having proving all your doom and gloom predictions wrong!
This “tuareg” has caused the highest rise in one month in Nigeria fifa ranking history-from 38th in Dec 2025 to 26th in Jan 2026- a steep rise of +12 in one month, so doesn’t need negativity arm- chair fake analysts like you to validate his credentials. You didn’t chose his Afcon 2025 squad for him, he did and he has produced within a year of commencement as SE coach a team that is feared across Africa and the World at large- So Chelle has nothing more to prove to hate-filled doubters like you.
You’ve said it all!
We only need credible people on this platform. All foul-mouthed pretenders should leave the Tuareg herdsman alone. His name has entered the history books. He does not pretend to be Rohr or Thiaw and is not a copycat. My full respect to Rohr and Thiaw, but the Tuareg man has original ideas.
It took you guys years to uncover why i was at loggerheads with those guys who think they know football more than people like Yaya Toure and co.
Monkey and drey have same school of thoughts and presently are the only two people in the world to be against a man who has given us the kind of football we long dreamt of.
I will choose this bronze team performance over the last silver one. Who sabi ball suppose get sense see the truth before vomiting unreal emotions.
Read new FIFA rankings places Nigeria 3rd in Africa and 26th in the world, a massive 12 places leap.
Meanwhile Morocco, still ranked number 1 in Africa, is inching closer to Nigeria’s record of World number 5, with their new placement of 8 in the world.
I just hope our DRC petition succeeds this February.
Kel that will be a miracle if Nigeria makes it. Morocco is overhyped Chelle Eagles was great if not that agenda Ref Laryea. We are promising and better days ahead.
Hopefully,NFF will renew Chelle ‘s contract.
Chelle I beleive if you can get players that will replicate mikel-Onanzi combo, this team will be so balance.
If you truly want to achive greater things with this eagles stop iwobi-Ndidi combo. This later combo has proven to fail in face of strong opposition.
Kudos to for improving our defence and attacking position. But we still have plenty of problems with our center and that is why you need to find replacemt for iwobi- Ndidi combo.
For me, Senegal should be ranked higher than Morocco. Not because they just beat them.
Senegal have been very consistent with incredible results. Outplaying and beating a full strength England 3-1 at Nottingham. Beating Brazil as well. They shocked them 4-2. Brazilians still have PTSD due to that defeat.
The FIFA ranking will soon reflect this reality.
Pinnick said he has told NFF and NSC to send Chelle on refresher course and will happen before March.
Better days are ahead for the senior national team.
I can’t say that about our cadet teams coaches. NFF is not serious yet to improve football holistically