The Confederation of African Football (CAF) met yesterday to discuss the poor state of the pitch in Douala and whether Africa Cup of Nations matches may need to be moved from the arena.
Cameroon’s largest city has hosted just four games so far at the Japoma Stadium, with another six to come.
These include a semi-final, two quarter-finals and a last 16 clash.
CAF’s meeting began at 11:00 GMT, with an update expected to be issued by African football’s governing body later.
Each of the six stadiums being used for the tournament has hosted two matches back-to-back on the same day.
The state of the pitch in Douala was thrown into focus by Sierra Leone’s last-gasp equaliser against Ivory Coast in their Group E meeting on Sunday.
Ivorian goalkeeper Badri Ali Sangare was caught out as he seemingly lost his footing as he attempted to smother the ball to prevent it going for a corner only to fumble it into the path of gleeful goalscorer Alhaji Kamara.
Even then the Denmark-based forward had to recover from his own slip on the surface in order to put the ball into the open goal.
Later that evening, defending champions Algeria were beaten 1-0 by Equatorial Guinea in a scrappy encounter.
Algeria coach Djamel Belmadi, whose team have played both their games on the pitch so far, criticised the playing surface from the first day it hosted games.
“I am not saying that it’s catastrophic, but it’s not a level that would allow total fluidity and what we expect for big tournaments like the Nations Cup,” Belmadi told BBC Sport Africa ahead of their second group game with Equatorial Guinea which they lost 0-1.
Algeria are due to play their group decider against Ivory Coast in Douala on Thursday at 5pm, with the Desert Foxes needing victory to have a chance to progress to the last 16.
The Japoma Stadium was opened in late 2020, and first used when Cameroon hosted the African Nations Championship, a tournament for African footballers based in their own domestic leagues in January 2021.
HOW THEY STAND
GROUP A
Team. P. W D L GF GA GD PTS
Cameroon 3. 2. 1. 0. 7. 3. 4. 7
B’Faso. 3. 1. 1. 1. 3. 3. 0. 4
Cape Verde 3. 1. 1. 1. 2. 2. 0 4
Ethiopia 3. 0. 1. 2. 2. 6. -4. 1
GROUP B
Team. P. W D L GF GA GD PTS
Senegal 3. 1 2. 0. 1. 0. 1. 5
Guinea. 3. 1. 1. 1. 2. 2. 0 4
Malawi 3. 1. 1. 1 2. 2. 0. 4
Zimbabwe 3. 1. 0. 2. 3. 4. -1. 3.
GROUP C
Team. P. W D L GF GA GD PTS
Morocco . 2. 2. 0. 0 3. 0. 3. 6
Gabon 2. 1. 1. 0. 2. 1. 1. 4
Ghana 2. 0. 1. 1. 1. 2. -1. 1
Comoros 2. 0. 0 2. 0 3. -3. 0
GROUP D
Team. P. W D L GF GA GD PTS
Nigeria 2. 2. 0. 0. 4. 1. 3. 6.
Egypt 2. 1. 0. 1. 1. 1. 0 3
G’Bissau 2. 0. 1. 1. 0 1. -1. 1.
Sudan 2. 0. 1. 1. 1. 3. -2. 1.
GROUP E
Team. P. W D L GF GA GD PTS
Ivory Coast. 2. 1. 1. 0. 3. 2. 1. 4
E’Guinea 2. 1. 0. 1. 1. 1. 0. 3
S’Leone 2. 0. 2. 0 2. 2. 0 2
Algeria 2. 0. 1. 1. 0 1. -1. 1
GROUP F
Team. P. W D L GF GA GD PTS
Gambia 2. 1. 1. 0. 2. 1. 1. 4
Mali 2. 1. 1. 0 2. 1. 1. 4
Tunisia 2. 1. 0. 1. 4. 1. 3. 3
Mauritania. 2. 0. 0 2. 0 5. -5. 0.
