The South African Football Association (Safa) has confirmed it is to bid to host the 2015 Africa Cup of Nations. The country intends to build on the facilities installed for this year's successful World Cup to stage African football's greatest prize.

South Africa has organised the Nations Cup once before, winning in 1996 as it took part for the first time. "We have put in a request to the Confederation of African Football," said Safa chief Kirsten Nematandani. "We are still (enjoying) the success of the World Cup and we hope it will be good for us in our bid to host the Nations Cup," Nematandani told The Sowetan newspaper.

South Africa thus joins Morocco in the bid to host the 2015 finals, with the North Africans having declared their intention to stage the event in either 2015 or 2017.

The next Nations Cup tournament will be co-hosted by Gabon and Equatorial Guinea in 2012, while Libya will stage in 2013 as the finals move to an odd year for the first time since 1965.