AFCON: Which Championship, League 1 & 2 players could be heading to Ivory Coast?
The 2023 Africa Cup of Nations starts on Saturday January 13, when hosts Ivory Coast take on Guinea-Bissau in Abidjan.
The 34th edition of the tournament will last two days short of a month and end where it began - at the Alassane Ouattara Stadium - on Sunday February 11.
In February 2022, Sadio Mane put an early penalty miss behind him to score the winning spot-kick as Senegal won the Africa Cup of Nations for the first time following a 4-2 penalty shootout victory.
The Confederation of African Football (CAF) announced in September that teams must submit their final squad lists by the deadline of January 3, 10 days before the opening match of the tournament.
Taking into account players who have already represented their respective nations on the international stage - and those who have recently been called up for the first time - as many as 28 players from clubs who play in the Sky Bet Championship, League One and League Two could be absent from domestic football at the start of the year.
So who are they? Here, we take a look...
Leicester's Kelechi Iheanacho is likely to be a key player for Nigeria at AFCON. The 27-year-old has started the Championship season well, with eight goals for club and country in 21 games, including one in the 1-1 draw with Zimbabwe on November 19. His 15th international goal makes him the nation's 10th-highest scorer of all time; he needs just seven more to move second - unless Victor Osimhen gets there first.
Despite being only 26, the second potential Leicester representative - Wilfred Ndidi - is one of the most experienced members of the Super Eagles' squad, with 54 caps to his name, having been handed his debut vs DR Congo in October 2015, aged 18. However, injury prevented him from adding to
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