"Seven Scottish clubs will be missing key players during the busy festive period after Africa Cup of Nations squads were submitted on Thursday. Overall, 10 players based in Scotland are heading for the tournament in Morocco and will be unavailable to their clubs, at the very latest, from Monday. When they will return depends on how far their national team progress in the competition, which starts with the group stage on 21 December and finishes with the final on 18 January."
"Each of the sides currently sitting in the top five of the Scottish Premiership will lose at least one player, with the other two coming from Championship promotion hopefuls St Johnstone and Dunfermline Athletic. That is a significant increase from the three players who headed to Afcon 2023 from the Scottish Professional Football League. With three players heading for Afcon, Hibs are worst hit by absences."
Ten players based in Scotland have been named in Africa Cup of Nations squads and will be unavailable to their clubs from Monday at the latest. Return dates will depend on how far each national team progresses, with the tournament running from 21 December to 18 January. Each of the current top-five Scottish Premiership sides will lose at least one player; the other two absentees come from St Johnstone and Dunfermline Athletic. The number of participants from the Scottish leagues has risen markedly from three in 2023. Hibernian will lose three players, the most of any Scottish club.
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