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All You Want to Know About Africa's World Cup Draw


Tue 21 Jan 2020 | 04:39 PM
Mohamed Helba

A few hours before Africa’s draw for the World Cup 2022 qualifiers, SEENews provides you with all you want to know about this draw; date, venue, and pots.

The draw is set to take place in Cairo, Egypt at the Ritz Carlton hotel at 19:00 CLT.

The fourteen teams which qualified from the preliminary stage will join the 26 exempted teams. The forty teams will be pided into ten groups of Four teams.

Earlier on Tuesday, the Confederation of the African Football (CAF) revealed the four pots of the draw based on the latest FIFA World Rankings (December 2019).

Here are the Four Pots:

Pot 1: Senegal, Tunisia, Nigeria, Algeria, Morocco, Ghana, Egypt, Cameroon, Mali, DR Congo

Pot 2: Burkina Faso, Cote d’Ivoire, South Africa, Guinea, Uganda, Cape Verde, Gabon, Benin, Zambia, Congo

Pot 3: Madagascar, Mauritania, Libya, Mozambique, Kenya, Central African Republic, Zimbabwe, Niger, Namibia, Guinea Bissau

Pot 4: Malawi, Angola, Togo, Sudan, Rwanda, Tanzania, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Liberia, Djibouti

https://twitter.com/CAF_Online/status/1218910986964492288

Here is the 2022 FIFA World Cup qualifiers format for Africa:

1. The winners of the groups will be advanced to the knock-out stage.

2. The ten teams will be pided into two levels based on the FIFA ranking. The 5 highest ranked teams will face the lowest-ranked ones.

3. The winners of the first and second legs on aggregate will qualify for the 2022 FIFA World Cup.

https://twitter.com/CAF_Online/status/1219590605959061506