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  • Match Day 5 fixtures in 2021 AFCON Qualifiers

    Match Day 5 fixtures in 2021 AFCON Qualifiers

    Following are the Match Day 5 fixtures in the Qualifiers for the 2021 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON), to be played from Wednesday to Saturday:

    Group A

    Wednesday: Conakry —— Guinea vs Mali

    Wednesday: Chad versus Namibia has been canceled as Chad have been disqualified from the competition.

    Group B

    Wednesday: Kampala —— Uganda vs Burkina Faso

    Wednesday: Omdurman —- South Sudan vs Malawi

    Group C

    Thursday: Johannesburg —— South Africa vs Ghana

    Wednesday: São Tomé —— São Tomé and Principe vs Sudan

    Group D

    Thursday: Franceville —- Gabon vs Democratic Rep. (DR) of Congo

    Thursday: Bakau —— Gambia vs Angola

    Group E

    Friday: Nouakchott —— Mauritania vs Morocco

    Friday: Bujumbura —- Burundi vs Central African Republic (CAR)

    Group F

    Friday: Praia —— Cape Verde vs Cameroon

    Wednesday: Kigali —— Rwanda vs Mozambique

    Group G

    Thursday: Nairobi —— Kenya vs Egypt

    Thursday: Moroni —- Comoros vs Togo

    Group H

    Thursday: Lusaka —— Zambia vs Algeria

    Thursday: Francistown —- Botswana vs Zimbabwe

    Group I

    Friday: Brazzaville —- Congo vs Senegal

    Friday: Mbabane —- Eswatini vs Guinea Bissau

    Group J

    Thursday: Cairo —— Libya vs Tunisia

    Thursday: Malabo —— Equatorial Guinea vs Tanzania

    Group K

    Friday: Lomé —- Republic of Niger vs Cote d’Ivoire

    Wednesday: Bahir Dar —— Ethiopia vs Madagascar

    Group L

    Saturday: Porto Novo —— Benin Republic vs Nigeria

    Saturday: Maseru —— Lesotho vs Sierra Leone

  • All qualifiers for AFCON U 20 “Mauritania 2021” announced

    Twelve countries that will play the next Africa Cup of Nations Under-20 football tournament, “Mauritania 2021”, were announced at the weekend.

    In addition to the host country, Gambia will represent Zone A of the Union of West African Football Associations (WAFU A). WAFU will count on Burkina Faso and Ghana, the COSAFA Zone will be represented by Namibia and Mozambique, Tanzania and Uganda will defend the chances of the CECAFA zone.

    Cameroon and Central African Republic will wear the colours of the UNIFAC zone and the UNAF will be represented by Morocco and Tunisia.

    These different teams qualified at the end of zonal tournaments that took place recently in different parts of Africa.

    The final phase of the AFCON U-20 will take place from February 14 to March 4, 2021, in Mauritania (Nouakchott and Nouadhibou).

  • African preliminaries for 2022 World Cup [Full draw]

    The draw for the first round of African qualifiers for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar was made in Cairo on Monday:
    Below are the fixtures:
    Ethiopia vs Lesotho
    Somalia vs Zimbabwe
    Eritrea vs Namibia
    Burundi vs Tanzania
    Djibouti vs Eswatini
    Botswana vs Malawi
    Gambia vs Angola
    Liberia vs Sierra Leone
    Mauritius vs Mozambique
    Sao Tome &bPrincipe vs Guinea Bissau
    South Sudan vs Equatorial Guinea
    Comoros Islands vs Togo
    Chad vs Sudan
    Seychelles vs Rwanda
    The ties will be played over two legs in September, with the team mentioned first playing at home in the opening leg.
    The 14 winners will join the continent’s top-ranked 26 sides, who have been exempted from the initial round of qualifiers, in the next draw.
    This draw is to be held on a date still to be decided.
    Those 40 teams will then be split into 10 groups of four for the second qualifying round.
    The 10 winners of those groups will then be drawn against each other in home-and-away fixtures, with the five victors advancing to Qatar 2022.
    All Africa’s 54 member-countries are entered.
    Nigeria, Senegal, Egypt, Tunisia and Morocco picked the five African tickets to the last World Cup, held in 2018 in Russia

  • AFCON 2021 Qualifiers: Nigeria draws Sierra Leone, Lesotho, Benin

    AFCON 2021 Qualifiers: Nigeria draws Sierra Leone, Lesotho, Benin

    Nigeria has been drawn with Sierra Leone, Lesotho and Benin Republic in Group L of the 2021 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) qualifiers.
    The draw took place on Thursday evening at the headquarters of the Confederation of African Football (CAF) in Cairo.
    African football icons Nwankwo Kanu, Samuel Eto’o, Khalilou Fadiga, Geremi Njitap, El Hadji Diouf and Jose Clayton were in attendance.
    CAF Deputy General Secretary of Football and Development, Anthony Baffoe, was in charge of proceedings and he was assisted by Algerian football great Rabah Madjer, Eto’o and Nigeria’s Kanu.
    The 48 teams were drawn into 12 groups of four teams in addition to the four winners of the preliminary round.
    In Group A, Mali will join Guinea, Namibia and the winners between Liberia and Chad for size, while Group B has Burkina Faso, Uganda, Malawi and Djibouti/Gambia.
    AFCON 2019 quarter-finalists South Africa will have their hands full in Group C against Ghana and Sudan.
    AFCON 2019 hosts Egypt have been paired with Kenya, Togo and Comoros Island.
    While Togo and Comoros Island could not reach the 2019 Nations Cup, Kenya made the trip to Egypt but could not go farther than the group stage.
    Hosts Cameroon will participate in the qualifiers even though the team are guaranteed a spot in the finals regardless of their ranking in the group.
    Their matches and results will count in determining the qualification of the other teams from their groups, namely Cape Verde, Mozambique and Rwanda.
    Preliminary round of the qualifiers will be played in October 2019, while the group stage will kick off in November and will end in November 2020.
    The top two teams from each group will qualify for the Finals of the 33rd edition except Group F.
    In that group, Cameroon automatically qualify as hosts alongside the highest placed of other three teams.
    The top two teams will book their place for the 33rd edition of the championship.
    Below is the full draw:
    Group A – Mali, Guinea, Namibia, Liberia/Chad
    Group B – Uganda, Malawi, Burkina Faso, South Sudan/Seychelles.
    Group C – South Africa, Sudan, Ghana, Mauritius/Sao Tome.
    Group D – Gabon, Angola, DR Congo, Djibouti/Gambia.
    Group E – Mauritania, Central African Republic, Morocco, Burundi.
    Group F – Mozambique, Cape Verde, Cameroon, Rwanda.
    Group G – Egypt, Kenya, Togo, Comoros Island.
    Group H – Zimbabwe, Zambia, Algeria, Botswana
    Group I – Guinea Bissau, Congo, Senegal, Eswatini.
    Group J – Tanzania, Libya, Tunisia, Equatorial Guinea.
    Group K – Madagascar, Niger, Cote d’Ivoire, Ethiopia.
    Group L – Sierra Leone, Benin, Nigeria, Lesotho.