U20 AFCON Draw: Hosts, Egypt, Nigeria, Senegal Seeded In Pot A, B And C

U20 AFCON Draw: Hosts, Egypt, Nigeria, Senegal Seeded In Pot A, B And C 

By Niyi Busari

African most successful team in CAF U20 African Nations Cup, Nigeria will be in Pot B while hosts, Egypt are seeded in Pot A and the defending champions, Senegal in Pot C, BSNSports.com.ng reports.

The final draw for the CAF Under-20 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON), Egypt 2025 will be conducted on Sunday, 13 April at 17:00 local time (15:00 GMT).

The tournament will be staged from 27 April to 18 May, 2025, with Sunday’s draw LIVE from the Egyptian Football Association headquarters via ON Time channels and CAF TV.  

The 13 teams will be split into three pools, Group A with five teams, and Groups B and C with four. The top two nations in each pool advance to the quarter-finals, along with the two best third-placed sides.

Hosts Egypt will be in position A1 in the draw, Nigeria, who finished third at the tournament two years ago, in B1 and holders Senegal in C1.

Tunisia, Zambia and Central African Republic, who qualified for the last edition, will be in Pot 1 and drawn into one of the three groups.

The teams that did not qualify for the last edition, Morocco, debutants Sierra Leone, Ghana, Tanzania, Kenya, South Africa and DR Congo, will be in Pot 2. They will be placed in the remaining positions in the pools.

DRAW PROCEDURES

Seeded teams: Egypt will be in position A1; Nigeria will be in B1 and Senegal will be C1.

Pot 1 for the teams from Level 2: Tunisia, Zambia and Central African Republic

Pot 2 of the teams of Level 3: Morocco, Sierra Leone, Ghana, Tanzania, Kenya, South Africa & DR Congo

The teams drawn from Pot 1 will go respectively into positions A2, B2 & C2

The teams drawn from the Pot 2 will go respectively into positions A3, B3, C3, A4, B4, C4 & A5

 CAF U-20 AFCON, EGYPT 2025 QUALIFIED TEAMS

CECAFA: Tanzania, Kenya

COSAFA: South Africa, Zambia

UNAF: Egypt (hosts), Morocco, Tunisia

UNIFFAC: DR Congo, Central African Republic

WAFU A: Senegal, Sierra Leone

WAFU B: Nigeria, Ghana