CAF Releases 2022 World Cup Qualifier Draws

CAF Releases 2022 World Cup Qualifier Draws

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The Confederation of African Football, CAF, has made the draw of the African teams for the preliminary rounds of the 2022 World Cup Qualifiers.

The line-up was done in Cairo, Egypt on Monday, 29th July 2019.
The twenty-six distinct footballing countries in Africa has ranked by FIFA recently have been exempted from the preliminary pairing process.

Accordingly, twenty-eight countries will undergo the preliminary qualifier rituals during the first and the second rounds.
Burundi, 2019 AFCON newcomer will face-off Tanzania in an East Africa derby, while Liberia will clash with Sierra Leone in another top game.

2022 World Cup Qualifiers: The full pairings
Ethiopia – Lesotho
Somalia – Zimbabwe
Eritrea – Namibia
Djibouti – Eswatini
Equatorial Guinea – South Sudan
Chad – Sudan
Seychelles – Rwanda
Liberia – Sierra Leone
Gambia – Angola
Mauritius Islands – Mozambique
Sao Tome & Princepe – Guinea-Bissau
Comoros – Togo
Botswana – Malawi
Burundi – Tanzania

2022 World Cup Qualifiers: The match schedules
Day 1: 23-31st March 2020
Day 2: 1-9th June 2020
Day 3 & 4: 22-30th March 2021
Day 5: 30 August – 7th September 2021
Day 6: 4 -12th October 2021

After the preliminary qualifiers, the fourteen best will be paired alongside the twenty-six countries on standby.

The forty teams will now be grouped in ten poles. The ten winners will later play away and return legs and at the end the five best will sail through to the 2022 World Cup in Qatar.
The Pharaohs of Egypt, the Super Eagles of Nigeria, the Desert of Tunisia, the Teranga Lions of Senegal and the Atlas Lions of Morocco were the five African ambassadors at the 2018 World Cup in Russia.