African football teams learn their path to qualify for 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar
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The official second round African qualifying draw for FIFA World Cup 2022 Qatar took place in Cairo, Egypt on 21st January 2020 as 40 teams came to know their fate.
The ceremony was held at The Nile Ritz-Carlton in Cairo, Egypt and saw the 14 first-round winners and the 26 highest-ranked African nations in the FIFA/Coca-Cola World Ranking drawn into ten groups of four.
Draw results:
Group A – Algeria, Burkina Faso, Niger, Dijibouti
Group B – Tunisia, Zambia, Mauritania, Equatorial Guinea
Group C – Nigeria, Cape Verde Islands, Central African Republic, Liberia
Group D – Cameroon, Cote d’Ivoire, Mozambique, Malawi
Group E – Mali, Uganda, Kenya, Rwanda
Group F – Egypt, Gabon, Libya, Angola
Group G – Ghana, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Ethiopia
Group H – Senegal, Congo, Namibia, Togo
Group I – Morocco, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Sudan
Group J – Congo DR, Benin, Madagascar, Tanzania
The second round is scheduled to begin in October 2020. The teams will play home-and-away in a round-robin format. The ten group winners will advance to the third round.
Here we have it! 🙌
40 African teams, millions of #WorldCup dreams🌍🏆
Which #WCQ group do you think is the toughest?
👇Group A & Group B pic.twitter.com/G9k16yjF0M— FIFA World Cup (@FIFAWorldCup) January 21, 2020
