2022 World Cup: FIFA Announces Dates For Nigeria’s Playoffs, Others

Oyinlola Awonuga
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The Executive Committee of the Confederations of African Football (CAF) has announced dates for the draws of both FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 Qualifiers and TotalEnergies Africa Cup of Nations, 2023 Cote d’Ivoire Qualifiers.

The TotalEnergies Africa Cup of Nations Qualifiers draw will be conducted on 21 January 2022 in Douala, Cameroon.

The preliminary round will be played in a knock-out system: home and away matches and will include the lower ranked teams in accordance to the FIFA rankings.

The teams qualified from this round will reach the group stage composed of 48 teams.

The FIFA World Cup, Qatar 2022 African Qualifiers draw will be conducted the following day, 22 January 2022 in Douala, Cameroon.

The 10 qualified teams will be divided into two levels based on the official FIFA ranking, published in November 2021.

The five highest ranked teams will play against the five least ranked teams (the first leg will be played at home of the lower ranked teams).

According to the ranking published on the 19th of November 2021 after the last round, the distribution of the teams on the two pots shall be as follows:

Level 1: Senegal, Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria and Nigeria

Level 2: Egypt, Cameroon, Ghana, Mali and DR Congo.

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