The Nile Ritz-Carlton hotel located in Egypt’s capital Cairo hosted the high and mighty in African football when the second-round draw for African World Cup 2022 qualifiers was held on Tuesday, January 21.
Africa’s race to elect representatives for the next World Cup now enters the second-round with today’s draw. Forty teams were pooled into 10 groups of four after the draw. This qualifying phase starts in March 2020 and comes to an end in October 2021. Ten teams will make it after this stage.
For the third and final round, the ten group winners will be drawn into five two-legged knockout ties to be played in November 2021.
The forty teams pooled today comprised – the 14 winners of the first-round of qualifiers. They were joined by the 26 highest African nations in the FIFA/Coca-Cola World Ranking (as of December 2019). Only the section winners advance to the third round and final round.
How the groups played out
GROUP A
Algeria
Burkina Faso
Niger
Djibouti
GROUP B
Tunisia
Zambia
Mauritania
Equatorial Guinea
GROUP C
Nigeria
Cape Verde
Central African Republic
Liberia
GROUP D
Cameroon
Ivory Coast
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
DR Congo
Benin
Madagascar
Tanzania.
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