BREAKING: AFCON 2023 draw: Nigeria to play Sierra Leone, Guinea-Bissau (Full fixtures)


 

The draw for the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations qualifying groups, made in Johannesburg on Tuesday:

 

Group A: Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Guinea-Bissau, Sao Tome e Principe or Mauritius

 

Group B: Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, Togo, Eswatini

 

Group C: Cameroon, Kenya, Namibia, Burundi

 

Group D: Egypt, Guinea, Malawi, Ethiopia

 

Group E: Ghana, Madagascar, Angola, Central African Republic

 

Group F: Algeria, Uganda, Niger, Tanzania

 

Group G: Mali, Congo Brazzaville, Gambia, South Sudan

 

Group H: Ivory Coast (hosts), Zambia, Comoros, Lesotho

 

Group I: Democratic Republic of Congo, Gabon, Mauritania, Sudan

 

Group J: Tunisia, Equatorial Guinea, Libya, Botswana

 

Group K: Morocco, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Liberia

 

Group L: Senegal (holders), Benin, Mozambique, Rwanda

 

Dates

 

May 30-June 14: Matchdays 1, 2

 

Sept 19-27: Matchdays 3, 4

 

March 20-28, 2023: Matchdays 5, 6

 

— Winners and runners-up in each group except H qualify for 24-team finals in the Ivory Coast during June and July 2023

 

— Ivory Coast automatically qualify from Group H as tournament hosts, along with the highest placed of the other three teams

 

— Kenya and Zimbabwe are suspended by FIFA due to government interference in the running of the sport and they will be allowed to compete only if the bans are lifted by mid May

 

— Mauritius have protested a 4-3 aggregate loss to Sao Tome e Principe in the preliminary round and the outcome of a disciplinary hearing will decide which nation competes in Group A


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