The Draw for the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar took place on Tuesday in Cairo, Egypt, with 40 African countries discovering their fates for the second round of the qualifying campaign.
The ceremony took place 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 ahead the penultimate stage of the continental journey to Qatar.
DRAW:
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, 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-Biisau, Sudan
Group J: DR Congo, Benin, Madagascar, Tanzania
Marcel Desailly, former Captain of the French Men’s national football team, who hails from Ghana and Clementine Toure, Coach of Côte d’Ivoire’s Women’s national football team, were on hand to assist Samson Adamu, CAF Director of Competitions, to conduct the draw for the group phase of the qualifiers which starts on October 2020 and runs until October 2021
The winners of the ten groups will qualify for the final round of the continental qualification on the road to Qatar.
The final round will see the ten teams drawn into five home and away ties, with the five winners securing the ticket to represent Africa at the tournament scheduled for 21 November to 18 December 2022 in Qatar.