Three-time champions and 4-time runners-up, Nigeria, will know their group opponents when the attract for the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations qualification sequence is staged at the SuperSport Studio in Johannesburg, South Africa on Tuesday night. The occasion will start at 6.30 pm Nigeria time (which is 7.30pm in South Africa).
A overall of 48 groups will be divided into 12 groups of 4 groups every single, with only the winner of every single group guaranteed a slot at the 34th Africa Cup of Nations that Cote d’Ivoire will phase next 12 months summer months. Hosts, Cote d’Ivoire, are guaranteed a position, along with the very best three second –placed groups in all the 12 teams.
Nigeria, who concluded in third location at the 2019 finals in Egypt and arrived at the Round of 16 at this year’s championship in Cameroon, is among the the 12 teams in Pot 1 – the teams that will head the 12 qualification groups.
Many others in Pot 1 are reigning champions Senegal, Morocco, Egypt, Tunisia, Cameroon, Algeria, Mali, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Democratic Republic of Congo and Cote d’Ivoire. Cote d’Ivoire’s participation will be only for formality sake.
Currently being in the exact pot ensures that none of these groups can be in the exact team through the qualification marketing campaign that will very last involving June 2022 and March 2023. The very first two matchdays are in June, with two other matchdays in September and the final two matchdays to consider put in March 2023.
In Pot 2 are South Africa, Cape Verde, Guinea, Gabon, Benin Republic, Uganda, Zambia, Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Madagascar, Kenya and Sierra Leone.
Pot 3 includes of Namibia, Mauritania, Guinea-Bissau, Niger Republic, Libya, Mozambique, Malawi, Togo, Zimbabwe, The Gambia, Angola and Comoros.
Tanzania, Central African Republic, Sudan, Rwanda, Burundi, Ethiopia, Swaziland, Lesotho, Botswana, Liberia, South Sudan and Sao Tome & Principe make up Pot 4.
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