2026 FIFA WC Qualifiers: Super Eagles to play South Africa, Benin others

The Tremendous Eagles have been drawn in Group C within the 2026 FIFA World Cup African Qualifiers launched by CAF after her forty fifth Bizarre CAF Basic Meeting on Thursday, Nigeriasoccernet.com can report.

Within the attracts held in Abidjan, Cote D’Ivoire , the 54 member associations of CAF had been divided into 9 teams of six groups every.

Nigeria was drawn to play towards South Africa, Benin Republic, Rwanda, Lesotho and Zimbabwe in group C.

Group A have Egypt, Burkina Faso, Guinea-Bissau, Sierra Leone, Ethiopia and Djibouti. In Group B, Senegal, DR Congo, Mauritania, Togo, Sudan and South Sudan.

Cameroon, Cape Verde, Angola, Libya, Eswatini, Mauritius occupy group D whereas group E has Morocco, Zambia, Congo, Tanzania, Niger and Eritrea.

Côte d’Ivoire, Gabon, Kenya, The Gambia, Brundi and Seychelles for group F as Algeria, Guinea, Uganda, Mozambique, Botswana and Somalia slug it out in group G.

North African Giants, Tunisia will play towards Equatorial Guinea, Namibia, Malawi, Liberia and São Tomé & Príncipe in group H whereas will probably be Mali, Ghana, Madagascar, Central African R., Comoros and Chad in group I.

The winner of every group will qualify for the 2026 FIFA World Cup and the 4 greatest runners-up will go to a play-off fixture.

The qualifying matches will happen on ten matchdays over the course of the following two years, the primary of which might be on November 13-21, 2023.

The following match days might be held on June 3-11, 2024, March 17-25, 2025, September 1-9, 2025, October 6-14, 2025, and November 10-18, 2025.

Beginning in 2026, the FIFA World Cup will depend 48 collaborating groups as an alternative of 32.

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