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The draw for the Africa Cup of Nations 2021 draws was held Thursday (July 18th) in Cairo, between the "small final" of the CAN 2019 won by Nigeria against Tunisia on Wednesday (1-0) and the final scheduled Friday between Senegal and Algeria. The 52 teams are divided and all share the same goal: the qualification for the next tournament in Cameroon.
The 2019 African Cup of Nations is not over yet as we are already looking forward to the next, scheduled in two years in Cameroon (if the country is, this time, well able to ensure the organization , which was not the case this year and what led to entrusting this task to Egypt). Tomorrow, Friday, July 19, we will know who from Senegal or Algeria will succeed the winners Indomitable Cameroon Lions, sacred in 2017. But Thursday, July 18, we already know the program of the qualifiers of the CAN 2021 .
The draw was held in Cairo, on the sidelines of the General Assembly of the Confederation of African Football (CAF), which decided on Wednesday that the finals of the Champions League and the Confederation Cup will be played more on two home-and-away matches but only one match in neutral ground.
The 52 nations aiming for a place in the 24 participants in the next CAN now know their destiny.
Preliminary round: 8 hired, 4 elected (October 7 and 15)
A draw was first made between the eight teams ranked lowest in the Fifa rankings: Liberia (153), Mauritius (157), Gambia (161), South Sudan (168), Chad ( 176th), Sao Tome and Principe (185th), Seychelles (194th) and Djibouti (195th). As for the qualifying campaign for CAN 2019, Eritrea (202) and Somalia (202) are not engaged.
The draw aims to establish a preliminary round to keep only four teams, who will then play the elimination phase with the other 48.
In October 2019 (7 and 15 October), these eight nations will compete on the format of a double round-trip confrontation:
Liberia, Chad
South Sudan-Seychelles
Mauritius-Sao Tome and Principe
Djibouti, Gambia
Eliminations: 48 contenders in 12 groups (from 11 November 2019 to 17 November 2020)
Once the preliminary round has been completed, the qualifying campaign to start full. The 48 teams are divided into 12 groups, each with 4 teams. The first two of each group will go to Cameroon for the 33rd CAN in June and July 2021.
GROUP A
Mali
Guinea
Nambia
Winner of Liberia-Chad
GROUP B
Burkina Faso
Uganda
Malawi
Winner of South Sudan-Seychelles
GROUP C
Ghana
South Africa
Sudan
Winner of Mauritius-Sao Tome and Principe
GROUP D
DRC
Gabon
angola
Winner of Djibouti-Gambia
GROUP E
Morocco
Mauritania
Central African Republic
Burundi
GROUP F
Cameroon (host country, already qualified, but still engaged in the playoffs)
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mozambique
Rwanda
GROUP G
Egypt
Kenya
Togo
Comoros
GROUP H
Algeria
Zambia
Zimbabwe
botswana
GROUP I
Senegal
Congo
Guinea-Bissau
Eswatini
GROUP J
Tunisia
Libya
Tanzania
Equatorial Guinea
GROUP K
Ivory Coast
Niger
Madagascar
Ethiopia
GROUP L
Nigeria
Benign
Sierra Leone
Lesotho