CAF Pots Announced

The pots for the first round of African qualifying are set. There will be four pots. The 48 teams will be drawn into twelve separate groups of four, with the twelve group winners advancing along with the eight best second-place finishers to round two. The draw will be performed this Sunday.

Pot A:
Cameroon
Nigeria
Côte d'Ivoire
Morocco
Ghana
Tunisia
Egypt
Guinea
Sénégal
Mali
Angola
Togo

Pot B:
Zambia
South Africa (automatic qualifiers)
Cape Verde
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Algeria
Burkina Faso
Benin
Mozambique
Libya
Ethiopia
Congo
Zimbabwe

Pot C:
Uganda
Botswana
Equatorial Guinea
Tanzania
Gabon
Malawi
Sudan
Burundi
Liberia
Rwanda
Eritrea
Namibia

Pot D:
Gambia
Mauritania
Kenya
Chad
Lesotho
Mauritius
Niger
Swaziland
Seychelles
Sierra Leone
Madagascar
Djibouti