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FIFA World Cup 2026 Qualifier Draws by fergie001: 5:20pm On Jul 13, 2023

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acpr_0LIoII?
The World Cup/CAF Qualifiers is holding in Abidjan, Cote D'Ivoire.

The 54 Member Associations of CAF will be divided into nine(9) Groups with six(6) teams each.

Each team will play twice against every other team in their Group in a home-away, round-robin format. That means each team will play a total of ten games in all (5 home and 5 away games).

The 9 teams that emerge as Group winners will qualify directly to the FIFA World Cup 2026.

The 2026 FIFA World Cup will be the 23rd FIFA World Cup. The tournament will take place tentatively from 11 Jun 2026 – Sun, 19 Jul 2026 and will be jointly hosted by 16 cities in three North American countries: Canada, Mexico, and the United States (United 2026)

1. The tournament will be the first hosted by three nations.

2. The tournament will be the first to include 48 teams, expanded from 32. .

3. It will be the first World Cup since 2002 (Korea/Japan) to be hosted by more than one nation.

4. With its past hosting of the 1970 and 1986 tournaments, Mexico will become the first country to host or co-host the men's World Cup three times.

5. The United States last hosted the World Cup in 1994, whereas it will be Canada's first time hosting or co-hosting the men's tournament.

Argentina are the defending champions.

CAF has been allotted a possible (10) teams with nine (9) qualifying directly and one heading to a Continental Play-off tournament.

The four best runners-up will participate in this Play-off tournament with the winner going on to face six other teams from different Confederations to secure a spot for the United 2026.

NIGERIA is in Pot 1.

Match Day One & Two will take place between November 13-21, 2023.

UPDATED:
GROUP C
NIGERIA
South Africa
Benin Republic
Zimbabwe
Rwanda
Lesotho

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Re: FIFA World Cup 2026 Qualifier Draws by fergie001: 5:20pm On Jul 13, 2023
Arrivals earlier today: Kalusha Bwalya (Former African Footballer lfnhe Year is on the picture).


These 6 conducted the draws....
Emmanuel Eboue, Asamoah Gyan, Alex Song, Jay Jay Okocha, Emmanuel Adebayor and El-Hadji Diouf.

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Re: FIFA World Cup 2026 Qualifier Draws by fergie001: 5:22pm On Jul 13, 2023
POT PROCEDURES
The 54 competing nations are allocated to 6 pots of 9 teams each. The 9 highest-ranked team based on their FIFA/Coca-Cola ranking as at June 29, 2023 will be in Pot 1.

Teams in Pot 1 are in the order: Morocco (13), Senegal (18), Tunisia (31), Algeria (33), Egypt (34), Nigeria (39), Cameroon (43), Mali (50) and Cote D'Ivoire (51).

The next ranked teams go into Pot 2 and so on until Pot 6.

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Re: FIFA World Cup 2026 Qualifier Draws by ipobarecriminals: 5:24pm On Jul 13, 2023
cool

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Re: FIFA World Cup 2026 Qualifier Draws by fergie001: 5:24pm On Jul 13, 2023
DRAW PROCEDURES
All teams are drawn first from Pot 6 with each filling Groups A - I. One pot must be emptied before moving on to the next Pot which is Pot 5, then Pot 4 and so on.

Positions in the Group will be determined by their Pot Number. What this means is that in whatever Group Nigeria falls into, it will be Position 1 (since it was drawn from Pot 1).

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Re: FIFA World Cup 2026 Qualifier Draws by Freshtruth(m): 5:24pm On Jul 13, 2023
Nigeria should not use a local coach to prosecute the qualifier I done talk my own. NFF please don't bow to Nigerians pressure

Olympic twice in a row we never go
Worldcup we missed out
Nations cup 3 times in a row we miss out
Car champions league group stages we no even dey see again. NFF be warn no local coach should be appointed for d qualifier until we had qualified. A word is enough for the wise

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Re: FIFA World Cup 2026 Qualifier Draws by orohbiro(f): 5:27pm On Jul 13, 2023
Why dem dey do south Africa like this now 9 teams still no hope grin


But Nigeria should not underage south Africans those guys sabi play us wella


Benin come still dey our group Genort rohr and his Nigerian assistant Manager

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Re: FIFA World Cup 2026 Qualifier Draws by BigDawsNet: 5:59pm On Jul 13, 2023
We go qualify

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Re: FIFA World Cup 2026 Qualifier Draws by DesChyko: 5:59pm On Jul 13, 2023
Go Team Nigeria!!

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Re: FIFA World Cup 2026 Qualifier Draws by iCauseTrouble: 6:00pm On Jul 13, 2023
Re: FIFA World Cup 2026 Qualifier Draws by Judolisco(m): 6:00pm On Jul 13, 2023
Easy draw for 9ja

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Re: FIFA World Cup 2026 Qualifier Draws by jaeyking(m): 6:00pm On Jul 13, 2023
I see
Nigeria, Angola, Morocco, Tunisia, Egypt qualifying

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Re: FIFA World Cup 2026 Qualifier Draws by Sonnobax15(m): 6:01pm On Jul 13, 2023
angry
During the last world cup when our super eagles didn't qualify,at least we didn't have HBP fr watching their useless style of playing......

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Re: FIFA World Cup 2026 Qualifier Draws by nazicartel(m): 6:01pm On Jul 13, 2023
Mtcheew
Re: FIFA World Cup 2026 Qualifier Draws by kestolove95(m): 6:01pm On Jul 13, 2023
If super eagles like make Dem go fvck up again walahi talai Dem go collect for area...na coz we no dey treat dem fvck up dey make dem misbehave

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Re: FIFA World Cup 2026 Qualifier Draws by Ngenge(m): 6:01pm On Jul 13, 2023
This is another chance for Nigeria to qualify but can nepotism, tribalism, corruption and owing of salaries allow us to get better?

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Re: FIFA World Cup 2026 Qualifier Draws by Skillsnigeria: 6:02pm On Jul 13, 2023
Hmmm

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Re: FIFA World Cup 2026 Qualifier Draws by kestolove95(m): 6:02pm On Jul 13, 2023
fergie001:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acpr_0LIoII?
The World Cup/CAF Qualifiers is holding in Abidjan, Cote D'Ivoire.

The 54 Member Associations of CAF will be divided into nine(9) Groups with six(6) teams each.

Each team will play twice against every other team in their Group in a home-away, round-robin format. That means each team will play a total of ten games in all (5 home and 5 away games).

The 9 teams that emerge as Group winners will qualify directly to the FIFA World Cup 2026.



CAF has been allotted a possible (10) teams with nine (9) qualifying directly and one heading to a Continental Play-off tournament.

The four best runners-up will participate in this Play-off tournament with the winner going on to face six other teams from different Confederations to secure a spot for the United 2026.

NIGERIA is in Pot 1.

Match Day One & Two will take place between November 13-21, 2023.

UPDATED:
GROUP C
NIGERIA
South Africa
Benin Republic
Zimbabwe
Rwanda
Lesotho
we don qualify

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Re: FIFA World Cup 2026 Qualifier Draws by Hotwest: 6:02pm On Jul 13, 2023
Okocha getting more recognition lately pass super Kanu Nwankwo

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Re: FIFA World Cup 2026 Qualifier Draws by Racoon(m): 6:02pm On Jul 13, 2023
Nigeria should ordinary be well able to qualify from the group, however, there are no more underdogs in football.

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Re: FIFA World Cup 2026 Qualifier Draws by Skinnygee1: 6:02pm On Jul 13, 2023
Why South Africa embarassed embarassed

Does guys don wake up

This is a Difficult group for naija

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Re: FIFA World Cup 2026 Qualifier Draws by Absuchat(m): 6:02pm On Jul 13, 2023
Nigeria go see beating
Re: FIFA World Cup 2026 Qualifier Draws by Baridapdo2022: 6:05pm On Jul 13, 2023
I think the big boys will all qualify

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Re: FIFA World Cup 2026 Qualifier Draws by Olowoshako(m): 6:05pm On Jul 13, 2023
Will need to qualify for dis world cup ooo
Re: FIFA World Cup 2026 Qualifier Draws by abobote: 6:05pm On Jul 13, 2023
They shouldn't take us close to Ghana this time, those people don show us shege

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Re: FIFA World Cup 2026 Qualifier Draws by Nobody: 6:05pm On Jul 13, 2023
orohbiro:
Group 4
Nigeria
Ghana
Uganda
Togo
Comoros
Somalia



Brace up Nigeria grin

If the Super Eagles don't come out on top of this group, we should just scrap the entire team and convert the footballers to fuel station attendants.. grin grin

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Re: FIFA World Cup 2026 Qualifier Draws by Gabbriell: 6:06pm On Jul 13, 2023
jaeyking:
I see
Nigeria, Angola, Morocco, Tunisia, Egypt qualifying

South Africa nko?
Re: FIFA World Cup 2026 Qualifier Draws by Qasim6(m): 6:06pm On Jul 13, 2023
Freshtruth:
Nigeria should not use a local coach to prosecute the qualifier I done talk my own. NFF please don't bow to Nigerians pressure

What of the ones they've been using Foreign coaches.

4 out of the 5 teams that represented Africa at the last world cup used indigenous coaches.

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Re: FIFA World Cup 2026 Qualifier Draws by Helpfromabove1(m): 6:07pm On Jul 13, 2023
We should qualify from this group but not certain
Re: FIFA World Cup 2026 Qualifier Draws by ArmaniUhuru: 6:07pm On Jul 13, 2023
Vd
Re: FIFA World Cup 2026 Qualifier Draws by iluvdonjazzy: 6:07pm On Jul 13, 2023
Nigeria will still not qualify.
Re: FIFA World Cup 2026 Qualifier Draws by Kingosytex(m): 6:08pm On Jul 13, 2023
Baridapdo2022:
I think the big boys will all qualify

The question here is, who are the big boys? cheesy

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