₦airaland Forum

Odunayaw:
Wait till you see what I have in store for Morocco

EElopa:
This is the problem with a Black man. He is always trying to create a shortcut through affirmative actions that ends up producing mediocrity and outright disastrous results. This South African team is a disgrace to African football and CAF. Other confederations set up their World Cup qualification format in ways that the best teams from that confederation qualify for the World Cup, but CAF sets theirs in a way that luck of the draw plays a major part. This South African team is a disgrace, and they only qualified because of the stupid set of criminals we have in the NFF. They qualified because of the unmotivated Nigerian team with bad coaching. A weak group, and because of them playing 90 per cent of the games at home against minnows. This shit is really irritating. Some of my friends who are seeing this South African team are completely lost for words on how poor they are and how they managed to finish above Nigeria. This shit is really irritating. This South African team, along with the 2014 Saudi Arabian team, are two of the worst sides I have seen at the World Cup in my lifetime.

Amedino99:
Our group was so bad that we were the only group whose winner ended with less than 20 points in the whole CAF qualifiers. It was a battle of who was less useless

Amedino99:
Our group was so bad that we were the only group whose winner ended with less than 20 points in the whole CAF qualifiers. It was a battle of who was less useless

Moniter0:
CAF should structure the next WC qualifications in such as way the 4 teams that made semi finals in the AFCON secures automatic qualifications to the WC, while the other teams participates in the regular group games to secure the remaining African WC slots.

EElopa:
CAF needs to adopt a system in which there will be 3 groups of 10 teams. The top 24 ranked teams in Africa qualified for the final rounds. 25 to 54 teams will fight for 6 spots to make it to the final arounds. The top 3 teams in each group automatically qualify for the World Cup. The 2 best 4th-place teams in the three groups qualify for CAF playoffs. The winner in the home and away game qualifier for the intercontinental FIFA playoffs. The goal should always be to have the best African teams in the World Cup.

Goke7:
With a South African as CAF president? 😂

Dannyxy:
Nigeria messed up.

Me I am not happy S.A loss, I am more pissed now we allow this people beat us with their school boy football, Shay Mexico na Im Iwobi, lookman, ndidi, osimhen no tear apart…

Too bad we let Africa down sha .

Like someone said, CAF must allow FairPlay too, properly plan the qualifying matches, we can not just be making numbers but go to compete

Napoleon55:
SA,one step closer to home

TheSuperNerd:

EElopa:
This is the irritation thing that I am talking about. What exactly is the point of qualifying for the World Cup by luck and going there and humiliating yourself? The South African showing today was bad for African football. A team that bad should not be qualifying for the World Cup out of CAF, generally regarded as the 3rd best confederation in the world behind UEFA and CONMEBOL. Look at the nonsense they are doing with underage football in Africa, all modeled towards helping eastern and southern African countries. Very soon if care is not taken, they will take World Cup qualifiers into regionals. This nonsense needs to stop. Madagasca was actually very close to qualifying for the worldcup. Imagine Madagascar vs France; the scoreline would have been historic.

Odunayaw:
The only counterbalance to my disappointment with this underwhelming Mexican side is that they are judging the iniquity of SA.

I shall be Odunayoslav for the Czech game and Kim Yon Odun for the Korea one.

SymphonyRad:
Eric Chelle posted this on his Instagram account, hope it's not what I'm thinking sha?

EElopa:
CAF needs to adopt a system in which there will be 3 groups of 10 teams. The top 24 ranked teams in Africa qualified for the final rounds. 25 to 54 teams will fight for 6 spots to make it to the final arounds. The top 3 teams in each group automatically qualify for the World Cup The 2 best 4th-place teams in the three groups qualify for CAF playoffs. The winner in the home and away game qualifier for the intercontinental FIFA playoffs. The goal should always be to have the best African teams in the World Cup.

Mood in South Africa right now 🥺🇿🇦 pic.twitter.com/uTfpTeuEiI

— SportyTV (@SportyTV) June 11, 2026

TheSuperNerd:
Oh wait... this is better...

TheSuperNerd:
You know that game you watch and know there is hardly any tactical angle you can extract from it. That was exactly how Benni McCarthy and his fellow Bafana guys felt... lol

Mood in South Africa right now 🥺🇿🇦 pic.twitter.com/uTfpTeuEiI

— SportyTV (@SportyTV) June 11, 2026

daveP:
Wait im lost. Help elaborate further


24 to final WCq round. So the prelim is 30 teams of 6 groups and 5teams each.

6 from prelim join the 24 in the final round=30 teams


9 spots+1 wcq playoff spot=10

30 teams divided into how many per group pls?

The boldened dey confuse me.

You want the 30 to be in 10s per group? 👀👀😲

That's gonna be exhaustive

Goke7:
Who had more missed chances?

See quit the patriotic thing for now (there will be a time for that later) and let’s have a honest assessment!

mostob:
No be by qualifying o.. You fit play ball?

EElopa:
There are 54 teams in Africa.

There will be three groups of 30 teams in the final round.

The top 24 teams automatically make it to the final round.

African teams ranked from 25 to 54 will go in the qualifying series for the 6 spots available to make it to the final rounds.

The final round will have 30 teams. The final round will consist of three groups: Group A, Group B, and Group C.

Each team will play a total number of 18 games, just as you have it in CONMEBOL.

The top three teams in each group automatically qualify for the World Cup.

The two best fourth-place teams among the three groups make it to the CAF playoff.

There will be a home and away match to determine the sole CAF representatives at the Intercontinental playoffs.