Super Eagles to know opponents for AFCON 2025 qualification Thursday
Three-time champions and five-time runners-up, Super Eagles of Nigeria are to know their opponents for the qualification race of the 35th Africa Cup of Nations finals on Thursday.
The draw for the 2025 AFCON would be conducted in Johannesburg, South Africa.
Director of Communications at the Nigeria Football Federation, Ademola Olajire, stated this in a statement on Tuesday in Abuja.
The draw will be held inside the SuperSport studio in South Africa’s commercial and economic capital.
It will serve the 48 countries into 12 groups of four teams each; with the top two teams in eleven of the groups qualifying directly to the finals, scheduled for December 21, 2025 to January 18, 2026.
While the 12th group (which has host nation Morocco) will see Morocco qualifying (no matter the position in which they finish) alongside one other team.
The qualifying matches will be played over the FIFA windows of September, October and November this year.
All of Nigeria’s opponents in the ongoing 2026 FIFA World Cup qualifying race, Benin Republic, Lesotho, Rwanda, South Africa and Zimbabwe, are all in Thursday’s draw.
All the 48 teams in the draw:
POT 1: Morocco, Senegal, Egypt, Cote d’Ivoire, Nigeria, Tunisia, Algeria, Cameroon, Mali, South Africa, DR Congo, Ghana.
POT 2: Cape Verde, Burkina Faso, Guinea, Gabon, Equatorial Guinea, Zambia, Benin Republic, Angola, Uganda, Namibia, Mozambique, Madagascar.
POT 3: Kenya, Mauritania, Congo, Tanzania, Guinea Bissau, Libya, Comoros, Togo, Sudan, Sierra Leone, Malawi, Central African Republic.
POT 4: Niger Republic, Zimbabwe, Rwanda, The Gambia, Burundi, Liberia, Ethiopia, Botswana, Lesotho, Eswatini, South Sudan, Chad.
(NAN)
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