Full List of the 10 African Nations That Have Qualified for World Cup 2022 Playoffs

Full List of the 10 African Nations That Have Qualified for World Cup 2022 Playoffs

Babajide Orevba, Tshepiso Mametela
updated at April 12, 2023 at 7:53 PM
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  • Nigerian join nine other African nations that will battle the five tickets for the Qatar 2022 World Cup playoffs
  • The likes of Senegal, Algeria, Morocco, Mali, Egypt, Cameroon, Tunisia, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Tunisia also made it through
  • Nigeria topped Group C despite being forced to a 1-1 draw by Cape Verde at the Teslim Balogun Stadium

Ten African nations have qualified into the playoffs of the World Cup and would be drawn against each other to get the final five countries, Brila.7

All the African nations that have qualified

Algeria, Cameroon, Egypt, Ghana, Mali, Morocco, Nigeria, Senegal, Tunisia and DR Congo made it through the second round of qualification.

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Nigeria is among the 10 countries that will play in the final stages of the World Cup qualifier. Image: Legit
Source: UGC

The top five African sides will be seeded and a draw will be conducted in April 2022, to know the final pairings of teams.

Only one team made it out of the group phase as all the qualifying teams topped their respective groups.

The likes of Senegal, Algeria, Morocco, Mali, Egypt topped their groups without losing any of the six matches while other group leaders recorded on defeat respectively.

A two-legged clash will now decide the five African teams that would fly the continent's flag next year in Qatar.

Nigeria will be looking to make their seventh appearance in the biggest soccer fiesta after coming out tops in Group C

The Super Eagles' first World Cup appearance was in the United States in 1994 then qualified for the 1998 edition in France, 2002, 2010, 2014 and 2018 respectively.

Ref Ace Ncobo's damning report to bolster SAFA's 'match-fixing' claims

Elsewhere, Briefly News reported that in a bid to have a rematch of the 2022 FIFA World Cup qualifiers match between South Africa and Ghana, the South African Football Association (SAFA) has submitted a scathing independent report to support its match-fixing claims.

The association on Monday complained with both the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) and the Confederation of African Football (CAF), SABC News reported.

The report includes the input of former Premier Soccer League (PSL) match official Andile 'Ace' Ncobo, who also plied his trade as a football refereeing analyst on SuperSport.

Bafana Bafana, at the end of a bruising, and in many ways, an eyebrow-raising 90 minutes at the Cape Coast Stadium in the Central Region on Sunday, walked away as not only the 1-0 losers they were deemed to have been but far worse.

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Babajide Orevba
Babajide Orevba is a CAF accredited Nigerian journalist and HOD of the Local Desk with over 10 years of experience in media landscape.He studied NCE Political Science/Social Studies, AOCOED.
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Tshepiso Mametela
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