2022 FIFA World Cup qualification – CAF Second Round

The second round of CAF matches for 2022 FIFA World Cup qualification are played over 6 matchdays, from 31 May to 12 October 2021. The African section of the 2022 FIFA World Cup qualification acts as qualifiers for the 2022 FIFA World Cup, to be held in Qatar, for national teams which are members of the Confederation of African Football (CAF). A total of 5 slots in the final tournament are available for CAF teams.[1]

Format

The second round will see the top 26 ranked CAF teams joined by the 14 winners from the first round. These teams were drawn into ten groups of four teams to play home-and-away round-robin matches. The winners of each group will advance to the third round.

Seeding

The draw for the second round was held on 21 January 2020, 19:00 CAT (UTC+2), at the Nile Ritz-Carlton in Cairo, Egypt.[2]

The seeding was based on the FIFA World Rankings of December 2019 (shown in parentheses below).[3]

Pot 1 Pot 2 Pot 3 Pot 4
  1.  Senegal (20)
  2.  Tunisia (27)
  3.  Nigeria (31)
  4.  Algeria (35)
  5.  Morocco (43)
  6.  Ghana (47)
  7.  Egypt (51)
  8.  Cameroon (53)
  9.  Mali (56)
  10.  DR Congo (56)
  1.  Burkina Faso (59)
  2.  Ivory Coast (61)
  3.  South Africa (71)
  4.  Guinea (74)
  5.  Uganda (77)
  6.  Cape Verde (78)
  7.  Gabon (83)
  8.  Benin (84)
  9.  Zambia (88)
  10.  Congo (89)
  1.  Madagascar (91)
  2.  Mauritania (100)
  3.  Libya (101)
  4.  Mozambique (105)†
  5.  Kenya (106)
  6.  Central African Republic (109)
  7.  Zimbabwe (111)†
  8.  Niger (112)
  9.  Namibia (117)†
  10.  Guinea-Bissau (118)†
  1.  Malawi (123)†
  2.  Angola (124)†
  3.  Togo (126)†
  4.  Sudan (128)†
  5.  Rwanda (131)†
  6.  Tanzania (134)†
  7.  Equatorial Guinea (145)†
  8.  Ethiopia (146)†
  9.  Liberia (152)†
  10.  Djibouti (184)†

† First round winners

Schedule

Below is the schedule of the second round of CAF 2022 FIFA World Cup qualification.[4] After the rescheduling of the 2021 Africa Cup of Nations final tournament from June/July to January/February, the dates of Matchdays 1 and 2 of the second round were rescheduled.[5] Because of the interruption of the competition due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the schedule of the second round was revised again and on 19 August 2020 CAF announced the new dates, and the entire second round was postponed to 2021.[6]

Matchday FIFA International Dates
Matchday 1 31 May – 15 June 2021
(originally 23–31 March and 1–9 June 2020, later 5–13 October and 9–17 November 2020)
Matchday 2
Matchday 3 30 August – 7 September 2021
(originally 22–30 March 2021)
Matchday 4
Matchday 5 4–12 October 2021
(matchday 5 originally 30 August – 7 September 2021)
Matchday 6

Groups

Group A
Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1  Algeria 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Advance to third round — TBD TBD TBD
2  Burkina Faso 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 TBD — TBD TBD
3  Niger 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 TBD TBD — TBD
4  Djibouti 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 TBD TBD TBD —
First match(es) will be played on June 2021. Source: FIFA
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Group B
Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1  Tunisia 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Advance to third round — TBD TBD TBD
2  Zambia 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 TBD — TBD TBD
3  Mauritania 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 TBD TBD — TBD
4  Equatorial Guinea 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 TBD TBD TBD —
First match(es) will be played on June 2021. Source: FIFA
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Group C
Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1  Nigeria 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Advance to third round — TBD TBD TBD
2  Cape Verde 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 TBD — TBD TBD
3  Central African Republic 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 TBD TBD — TBD
4  Liberia 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 TBD TBD TBD —
First match(es) will be played on June 2021. Source: FIFA
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Group D
Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1  Cameroon 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Advance to third round — TBD TBD TBD
2  Ivory Coast 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 TBD — TBD TBD
3  Mozambique 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 TBD TBD — TBD
4  Malawi 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 TBD TBD TBD —
First match(es) will be played on June 2021. Source: FIFA
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Group E
Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1  Mali 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Advance to third round — TBD TBD TBD
2  Uganda 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 TBD — TBD TBD
3  Kenya 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 TBD TBD — TBD
4  Rwanda 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 TBD TBD TBD —
First match(es) will be played on June 2021. Source: FIFA
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Group F
Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1  Egypt 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Advance to third round — TBD TBD TBD
2  Gabon 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 TBD — TBD TBD
3  Libya 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 TBD TBD — TBD
4  Angola 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 TBD TBD TBD —
First match(es) will be played on June 2021. Source: FIFA
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Group G
Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1  Ghana 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Advance to third round — TBD TBD TBD
2  South Africa 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 TBD — TBD TBD
3  Zimbabwe 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 TBD TBD — TBD
4  Ethiopia 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 TBD TBD TBD —
First match(es) will be played on June 2021. Source: FIFA
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Group H
Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1  Senegal 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Advance to third round — TBD TBD TBD
2  Congo 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 TBD — TBD TBD
3  Namibia 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 TBD TBD — TBD
4  Togo 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 TBD TBD TBD —
First match(es) will be played on June 2021. Source: FIFA
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Group I
Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1  Morocco 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Advance to third round — TBD TBD TBD
2  Guinea 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 TBD — TBD TBD
3  Guinea-Bissau 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 TBD TBD — TBD
4  Sudan 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 TBD TBD TBD —
First match(es) will be played on June 2021. Source: FIFA
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Group J
Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1  DR Congo 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Advance to third round — TBD TBD TBD
2  Benin 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 TBD — TBD TBD
3  Madagascar 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 TBD TBD — TBD
4  Tanzania 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 TBD TBD TBD —
First match(es) will be played on June 2021. Source: FIFA
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References
  1. "Current allocation of FIFA World Cup™ confederation slots maintained". FIFA. 30 May 2015. Archived from the original on 30 May 2015.
  2. "FIFA World Cup 2022 qualifiers: draws to take centre stage in South America and Africa". FIFA. 11 December 2019. Retrieved 11 December 2019.
  3. "FIFA Men's Ranking – December 2019 (CAF)". FIFA.com. 19 December 2019.
  4. "INTERNATIONAL MATCH CALENDAR 2018–2024" (PDF). FIFA. October 2019.
  5. "CAF reschedules dates of Nations Cup and World Cup qualifiers". Ahram Online. 16 January 2020.
  6. "Cameroon 2021 qualifiers resume November, Qatar 2022 set for May 2021". cafonline.com. 19 August 2020.
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