The preliminary draw for the final opportunity to compete in the World Cup was held on Thursday in Abidjan.Each of the nine groups has six teams, and the group winners will advance to the tournament.
The top four runners-up will participate in a CAF Play-Off competition. The CAF Play-Off Tournament champion will participate in the FIFA Play-Off Tournament.
The qualifiers are slated to occur between November 2023 and November 2025 during a two-year period.
See below for a list of all the groupings and the nations that will participate in them:
Team A
Egypt
Burkina Faso.
Guinea-Bissau
Liberia Sierra
Ethiopia
Djibouti
B Group
Senegal
Congo DR
Mauritania
Togo
South Sudan Sudan
C group
Nigeria
S. Africa
Benin Zimbabwe
Rwanda
Lesotho
D Group
Cameroon
Cape-Verde
Angola
Libya
Eswatini
Mozambique Group E
Morocco
Zambia
Congo
Tanzania Niger
Eritrea
F Group
Ivory Coast
Gabon
Kenya
Gambia
Burundi
Seychelles
Team G Algeria
Guinea
Uganda
Mozambique
Botswana Malawi
Liberia
Togo and Principe
I Group
Mali
Ghana
Madagascar
Republic of Central Africa
Comoros
Chad
The 23rd edition of the FIFA World Cup, often known as FIFA World Cup 26[2], will take place in 2026. It is an international men's soccer competition that takes place every four years and is played amongst the national teams of FIFA member countries. The competition will be held in 16 cities throughout three North American nationsCanada, Mexico, and the United Statesfrom an unspecified date in June through July 19, 2026. The event will include three countries hosting it for the first time.Argentina is the reigning world champion.
The number of teams in this competition has increased from 32 to 48 for the first time.[5] In the 68th FIFA Congress's final vote in Moscow, the United 2026 bid prevailed over a challenge from Morocco. It will be the first World Cup to have multiple countries hosting since 2002. Mexico will become the first nation to host or co-host the men's World Cup three times thanks to its prior hosting of the tournaments in 1970 and 1986. Canada will be hosting or co-hosting the men's event for the first time; the United States last held the World Cup in 1994. Immediately following the 2022 edition in Qatar, which was held in November and December of that year, the event will resume its customary northern summer schedule.
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