Morocco 2025: The Super Eagles will find out their qualifying rivals on Thursday

The Super Eagles, three-time champions and five-time runners-up, will find out their rivals for the qualifying race of the 35th edition of the category.^He The final of the African Cup of Nations will be held on Thursday afternoon in Johannesburg, South Africa.

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The draw ceremony, which will take place at the SuperSport studio in South Africa’s business and economic capital, will split the 48 countries into 12 groups of four teams each, with the top two teams from 11 in the groups qualifying directly for the final, already scheduled for 21 June.^street December 2025 – 18^He January 2026, while on the 12th^He In this group (hosted by Morocco) Morocco will qualify (regardless of where it finishes) alongside one other team.

Qualifying matches will be played during the September, October and November FIFA windows this year.

All of Nigeria’s rivals in the ongoing 2026 FIFA World Cup qualifying race, namely Benin, Lesotho, Rwanda, South Africa and Zimbabwe, are in the draw on Thursday.

ALL 48 TEAMS IN THE DRAW:

POT 1: Morocco, Senegal, Egypt, Ivory Coast, Nigeria, Tunisia, Algeria, Cameroon, Mali, South Africa, DR Congo, Ghana

POT 2: Cape Verde, Burkina Faso, Guinea, Gabon, Equatorial Guinea, Zambia, Republic of Benin, 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: Republic of Niger, Zimbabwe, Rwanda, Gambia, Burundi, Liberia, Ethiopia, Botswana, Lesotho, Eswatini, South Sudan, Chad

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