Nigeria’s Super Eagles have been presented with their last
opponents in the group phase of qualifiers for the 2015 Orange Africa
Cup of Nations, AFCON, holding in Morocco.
The seven teams for the group phase of the Nations Cup were revealed at the weekend after the second leg matches of the second round of the qualifiers.
The teams are: Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Rwanda, Sierra Leone and Uganda.
Rwanda will now join Nigeria, South Africa and Sudan in Group A of the qualifiers scheduled to commence 5 September, to 19 November, 2014.
Rwanda qualified for the group phase after it edged out Congo on penalties on Saturday.
The biggest casualties of the second round of qualifiers were Kenya and Tanzania, who will yet again have to wait for another two years to realise their dreams of participating at the continent’s showpiece football event for the first time in as many years.
Sierra Leone had the easiest of paths, going through without kicking a ball following the withdrawal of Tanzania from the second leg because of the outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus in the country. The Leone Stars won the first leg 2-0 in Freetown.
In Nouakchott, the Cranes of Uganda silenced hosts Mauritania, thanks to Robert Ssentongo’s late strike and seal their place 3-0 on aggregate.
Earlier on Saturday, Malawi ousted Benin on penalties to go through while a 1-1 draw in Bissau against Guinea Bissau pushed Botswana into the final round.
The group phase will commence in September with the winners and runners-up of each group, plus the best third-placed team, qualifying for the final tournament scheduled from 17 Jan to 8 Feb 2015 in Morocco.
Nigeria is the current champions of AFCON after the Eagles defeated Burkina Faso in the final of the last edition hosted in South Africa in 2013.
Below is the Composition of Groups:
Group A: Nigeria, South Africa, Sudan, Rwanda
Group B: Mali, Algeria, Ethiopia, Malawi
Group C: Burkina Faso, Angola, Gabon, Lesotho
Group D: Ivory Coast, Cameroon, DR Congo, Sierra Leone
Group E: Ghana, Togo, Guinea, Uganda
Group F: Zambia, Cape Verde, Niger, Mozambique
Group G: Tunisia, Egypt, Senegal, Botswana
The seven teams for the group phase of the Nations Cup were revealed at the weekend after the second leg matches of the second round of the qualifiers.
The teams are: Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Rwanda, Sierra Leone and Uganda.
Rwanda will now join Nigeria, South Africa and Sudan in Group A of the qualifiers scheduled to commence 5 September, to 19 November, 2014.
Rwanda qualified for the group phase after it edged out Congo on penalties on Saturday.
The biggest casualties of the second round of qualifiers were Kenya and Tanzania, who will yet again have to wait for another two years to realise their dreams of participating at the continent’s showpiece football event for the first time in as many years.
Sierra Leone had the easiest of paths, going through without kicking a ball following the withdrawal of Tanzania from the second leg because of the outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus in the country. The Leone Stars won the first leg 2-0 in Freetown.
In Nouakchott, the Cranes of Uganda silenced hosts Mauritania, thanks to Robert Ssentongo’s late strike and seal their place 3-0 on aggregate.
Earlier on Saturday, Malawi ousted Benin on penalties to go through while a 1-1 draw in Bissau against Guinea Bissau pushed Botswana into the final round.
The group phase will commence in September with the winners and runners-up of each group, plus the best third-placed team, qualifying for the final tournament scheduled from 17 Jan to 8 Feb 2015 in Morocco.
Nigeria is the current champions of AFCON after the Eagles defeated Burkina Faso in the final of the last edition hosted in South Africa in 2013.
Below is the Composition of Groups:
Group A: Nigeria, South Africa, Sudan, Rwanda
Group B: Mali, Algeria, Ethiopia, Malawi
Group C: Burkina Faso, Angola, Gabon, Lesotho
Group D: Ivory Coast, Cameroon, DR Congo, Sierra Leone
Group E: Ghana, Togo, Guinea, Uganda
Group F: Zambia, Cape Verde, Niger, Mozambique
Group G: Tunisia, Egypt, Senegal, Botswana
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