Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) defending champions, Nigeria will know their opponent in the Morocco 2015 qualifier today.
The Confederation of African Football has stated that the draw for the Final Round of Qualifiers of the Orange Africa Cup of Nations, Morocco 2015 will take place at the
CAF Headquarters in Cairo on Sunday 27th April, from 12:30hours GMT. (1:30pm Nigerian time)
According to a statement on CAF's website, the AFCON qualifiers, Morocco2015 will be made up of seven groups of four teams who contest on a home and away basis of which the seven group winners, seven group runners-up and the best third-placed side will qualify directly for the final tournament while the host nation, Morocco is automatically qualified.
According to the draw procedure, 28 teams will be divided into 4 groups with each pot containing 7 teams based on the CAF classification. The Super Eagles who won the last edition of AFCON held in South Africa in 2013 beating the likes of Ivory Coast led by influential Dider Drogba have been pooled in Pot 1 alongside Ghana, Côte d’Ivoire, Zambia, Burkina Faso, Mali and Tunisia.
That means:
Pot 1: Nigeria, Ghana, Côte d’Ivoire, Zambia, Burkina Faso, Mali, Tunisia
Pot 2: Algeria, Angola, Cap Verde, Togo, Egypt, South Africa, Cameroun
Pot 3: RD Congo, Ethiopia, Gabon, Niger, Guinea, Senegal, Soudan
Pot 4: The Seven yet to be decided by the preliminary round matches
(Teams in the same pot cannot be paired against each other)
That means Nigeria will face one out of the teams in pot 2 which has Algeria, Angola, Cap Verde, Togo, Egypt, South Africa and Cameroon.
The teams in pot 3 "RD Congo, Ethiopia, Gabon, Niger, Guinea, Senegal and Sudan" will face teams the 7 seven teams that qualifies from the preliminary stage.
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