Qatar will host the 2022 FIFA World Cup. African nations that have registered with the Confederation of African Football (CAF) will compete in the 2022 FIFA World Cup qualifiers to secure a spot in the World Cup.
Betway allows punters to wager on players and teams from different nations. The first round of the World Cup qualifiers took place last year. In this article, we discuss African teams that qualify for the 2022 Qatar World Cup.
The Second Round of African Qualifiers
Although 54 African countries will compete in the qualifiers for the 2022 FIFA World Cup, five nations will represent the continent in the tournament.FIFA.com streamed live the first round of qualifications in September. CAF held the draw for the second qualifier on January 21, 2020, in Egypt.
Soccer fans can live stream the games on FIFA TV’s YouTube Channel or FIFA.com.
Nevertheless, the broadcast won’t be available in Algeria, Belarus, Bahrain, Comoros, Egypt, Djibouti, IR Iran, Jordan, Iraq, Kuwait, Libya, Lebanon, Morocco, Qatar, Syria, United Arab Emirates, and Tunisia.
The Qualification Procedure
The 14 countries that won the first round of qualifiers will compete with 26 other nations in the second round. Pundits who engage in online soccer betting at Betway can place single bets and accumulators in the second qualification round. Teams in each of the ten groups will play away and home games against each other.
The winners will advance to the final round that will constitute five two-legged playoffs. The winners of the playoffs will represent Africa in the Qatar World Cup.
Pots
The second round of qualifications has four pots, each comprising of ten countries. Here are the pots:
• Pot 1: It is made of Algeria, Cameroon, Congo DR, Egypt, Ghana, Mali, Morocco, Nigeria, Senegal, and Tunisia. The North African nations have a high chance of progressing to the third round of qualifiers. Algeria won the last Africa Cup of Nations while the Desert Foxes haven’t competed in the World Cup since 2013. Mali has never qualified for the FIFA World Cup.
• Pot 2: It constitutes Benin, Congo, Cote d’Ivoire, Cape Verde, Burkina Faso, Gabon, Guinea, South Africa, Uganda, and Zambia. Cote d’Ivoire is the most experienced nation in this pot. Wilfried Zaha and Nicolas Pepe will lead the nation into the second qualifiers. South Africa last qualified for the World Cup in 2010. Although Guinea and Gabon have never played in the World Cup, they will pose a threat to Ivory Coast and South Africa.
• Pot 3: It comprises of Central African Republic, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Libya, Mauritania, Madagascar, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, and Zimbabwe. None of these nations have ever played in the World Cup. However, Mauritania and Madagascar have improved their world FIFA ranking in the recent past. The winner is Pot 3 is hard to predict.
• Pot 4: It is made up of Djibouti, Angola, Equatorial Guinea, Liberia, Ethiopia, Malawi, Sudan, Tanzania, Rwanda, and Togo. Angola and Togo competed in the last two World Cup qualifications. Liberia and Malawi eliminated Sierra Leone and Botswana in the first round of qualifiers.
The second draw of African qualifiers to the 2022 World Cup occurred in Cairo, Egypt on January 21, 2020. It will comprise 40 countries. The Confederation of African Football will categorize them into ten groups. The winners of the second round will advance the third round of qualifiers. Betway provides the match results of each round of qualifications.
