Did Super Eagles qualify for Afcon 2023?

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4 June 2022

Nigeria Head Coach, Jose Peseiro, don call up forwards Victor Osimhen and Samuel Chukwueze, captain Ahmed Musa, deputy captain William Ekong and 23 oda players to di Super Eagles camp.

Nigeria go play Sierra Leone, Guinea-Bissau, Sao Tome & Principe/Mauritius for di 2023 African Cup of Nations qualifiers wey go happun for June.

Di Super Eagles dey for Group A.

Na 12 groups dey and di top two teams of each group go qualify for di tournament automatically.

• AFCON: Nigeria go play Sierra Leone, Guinea-Bissau, see full fixtures
• Ghana Black Stars: GFA list AFCON 2023 qualifiers squad

For di last tournament wey happun for Cameroon early dis year, Nigeria crash out for di round of 16.

Current holders Senegal dey for Group L wit Benin Republic, Mozambique and Rwanda.

Di 2023 Africa Cup of Nations go happun for Ivory Coast for June and July.

See di full list

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Goalkeepers

Francis Uzoho (AC Omonia, Cyprus)

Adewale Adeyinka (Akwa United)

Adebayo Adeleye (Hapoel Jerusalem, Israel)

Defenders

Olaoluwa Aina (Torino FC, Italy)

William Ekong (Watford FC, England)

Abdullahi Shehu (AC Omonia, Cyprus)

Zaidu Sanusi (FC Porto, Portugal)

Chidozie Awaziem (Alanyaspor FC, Turkey)

Oluwasemilogo Ajayi (West Bromwich Albion, England);

Calvin Bassey (Glasgow Rangers, Scotland)

Sani Faisal (Katsina United)

Leon Balogun (Glasgow Rangers, Scotland)

Kenneth Omeruo (CD Leganes, Spain)

Midfielders

Joseph Ayodele-Aribo (Glasgow Rangers, Scotland)

Alex Iwobi (Everton FC, England)

Oghenekaro Etebo (Watford FC, England)

Innocent Bonke (FC Lorient, France)

Frank Onyeka (Brentford FC, England)

Forwards

Ahmed Musa (Fatih Karagumruk, Turkey)

Samuel Chukwueze (Villarreal CF, Spain)

Moses Simon (FC Nantes, France)

Victor Osimhen (SSC Napoli, Italy)

Cyriel Dessers (Feyenoord FC, The Netherlands)

Ademola Lookman (Leicester City, England)

Sadiq Umar (UD Almeria, Spain)

Terem Moffi (FC Lorient, France)

Emmanuel Dennis(Watford, England)

How teams go qualify

Winners and runners-up for each group except H go qualify for di 24-team finals.

Ivory Coast don automatically qualify from Group H as tournament hosts

While Kenya and Zimbabwe dey suspended by FIFA sake of goment interference for di running of disport and dem go dey allowed to compete only if dem lift di ban by mid May

2023 Africa Cup of Nations qualification

Tournament details
Dates	23 March 2022 – September 2023
Teams	52 (from 1 confederation)
Tournament statistics
Matches played	54
Goals scored	138 (2.56 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Victor Osimhen (5 goals)
← 2021 2025 → All statistics correct as of 13 June 2022.

The 2023 Africa Cup of Nations qualification matches are currently being organized by the Confederation of African Football (CAF) to decide the participating teams of the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations in Ivory Coast, the 34th edition of the international men's football championship of Africa. A total of 24 teams will qualify to play in the final tournament, including Ivory Coast, who qualify automatically as hosts.

Entrants[edit]

All 54 CAF member associations entered to the competition. The seeding was based on the FIFA World Ranking from 23 December 2021 with teams ranked 1st to 42nd received a bye to the qualifying group stage, while the teams ranked 43rd to 54th had to participate in the preliminary round.[1]

The preliminary round draw took place on 21 January 2022, 16:30 WAT (UTC+1), in Douala, Cameroon.[2]

Schedule[edit]

The schedule of the qualifying tournament is as follows.

Preliminary round[edit]

The twelve lowest-ranked teams were drawn into six ties to be played in home-and-away two-legged format.[4] The six winners advanced to the group stage to join the 42 teams which enter directly.

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Eritrea	awd.	Botswana	Cancelled	Cancelled
São Tomé and Príncipe	4–3	Mauritius	1–0	3–3
Djibouti	2–5	South Sudan	2–4	0–1
Seychelles	1–3	Lesotho	0–0	1–3
Somalia	1–5	Eswatini	0–3	1–2
Chad	2–3	Gambia	0–1	2–2

Group stage[edit]

Draw[edit]

The group stage draw took place on 19 April 2022 at 19:30 SAST (UTC+2) at SuperSport Broadcasting Studios in Johannesburg, South Africa.[5][6] The 48 national teams involved were drawn into twelve groups of four teams (from Group A to Group L) which consisted of the 42 teams which entered directly, in addition to the six winners of the preliminary round. Previously the 48 national teams were seeded into four pots of twelve based on the FIFA World Rankings released on 31 March 2022 (shown in parentheses).[7]

Pot 1	Pot 2	Pot 3	Pot 4
Senegal (20)  Morocco (24)  Nigeria (30)  Egypt (32)  Tunisia (35)  Cameroon (37)  Algeria (44)  Mali (52)  Ivory Coast (53)  Burkina Faso (56)  Ghana (60)  DR Congo (67)	South Africa (69)  Cape Verde (71)  Guinea (80)  Gabon (81)  Benin (84)  Uganda (86)  Zambia (87)  Congo (98)  Equatorial Guinea (99)  Madagascar (102)  Kenya (104)  Sierra Leone (108)	Namibia (112)  Mauritania (113)  Guinea-Bissau (115)  Niger (116)  Libya (117)  Mozambique (119)  Malawi (120)  Togo (121)  Zimbabwe (122)  Gambia (123)  Angola (126)  Comoros (128)	Tanzania (130)  Central African Republic (131)  Sudan (132)  Rwanda (136)  Burundi (139)  Ethiopia (140)  Eswatini (143)  Lesotho (145)  Botswana (148)  Liberia (149)  South Sudan (161)  São Tomé and Príncipe (189)

The draw started with pot 4 and ended with pot 1; each team drawn was assigned into the first available group alphabetically (A–L) and within the group was placed in the position that corresponded to it according to its pot (i.e. position 1 for teams from pot 1, position 2 for teams from pot 2, position 3 for teams from pot 3 and position 4 for teams from pot 4).[6]

The 2023 Africa Cup of Nations hosts, Ivory Coast, will participate in the qualifiers regardless of the team being guaranteed a spot in the finals, which means only the best ranked team within their group apart from Ivory Coast will qualify for the finals. The Ivory Coast matches and results will count in determining the qualification of the other teams from their group.[6]

Kenya and Zimbabwe were included in the draw despite being temporary suspended by FIFA from all international football activities. However, if the suspension is not lifted two weeks before their first match of the qualifiers, both national teams will be eliminated from the competition. In that case, their groups will be composed of only three teams, with the group winners and runners-up qualifying to the finals. Both Kenya and Zimbabwe could not be drawn in the same group in order to avoid one group with only two teams in case the suspension is not lifted.[6] On 23 May 2022, CAF announced that both teams were disqualified from the qualifiers as a result of their suspension not being lifted by FIFA.[8]

The draw ceremony was conducted by the CAF Director of Competitions Samson Adamu with assistance by former South Africa defender Lucas Radebe and former Ivory Coast striker Salomon Kalou.[9]

The teams are ranked according to points (3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, 0 points for a loss). If tied on points, tiebreakers are applied in the following order (Regulations Article 14):

1. Points in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
2. Goal difference in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
3. Goals scored in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
4. Away goals scored in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
5. If more than two teams are tied, and after applying all head-to-head criteria above, a subset of teams are still tied, all head-to-head criteria above will be reapplied exclusively to this subset of teams;
6. Goal difference in all group matches;
7. Goals scored in all group matches;
8. Away goals scored in all group matches;
9. Drawing of lots

Group A[edit]

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Nigeria	2	2	0	0	12	1	+11	6	Final tournament		—	Mar '23	2–1	Sep '23
2	Guinea-Bissau	2	1	1	0	7	3	+4	4		Mar '23	—	Sep '23	5–1
3	Sierra Leone	2	0	1	1	3	4	−1	1			Sep '23	2–2	—	Mar '23
4	São Tomé and Príncipe	2	0	0	2	1	15	−14	0		0–10	Sep '23	Mar '23	—

Updated to match(es) played on 13 June 2022. Source: CAF

Group B[edit]

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Burkina Faso	2	2	0	0	5	1	+4	6	Final tournament		—	2–0	Sep '23	Mar '23
2	Cape Verde	2	1	0	1	2	2	0	3		Sep '23	—	Mar '23	2–0
3	Eswatini	2	0	1	1	3	5	−2	1			1–3	Mar '23	—	Sep '23
4	Togo	2	0	1	1	2	4	−2	1		Mar '23	Sep '23	2–2	—

Updated to match(es) played on 7 June 2022. Source: CAF

Group C[edit]

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Cameroon	1	1	0	0	1	0	+1	3	Final tournament		—	Sep '23	Mar '23	Canc.
2	Burundi	2	0	1	1	1	2	−1	1		0–1	—	Sep '23	Canc.
3	Namibia	1	0	1	0	1	1	0	1			Mar '23	1–1	—	Canc.
4	Kenya	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Disqualified		Canc.	Canc.	Canc.	—

Updated to match(es) played on 9 June 2022. Source: CAF

Group D[edit]

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Ethiopia	2	1	0	1	3	2	+1	3	Final tournament		—	Sep '23	Mar '23	2–0
2	Malawi	2	1	0	1	2	2	0	3		2–1	—	Sep '23	Mar '23
3	Guinea	2	1	0	1	1	1	0	3			Mar '23	1–0	—	Sep '23
4	Egypt	2	1	0	1	1	2	−1	3		Sep '23	Mar '23	1–0	—

Updated to match(es) played on 9 June 2022. Source: CAF

Group E[edit]

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Ghana	2	1	1	0	4	1	+3	4	Final tournament		—	Mar '23	Sep '23	3–0
2	Angola	2	1	1	0	3	2	+1	4		Mar '23	—	2–1	Sep '23
3	Central African Republic	2	0	1	1	2	3	−1	1			1–1	Sep '23	—	Mar '23
4	Madagascar	2	0	1	1	1	4	−3	1		Sep '23	1–1	Mar '23	—

Updated to match(es) played on 5 June 2022. Source: CAF

Group F[edit]

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Algeria	2	2	0	0	4	0	+4	6	Final tournament		—	Mar '23	Sep '23	2–0
2	Niger	2	0	2	0	2	2	0	2		Mar '23	—	1–1	Sep '23
3	Tanzania	2	0	1	1	1	3	−2	1			0–2	Sep '23	—	Mar '23
4	Uganda	2	0	1	1	1	3	−2	1		Sep '23	1–1	Mar '23	—

Updated to match(es) played on 8 June 2022. Source: CAF

Group G[edit]

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Mali	2	2	0	0	7	1	+6	6	Final tournament		—	4–0	Mar '23	Sep '23
2	Congo	2	1	0	1	1	4	−3	3		Sep '23	—	1–0	Mar '23
3	Gambia	2	1	0	1	1	1	0	3			Mar '23	Sep '23	—	1–0
4	South Sudan	2	0	0	2	1	4	−3	0		1–3	Mar '23	Sep '23	—

Updated to match(es) played on 9 June 2022. Source: CAF

Group H[edit]

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Ivory Coast	2	1	1	0	3	1	+2	4	Final tournament		—	3–1	Mar '23	Sep '23
2	Zambia	2	1	0	1	3	4	−1	3		Sep '23	—	2–1	Mar '23
3	Comoros	2	1	0	1	3	2	+1	3			Mar '23	Sep '23	—	2–0
4	Lesotho	2	0	1	1	0	2	−2	1		0–0	Mar '23	Sep '23	—

Updated to match(es) played on 9 June 2022. Source: CAF

Group I[edit]

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Mauritania	2	1	1	0	3	0	+3	4	Final tournament		—	Sep '23	3–0	Mar '23
2	Gabon	2	1	1	0	1	0	+1	4		0–0	—	Mar '23	Sep '23
3	Sudan	2	1	0	1	2	4	−2	3			Sep '23	Mar '23	—	2–1
4	DR Congo	2	0	0	2	1	3	−2	0		Mar '23	0–1	Sep '23	—

Updated to match(es) played on 8 June 2022. Source: CAF

Group J[edit]

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Tunisia	2	1	1	0	4	0	+4	4	Final tournament		—	4–0	Mar '23	Sep '23
2	Equatorial Guinea	2	1	0	1	2	4	−2	3		Sep '23	—	2–0	Mar '23
3	Libya	2	1	0	1	1	2	−1	3			Mar '23	Sep '23	—	1–0
4	Botswana	2	0	1	1	0	1	−1	1		0–0	Mar '23	Sep '23	—

Updated to match(es) played on 6 June 2022. Source: CAF

Group K[edit]

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Morocco (Q)	2	2	0	0	4	1	+3	6	Final tournament		—	2–1	Sep '23	Canc.
2	South Africa	1	0	0	1	1	2	−1	0		Mar '23	—	Mar '23	Canc.
3	Liberia	1	0	0	1	0	2	−2	0			0–2	Mar '23	—	Canc.
4	Zimbabwe	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Disqualified		Canc.	Canc.	Canc.	—

Updated to match(es) played on 13 June 2022. Source: CAF
Rules for classification: Tiebreakers
(Q) Qualified for the phase indicated

Group L[edit]

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Senegal	2	2	0	0	4	1	+3	6	Final tournament		—	Mar '23	Sep '23	3–1
2	Mozambique	2	1	1	0	2	1	+1	4		Mar '23	—	1–1	Sep '23
3	Rwanda	2	0	1	1	1	2	−1	1			0–1	Sep '23	—	Mar '23
4	Benin	2	0	0	2	1	4	−3	0		Sep '23	0–1	Mar '23	—

Updated to match(es) played on 7 June 2022. Source: CAF

Qualified teams[edit]

  To be determined

  Qualified

  Failed to Qualify

  Withdrew, disqualified or did not enter

  Not part of CAF

The following teams have qualified for the final tournament.

Team	Qualified as	Qualified on	Previous appearances in Africa Cup of Nations1
Ivory Coast	Hosts	8 January 2019	24 (1965, 1968, 1970, 1974, 1980, 1984, 1986, 1988, 1990, 1992, 1994, 1996, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2015, 2017, 2019, 2021)

1 Bold indicates champions for that year. Italics indicates hosts for that year.

Notes[edit]

References[edit]

1. ^ "Road to Cote d'Ivoire 2023 kicks off with Preliminary Draw conducted". CAFonline.com. Retrieved 15 February 2022.
2. ^ "Draw for 2023 Africa Cup of Nations". CAFOnline.com. 8 January 2022. Retrieved 18 January 2022.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
3. ^ "Men's Ranking". FIFA.com. Retrieved 15 February 2022.
4. ^ "Road to Cote d'Ivoire 2023 kicks off with Preliminary Draw conducted". CAFOnline.com. 21 January 2022. Retrieved 21 January 2022.
5. ^ "CAF announces AFCON23, Women's AFCON and CHAN draw dates". Confederation of African Football. 8 April 2022.
6. ^ a b c d "Tuesday night's TotalEnergies Africa Cup of Nations Cote d'Ivoire group stages draw procedure explained". Confederation of African Football. 18 April 2022.
7. ^ "Men's Ranking". FIFA. 31 March 2022. Retrieved 18 April 2022.
8. ^ "CAF Media Statement on Zimbabwe and Kenya AFCON 2023 qualifiers". CAFonline.com. 23 May 2022. Retrieved 24 May 2022.
9. ^ "Radebe, Kalou named 2023 TotalEnergies Africa Cup of Nations qualifying Draw Assistants". CAFOnline.com. 14 April 2022. Retrieved 15 May 2022.

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