The Nigeria senior national team, the Super Eagles will in the next three weeks know their opponents in the qualification race for next year’s Africa Cup of Nations, Core Reporters reported
Next year’s finals, which will be the 35th edition of Africa’s flagship football championship, will be staged by Morocco.
Preliminary stage survivors Chad, e-Swatini, Liberia and South Sudan will join 44 others for the draw that will be held at the SuperSport studios in Johannesburg, South Africa in the afternoon of Thursday, 4th July.
The 48 countries will be drawn into 12 groups of four teams each, with the top two teams in each pool qualifying directly to the finals in Morocco.
The first two games of the qualification series will take place in the FIFA window in September (2nd – 10th), with two other matches in the window in October (7th – 15th) and the final two games in the November window (11th – 19th).
Nigeria’s Super Eagles were the finalists of the last edition held in Cote D’Ivoire where the hosts won.
