WC Qualifications (Africa)

Tournament format

au Australia is qualified directly as host of the final tournament. 4 teams from this tournament also qualify for the final tournament.

Round 1 (Group stage)

  • 55 teams enter the tournament in this round.
  • The teams in this round are divided over 16 groups.
  • playoffs 32 teams advance to the next round.

Round 2 (Knockout stage)

  • playoffs 16 teams advance to the next round.

Round 3 (Knockout stage)

  • playoffs 8 teams advance to the next round.

Round 4 (Knockout stage)

  • qualified 4 teams in this round qualify for the final tournament.

Qualification standings round 4

CountryPositionPointsMPGSGA
1qualifiedma Morocco162114
2qualifiedmz Mozambique16230
3qualifiedgh Ghana14243
4qualifiedsc Seychelles13243
5gn Guinea23234
6bi Burundi21234
7ci Côte d'Ivoire20203
8so Somalia202411

Qualification standings round 3

CountryPositionPointsMPGSGA
1playoffsci Côte d'Ivoire16262
2playoffsbi Burundi16262
3playoffsgh Ghana16251
4playoffsgn Guinea16263
5playoffsso Somalia14221
6playoffssc Seychelles13222
7playoffsma Morocco13243
8playoffsmz Mozambique13221
9bj Benin23234
10rw Rwanda23212
11sz Swaziland23222
12sn Senegal21212
13ng Nigeria20236
14td Chad20226
15ne Niger20226
16cm Cameroon20215

Qualification standings round 2

CountryPositionPointsMPGSGA
1playoffsmz Mozambique162103
2playoffsgn Guinea16293
3playoffsma Morocco162116
4playoffsgh Ghana16261
5playoffssz Swaziland16251
6playoffsrw Rwanda16240
7playoffsbi Burundi16241
8playoffssc Seychelles16241
9playoffssn Senegal16230
10playoffsci Côte d'Ivoire14264
11playoffscm Cameroon14264
12playoffstd Chad14242
13playoffsng Nigeria14231
14playoffsso Somalia14243
15playoffsne Niger14210
16playoffsbj Benin13253
17bw Botswana23235
18cf Central African Republic21234
19za South Africa21201
20sl Sierra Leone21246
21na Namibia21246
22ly Libya21224
23mw Malawi21213
24tn Tunisia20214
25cg Congo20214
26er Eritrea20203
27dz Algeria20215
28gq Equatorial Guinea20204
29ke Kenya202611
30zw Zimbabwe20216
31sd Sudan20239
32dj Djibouti202310

Qualification standings round 1

CountryPositionPointsMPGSGA
1playoffsma Morocco1124151
2playoffsgh Ghana1124174
3playoffsza South Africa1124156
4playoffsci Côte d'Ivoire1124101
5playoffscm Cameroon1104112
6playoffsmz Mozambique1104115
7playoffsrw Rwanda1104127
8playoffsbj Benin110462
9playoffsng Nigeria19493
10playoffstn Tunisia19495
11playoffssc Seychelles19451
12playoffscf Central African Republic17453
13playoffssn Senegal17484
14playoffssz Swaziland17496
15playoffstd Chad17485
16playoffsgn Guinea174119
17playoffske Kenya294117
18playoffsbi Burundi27463
19playoffssd Sudan274114
20playoffsne Niger27453
21playoffsdj Djibouti264119
22playoffsdz Algeria26464
23playoffsna Namibia26489
24playoffszw Zimbabwe26478
25playoffsmw Malawi26456
26playoffsgq Equatorial Guinea26449
27playoffsbw Botswana25453
28playoffsly Libya25499
29playoffssl Sierra Leone244911
30playoffsso Somalia244811
31playoffscg Congo23457
32playoffser Eritrea23436
33tg Togo3441315
34ls Lesotho344810
35mr Mauritania34446
36zm Zambia34428
37re Reunion33429
38gm Gambia3341013
39bf Burkina Faso33469
40ug Uganda33427
41ga Gabon32439
42et Ethiopia314410
43cd Congo DR31428
44lr Liberia31428
45eg Egypt304211
46gw Guinea-Bissau304212
47cv Cape Verde304215
48mg Madagascar304520
49ao Angola40000
50km Comoros40000
51ml Mali40000
52mu Mauritius40000
53st Sao Tome and Principe40000
54ss South Sudan40000
55tz Tanzania40000

Not all groups have the same number of teams so the results against the lowest team in the larger groups don't count for the order of teams in this list.