WC Qualifications (Africa)

Tournament format

This is the total ranking based on all of the 10 qualification groups. Countries are sorted first on position in the group and then on points and goal difference. 3 countries qualify for the world championships. The best 0 countries in the group qualify directly and 6 countries will play in a home-and-away confrontation for the remaining places. The world cup host is automatically qualified.

Qualification standings round 1

		Country	Position	Points	MP	GS	GA
1		South Africa	1	24	8	39	3
2		Nigeria	1	24	8	39	8
3		Morocco	1	24	8	19	4
4		Niger	1	21	8	29	6
5		Libya	1	21	8	32	10
6		Tunisia	1	21	8	25	6
7		Egypt	1	21	8	25	6
8		Madagascar	1	21	8	25	9
9		Côte d'Ivoire	1	20	8	25	8
10		Togo	1	16	8	21	12
11		Botswana	2	21	8	26	10
12		Angola	2	19	8	27	14
13		Mali	2	18	8	26	7
14		Uganda	2	18	8	25	14
15		Swaziland	2	16	8	24	15
16		Senegal	2	16	8	19	15
17		Burkina Faso	2	15	8	14	11
18		Mozambique	2	14	8	20	10
19		Seychelles	2	14	8	17	11
20		Zimbabwe	2	14	8	17	16
21		Kenya	3	12	8	18	19
22		Sudan	3	12	8	14	24
23		Liberia	3	11	8	20	23
24		Ghana	3	10	8	11	14
25		Gabon	3	9	8	14	16
26		Djibouti	3	9	8	11	14
27		Equatorial Guinea	3	8	8	14	19
28		Sao Tome and Principe	3	7	8	8	12
29		Mauritius	3	6	8	8	12
30		Chad	3	6	8	9	22
31		Cameroon	4	9	8	19	23
32		Malawi	4	8	8	6	25
33		Algeria	4	7	8	11	17
34		Burundi	4	7	8	9	15
35		Ethiopia	4	7	8	11	18
36		Guinea	4	7	8	9	22
37		Cape Verde	4	6	8	16	26
38		Zambia	4	6	8	10	20
39		Mauritania	4	6	8	12	25
40		Gambia	4	5	8	6	17
41		Benin	5	7	8	15	21
42		Sierra Leone	5	6	8	9	29
43		Central African Republic	5	5	8	12	28
44		Lesotho	5	4	8	11	18
45		Rwanda	5	4	8	8	27
46		Comoros	5	4	8	12	37
47		South Sudan	5	3	8	8	17
48		Reunion	5	3	8	6	22
49		Congo	5	1	8	6	20
50		Guinea-Bissau	5	1	8	4	24
51		Congo DR	6	0	0	0	0
52		Eritrea	6	0	0	0	0
53		Namibia	6	0	0	0	0
54		Somalia	6	0	0	0	0
55		Tanzania	6	0	0	0	0

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.