{"id":15013,"date":"2025-11-11T11:08:25","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T09:08:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jhb-webdevelopers\/channelafrica\/news\/cameroon-name-28-man-squad-for-world-cup-play-offs-in-morocco\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:27:23","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:27:23","slug":"cameroon-name-28-man-squad-for-world-cup-play-offs-in-morocco","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/cameroon-name-28-man-squad-for-world-cup-play-offs-in-morocco\/","title":{"rendered":"Cameroon name 28-man squad for World Cup play-offs in Morocco"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cameroon have selected a 28-man squad to travel to Morocco for the FIFA World Cup 2026 African Play-Offs, as they aim to keep their qualification hopes alive for next year\u2019s tournament in Canada, Mexico, and the United States.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Indomitable Lions secured their place in the play-offs after finishing among the four best runners-up from the nine African qualifying groups. The team now has a chance to book a spot at the finals through two rounds of knockout matches.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Cameroon will take on the Democratic Republic of Congo in their first fixture on Thursday. If they progress, they will meet the winner of the other semi-final between Gabon and Nigeria on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The overall winner of the African play-offs will move on to the intercontinental stage in March, where the last two places for the expanded 48-team World Cup will be decided.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Cameroon are currently part of Group G alongside Gabon, Mozambique, and defending champions C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;ChannelAfrica&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":15014,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[20],"class_list":["post-15013","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-sport","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"Cameroon have selected a 28-man squad to travel to Morocco for the FIFA World Cup 2026 African Play-Offs","published_date":"2025-11-11 12:02:38","news_description":"Cameroon have selected a 28-man squad to travel to Morocco for the FIFA World Cup 2026 African Play-Offs","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/15013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/15013\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19430,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/15013\/revisions\/19430"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=15013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}