{"id":34874,"date":"2026-05-19T15:53:50","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T13:53:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=34874"},"modified":"2026-05-19T15:53:50","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T13:53:50","slug":"africa-cup-of-nations-qualifiers-draw-for-2027-finals","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/africa-cup-of-nations-qualifiers-draw-for-2027-finals\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers draw for 2027 finals"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>The following is the draw for the 2027 Africa Cup of Nations \u200bqualifiers conducted in Cairo on Tuesday:<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Group \u200cA: Lesotho, Niger, Gabon, Morocco<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Group B: South Sudan, Malawi, Angola, Egypt<\/div>\n<div>Group C: Somalia, Gambia, Ghana, Ivory \u200bCoast<\/div>\n<div>Group D: Eritrea, Kenya, Guinea, South Africa<\/div>\n<div>Group \u200bE: Zimbabwe, Sierra Leone, Equatorial Guinea, \u2060Democratic Republic of Congo<\/div>\n<div>Group F: Central African \u200bRepublic, Mauritania, Benin, Burkina Faso<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Group G: Congo, Namibia, \u200bComoros, Cameroon<\/div>\n<div>Group H: Botswana, Libya, Uganda, Tunisia<\/div>\n<div>Group I: Burundi, Togo, Zambia, Algeria<\/div>\n<div>Group J: Ethiopia, Sudan, Mozambique, Senegal<\/div>\n<div>Group \u200bK: Liberia, Rwanda, Cape Verde, Mali<\/div>\n<div>Group \u200bL: Guinea-Bissau, Tanzania, Madagascar, Nigeria<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The top two teams in \u200ceach \u2060group qualify for the finals in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda from June 19-July 17 next year, except for Groups D, H and \u200bL where \u200bthe highest-placed \u2060side besides the three co-hosts will go to the 24-team finals.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The \u200bqualifiers will be played over three \u200bmatch \u2060windows from September 21-October 6 and November 9-17 this year and then March 22-30 \u2060next \u200byear. Two qualifying matches per \u200bteam will be played in each window.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8211;Reuters&#8211;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":21798,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[20],"class_list":["post-34874","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-sport","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"The top two teams in \u200ceach \u2060group qualify for the finals in Kenya.","published_date":"","news_description":"The top two teams in \u200ceach \u2060group qualify for the finals in Kenya.","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/34874","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\/34874\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34875,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/34874\/revisions\/34875"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=34874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}