2014 FIFA World Cup Brazil Preliminary Draw Results - African Zone

2014 FIFA World Cup Brazil Preliminary Draw Results - African Zone

African Zone

ROUND ONE
_ The 24 lowest ranked PMAs, PMA Rank 29 through PMA Rank 52, (based on the FIFA/Coca-Cola World Ranking of July 2011) will contest Round One.
_ The 24 teams will be paired into 12 home-and-away series.
_ The matches are foreseen to be played in the period from 11 – 15 November 2011.
_ The 12 series winners advance to Round Two.

1 Seychelles - Kenya
2 Guinea-Bissau - Togo
3 Djibouti - Namibia
4 Mauritius - Liberia
5 Comoros - Mozambique
6 Equatorial Guinea - Madagascar
7 Somalia - Ethiopia
8 Lesotho - Burundi
9 Eritrea - Rwanda
10 Swaziland - Congo DR
11 São Tomé e Príncipe - Congo
12 Chad - Tanzania

ROUND TWO
_ The 12 Round One winners will then join the remaining 28 PMAs in Round Two.
_ The 40 teams will be drawn into 10 round-robin, home-and-away groups of 4 teams each.
_ The matches are foreseen to be played in the period from 1 June 2012 - 10 September 2013.
_ The 10 group winners advance to Round Three.


ROUND THREE
_ The 10 group winners from Round Two will contest Round Three.
_ The 10 teams will be paired into 5 home-and-away series.
_ The matches are foreseen to be played in the periods 11 – 15 October and 15 – 19 November 2013.

The 5 teams that win their respective series qualify for the 2014 FIFA World Cup™

Group A
1 South Africa
2 Botswana
3 Central African Republic
4 Winner 7

Group B
1 Tunisia
2 Cape Verde Islands
3 Sierra Leone
4 Winner 6

Group C
1 Côte d'Ivoire
2 Morocco
3 Gambia
4 Winner 12

Group D
1 Ghana
2 Zambia
3 Sudan
4 Winner 8

Group E
1 Burkina Faso
2 Gabon
3 Niger
4 Winner 11

Group F
1 Nigeria
2 Malawi
3 Winner 1
4 Winner 3

Group G
1 Egypt
2 Guinea
3 Zimbabwe
4 Winner 5

Group H
1 Algeria
2 Mali
3 Benin
4 Winner 9

Group I
1 Cameroon
2 Libya
3 Winner 2
4 Winner 10

Group J
1 Senegal
2 Uganda
3 Angola
4 Winner 4

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