Nigeria’s Super Eagles will know their group opponents in the 2026 FIFA World Cup qualifiers on Wednesday, July 12.
The Confederaion of African Football (CAF) announced that the draw ceremony will take place in Cotonou, Benin Republic.
48 countries will take part in the competition for the first time with Africa now alloted nine automatic slots.
The 54 member associations will be divided into nine groups.
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Winners of each group will automatically qualify for the World Cup.
The four best runners-up (from the groups) will play in a CAF Play-Off tournament. The winner (CAF Play-Off tournament) will play in the FIFA Play-off Tournament.
Matchday one and two games in the qualifiers will be played between November 13-21.
The qualifiers will end in October 2025.
The 2026 World Cup will be hosted by Canada, Mexico and United States of America.
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That would be six teams in each group with a total of Ten matches, Nigeria have no excuse not to qualify from 9 slots.
Hahaha danger ahead.
Nigeria is in group D
Nigeria
Tunisia
Guinea Bissau
CAR
Sierra Leone
Madagascar
Don’t say I give u the odu.
So they now introduced a mini tournament for FIFA ALL PLAY off from each confederations! Amazing
The fifa play off tournament is also going to be lit
This 48 nations world cup will make it highly competitive. For any country that will win the tournament should be ready to play 8 games and win next 5 games at stretch after group stage.
FORGET GHANA, ALGERIA, SENEGAL, CAMEROON.
LET PRAY THAT NIGERIA SHOULD NOT BE GROUP ALONG WITH COMOROS, GAMBIA, EQ.GUINEA, C.A.R, BOTSWANA, CAPE-VERDE. BECAUSE THESE ARE THE MOST IMPROVE AFRICA TEAM THAT CAN SERVE AS SPOILER TO SUPER EAGLE.
AND DUE TO UNSERIOUSNESS OF OUR PLAYERS THAT LIKE TO BE PLAYING LIKE CHICKEN ON THE FIELD together with SENTIMENT & CORRUPTION OF OUR COACHES & NFF, AM NOT SURE THAT NIGERIA WILL QUALIFY FOR NEXT WORLD CUP.
From experience world cup qualifiers are not beans and now that we have lost our fear factor at home, may God save us in Jesus name.
We should adopt Uyo for our home games,we need to use every advantage to achieve qualification.
We cannot afford to miss the World Cup again after Qatar 2023 heartbreak.Won’t forget so easily how Selfmade and Yaw led there Ghanaian troops to rub it in our face everyday on this site,it was a long and difficult experience I wouldn’t want to go through again.
I WILL LIKE TO ADVICE THE UPCOMING GOVERNMENT TO BE BUSINESS-MINDED AND BAN SUPER EAGLE IN PARTICIPATING IN W/C QUALIFIER DUE TO THEIR UNSERIOUSNESS & LACK OF COMMITMENT ON THE FIELD OF PLAY. AS A STAKEHOLDER, THIS WILL HELP GOVERNMENT TO SAVE A LOT OF COST AND INVEST ON OTHER SPORTING EVENT THAT WILL BENEFIT THE WHOLE NIGERIA.