The Super Eagles of Nigeria have been placed in Pot one ahead of the African draws for the 2026 FIFA World Cup.
The competition will be co-hosted by Canada, Mexico and the United States of America.
Also in Pot one are; Morocco, Senegal, Algeria, Tunisia, Cameroon, Mali and Egypt.
The countries will be drawn into nine groups of six teams, with all the group winners qualifying for the tournament.
The four best teams that finish in second place will compete in a mini-tournament and the winner will qualify for an intercontinental play-off.
The Super Eagles failed to qualify for the last edition of the World Cup hosted by Qatar.
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The draw will be conducted on Wednesday, July 12, 2023.
THE FULL POTS
Pot 1: Nigeria, Morocco, Senegal, Algeria, Tunisia, Cameroon, Mali, Egypt
Pot 2: Ghana,Burkina Faso, South Africa, Cape Verde, DR Congo, Guinea, Zambia, Gabon, Equatorial Guinea
Pot 3: Angola, Benin, Kenya, Mauritania, Congo, Uganda, Madagascar, Guinea Bissau, Namibia
Pot 4: Mozambique, Gambia, Sierra Leone, Togo, Tanzania, Zimbabwe, Central African Republic, Malawi, Libya
Pot 5: Niger, Comoros, Sudan, Rwanda, Burundi, Ethiopia, Eswatini, Botswana, Liberia
Pot 6: Lesotho, South Sudan, Mauritius, Chad, Sao Tome, Djibouti, Seychelles, Eritrea, Somalia
By Adeboye Amosu
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Hmmm..Nigeria,Ghana,Benin haha..Dangerous wishes!
GENERAL ROAH will DEFEAT the SE if they MEET….
*** THE EARLIER THE BETTER WE WORK & PREPARE TOWARDS THE QUALIFICATION,
*** ACHIEVE THE GOAL OF QUALIFIER FOR WORLD CUP.
*** TAKE A FRANK DECISION ON PASEIRO AND THE ISSUE OF INVITING IRRELEVANT EXPERIENCE BENCH-WARMWER PLAYERS TO SUPER EAGLE
How far
How far ?
Is likely going to be: NIGERIA, GHANA, KENYA, LIBYA, SUDAN AND CHAD.
Where is Ivory Coast on the list for the draw?
What would be easy-peasy for Paseiro (seems he’s staying after all).
Pot 1: Nigeria
Pot 2: Gabon/Equatorial Guinea
Pot 3: Kenya/Mauritania/Namibia
Pot 4: Mozambique/Zimbabwe
Any team from Pot 5
Any team from Pot 6
Nigeria no be Nigeria of before. Many teams for Africa don dey give us headache, even Sierra Leone, Guinea Bissau, CAR.
I pray we meet Ghana again.
They have started again!
Becareful what u wish for because it can boomerang on u badly!
U not scared of Ghana?
Pray that u get some countries that are scare of Nigeria so that u can beat them not Ghana because Ghana is never ever scare of Nigeria and we love meeting u guys!!
If we find ourselves again in a group, every Ghanaian ll be hopeful because we know we get ur numbers!
Be careful bro
My only Concern is that NFF would have made it Half Home Base Half European meaning Many inform european base top Nigerian players will miss out and the team capatianed by Musa then Ghana will Surefully fancy thier chances.
However if Nigeria Selects on merit and take pride in the fact that We are in A very Talented generation of world Football barring no injuries to Top Players. Then Ghana will not Escape a very good whooping.
Best case scenario:
Nigeria, Equatorial Guinea, Uganda, Tanzania, Sao Tome, Eswatini
Worst case scenario:
Nigeria, Ghana, Congo, CAR, Sudan, Lesotho
Ghanaians are praying to avoid nations like Egypt, Cameroon and Ivory Coast!
Any other nation is a game on for us including Nigeria
We know our history very well
Selfmade, you don dey make mouth and dey overconfident now o. Remember no be Eguavoen be coach now and you too have changed coaches. I’m sure most Ghanaians would love to avoid countries like Nigeria, Egypt, Senegal, and Cameroun, and vice versa. Thunder doesn’t strike twice in one spot. I’m 1 million percent sure Nigeria will dust off Ghana with ease this time. Anyway, I’m hoping Nigeria and Ghana are in separate groups and qualify together.
Lets face it @Kel the last list released by that Coach Pesiero will be beating not only by Ghana but by most teams in that POT 2
Omoh I second you on this, that pot 2 is has good has pot 1 , African soccer have really change ooo, we really need be serious with this qualification and pray VO is ready to fire, this the only reason I actually want VO out of Napoli bcos that their yeye owner won’t feed him for us.
@selfmadeking you want a repetition of what happened to Ghana in 2002 World Cup qualifiers?
Kel my brother, as long as our administrators are not up to speed, every minnow on the planet will fancy their chances against Nigeria. Including the Banku Boys. How will they not fancy their chances against us? They are scared out of their wits of Comoros and Burkina Faso, but they don’t fear Nigeria. When your administrators are refusing to invite your best players because of flight ticket costs, when the focus is on inviting home based players who will not agitate for their match bonuses, when the basic needs of the team are hardly been provided, how can we compete with other serious nations? We can maybe overcome some countries because our players are better, but when we meet teams with equal talent, or teams that are well coached and better organized, our wings are clipped.
Let our officials continue to look for homebased players so they can share their match bonuses. As long as our administrators continue their maladministration, we will continue to under achieve.
99% of Ghanaian will pray to avoid Nigeria.
Obviously Nigeria has talents that can beat any team in the world.
Oh God pls give us Nigeria again
@ Yaw God already answered your prayer, the way he did in 2001
Me I no want Ghana o..
The best Nigeria team find it very difficult to defeat the Ghana team. Atlanta 96 team played goalless against Ghana in Lagos. We have been beaten by the worst Ghanian team. Also beaten by 10-man Ghana team.
What has changed from the Nigerian team that was defeated by Ghanian team?
1. Employed another Eguavoen 2.0
2. No substantial good goal keeper
3 Ageing center back
4 Weak midfield
Please let’s be humble
If we can’t beat Ghana, what’s the point of qualifying for World Cup
Ghana man. Black ugly monkey.
That is the scorecard of Gernot Rohr, that is exactly the team he left after six years and some people keeps singing his praises.
If God wants to punish Nigeria again and again, give them Ghana. If God wants to appease Nigeria, Lord God, give them South Africa.
South Africa that topped our Nations Cup qualifying group twice, dey play