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AFCON 2025 Draw: Super Eagles Placed In Pot 1, To Know Opponents Thursday

Super Eagles have been placed in Pot 1 and will know their opponents on Thursday ahead of the AFCON 2025 draw.

 

Glamtush reports that the Super Eagles have been placed in Pot 1 ahead of the draw ceremony for the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations.

This online news platform understands that the Confederation of African Football (CAF) released the draw procedure on its official website on Wednesday.

The three-time champions and five-time runners-up, are expected to know their opponents for the qualification race of the 35th Africa Cup of Nations finals on Thursday.

The draw for the 2025 AFCON will be conducted in Johannesburg, South Africa.

The Director of Communications at the Nigeria Football Federation, Ademola Olajire, disclosed this in a statement on Tuesday in Abuja.

The draw will be held inside the SuperSport studio in South Africa’s commercial and economic capital.

It will serve the 48 countries into 12 groups of four teams each; with the top two teams in eleven of the groups qualifying directly to the finals, scheduled for Dec. 21, 2025, to Jan. 18, 2026.

The 12th group (which has host nation Morocco) will see Morocco qualifying (no matter the position in which they finish) alongside one other team.

The qualifying matches will be played over the FIFA windows of September, October and November this year.

All of Nigeria’s opponents in the ongoing 2026 FIFA World Cup qualifying race, Benin Republic, Lesotho, Rwanda, South Africa and Zimbabwe, are all in Thursday’s draw.

Below are the 48 teams in the draw:

POT 1: Morocco, Senegal, Egypt, Cote d’Ivoire, Nigeria, Tunisia, Algeria, Cameroon, Mali, South Africa, DR Congo, Ghana

POT 2: Cape Verde, Burkina Faso, Guinea, Gabon, Equatorial Guinea, Zambia, Benin Republic, Angola, Uganda, Namibia, Mozambique, Madagascar

POT 3: Kenya, Mauritania, Congo, Tanzania, Guinea Bissau, Libya, Comoros, Togo, Sudan, Sierra Leone, Malawi, Central African Republic

POT 4: Niger Republic, Zimbabwe, Rwanda, The Gambia, Burundi, Liberia, Ethiopia, Botswana, Lesotho, Eswatini, South Sudan, Chad.

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