Bafana in AFCON group of death danger

Hugo Broos will have reason to worry about the AFCON finals draw after a fortnight.

Hugo
Broos has been left wondering about how tricky Bafana Bafana’s group at the
AFCON finals could turn out to be in the aftermath of the latest FIFA rankings.

Bafana
have long secured their place at the competition to run from January 13 to
February 11, 2024, but will go into the tournament’s draw on October 12 with
reason to worry.

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CAF
will use the latest FIFA rankings – which were released on September 21 – to
determine the seedings for the Nations Cup finals which returns to the West
African country for the first time since 1984.

At
its stands, the seeded teams (according to the latest FIFA rankings) that have
qualified are Morocco (13), Senegal (20), Tunisia (29), Algeria (34), Egypt
(35), and Nigeria (40).

Pot
Two has Cameroon (41), Mali (49), Cote d’Ivoire (50), Burkina Faso (58), Ghana
(60), and DR Congo (64).

In
Pot Three there is South Africa (65), Cape Verde (71), Guinea (81), Zambia
(82), Equatorial Guinea (92), and Mauritania (99).

Pot
Four has Guinea-Bissau (106), Namibia (114), Mozambique (113), Namibia (114),
Angola (117), The Gambia (118), and Tanzania (122).

Teams
in each of the four pots cannot meet in the group stages.

This
means Bafana’s opponents will come from Pot One, Two, and Four and could turn
out to be Senegal, Cote d’Ivoire, and Guinea -Bissau. 

The
top two teams in each of the six groups will be joined by the four third-placed
teams in the last 16. 

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