Kenya in pot 3 of the AFCON 2025 draw
The draw for the 2025 Africa Cup of nations, AFCON, is scheduled Thursday afternoon where Harambee Stars, Kenya’s national soccer team will find out its opponents for the continental showpiece. The event will be beamed live on Y254 TV from 3.30pm East Africa time. The draw which will be conducted in Johanesburg South Africa […] The post Kenya in pot 3 of the AFCON 2025 draw first appeared on KBC.
The draw for the 2025 Africa Cup of nations, AFCON, is scheduled Thursday afternoon where Harambee Stars, Kenya’s national soccer team will find out its opponents for the continental showpiece.
The event will be beamed live on Y254 TV from 3.30pm East Africa time.
The draw which will be conducted in Johanesburg South Africa will consist of 48 teams. Kenya is in pot three and could be pitted against teams in pot two which includes east African neighbours Uganda.
Apart from Kenya port 3 also consists : Mauritania, Congo, Tanzania, Guinea-Bissau, Libya, Comoros, Togo, Sudan, Sierra Leone, Malawi, and Central African Republic.
Pot 1 brings together African giants Morocco, Ivory Coast, Senegal, Egypt, Nigeria, Tunisia, Algeria, Mali, Cameroon, South Africa, DRC, and Ghana.
Pot 2 features Cape Verde, Burkina Faso, Guinea, Gabon, Equatorial Guinea, Zambia, Benin, Angola, Uganda, Namibia, Mozambique, and Madagascar.
Pot 4 has Niger, Zimbabwe, Rwanda, Gambia, Burundi, Liberia, Ethiopia, Botswana, Lesotho, Eswatini, South Sudan, and Chad
The highest ranked nations as per the latest FIFA Rankings issued out on 20 June 2024 occupy Pot 1, with the same procedure followed for Pot 2, 3 and 4 to make up the 48 nations.
The draw will see the 48 teams being divided into 12 Groups of 4 teams,group A to L, where the first and runners-up in the eleven (11) groups that do not involve tournament hosts Morocco, will gain qualification to the competition.
The qualification matches are scheduled to begin in SeptemberOctober,November where at the conclusion of the group stage matches 24 teams will qualify for the 35th edition of the Africa Cup of Nations scheduled December 21st 2025- January 18th 2026 in Morocco..
CAF AFCON Morocco 2025 Draw Procedures:
The first ball will be drawn from Pot 4 and will go to position A4.
The procedure will be repeated for the remaining teams of Pot 4 who will go to positions B4, C4, D4, E4, F4, G4, H4, I4, J4,K4 & L4 according to the draw order.
The same procedure as above will be repeated for Pot 3, Pot 2 and finally Pot 1.
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