{"id":32557,"date":"2020-11-18T16:38:46","date_gmt":"2020-11-18T16:38:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/?p=32557"},"modified":"2020-11-18T16:38:46","modified_gmt":"2020-11-18T16:38:46","slug":"five-countries-qualify-for-afcon-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/five-countries-qualify-for-afcon-2022","title":{"rendered":"Five countries qualify for AFCON 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\">Africa-Press<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\">Nigeria<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>Five countries have so far qualified for the 2022 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) following the conclusion of matchday four fixtures on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The countries are Cameroon, Senegal, Algeria, Mali and Tunisia.<\/p>\n<p>The Confederation of African Football (CAF) disclosed this in a post via its Twitter handle on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Tunisia booked a place at the 2022 Africa Cup of Nations after playing a 1-1 draw with Tanzania on Tuesday, while Mali defeated Namibia 2-1 on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Algeria secured their ticket after playing a 2-2 draw with Zimbabwe on Monday, while Senegal won Guinea-Bissau 1-0 on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Cameroon have an automatic spot as hosts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCameroon, Senegal, Algeria, Mali, Tunisia.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c19 spots still up for grabs in the last two matchdays,\u201d CAF tweeted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. Five countries have so far qualified for the 2022 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) following the conclusion of matchday four fixtures on Tuesday. The countries are Cameroon, Senegal, Algeria, Mali and Tunisia. The Confederation of African Football (CAF) disclosed this in a post via its Twitter handle on Wednesday. Tunisia booked a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":32556,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,28,18,26],"tags":[1584,1570,254],"class_list":["post-32557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-homepage-english","category-sport","category-twitter","tag-afcon-2022","tag-africa-press","tag-nigeria"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Five countries qualify for AFCON 2022 - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/five-countries-qualify-for-afcon-2022\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Five countries qualify for AFCON 2022\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. 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