{"id":39761,"date":"2021-03-25T16:52:39","date_gmt":"2021-03-25T16:52:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/?p=39761"},"modified":"2021-03-25T15:49:56","modified_gmt":"2021-03-25T15:49:56","slug":"seven-countries-qualify-for-afcon-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/seven-countries-qualify-for-afcon-2022","title":{"rendered":"Seven countries qualify for AFCON 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\">Nigeria<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>Two more countries have qualified for the 2022 Africa Cup of Nations, following the conclusion of Match Day 5 fixtures.<\/p>\n<p>They are Guinea and Burkina Faso.<\/p>\n<p>Their qualification was confirmed by the Confederation of African Football (CAF) on Thursday via its official Twitter page.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBurkina Faso and Guinea are the latest to bag their qualification ticket,\u201d the tweet read.<\/p>\n<p>Burkina Faso drew 0-0 with Uganda, while Guinea defeated Mali 1-0.<\/p>\n<p>Five countries had confirmed their places since 2020.<\/p>\n<p>They are Cameroon, Senegal, Algeria, Mali and Tunisia.<\/p>\n<p>Cameroon has an automatic slot as hosts.<\/p>\n<p>17 spots are still up for grabs in the last two matchdays.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. Two more countries have qualified for the 2022 Africa Cup of Nations, following the conclusion of Match Day 5 fixtures. They are Guinea and Burkina Faso. Their qualification was confirmed by the Confederation of African Football (CAF) on Thursday via its official Twitter page. \u201cBurkina Faso and Guinea are the latest to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":39760,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,28,18,26],"tags":[1584,1570,2140,254],"class_list":["post-39761","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-africa-press-nigeria-2","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>Seven countries qualify for AFCON 2022 - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Two more countries have qualified for the 2022 Africa Cup of Nations, following the conclusion of Match Day 5 fixtures.\" \/>\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\/seven-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=\"Seven countries qualify for AFCON 2022\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Two more countries have qualified for the 2022 Africa Cup of Nations, following the conclusion of Match Day 5 fixtures.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/seven-countries-qualify-for-afcon-2022\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-03-25T16:52:39+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2021\/03\/img-605cb101e54fd.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1280\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1113\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/seven-countries-qualify-for-afcon-2022#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/seven-countries-qualify-for-afcon-2022\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Seven countries qualify for AFCON 2022\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-03-25T16:52:39+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/seven-countries-qualify-for-afcon-2022\"},\"wordCount\":109,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/seven-countries-qualify-for-afcon-2022#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2021\/03\/img-605cb101e54fd.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"AFCON 2022\",\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Nigeria\",\"Nigeria\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"homepage-english\",\"Sport\",\"twitter\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/seven-countries-qualify-for-afcon-2022#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/seven-countries-qualify-for-afcon-2022\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/seven-countries-qualify-for-afcon-2022\",\"name\":\"Seven countries qualify for AFCON 2022 - 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