{"id":39973,"date":"2021-03-28T18:26:58","date_gmt":"2021-03-28T18:26:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/?p=39973"},"modified":"2021-03-28T16:27:14","modified_gmt":"2021-03-28T16:27:14","slug":"17-countries-qualify-for-afcon-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/17-countries-qualify-for-afcon-2022","title":{"rendered":"17 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>The Confederation of African Football (CAF) on Saturday, confirmed that 17 countries have qualified for the 2022 Africa Cup of Nations, with one round of qualifying fixtures left.<\/p>\n<p>CAF in a tweet on their official Twitter handle, stated that there were seven slots left to be filled.<\/p>\n<p>The teams that have qualified are: Guinea, Burkina Faso, Comoros, Egypt, Gambia, Gabon, Ghana, Equatorial Guinea, Zimbabwe, Morocco, C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire and Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>Nigeria qualified even before kick-off of their match against Benin Republic in Porto Novo, after Lesotho drew 0-0 with Sierra Leone.<\/p>\n<p>The Super Eagles, who host Lesotho in their last game, will now finish top of Group L.<\/p>\n<p>Countries like The Gambia and Comoros that have never played at the tournament before, have benefitted from the decision to expand the AFCON from a 16-team event to one featuring 24 teams.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. The Confederation of African Football (CAF) on Saturday, confirmed that 17 countries have qualified for the 2022 Africa Cup of Nations, with one round of qualifying fixtures left. CAF in a tweet on their official Twitter handle, stated that there were seven slots left to be filled. The teams that have qualified [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":39972,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,28,18,26],"tags":[468,1570,2140,3616,254],"class_list":["post-39973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-homepage-english","category-sport","category-twitter","tag-afcon","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-nigeria-2","tag-countries","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>17 countries qualify for AFCON 2022 - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Confederation of African Football (CAF) on Saturday, confirmed that 17 countries have qualified for the 2022 Africa ...\" \/>\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\/17-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=\"17 countries qualify for AFCON 2022\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Confederation of African Football (CAF) on Saturday, confirmed that 17 countries have qualified for the 2022 Africa ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/17-countries-qualify-for-afcon-2022\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-03-28T18:26:58+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2021\/03\/img-6060ae3fa99b5.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\/17-countries-qualify-for-afcon-2022#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/17-countries-qualify-for-afcon-2022\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"17 countries qualify for AFCON 2022\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-03-28T18:26:58+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/17-countries-qualify-for-afcon-2022\"},\"wordCount\":145,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/17-countries-qualify-for-afcon-2022#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2021\/03\/img-6060ae3fa99b5.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"AFCON\",\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Nigeria\",\"Countries\",\"Nigeria\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"homepage-english\",\"Sport\",\"twitter\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/17-countries-qualify-for-afcon-2022#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/17-countries-qualify-for-afcon-2022\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/17-countries-qualify-for-afcon-2022\",\"name\":\"17 countries qualify for AFCON 2022 - 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