Pot A Cameroon Nigeria Cote d'Ivoire Morocco Ghana Tunisia Egypt Guinea Senegal Mali Angola Togo Pot B Zambia South Africa (Automaticall through as host nation) Cape Verde Congo DR Algeria Burkina Faso Benin Mozambique Libya Ethiopia Congo Zimbabwe Pot C Uganda Botswana Equatorial Guinea Tanzania Gabon Malawi Sudan Burundi Liberia Rwanda Eritrea Namibia Pot D Gambia Mauritania Kenya Chad Lesotho Mauritius Niger Swaziland Seychelles Sierra Leone Madagascar Djibouti The 48 qualifiers will be split into 12 groups of 4. These teams will play a full round-robin in 2008, with the 12 groups winners and 8 best runners-up advancing to the second group round.
i think its a pretty strange month to choose the rankngs from. Its not like the CAN qualifiers were over
Group 1 Cameroon Cape Verde Mauritius Tanzania Group 2 Guinea Kenya Namibia Zimbabwe Group 3 Angola Benin Niger Uganda Group 4 Equatorial Guinea Nigeria Sierra Leone South Africa (Automatically Qualifed) Group 5 Gabon Ghana Lesotho Libya Group 6 Algeria Gambia Liberia Senegal Group 7 Botswana Cote d'Ivoire Madagascar Mozambique Group 8 Ethiopia Mauritania Morocco Rwanda Group 9 Burkina Faso Burundi Seychelles Tunisia Group 10 Chad Congo Mali Sudan Group 11 Eritrea Swaziland Togo Zambia Group 12 Congo DR Djibouti Egypt Malawi 12 group winners will advance and the 8 best 2nd place teams
refresh my memory...S. Africa is playing to make the African nations cup, so they not only need to make it out of this round but finish in the top 3 of the final group?
my projections Group 1: Cameroon and Cape Verde Group 2: Zimbabwe and Guinea Group 3: Angola and Benin Group 4: Nigeria and South Africa Group 5: Ghana and Libya Group 6: Senegal and Algeria Group 7: Cote D'Ivorie and Botswana Group 8: Morocco and Mauritania Group 9: Tunisia and Burkina Faso Group 10: Mali and Chad Group 11: Togo and Zambia Group 12: Egypt and Congo DR
FIXTURES AND RESULTS Dates may change but only by day of two eg matchs on 30th may be 30th 31st or 1st.
fifa.com: Matchday 1 - 30, 31 May or 1 June 2008: T1-T2, T3-T4 * Matchday 2 - 6, 7 or 8 June 2008: T2-T3, T4-T1 Matchday 2 - 13, 14 or 15 June 2008: T4-T2, T3-T1 Matchday 4 - 20, 21 or 22 June 2008: T2-T4, T1-T3 Matchday 5 - 5, 6 or 7 September 2008: T2-T1, T4-T3 Matchday 6 - 10, 11 or 12 October 2008: T3-T2, T1-T4 * T1 = team 1 from each group, T2 = team 2...
Seeding in CAF stage 3 , (Second Round) . Criteria for designation of seeded teams for the combined preliminaries of the South Africa 2010 World Cup and Angola 2010 ACN has been approved. The criteria are as follows: The sum of the points accumulated in conformity of the following three criteria will be added in order to determine the five teams who will be in the first pot, those who will be in the second pot and so on. Criteria No. 1 The number of points obtained during the group matches of the first round. Each team will play six matches in this round having the possibility of reaching a maximum total points of 18. Each team among the 20 who will qualify to the second round will keep the points that they obtained during the first round. Criteria No. 2 The classification during the final tournament of the African Cup of Nations 2008 in Ghana will be taken into consideration. At the end of the competition, the teams will be classified from 1 to 16. The Africa Champion will get 16 points, the runner-up 15 and the team coming at the third place 14 and finally the team coming at the last place will get only one point. The countries who will qualify to the second round and which did not qualify to the finals of the African Cup of Nations 2008 will receive one point each under this criterion. Criteria No. 3 The 20 teams having qualified to the second round will be classified from 1 to 20 in conformity to their last FIFA ranking before the date scheduled for the draw of the second round. The team coming in the first place will get 20 points, the second 19 points and the team coming at the 20th place will get one point. The points obtained by adding the points obtained in each one of the above mentioned criteria will be added. The first five teams will be placed in the pot No. 1, the teams from 6 to 10 in the pot No. 2, the teams from 11 to 15 in the third pot and the teams from 16 to 20 in the fourth pot. Each group in the second round will comprise one team from each one of the 4 pots. http://www.cafonline.com/?lng=1&cmpt=0&module=media&ANC=&TNews=1&idrub=95924&idnews=82612
Yeah. I'm starting to really be bothered by the FIFA ranking being included in criteria for events. Being as the events that are the other criteria are used to determine the FIFA ranking. Or, more specifically, in this case, there are 3 criteria for the 3rd round draw pots ranking: 1. Points gained in the 2nd round qualifying games. 2. Rank in the CAF Nations Cup. 3. FIFA ranking right before the draw. However, except for friendlies, (3) is determined by (1) and (2). OK, so it's a complex relationship. (3) includes games going back to the previous year. I don't see any indication of when the 3rd round draw will take place, but it seems like it could be any time from October 11 to sometime early in '09. Which means that for all intents and purposes, there will be little outside of qualifying and the Nations Cup to effect the FIFA ranking. Since the FIFA ranking is utter crap, it throws who knows what into this scheme. It would be interesting to see how the draw would fare using only criteria (1) and (2) and compare it to the final result.
Eritrea withdraw from qualifiers -> fifa.com. Eritrea was in group 11 with Togo, Zambia and Swaziland. It will not be replaced.
Could be more withdrawals from Africa ? Sudan - Chad would be a interesting match, but Im not sure Chad will not withdraw ?
So, this basically comes down to a Togo - Zambia home and away, plus whoever can beat up on Swaziland the most as a tiebreaker.
I wonder how this will affect the calculation of 2nd placed teams to progress. Only using results against top 3 teams? Or not allowing the 2nd placed team from this group to progress? Or using average number of points? I don't hope they use the second possibility because that would eliminate either one of their 2006 qualifiers or one of the best teams never to have qualified, but I'm not sure what the best solution is. Actually I am, but since there won't be a replacement team this will not happen.