Olalekan Okusan
THE race to feature in the 2022 Qatar FIFA World Cup for Nigeria’s Super Eagles will start on March 2020 after Coach Genor Rohr’s side must have known their opponents on January 21.
Being the second round of the qualifiers, the draw for the teams from Africa will hold on January 21 at Ritz Carlton hotel in Cairo, Egypt.
Already, 136 of 900 FIFA World Cup 2022 qualifying matches played, the national teams in South America and Africa will learn their fate as both CONMEBOL and CAF get set to stage their draws on the road to Qatar.
The draw for South America’s round-robin league will take place at the Hotel Bourbon, located next to CONMEBOL headquarters in Luque on December 17. The action on the pitch is set to start in March 2020 as each of the ten national teams face each other home and away until November 2021, with the top four teams qualifying for Qatar 2022. The fifth placed team will advance to the intercontinental play-offs.
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The draw in Africa will also take centre stage on January 21, for the second round of the qualifiers.
The ceremony will see the 14 winners of Round One joining the 26 top-seeded African teams to form ten groups of four (based on the December 2019 edition of the FIFA/Coca-Cola World Ranking), with the ten group winners then advancing to Round Three.
The second round of Africa’s qualifiers will kick off in March 2020 and will end on October 2021.
In Round Three, which is scheduled for November 2021, the ten group winners from Round Two will be paired for knockout matches, with the five winners securing a berth at Qatar 2022.
The FIFA World Cup 2022 will be played in Qatar between November 21 and December 18, 2022.
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