While 18 teams were theoretically qualified for the 2024 African Nations Championship (Chan), there will be 19 of them participating in the final phase.
Sunday, the second and final round of the Chan 2024 qualifiers delivered its verdict with the qualification of Mauritania whose goalless draw (0-0) against Mali was enough after having the surprise victory over the Aigles A’ at the ‘go (1-0).
The Mourabitounes A’ therefore joined 15 other qualifiers on the field, including Uganda, victorious over Burundi (0-1, 1-0).
However, Uganda was automatically qualified with the two other host countries, Kenya and Tanzania. This brought the total number of participants to 18, including Morocco, the one and only representative of North Africa.
Two more places to take, Rwanda in the waiting room
Initially, three nations per region (North, West A and B, Center, East and South) were supposed to obtain their tickets, in addition to the one which would be designated “best team in the Cecafa zone” (East and Central Africa). ) by the Confederation of African Football (Caf) according to unspecified criteria. A total of 19 teams therefore. But the withdrawals of Algeria, Egypt, Libya and Tunisia changed the situation, leading to two vacant places in the North Africa zone. Finally, we thought. Because in all likelihood, the places will be fully booked, according to the table of qualifiers published by Caf. After reading the said table, two tickets remain “to be confirmed”. Rwanda, which beat South Sudan on the field (2-3, 2-1) thanks to the away goals rule, is officially not considered qualified, the status of the best team in the zone Cecafa” visibly returning to Sudan and not the Amavubi.
The identity of the last two qualifiers will be known in the coming days and Rwanda can obviously be hopeful of being one of them.
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