Qatar 2022 World Cup: Uganda to battle neigbours Kenya, Rwanda and Mali
Jan 21, 2020
The Final Round will see the ten teams drawn into five home and away ties, with the five winners securing the ticket to represent Africa at the tournament scheduled for 21 November to 18 December 2022 in Qatar.
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The Uganda Cranes will battle Mali, and neighbours Kenya and Rwanda as they try to negotiate their way to the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar.
Uganda was placed in Group E during the draw for the Group Phase of the world showpiece that took place on Tuesday in Cairo, Egypt, with 40 African countries discovering their fates for the second round of the qualifying campaign.
The teams representing 40 countries across the CAF region were divided into ten groups of four teams each for the penultimate stage of the continental journey to Qatar.
Mali is the top seed in the group and will be Uganda's first opponents in the qualifiers that start in October this year.
The Cranes will then take on Kenya in November before entertaining Rwanda in March 2021.
Former Captain of the French Men's national football team Marcel Desailly and Coach of Côte d'Ivoire's Women's national football team, Clementine Toure assisted CAF Director of Competitions, Samson Adamu, to conduct the draw for the group phase of the qualifiers which start in October 2020, continuing until October 2021
After a round-robin of matches, the winners of the ten groups will qualify for the Final Round of the continental qualification on the journey to Qatar.
The Final Round will see the ten teams drawn into five home and away ties, with the five winners securing the ticket to represent Africa at the tournament scheduled for 21 November to 18 December 2022 in Qatar.
Malawi's Stanley Sanudi (left) tackles Cranes' Emmanuel Okwi during an AFCON qualifier at Namboole, November 17, 2019. Cranes won 2-0.
The groups
Group A: Algeria, Burkina Faso, Niger, Djibouti
Group B: Tunisia, Zambia, Mauritania, Equatorial Guinea
Group C: Nigeria, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Liberia
Group D: Cameroon, Cote d'Ivoire, Mozambique, Malawi
Group E: Mali, Uganda, Kenya, Rwanda
Group F: Egypt, Gabon, Libya, Angola
Group G: Ghana, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Ethiopia
Group H: Senegal, Congo, Namibia, Togo
Group I: Morocco, Guinea, Guinea-Biisau, Sudan
Group J: DR Congo, Benin, Madagascar, Tanzania