BY Remi Sulola
Super Eagles of Nigeria have been drawn in Group A for the qualification series of the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON).
The AFCON draw was held at the SuperSport Studio in Johannesburg, South Africa on Tuesday evening.
In a repeat of the 2021 African football showpiece qualification series to Cameroon, the three-time African champions will face Sierra Leone once again.
Guinea-Bissau and São Tomé and Principe are the other nations that the Eagles will face in Group A.
Senegal, the defending champions, are pitted against Benin, Mozambique and Rwanda in Group L, while Egypt are in Group D with Guinea, Malawi and Ethiopia.
The winners of each group are the only team guaranteed a slot at the 34th AFCON scheduled to hold in Ivory Coast next year.
Hosts Ivory Coast are guaranteed a place, alongside the best three second –placed teams in all the 12 groups.
Full list of group pairings for the 2023 AFCON qualifiers:
Group A: Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Guinea-Bissau, São Tomé and Príncipe
Group B: Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, Togo, Eswatini
Group C: Cameroon, Kenya, Namibia, Burundi
Group D: Egypt, Guinea, Malawi, Ethiopia
Group E: Ghana, Madagascar, Angola, Central African Republic
Group F: Algeria, Uganda, Niger, Tanzania
Group G: Mali, Congo, The Gambia, Tanzania
Group H: Ivory Coast, Zambia, Comoros, Lesotho
Group I: DR Congo, Gabon, Mauritania, Sudan
Group J: Tunisia, Equatorial Guinea, Libya, Botswana
Group K: Morocco, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Liberia
Group L: Senegal, Benin, Mozambique, Rwanda
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