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Nigeria's U-17 team, the Golden Eaglets, will face Cote d'Ivoire, Ghana, Togo, Burkina Faso, Niger and Benin in Niger for the only ticket to the Africa Cup of Nations U17 CAF. Tanzania, reports Completesportsnigeria.com
The zonal qualifiers of the Africa Cup of Nations U-17 nations of Nigeria will begin from 9 to 18 September 2018.
The Africa Cup U -17 CAF The nations will be held from May 12 to 26, 2019. Mali is the defending champion of the tournament.
Qualifiers for the Africa Cup of Nations U-17 will be played for the first time on a regional basis to determine the seven teams that will join Tanzania for the final round of next year according to a CAF press release.
The new format approved by the CAF Executive Committee should increase participation at the level of qualified teams. involving all CAF actors Secretary-General Amr Fahmy revealed in the CAF statement on Thursday.
"The response was great, with a total of 49 member associations confirming their participation, which is a record from previous years.We will see teams that have never participated and have rarely had a impact at the youth level, "said CAF Secretary General, Amr Fahmy,
" U-17s are the nursery of our competitions, we have been preparing for the last few months in the fields of logistics, of organization and infrastructure, and I can say with confidence that we are ready for sending. "
Each of the six area unions (CECAFA, COSAFA, UNAF, UNIFFAC , WAFU A, WAFU B) will host their regional qualifiers with teams from the zone and Nigeria will be drawn to WAFU B alongside Côte d 'Ivoire, Ghana, Togo, Burkina Faso, Benin and hosts, Niger.
of Mauritania (COSAFA from 19 to 29 July 2018), Equatorial Guinea (UNIFFAC from 3 to 12 August 2018), Tanzania (CECAFA from 11 to 26 August 2018), Tunisia (UNAF from 20 to August 28, 2018), from Senegal (WAFU A September 2 to 15, 2018) before finishing in Niger (WAFU B 9 to September 18, 2018)
The winner of each zone competition qualifies for the final round, with the exception of the area of the previous winner, entitled to two. Since Mali won the title in 2017, WAFU A will qualify two teams
Meanwhile, all players selected for the tournament should undergo Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) mandatory to determine their eligibility to participate.
DATES AND HOSTS OF THE QUALIFICATIONS OF ZONES U17 AFCON, TANZANIA 2019
Participating Team s (12): Angola, Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Seychelles, South Africa , Swaziland, Zambia, Zimbabwe.
Host Country: Equatorial Guinea
Participating Teams (8): Cameroon, Central Africa, Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, DR Congo, Sao Tome and Chad
Date: August 3 to 12, 2018 [19659015] participants (10): Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda, Burundi, Sudan, Ethiopia, South Sudan, Somalia, Djibouti
Date: 11 to 26 August 2018.
Participating teams (4): Tunisia, Morocco, Algeria, Libya
Date: from 20th to 28th August 2018
Participating teams (7): Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana, Nigeria, Togo, Burkina Faso, Niger and Benin
Date: 2 15 September 2018
Participating teams: (8) Cape Verde, Gambia, Guinea, Guinea Bissau, Liberia, Mauritania, [19659005] Senegal and Sierra Leone.
Date: September 9 to 18, 2018
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