AFCON Qualifiers To Resume In November - CAF

According to Africa’s football governing body CAF, AFCON 2021 qualifiers will resume in November 2020, The Herald reports. The matter came to light when CAF availed a new calendar for the AFCOn qualifiers yesterday which states that Zimbabwe will play Algeria on 9 & 17 November 2020.

In a statement confirming the possible new AFCON Qualifiers’ dates, CAF said:

The CAF Emergency Committee has approved the resumption date for qualifiers of the Total Africa Cup of Nations Cameroon 2021 and the group stage of the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022. A busy schedule awaits the participating teams with double-headers from November 2020 through to November 2021 in the battle for spots to the final tournament of the two competitions.

The schedules for the two competitions have had to be revised in light of the Covid-19 outbreak, which halted many sporting activities across the continent and beyond, for some time. For Cameroon 2021, the qualifiers resume on 9-17 November 2020 with the Day 3 and 4 matches whilst the penultimate and ultimate matches take place on 22-30 March 2021.

According to the same calendar availed by CAF, world cup qualifiers will be played between May 2021 to November 2021. Football has resumed in some parts of the world including in South Africa and Zambia. Zimbabwe is yet to make an announcement about the resumption of the local Premier Soccer League.

More: The Herald