The teams were drawn into eleven groups of four teams (except group K after Togo added in) each and will play each other on a round-robin basis. The winners of each group will qualify for the finals, group K will seed two winners instead as well as the two best second placed teams.
Equatorial Guinea and Gabon qualify automatically as co-hosts.
Below are the details of the draw:
Group A Cape Verde, Mali, Liberia, Zimbabwe
Group B Nigeria, Madagascar, Ethiopia, Guinea
Group C Mozambique, Libya, Zambia, Comoros
Group D Algeria, Tanzania, Morocco, Central African Republic
Group E DR Congo, Senegal, Mauritius, Cameroon
Group F Mauritania, Burkina Faso, Gambia, Namibia
Group G South Africa, Niger, Egypt, Sierra Leone
Group H Cote dIvoire, Rwanda, Benin, Burundi
Group I Sudan, Congo, Swaziland, Ghana
Group J Guinea Bissau, Kenya, Uganda, Angola
Group K Tunisia, Botswana, Chad, Malawi, Togo
Swali: Je tutavuka Algeria na Morocco ??????????????
Equatorial Guinea and Gabon qualify automatically as co-hosts.
Below are the details of the draw:
Group A Cape Verde, Mali, Liberia, Zimbabwe
Group B Nigeria, Madagascar, Ethiopia, Guinea
Group C Mozambique, Libya, Zambia, Comoros
Group D Algeria, Tanzania, Morocco, Central African Republic
Group E DR Congo, Senegal, Mauritius, Cameroon
Group F Mauritania, Burkina Faso, Gambia, Namibia
Group G South Africa, Niger, Egypt, Sierra Leone
Group H Cote dIvoire, Rwanda, Benin, Burundi
Group I Sudan, Congo, Swaziland, Ghana
Group J Guinea Bissau, Kenya, Uganda, Angola
Group K Tunisia, Botswana, Chad, Malawi, Togo
Swali: Je tutavuka Algeria na Morocco ??????????????