2024 African Nations Championship qualification

2024 African Nations Championship qualificationTournament details

Dates| 25 October – 29 December 2024
Teams| 40 (from 1 confederation)

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The 2024 African Nations Championship qualification is a men's football competition which decides the participating teams of the 2024 African Nations Championship. Only national team players who are playing in their country's own domestic league are eligible to compete in the tournament.

## Teams

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A total of 40 (out of 54) CAF member national teams entered the qualifying rounds, split into zones according to their regional affiliations. The draw for the qualifying rounds was held on October 9 2024 at the CAF headquarters in Cairo, Egypt.

Zone  | Spots (total 18)  | Teams entering qualification  | Did not enter

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Northern Zone
(UNAF)  | 3 spots  |

* Libya
* Morocco
* Tunisia

* Algeria
* Egypt

Western Zone A
(WAFU-UFOA A)  | 3 spots  |

* Guinea
* Guinea-Bissau
* Liberia
* Mali
* Mauritania
* Senegal
* Sierra Leone

* Cape Verde
* Gambia

Western Zone B
(WAFU-UFOA B)  | 3 spots  |

* Benin
* Burkina Faso
* Ghana
* Ivory Coast
* Niger
* Nigeria
* Togo

Central Zone
(UNIFFAC)  | 3 spots  |

* Central African Republic
* Chad
* Congo
* DR Congo
* Equatorial Guinea
* Cameroon

* São Tomé and Príncipe
* Gabon

Central Eastern Zone
(CECAFA)  | 4 spots  |

* Burundi
* Djibouti
* Ethiopia
* Rwanda
* Somalia
* South Sudan
* Sudan
* Tanzania
* Uganda
* Eritrea
* Kenya

Southern Zone
(COSAFA)  | 3 spots  |

* Angola
* Botswana
* Comoros
* Eswatini
* Madagascar
* Malawi
* Mauritius
* Mozambique
* Seychelles
* South Africa
* Zambia
* ~~Zimbabwe~~

* Namibia
* Lesotho

## Format

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Qualification ties are played on a home-and-away two-legged basis. If the aggregate score is tied after the second leg, the away goals rule would be applied, and if still level, the penalty shoot-out would be used to determine the winner (no extra time would be played).