The focus of African football fans will return today, Tuesday, to the Cameroonian capital Yaounde, which will see the draw for the final of the African Cup of Nations scheduled for early next year in Cameroon.
The draw will take place at GMT at 6pm Saudi time and at 9pm.
There are 24 teams participating, including 7 Arab teams from Morocco, Algeria, Egypt, Tunisia, Mauritania, Sudan and the Comoros.
Team rankings during the draw:
Level One: Cameroon, Algeria, Senegal, Tunisia, Morocco and Nigeria.
Level two: Egypt, Ghana, C டிte d’Ivoire, Mali, Burkina Faso and Guinea.
Level 3: Cape Verde, Capone, Mauritania, Sierra Leone, Zimbabwe and Guinea-Bissau
Fourth level: Malawi, Sudan, Equatorial Guinea, Comoros, Ethiopia and Gambia.
Lottery Draw Mechanism:
There are 10 pots, 4 pots representing the classification of the teams, the first pot hosts the Cameroonian team and the reigning champions Algeria, and the other four teams in the classification are Tunisia, Morocco, Senegal and Nigeria, the other 6 pots representing the top 6 teams, and the numbers are named B1 , And so on.
What about the remaining 18 teams?
It is distributed to the remaining three pots in the order of the teams, the pot holds 2 secondary teams, the third team holds the third level teams, so there are 6 teams in each pot.
How is the lottery conducted?
Drawing a ball from the team pot, then a ball from the team pots, with Cameroon as the host nation in the first group, the remaining five teams in the first class are on top of the remaining teams.
To further clarify, for example, to find out the position of the team in the group, a ball will be drawn from the pot of the second team and from the pot of the second team.
Source: Agent
