Nigeria’s Super Eagles have landed in the pot 1 team of the 2022 World Cup qualifiers ahead of the draw which takes place on January 21st 2020 in Cairo.
Nigeria are the 3th highest African side and it enough to earned them a place in pot 1 for the draw.
After two high profile friendlies against Brazil and Ukraine , along with two win from two 2021 African Cup of Nations qualifiers, the team gained 1493 points to remain third-best team in Africa behind Senegal and Tunisia.
The full pots is as follows: Pot 1: Senegal, Tunisia, Nigeria, Algeria, Morocco, Ghana, Egypt, Cameroon, Mali, Democratic Republic of the Congo.
In Pot 2: Burkina Faso, Cote d’Ivoire, South Africa, Guinea, Uganda, Cape Verde, Gabon, Benin, Zambia, and the Congo.
Pot 3 is made up of Madagascar, Mauritania, Libya, Mozambique, Kenya, Central Africa, Zimbabwe, Niger, Namibia, Guinea-Bissau, while Pot 4 have the likes of Malawi, Angola, Togo, Sudan, Rwanda, Tanzania, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Liberia, Djibouti.
