The draw for the first round of African qualifiers for the 2022 World Cup was made in Cairo on Monday: Ethiopia v Lesotho Somalia v Zimbabwe Eritrea v Namibia Burundi v Tanzania Djibouti v Eswatini Botswana v Malawi Gambia v Angola Liberia v Sierra Leone Mauritius v Mozambique Sao Tome & Principe v GuineaBissau South Sudan v Equatorial Guinea Comoros Islands v Togo Chad v Sudan Seychelles v Rwanda The ties will be played over two legs in September. The team mentioned first plays at home in the opening leg. The 14 winners will join the continent's top-ranked 26 sides, who have been exempted from the initial round of qualifiers, in the next draw to be held on a date still to be decided. Those 40 teams will then be split into 10 groups of four for the second qualifying round. The 10 winners of those groups will then be drawn against each other in home-and-away fixtures, with the five victors advancing to Qatar 2022. All Africa's 54 member countries are entered. (For more sports news and updates, follow Ahram Online Sports on Twitter at @AO_Sports and on Facebook at AhramOnlineSports.)
