With just a few days to the final draw of TotalEnergies Africa Women’s Cup of Nations Morocco 2022™, CAF has released the draw procedure that will be used to determine the fate of the 12 countries that have qualified for the event.
Defending champions Nigeria will avoid hosts Morocco and Cameroon in the Group phase of the 2022 Africa Women Cup of Nation (AWCON).
The twelve teams will be drawn into three groups of four teams, with the hosts Morocco automatically seeded and assigned to Position A1 in the draw. The seeding will be based on their performance in 2018 Africa Women’s Cup of Nations final tournament and the 2022 tournament’s qualification.
Morocco as hosts are in A1, Cameroon in B1 (Second best ranked team), Nigeria are C1 (Champions) and other qualified teams occupy Pot 1.
Three additional pots will be used; A, B, and C, with each pot containing three (3) balls.
The first ball drawn from Pot 1 will go to group A, a ball will drawn from Pot A to determine its position (A2, A3, A4) in the group.
The second ball drawn from Pot 1 will go to group B, a ball will drawn from Pot B to determine its position (B2, B3, B4) in the group.
The third ball drawn from Pot 1 will go to group C, a ball will drawn from Pot C to determine its position (C2, C3, C4) in the group.
The final draw will be conducted at Mohamed VI Complex in Rabat, Morocco on Friday 29 April 2022 at 20:30 GMT
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