2021 Africa U-17 Cup of Nations qualification

The 2021 Africa U-17 Cup of Nations qualification will be a men's under-17 football competition which decide the participating teams of the 2021 Africa U-17 Cup of Nations.

2021 Africa U-17 Cup of Nations qualification
Tournament details
Host countriesAlgeria (North Zone)
Sierra Leone (West A Zone)
Benin (West B Zone)
Cameroon (Central Zone)
Rwanda (Central-East Zone)
Malawi (South Zone)
DatesTBC (June – August) 2020
TeamsMaximum 54 (from 1 confederation)

Players born 1 January 2004 or later are eligible to participate in the competition. A total of twelve teams qualify to play in the final tournament, including Morocco who qualified automatically as hosts.[1]

Schedule

The qualifying competition is split into regional competitions, with the teams entering the qualifying tournament of their zone. The following tournaments are scheduled, with the final details to be confirmed by each regional federation:[2]

North Zone

West A Zone

West B Zone

Central Zone

  •  Cameroon (qualifying hosts)
  •  Central African Republic
  •  Chad
  •  Congo
  •  DR Congo
  •  Equatorial Guinea
  •  Gabon
  •  São Tomé and Príncipe

Central-East Zone

  •  Burundi
  •  Djibouti
  •  Eritrea
  •  Ethiopia
  •  Kenya
  •  Rwanda (qualifying hosts)
  •  Somalia
  •  South Sudan
  •  Sudan
  •  Tanzania
  •  Uganda

South Zone

Qualified teams

The following 12 teams qualify for the final tournament.

Team Zone Qualified on Previous appearances in Africa U-17 Cup of Nations1
only final tournament era (since 1995)
 Morocco (hosts)North Zone28 September 2018[1]2 (2013, 2019)
TBD
TBD
TBD
TBD
TBD
TBD
TBD
TBD
TBD
TBD
TBD
1 Bold indicates champions for that year. Italic indicates hosts for that year.

References

  1. "Decisions of CAF Executive Commitee [sic] - 27 & 28 September 2018". CAF. 29 September 2018.
  2. "CAF Newsletter" (PDF). CAF. 5 April 2020. p. 3.
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