2026 World Cup Qualifiers: CAF confirms dates, venue for playoff tournament

The Confederation of African Football (CAF) has announced the venues, dates, and format for the 2026 FIFA World Cup African playoff, mounting the signifier for a decisive showdown successful November 2025.

In a missive circulated to each subordinate federations, CAF confirmed that Morocco: big federation of the upcoming AFCON 2025: volition besides signifier the African play-offs for the 2026 World Cup qualifiers.

According to the schedule, the semi-final matches of the four-team mini-tournament volition instrumentality spot connected November 13, 2025, portion the last volition beryllium played connected November 16, 2025.

The CAF playoff competition will diagnostic the 4 champion runners-up from the 9 qualifying groups, determined aft Matchday 10 of the qualifiers.

CAF outlined that successful the lawsuit of a draw, matches volition proceed to other clip and, if necessary, punishment shootouts. Teams volition beryllium allowed 5 substitutions, with a sixth permitted during other time.

The October 2025 FIFA World Rankings, acceptable to beryllium published connected October 23, volition find the gully and seeding for the play-offs.

The highest-ranked squad volition look the fourth-ranked successful 1 semi-final, portion the 2nd and 3rd ranked sides volition conscionable successful the other.

The victor of the Moroccan play-off tourney volition beforehand to the intercontinental play-off scheduled for March 2026, wherever they volition vie against teams from Asia, South America, Oceania, and Concacaf for a accidental to assertion Africa’s 10th and last slot astatine the 2026 FIFA World Cup.

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