Ghana among top-seeded in 2022 WC qualifiers; balloting takes place today

Ghana would know the countries they would be playing against when the balloting for the Qatar 2022 FIFA World Cup qualifiers take place later today.
The Black Stars are one of the top-seeded countries for the Qatar 2022 FIFA World Cup qualifying matches for African countries.
The national team was seeded alongside Cameroon, Algeria, Senegal, Tunisia, Morocco, Egypt, Nigeria, Mali and Congo Democratic Republic.
Prior to the balloting, FIFA had indicated that countries highly-ranked in the December 2020 FIFA Coca-Cola rankings were going to be the top-seeded.
Pot 2 comprises Burkina Faso, South Africa, Guinea, Uganda, Cape Verde, Gabon, Benin, Zambia, Congo, and Ivory Coast.
Pot 3 is made up of Madagascar, Mauritania, Libya, Mozambique, Kenya, Zimbabwe, Niger, Central African Republic, Namibia and Guinea-Bissau
Malawi, Angola, Togo, Sudan, Rwanda, Tanzania, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Liberia and Djibouti are in Pot 4.
Per the schedule, the group phase starts in March 2020 and ends in October 2021.
The 10 group winners would be drawn into five two-legged knockout ties to be played in November 2021.
The winners of the respective knockout matches will qualify for the Qatar 2022 World Cup.
Source: Classfmonline.com
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