Five-time World Cup finalists Nigeria could well draw arch-rivals Ghana and Cameroon in the group phase of the qualifying tournament for the 2018 World Cup should the FIFA rankings be mainly used to seed teams.

No date has been fixed yet for the draw for this final round of the World Cup qualifiers, which will be played on league basis, but speculations are rife that it could be before the end of the year.

Currently, Nigeria are 59th ranked team in the world and on this count, they will fall in pot 3 of seeds along with Egypt (57), Mali (63), Uganda (68) and Zambia (71).

Pot 1 will have the continent’s top teams Cote d’Ivoire (22), Algeria (26), Ghana (30), Cape Verde (32) and Senegal (39).

Pot 2 will be made up of Tunisia (41), Cameroon (51), Congo Brazzaville (52), Guinea (53) and DR Congo (55).

The last pot of 20 qualifiers could then be Gabon (73), South Africa (75), Morocco (79), Burkina Faso (93) and Libya (113).

A team from each pot will be picked out to form a qualifying group of five teams with the overall winners advancing to the World Cup in Russia.


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That would be sweet like banana. Ghana,Nigeria, Cameroon and South Africa.

Jiggaman2:
That would be sweet like banana. Ghana,Nigeria, Cameroon and South Africa.

its dangarouse oh

cos the Ghanians are in form...

but South Africa Usual customers

robosky02:



its dangarouse oh

cos the Ghanians are in form...

but South Africa Usual customers

Regular customers you say? Don't forget that it is the south African team that thumped us out of last AFCON. No team should be underestimated

Before nkor

Lol The magnitude of suckness (The word doesn't exist but wants to use it to make a point) in Nigerian Team is directly proportional to team Ghana and team Cameroon.

Let them seed us in any of there group.


We will qualify.


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End time draw
End time country
New con3 will rise from Nigeria
That's biafra

NA BEATING BE DAT OOO

No World Cup for Nigeria... not a curse..but it's just obvious...with de terrible performances of late?
c'mon..even if naija go...dem no go still pass that group stage...so dey better just siddon n create a good team...

Naija will knock these african teams out in one sweep! I dont care what saddists and pessimists would say! Super eagles have a reputation for rising to the occasion when you write them off. Check out Naija versus Cote de vior, Nations cup 2013. Naija versus Argentina, world cup 2014- we didnt win this last one but we were really tough. Underestimate the super eagles at your peril! PLEASE WRITE US OFF, IT MAKES US BETTER!!!

Bring me Ghana, I want to teach my little brother or my child small lesson of life.

I foresee it

Nigeria will miss out of both the afcon and the next world cup
Quote me anywhr

B

we shall beat them all

onyedikachukwue:
End time draw End time country New con3 will rise from Nigeria That's biafra

end time Biafra

Hope they don't disgrace us as usual

he don happen be dat. Dat wan go be like Barcelona vs eyimba of aba

we failed to qualify for the 2006 world cup. That could be repeated ten years later

I knew it before

Infact sef we could drop down when the next rankings come out

Some mumu ignoramus fans ran unto the pitch just because we beat Swaziland 2-0. I weep

Even beating Swaziland handsomely home and away won't make us rise. Swaziland are faar below in rankings

God help us

The draw will be a disaster to football lovers who care about super eagles coz our players are not in good form and if this continue, I doubt our qualification. Its just like drawing Chelsea with stoke, Liverpool and west ham at this trial stage of Chelsea fc

Nigeria shld start preparing for qatar 2022.

I blame Biafra for the End time draw

buskie13:
No World Cup for Nigeria... not a curse..but it's just obvious...with de terrible performances of late?
c'mon..even if naija go...dem no go still pass that group stage...so dey better just siddon n create a good team...

with this present team and coach,i do not even want us to qualify

Donariok:
Hope they don't disgrace us as usual

i pray they do. We do not have a team

E good...

Good opponents to test their strength! BT they should change their name from 'Super Eagle' to 'Aspiring Eagles' or rather 'Shambolic Eagles' cos blive, there is notin super abt dose guys! Aside Daddy Ajala, Martins n Ighalo!

If this is true then my country Nigeria is out.

E don finish 4 super eagles b dat!!!

I strongly believe we will scale throuqh but not with this form/players