IFFHS STATS - AFRICAN WORLD CUP 2026 QUALIFIERS
Picture : Ryan Mendes and Cape Verde made HISTORY !
IFFHS STATS – AFRICAN WORLD CUP 2026 QUALIFIERS
-Egypt, Senegal, South Africa, Cape Verde, Morocco, Ivory Coast, Algeria, Tunisia and Ghana are qualified for the World Cup 2026, winning the Groups A to I.
- Gabon, DR Congo, Cameroon and Nigeria , the 4 best second placed teams, will playoff next month to decide a single winner to go on intercontinental playoffs in March 2026.
- Morocco was the only team in Africa to win all their qualification games (8 games, 8 wins). They have now a record setting 16th straight victory !
- Ivory Coast and Tunisia were the only teams to secure 10 clean sheets in all their 10 games !
- Cape Verde won the Group D ranking with 4 points more than favorite Cameroon and qualified for the first time in their History for a World Cup Final stage !
- Mohamed Amoura (Algeria) scored 10 goals in the qualification stage and won the Goalscorer ranking before Mohamed Salah (Egypt) , 9 goals and Denis Bouanga (Gabon), 8 goals.
- Cape Verde is the second smallestr country to qaulify for a World Cup after Iceland, which competed in Russia in 2018.
- Victor Ohsimen scored a hat trick vs Benin to allow Nigeria to hope as runner-up for the playoffs !
- Algeria celebrated the debut in goal of Luca Zidane, the son of France World Cup winner Zinedine Zidane and the qualification to the World Cup.