Africa Cup of Nations 2021 Qualifier, Fixtures & Schedules

The 33rd edition of Africa Cup of Nations 2021 is scheduled from 9 January to 6 February 2021. Due to sponsors the tournament is known as AFCON, or Total Africa Cup of Nations organized by the Confederation of African Football(CAF).

The tournament is originally scheduled to play in June and July 2021 but the COVID-19 pandemic tournament got postponed from 9 January to 6 February 2022.

The tournament is host by Cameroon with 24 teams are going to play with 6 venues. At final the 24 teams are divided into six groups of four teams each. All teams from each group going to play a single round-robin. On 24 January 2014 the CAF Executive Committee meeting decided that there will be three official candidates for the 2021 edition(Algeria, Guinea, Ivory Coast).

The decision was postponed and after it was decided to host the 2021 tournament by Cameroon. Here we are updating about Africa Cup of Nations 2021 full tournament update with Qualifier, Fixtures & Schedules.

Africa Cup of Nations 2021

Table of Contents

Draw
Pot 1	Pot 2	Pot 3	Pot 4
Cameroon	Egypt	Cape Verde	Sudan
Algeria	Ghana	Gabon	Malawi
Senegal	Mali	Mauritania	Comoros
Tunisia	Ivory Coast	Zimbabwe	Equatorial Guinea
Nigeria	Guinea	Guinea-Bissau	Ethiopia
Morocco	Burkina Faso	Sierra Leone	The Gambia

Venues

For Africa Cup Nations 2021 tournament they will use six venues within five cities, After the number of teams increase from 16 teams to 24 teams they will use atleast six venues or may be increase.

The Final and the Opening match are set to take place in the newly build stadium Olembe Stadium with 60,000 seater.

Douala:Japoma Stadium(Capacity:50,000)
Yaounde: Olembe Stadium(Capacity:60,000)
Yaounde: Stade Ahmadou Ahidjo(Capacity:42,500)
Garoua: Roumde Adjia Stadium(Capacity: 30,000)
Bafoussam: Kouekong Stadium(Capacity:20,000
Limbe: Limbe Stadium(Capacity:20,000)

Africa Cup of Nations 2021 Point Table

In each group stage, there will be 6 teams.

Group A – Teams and Fixture

P	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Cameroon	3	2	1	0	7	3	+4	7
2	Burkina Faso	3	1	1	1	3	3	0	4
3	Cape Verde	3	1	1	1	2	2	0	4
4	Ethiopia	3	0	1	2	2	6	-4	1

9 January 2022
Group A	Team 1	Score	Team 2
Group A	Cameroon	2-1	Burkina Faso
Group A	Ethiopia	0-1	Cape Verde

13 January 2022
Group	Team 1	score	Team 2
Group A	Cameroon	4-1	Ethiopia
Group A	Cape Verde	0-1	Burkina Faso

17 January 2022
Group	Team 1	score	Team 2
Group A	Cape Verde	1-1	Cameroon
Group A	Burkina Faso	1-1	Ethiopia

Group B- Teams and Fixture

P	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Senegal	3	1	2	0	1	0	+1	5
2	Guinea	3	1	1	1	2	2	0	4
3	Malawi	3	1	1	1	2	2	0	4
4	Zimbabwe	3	1	0	2	3	4	-1	3

10 January 2022
Group B	Team 1	score	Team 2
Group B	Senegal	1-0	Zimbabwe
Group B	Guinea	1-0	Malawi

14 Janaury 2022
Group B	Team 1	score	Team 2
Group B	Senegal	0-0	Guinea
Group B	Malawi	2-1	Zimbabwe

18 January 2022
Group B	Team 1	score	Team 2
Group B	Malawi	0-0	Senegal
Group B	Zimbabwe	2-1	Guinea

Group C – Teams and Fixture

P	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Morocco	3	2	1	0	5	2	+3	7
2	Gabon	3	1	2	0	4	3	+1	5
3	Comoros	3	1	0	2	3	5	-2	3
4	Ghana	3	0	1	2	3	5	-2	1

10 January 2022
Group	Team 1	score	Team 2
Group C	Morocco	1-0	Ghana
Group C	Comoros	0-1	Gabon

14 Janaury 2022
Group	Team 1	score	Team 2
Group C	Morocco	2-0	Comoros
Group C	Gabon	1-1	Ghana

18 January 2022
Group	Team 1	score	Team 2
Group C	Gabon	2-2	Morocco
Group C	Ghana	2-3	Comoros

Group D – Teams and Fixture

P	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Nigeria	3	3	0	0	6	1	+5	9
2	Egypt	3	2	0	1	2	1	+1	6
3	Sudan	3	0	1	2	1	4	-3	1
4	Guinea-Bissau	3	0	1	2	0	3	-3	1

11 January 2022
Group D	Team 1	score	Team 2
Group D	Nigeria	1-0	Egypt
Group D	Sudan	0-0	Guinea-Bissau

15 January 2022
Group	Team 1	score	Team 2
Group D	Nigeria	3-1	Sudan
Group D	Guinea-Bissau	0-1	Egypt

19 September 2022
Group	Team 1	score	Team 2
Group D	Guinea-Bissau	0-2	Nigeria
Group D	Egypt	1-0	Sudan

Group E – Teams and Fixture

P	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Ivory Coast	3	2	1	0	6	3	+3	7
2	Equatorial Guinea	3	2	0	1	2	1	+1	6
3	Sierra leone	3	0	2	1	2	3	-1	2
4	Algeria	3	0	1	2	1	4	-3	1

11 January 2022
Group	Team 1	score	Team 2
Group E	Algeria	0-0	Sierra leone
Group E	Equatorial Guinea	0-1	Ivory Coast

16 January 2022
Group	Team 1	score	Team 2
Group E	Ivory Coast	2-2	Sierra leone
Group E	Algeria	0-1	Equatorial Guinea

17 January 2022
Group	Team 1	score	Team 2
Group E	Ivory Coast	3-1	Algeria
Group E	Sierra leone	0-1	Equatorial Guinea

Group F – Teams and Fixture

P	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Mali	3	2	1	0	4	1	+3	7
2	The Gambia	3	2	1	0	3	1	+2	7
3	Tunisia	3	1	0	2	4	2	+2	3
4	Mauritania	3	0	0	3	0	7	-7	0

12 January 2022
Group	Team 1	score	Team 2
Group F	Tunisia	0-1	Mali
Group F	Mauritania	0-1	The Gambia

16 January 2022
Group	Team 1	score	Team 2
Group F	The Gambia	1-1	Mali
Group F	Tunisia	4-0	Mauritania

20 January 2022
Group	Team 1	score	Team 2
Group F	The Gambia	1-0	Tunisia
Group F	Mali	2-0	Mauritania

2021 Africa Cup Round of 16

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Group A	Group B	Date	Location	Team for Quarter-final
Burkina Faso vs Gabon	Nigeria vs Tunisia	23 January	Limbe, Garoua	Burkina Faso vs Tunisia
Senegal vs Cape Verde	Mali vs Equatorial Guinea	25 January/ 26 January	Bafoussam, Limbe	Senegal vs Winner R16-M8
Guinea vs Gambia	Cameroon vs Comoros	24 January	Bafoussam, Yaounde	Gambia vs Cameroon
Ivory Coast vs Egypt	Morocco vs Malawi	26 January/ 25 January	Douala, Yaounde	Winner R16-M7 vs Morocco