Africa qualifying for the 2022 Soccer World Cup in Qatar continued on Saturday with a number of countries still with high hopes of representing the continent.
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For others, however, the final two rounds will be largely meaningless as they have already been eliminated.
So how does the qualifying actually work?
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There are 10 groups of four countries with the winners of each heading through to the next round where they will randomly be drawn into five head-to-head, home and away matches.
The winners of those five matches will represent Africa next year in Qatar.
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FOUR groups have already been decided.
Mali have won Group E, Egypt triumphed in Group F, Senegal clinched Group H while Morocco topped Group I leaving just six more groups to be decided.
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Below, as the groups currently stand heading into the next round of matches. Log points in brackets.
LATEST SOCCER WORLD CUP 2022 AFRICA GROUP STANDINGS:
GROUP A
STILL ALIVE: Algeria (13), Burkina Faso (11)
ELIMINATED: Niger (4), Djibouti (0)
GROUP B
STILL ALIVE: Tunisia (10), Equatorial Guinea (10), Zambia (7)
ELIMINATED: Mauritania (1)
GROUP C
STILL ALIVE: Nigeria (12), Cape Verde (10)
ELIMINATED: Central African Republic (4), Liberia (3)
GROUP D
STILL ALIVE: Ivory Coast (13), Cameroon (12)
ELIMINATED: Malawi (3), Mozambique (1)
GROUP E
WINNER: Mali (13)
ELIMINATED: Uganda (9), (Kenya (3), Rwanda (1)
GROUP F
WINNER: Egypt (13)
ELIMINATED: Gabon (7), Libya (6), Angola (4)
GROUP G
STILL ALIVE: South Africa (13), Ghana (10)
ELIMINATED: Ethiopia (4), Zimbabwe (1)
GROUP H
WINNER: Senegal (13)
ELIMINATED: Togo (5), Namibia (5), Congo (3)
GROUP I
WINNER: Morocco (15)
ELIMINATED: Guinea Bissau (5), Guinea (4), Sudan (2)
GROUP J
STILL ALIVE: Benin (10), DR Congo (8)
ELIMINATED: Tanzania (7), Madagascar (3)
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