CAPE TOWN: Africa's World Cup qualifiers have been thrown into crisis after a ban on numerous stadia across the continent left many countries facing the prospect of hosting matches next month outside their borders. The list leaves a quarter of the 40 teams competing for places in Qatar 2022 without a venue to play their home qualifiers. Those affected include Senegal, who competed at the last World Cup in Russia in 2018, and Mali, who were among the top seeded teams for the preliminaries. The group phase of Africa's World Cup preliminaries has the 40 countries divided into 10 groups of four. But in March, a similar ban on several stadia across the continent for the last round of Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers was lifted at the last minute.

Source: Libya Today May 04, 2021 12:22 UTC