Hugo Broos has been left wondering about how tricky Bafana Bafana's group at the AFCON finals could turn out to be in the aftermath of the latest FIFA rankings.
Bafana have long secured their place at the competition to run from January 13 to February 11, 2024, but will go into the tournament's draw on October 12 with reason to worry.
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CAF will use the latest FIFA rankings – which were released on September 21 – to determine the seedings for the Nations Cup finals which returns to the West African country for the first time since 1984.
At its stands, the seeded teams (according to the latest FIFA rankings) that have qualified are Morocco (13), Senegal (20), Tunisia (29), Algeria (34), Egypt (35), and Nigeria (40).
Pot Two has Cameroon (41), Mali (49), Cote d'Ivoire (50), Burkina Faso (58), Ghana (60), and DR Congo (64).
In Pot Three there is South Africa (65), Cape Verde (71), Guinea (81), Zambia (82), Equatorial Guinea (92), and Mauritania (99).
Pot Four has Guinea-Bissau (106), Namibia (114), Mozambique (113), Namibia (114), Angola (117), The Gambia (118), and Tanzania (122).
Teams in each of the four pots cannot meet in the group stages.
This means Bafana's opponents will come from Pot One, Two, and Four and could turn out to be Senegal, Cote d'Ivoire, and Guinea -Bissau.
The top two teams in each of the six groups will be joined by the four third-placed teams in the last 16.
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