Uganda Cranes have been pitted in Group G of the 2026 FIFA World Cup for Africa in the draws conducted on Thursday on the sidelines of the 45th CAF Congress in Abidjan, Ivory Coast.
Uganda was placed in Pot 3 prior to the draws and the lots made by former Nigerian midfielder Jay Jay Okocha confirmed the Group where the Cranes will play as G.
The same group has Algeria who coincidentally are Uganda’s opponents in the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations Qualifiers with the Desert Foxes having an upper hand.
The other teams in the same Group include Guinea, Mozambique, Botswana and Somalia.
It should be noted that a total of 54 countries have been drawn into nine groups, each composed of six teams.
The winner of each group will directly qualify to the World Cup, while the four best group runners-up will participate in play-offs to determine which team will advance to the inter-confederation play-offs.
The 2026 FIFA World Cup will see participation of teams increase from the current 32 to 48 which also consequently leads the increase in number of teams from CAF (Africa) from 5 to 9 or possibly 10 depending on the outcome of the intercontinental playoffs
The Groups
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- Egypt
- Burkina Faso
- Guinea-Bissau
- Sierra Leone
- Ethiopia
- Djibouti
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- Senegal
- DR Congo
- Mauritania
- Togo
- Sudan
- South Sudan
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- Nigeria
- South Africa
- Benin
- Zimbabwe
- Rwanda
- Lesotho
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- Cameroon
- Cape Verde
- Angola
- Libya
- Swaziland
- Mauritius
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- Morocco
- Zambia
- Congo
- Tanzania
- Niger
- Eritrea
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- Ivory Coast
- Gabon
- Kenya
- Gambia
- Burundi
- Seychelles
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- Algeria
- Guinea
- Uganda
- Mozambique
- Botswana
- Somalia
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- Tunisia
- Equatorial Guinea
- Namibia
- Malawi
- Liberia
- São Tomé and Principe
Group I
•Mali
•Ghana
•Madagascar
•Central Africa Republic
•Comoros
•CHAD
