Africa has been awarded five spots at the 2014 FIFA World Cup finals in Brasil. The fifty-two participating CAF member nations will learn their qualifying fates this Saturday, 30 July 2011, at the preliminary draw in Rio de Janeiro. The bottom twenty-four teams in the ranking will have to play in the first round of African qualifying.
Teams ranked 29 to 40 have been placed in Pot 5. Teams ranked 41 to 52 have been placed in Pot 6. One team from each pot will be drawn into a home-and-away aggregate goals series. The series will be numbered from 1 to 12. Teams have been placed in pots 5 and 6 for the first-round draw as follows.
Pot 5
29. Mozambique
30. Democratic Republic of Congo
31. Togo
32. Liberia
33. Tanzania
34. Congo
35. Kenya
36. Rwanda
37. Ethiopia
38. Namibia
39. Burundi
40. Madagascar
Pot 6
41. Guinea-Bissau
42. Equatorial Guinea
43. Chad
44. Swaziland
45. Comoros
46. Lesotho
47. Eritrea
48. Somalia
49. Djibouti
50. Mauritius
51. Seychelles
52. Sao Tome e Principe
The second part of the draw for African qualifiers involves the 28 highest-ranked teams, who were split into Pots 1,2, and 3, plus 12 reserved places for the first round winners, which have been split into Pots 3 and 4. The teams will be drawn into ten groups of four, with one team in each group coming from Pot 1, one from Pot 2, one from Pot 3, and one from Pot 4.
Pot 1
1. Cote d'Ivoire
2. Egypt
3. Ghana
4. Burkina Faso
5. Nigeria
6. Senegal
7. South Africa
8. Cameroon
9. Algeria
10. Tunisia
Pot 2
11. Gabon
12. Libya
13. Morocco
14. Guinea
15. Botswana
16. Malawi
17. Zambia
18. Uganda
19. Mali
20. Cape Verde
Pot 3
21. Benin
22. Zimbabwe
23. Central African Republic
24. Sierra Leone
25. Sudan
26. Niger
27. Angola
28. Gambia
29. Winner of Series 1
30. Winner of Series 2
Pot 4
31-40. Winners of Series 3-12
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