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The CAF first round of 2022 FIFA World Cup qualification was played from 4 to 10 September 2019.

Format

A total of 28 teams (teams ranked 27–54 in the CAF entrant list) played home-and-away over two legs. The 14 winners advanced to the second round.

Seeding

The draw for the first round was held on 29 July 2019 at 12:00 EST (UTC+2), at the CAF headquarters in Cairo, Egypt.

The seeding was based on the FIFA World Rankings of July 2019 (shown in parentheses below). Teams from Pot 2 hosted the first leg, while teams from Pot 1 hosted the second leg.

Note: Bolded teams qualified for the second round.

Summary

The first legs were played on 4–7 September, and the second legs on 8 and 10 September 2019.

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Ethiopia	1–1 (a)	Lesotho	0–0	1–1
Somalia	2–3	Zimbabwe	1–0	1–3
Eritrea	1–4	Namibia	1–2	0–2
Burundi	2–2 (0–3 p)	Tanzania	1–1	1–1 (a.e.t.)
Djibouti	2–1	Eswatini	2–1	0–0
Botswana	0–1	Malawi	0–0	0–1
Gambia	1–3	Angola	0–1	1–2
Liberia	3–2	Sierra Leone	3–1	0–1
Mauritius	0–3	Mozambique	0–1	0–2
São Tomé and Príncipe	1–3	Guinea-Bissau	0–1	1–2
South Sudan	1–2	Equatorial Guinea	1–1	0–1
Comoros	1–3	Togo	1–1	0–2
Chad	1–3	Sudan	1–3	0–0
Seychelles	0–10	Rwanda	0–3	0–7

Matches

Ethiopia	0–0	Lesotho
	Report

Lesotho	1–1	Ethiopia
Seturumane 56'	Report	Lerotholi 50' (o.g.)

1–1 on aggregate. Ethiopia won on away goals and advanced to second round.

Somalia	1–0	Zimbabwe
Shakunda 86'	Report

Zimbabwe	3–1	Somalia
Munetsi 77' Muskwe 86' Billiat 90'	Report	O. Mohamed 85'

Zimbabwe won 3–2 on aggregate and advanced to second round.

Eritrea	1–2	Namibia
Sulieman 65'	Report	Shalulile 50' E. Tesfay 58' (o.g.)

Namibia	2–0	Eritrea
Iimbondi 25' Shalulile 90+2'	Report

Namibia won 4–1 on aggregate and advanced to second round.

Burundi	1–1	Tanzania
C. Amissi 81'	Report	Msuva 85'

Tanzania	1–1 (a.e.t.)	Burundi
Samatta 29'	Report	Abdul Razak 45+2'
Penalties
Nyoni Mao Kamagi	3–0	Ngandu Berahino Bigirimana

2–2 on aggregate. Tanzania won 3–0 on penalties and advanced to second round.

Djibouti	2–1	Eswatini
Mahabeh 45+4' (pen.) Hamza 74'	Report	S. Mamba 56'

Eswatini	0–0	Djibouti
	Report

Djibouti won 2–1 on aggregate and advanced to second round.

Botswana	0–0	Malawi
	Report

Malawi	1–0	Botswana
Phiri 81' (pen.)	Report

Malawi won 1–0 on aggregate and advanced to second round.

Gambia	0–1	Angola
	Report	Gaspar 31'

Angola	2–1	Gambia
Geraldo 41' Abreu 68'	Report	Ceesay 65'

Angola won 3–1 on aggregate and advanced to second round.

Liberia	3–1	Sierra Leone
Te. Tisdell 18' (pen.) Sangare 82' (pen.) Johnson 88'	Report	Quee 56'

Sierra Leone	1–0	Liberia
K. Kamara 55'	Report

Liberia won 3–2 on aggregate and advanced to second round.

Mauritius	0–1	Mozambique
	Report	Telinho 10'

Mozambique	2–0	Mauritius
Clésio 6' Catamo 77' (pen.)	Report

Mozambique won 3–0 on aggregate and advanced to second round.

São Tomé and Príncipe	0–1	Guinea-Bissau
	Report	Jos. Mendes 85' (pen.)

Guinea-Bissau	2–1	São Tomé and Príncipe
Jos. Mendes 66', 77'	Report	Iniesta 12'

Guinea-Bissau won 3–1 on aggregate and advanced to second round.

South Sudan	1–1	Equatorial Guinea
Kata 75' (o.g.)	Report	Meseguer 34'

Equatorial Guinea	1–0	South Sudan
Nsue 72'	Report

Equatorial Guinea won 2–1 on aggregate and advanced to second round.

Comoros	1–1	Togo
Djoudja 49'	Report	Laba 34'

Togo	2–0	Comoros
M'Dahoma 10' (o.g.) Sunu 71'	Report

Togo won 3–1 on aggregate and advanced to second round.

Chad	1–3	Sudan
N'Douassel 85' (pen.)	Report	Ramadan 13', 67', 74'

Sudan	0–0	Chad
	Report

Sudan won 3–1 on aggregate and advanced to second round.

Seychelles	0–3	Rwanda
	Report	Hakizimana 32' Mukunzi 36' Kagere 80'

Rwanda	7–0	Seychelles
Bizimana 16' Kagere 27', 51' Tuyisenge 29', 34' Mukunzi 57' Hakizimana 79'	Report

Rwanda won 10–0 on aggregate and advanced to second round.

Goalscorers

There were 57 goals scored in 28 matches, for an average of 2.04 goals per match.

3 goals

• Joseph Mendes
• Meddie Kagere
• Ramadan Agab

2 goals

• Peter Shalulile
• Muhadjiri Hakizimana
• Yannick Mukunzi
• Jacques Tuyisenge

1 goal

• Fábio Abreu
• Wilson Gaspar
• Geraldo
• Fiston Abdul Razak
• Cédric Amissi
• Ezechiel N'Douassel
• Ibroihim Djoudja
• Hamza Abdi Idleh
• Mahdi Houssein Mahabeh
• Luis Meseguer
• Emilio Nsue
• Ali Sulieman
• Siboniso Mamba
• Assan Ceesay
• Tsepo Seturumane
• Sam Johnson
• Mohammed Sangare
• Terrence Tisdell
• Gerald Phiri
• Geny Catamo
• Clésio
• Telinho
• Absalom Iimbondi
• Djihad Bizimana
• Iniesta
• Kei Kamara
• Kwame Quee
• Omar Mohamed
• Anwar Shakunda
• Saimon Msuva
• Mbwana Samatta
• Kodjo Fo-Doh Laba
• Gilles Sunu
• Khama Billiat
• Marshall Munetsi
• Admiral Muskwe

1 own goal

• Kassim M'Dahoma (against Togo)
• Niko Kata (against South Sudan)
• Esey Tesfay (against Namibia)
• Nkau Lerotholi (against Ethiopia)

Notes

1. Somalia played their home match in Djibouti due to security concerns from the ongoing civil war.
2. South Sudan played their home match in Sudan due to their national stadium currently undergoing renovations.

References

1. "CAF reverts to previous format for 2022 African World Cup qualifiers". Ahram Newspaper (english web version). 10 July 2019.
2. "Fixtures of the preliminary round of the FIFAWC2022" (PDF). cafonline.com.
3. FIFA.com. "204 member associations in contention for FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 berths". www.fifa.com. Archived from the original on 16 July 2019. Retrieved 29 July 2019.
4. "Early miles of African marathon to Qatar laid out". FIFA.com. 28 July 2019.
5. "FIFA Men's Ranking – July 2019 (CAF)". FIFA.com. 25 July 2019. Archived from the original on 13 August 2019.
6. Huaxia (23 August 2019). "S. Sudan camps in Khartoum ahead of World Cup qualifiers". Xinhua News Agency. Archived from the original on 23 August 2019. Retrieved 4 September 2019.

External links

• Official FIFA World Cup website
• Qualifiers – Africa Matches: Round 1, FIFA.com

• 2022 FIFA World Cup qualification (CAF)
• 2019 in African football
• September 2019 sports events in Africa