2022 FIFA World Cup qualification – CAF Second Round
The second round of CAF matches for 2022 FIFA World Cup qualification are played over 6 matchdays, from 5 October 2020 to 12 October 2021.
The African section of the 2022 FIFA World Cup qualification acts as qualifiers for the 2022 FIFA World Cup, to be held in Qatar, for national teams which are members of the Confederation of African Football. A total of 5 slots in the final tournament are available for CAF teams.
Format
The second round will see the top 26 ranked CAF teams joined by the 14 winners from the first round. These teams were drawn into ten groups of four teams to play home-and-away round-robin matches. The winners of each group will advance to the third round.Seeding
The draw for the second round was held on 21 January 2020, 19:00 CAT, at the Nile Ritz-Carlton in Cairo, Egypt.The seeding was based on the FIFA World Rankings of December 2019.
| Pot 1 | Pot 2 | Pot 3 | Pot 4 |
† First round winners
Schedule
Below is the schedule of the 2022 FIFA World Cup qualifying campaign, for the second round. After the rescheduling of the 2021 Africa Cup of Nations final tournament from June/July to January/February, the dates of the matchdays 1–2 of the second round were also rescheduled.| Matchday | FIFA International Dates |
| Matchday 1 | 5–13 October 2020 |
| Matchday 2 | 9–17 November 2020 |
| Matchday 3 | 22–30 March 2021 |
| Matchday 4 | 22–30 March 2021 |
| Matchday 5 | 30 August–7 September 2021 |
| Matchday 6 | 4–12 October 2021 |
Groups
Group A
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Group B
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Group C
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Group D
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Group E
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Group F
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Group G
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Group H
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Group I
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Group J
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