The biggest football event in Africa starts on the 9th of January, 2022 and ends on the 6th of February, 2022. Below, according to CAF, is the complete schedule for all matches from the opening game to the final.
Now is the time to begin the permutations as regards who qualifies from the groups, who scales the usually scary, unpredictable Round of 16, and who makes it to the final through the quarter and semifinals.
Football administrators, players, coaches, fans, enthusiasts, analysts, experts and every person within the football value chain are waiting eagerly for this tournament having missed out early this year because of the pandemic.
Who would be the likely qualifiers from Garoua’s Group D? Will the Super Eagles scale Egypt? Can the Eagles’s defence line cage Mo Salah? Who are they likely to meet in the Round of 16? Who are their likely opponents from the quarters all the way to the final? What benchmark are we setting for the Eagles given the below fixtures?
January 2022
Sunday 9th January
Cameroon vs Burkina 17:00
Ethiopia vs Cape Verde 20:00
Monday 10th January
Senegal vs Zimbabwe 14:00
Guinea vs Malawi 17:00
Morocco vs Ghana 17:00
Comoros vs Gabon 20:00
Tuesday 11th January
Algeria vs Sierra Leone 14:00
Nigeria vs Egypt 17:00
Sudan vs Guinea-Bissau 20:00
Wednesday 12th January
Tunisia vs Mali 14:00
Mauritania vs Gambia 17:00
Eq Guinea vs Ivory Coast 20:00
Thursday 13th January
Cameroon vs Ethiopia 17:00
Cape Verde vs Burkina 20:00
Friday 14th January
Senegal vs Guinea 14:00
Malawi vs Zimbabwe 17:00
Morocco vs Comoros 17:00
Gabon vs Ghana 20:00
Saturday 15th January
Nigeria vs Sudan 17:00
Guinea-Bissau vs Egypt 20:00
Sunday 16th January
Gambia vs Mali 14:00
Ivory Coast vs Sierra Leone 17:00
Tunisia vs Mauritania 17:00
Algeria vs Eq. Guinea 20:00
Monday 17th January
Burkina vs Ethiopia 17:00
Cape Verde vs Cameroon 17:00
Tuesday 18th January
Malawi vs Senegal 17:00
Zimbabwe vs Guinea 17:00
Gabon vs Morocco 20:00
Ghana vs Comoros 20:00
Wednesday 19th January
Egypt vs Sudan 20:00
Guinea-Bissau vs Nigeria 20:00
Thursday 20th January
Ivory Coast vs Algeria 17:00
Sierra Leone vs Eq. Guinea 17:00
Gambia vs Tunisia 20:00
Mali vs Mauritania 20:00
Sunday 23rd January
Grp A 2nd Place vs Grp C 2nd Place 17:00
Grp D Winner vs 3rd Place Grp B/E/F 20:00
Monday 24th January
Grp B 2nd Place vs Grp F 2nd Place 17:00
Grp A Winner vs 3rd Place Grp C/D/E 20:00
Tuesday 25th January
Grp B Winner vs 3rd Place Grp A/C/D 17:00
Grp C Winner vs 3rd Place Grp A/B/F 20:00
Wednesday 26th January
Grp E Winner vs Grp D 2nd Place 17:00
Grp F Winner vs Grp E 2nd Place 20:00
Saturday 29th January
R16 G4 Winner vs R16 G3 Winner 17:00
R16 G1 Winner vs R16 G2 Winner 20:00
Sunday 30th January
R16 G7 Winner vs R16 G6 Winner 17:00
R16 G5 Winner vs R16 G8 Winner 20:00
February 2022
Wednesday 2nd February
QF1 Winner vs QF4 Winner 20:00
Thursday 3rd February
QF2 Winner vs QF3 Winner 20:00
Sunday 6th February
SF1 Loser vs SF2 Loser 17:00
SF1 Winner vs SF2 Winner 20:00
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