The CAF qualifying format for the 2014 Men’s World Cup represents a break from recent tradition. The campaign begins with a preliminary round in which the 24 lowest ranked teams play off for 12 places in the group phase. Here, they join the 28 highest ranked teams to form ten groups of four teams each. In a new wrinkle, the group winners must then play off for the five places in Brazil. The 28 teams to receive byes into the group phase will be determined based on the FIFA world rankings for JUL 2011.
¤ Teams to qualify: 5
• Entrants: Algeria, Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Verde Is, Central African Rep, Chad, Comoros, Congo, Congo DR, Côte d’Ivoire, Djibouti, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritius, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, São Tomé-Príncipe, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, {{tid=sud}}, Swaziland, Tanzania, Togo, Tunisia, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe