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Ghana has been drawn alongside South Africa, Zimbabwe and Ethiopia in the second round of the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022™ qualification.
Ghana was selected as the final team in Group G by Ghana-born French World Cup winner Marcel Desailly at the draw held on Tuesday, January 21, 2019, at the Ritz-Carlton hotel in Cairo, Egypt.
Forty teams were drawn into ten groups of four and only the section winners will advance to the third round. Ghana was in Pot One alongside African champions Algeria and other powerhouses including Senegal, Tunisia, Morocco, Ghana, Egypt, Cameroon, Mali and Congo DR.
The qualifiers are expected to start in March 2020 and end in October 2021.
The ten group winners will then be drawn into the third round (five two-legged knockout ties) to be played in November 2021 to decide the five African representatives for the World Cup.
Below is the entire draw;
Group A: Algeria, Burkina Faso, Niger, Djibouti
Group B: Tunisia, Zambia, Mauritania, Equatorial Guinea
Group C: Nigeria, Cape Verde Islands, Central African Republic, Liberia
Group D: Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire, Mozambique, Malawi
Group E: Mali, Uganda, Kenya, Rwanda
Group F: Egypt, Gabon, Libya, Angola
Group G: Ghana, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Ethiopia
Group H: Senegal, Congo, Namibia, Togo
Group I: Morocco, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Sudan
Group J: Congo DR, Benin, Madagascar, Tanzania
