South Africa have been placed into the second pot for Monday’s Africa Cup of Nations finals draw in Morocco, included in the second tier of seeds for the tournament .
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The draw will be broadcast live on SuperSport Variety 4 at 8pm CAT (GMT+2).
Bafana Bafana will be drawn into one of the six groups for the finals in December, along with one of the top seeds, which are host Morocco, holders Ivory Coast, Algeria, Egypt, Nigeria and Senegal.
South Africa will not face any of Burkina Faso, Cameroon, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Mali or Tunisia, who are all in the same pot.
The seedings for the finals were not determined by past Cup of Nations finals’ performances but instead by the latest Fifa rankings, as of December 19, where South Africa are 57th in the world and 10th in Africa.
The draw, which is being broadcast by SuperSport and starts at 8pm, begins with the drawing of the teams in the bottom tier, pot four. It has a heavy southern Africa influence and features Botswana, Comoros, Mozambique, Sudan, Tanzania and Zimbabwe.
After that the six teams in pot three will be allocated a group each. They are Angola, Benin, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Uganda and Zambia.
Following that will be the turn of the teams in pot two, including Bafana Bafana, and then finally all the top seeds will be drawn into each of the six first round group.
The tournament, which kicks off on December 21, sees the top two teams in each of the six groups advance along with the four best third placed finishers to the knockout stages.
The final will be held on 18 January 2026.
The venues for the tournament are still to be revealed.