Ghana Seeded For 2014 World Cup Qualifiers

Ghana’s Black Stars have been seeded for the 2014 World Cup qualifiers

Ghana is among the 52 African countries who have registered to play in the qualifiers for the 2014 World Cup in Brazil.

The Black Stars have been exempted from the preliminary stage of the qualifiers because of its position in the Fifa rankings.

Ghana is the highest ranked African country in the Fifa ranking which means it has been seeded to aovid the tourtous preliminary stage.

The Confederation of African Football (Caf) has confirmed that the qualifiers for the tournament will start in November 2011.

According to Caf, Ghana and 51 other nations would be involved in a total of 154 matches that will played between November 2011 and November 2013 to determine the continent’s five candidates for the next World Cup.

The Black Stars have played in the last two editions of the World Cup in 2006 (Germany) and 2010 (South Africa).

The qualifying format will begin with the preliminary round which will see the latest 24-bottom FIFA ranked teams play to advance to the next stage of the qualifiers.

The 12 teams to qualifiy from the preliminary round will join the 28 teams, on a bye for the next phase.

The top team from each of the 10 groups will qualify for the final play-off, and will play on home and away basis to determine the five slots.