File photo<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\nThe Africa Cup of Nations draw takes place on Friday (18:00 GMT), with the 24 participating teams waiting to discover their countries’ fate.<\/p>\n
But first there will be the process on how the draw will be conducted and it started with the seeding of the teams for the competition.<\/p>\n
The draw to be held in Cairo will be based on the April Fifa rankings which, ordinarily, would have placed Cameroon (ranked 54) and Egypt (57) among the second seeds.<\/p>\n
But it is a worldwide football tradition that hosts and title-holders are among the top seeds and the Confederation of African Football (CAF) executive committee followed suit.<\/p>\n
Teams have been separated into four seeding pots based on the Fifa world rankings released on 4 April.<\/p>\n
The other four top seeds are 2002 runners-up Senegal and three former champions, Tunisia, Nigeria and Morocco.<\/p>\n
Democratic Republic of Congo and Ghana – who lost out on top seedings because of Egypt and Cameroon – Mali, Ivory Coast, Guinea and Algeria are the second seeds.<\/p>\n
DR Congo (when called Zaire), Ghana, Ivory Coast and Algeria have won the competition and Mali and Guinea came agonisingly close, finishing runners-up.<\/p>\n
South Africa are the lone former champions among the third seeds, which also include Uganda, Benin, Mauritania, Madagascar and Kenya.<\/p>\n
Uganda were runners-up to hosts Ghana in 1978, then failed to qualify for 39 years before securing a place at the 2017 Cup of Nations in Gabon.<\/p>\n
Zimbabwe, Namibia, Guinea-Bissau, Angola, Tanzania and Burundi are the fourth seeds and several appear capable of causing upsets, particularly the Zimbabweans.<\/p>\n
They will then be drawn into six groups of four.<\/p>\n
AFCON2019 Draw:
\nPot 1 : Egypt; Cameroon; Senegal; Tunisia; Nigeria; Morocco<\/p>\n
Pot 2 : DRC; Ghana; Mali; Cote D’Ivoire; Guinea; Algeria<\/p>\n
Pot 3 : South Africa; Uganda; Benin; Mauritania; Madagascar; Kenya<\/p>\n
Pot 4 : Zimbabwe; Namibia; Guinea-Bissau; Angola; Burundi; Tanzania<\/p>\n
The top two teams from each group, and four best third-placed teams, go into the quarter-finals.<\/p>\n
The six group winners and six runners-up automatically qualify for the knockout second round and will be joined by the four best third-placed teams.<\/p>\n
After the eight second-round fixtures, there will be the quarter-finals, semi-finals, a third-place play-off and the final.<\/p>\n
This will be the first 24-team Cup of Nations – up from 16 – and the timing has changed from January\/February to June\/July to avoid European club-versus-country clashes.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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