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The Super Eagles’ FIFA World Cup qualification play-off opponents won’t be known until January 2022 as the Confederation of African Football has postponed the draw for the final leg of the qualifiers.
The decision was taken on Friday at the Extraordinary Assembly.
The draw which was initially scheduled for 18 December 2021 will now be done on 26 January 2022.
According to the decision, the January 2022 rankings will be used to seed the teams for the draw.
Top five ranked teams at the time of the draw will be seeded and will be paired against the other five unseeded countries.
Nigeria, Algeria, Cameroon, Ghana, DR Congo, Senegal, Morocco, Tunisia, Egypt and Mali booked their places after the group stages of the qualifications.
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