The Zambia National Team has been drawn in Group E alongside 2022 World Cup semi finalists, Morocco.
This follows the draw conducted this evening in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire.
Apart from the North African giants, Chipolopolo will also face Congo Brazzaville, Tanzania, Nigeria and Eritrea.
54 teams entered the draw for the 2026 FIFA World Cup African Preliminaries Qualifiers and have been divided into nine (9) Groups.
Winners of each Group will automatically qualify for the FIFA World Cup™ 2026.
The four best runners-up (from the Groups) will play in a CAF Play-Off tournament.
The winner of the CAF Play-Off Tournament will play in the FIFA Play-off Tournament.
The matches will take place over ten match days during the next two years: 13-21 November 2023; 3-11 June 2024; 17-25 March 2025; 1-9 September 2025; 6-14 October 2025; 10-18 November 2025 (Play-offs)
FIFA WORLD CUP 2026 QUALIFIERS DRAW:
Group A
EGYPT, Burkina Faso, Guinea Bissau, Sierra Leone, Ethiopia & Djibouti.
Group B
SENEGAL, DRC, Mauritania, Togo, Sudan & South Sudan.
Group C
NIGERIA, SA, Benin Rep, Zimbabwe, Rwanda & Lesotho
Group D
CAMEROON, Cape Verde, Angola, Libya, Eswatini & Mauritius.
Group E
MOROCCO, Zambia, Congo, Tanzania, Niger & Eritrea
Group F
IVORY COAST, Gabon, Kenya, The Gambia, Burundi & Seychelles
Group G
ALGERIA, Guinea, Uganda, Mozambique, Botswana & Somalia
Group H
TUNISIA, Equatorial Guinea, Namibia, Malawi, Liberia & Sao Tome
Group I
MALI, Ghana, Madagascar, CAR, Comoros & Chad
This is a fair draw, All teams in this group are beatable including our Zambia and what remains is our “Players” mentality and approach to the whole qualification journey. GO and QUALIFY!
Statistically speaking and assuming all teams had an equal chance of qualifying the probability of qualifying before was 5/54 I.e. about 9%. Now with same assumptions is 10/54 i.e. about 18%.
In other words the chances of Zed qualifying have doubled…
Until you run into Morocco…
How – to- solve- this – North African – night mare ?
Again.
They are beatable
Its a difficult group but with positive mind set we can top the group. Preparation starts now.
Morocco is the problem. They are now playing world class football and Zambia would need a major retooling to overcome them. Nothing is insurmountable though
It’s true only Morocco is the problem.
Morroco is not a problem,the problem is us,raising them as better than us,Players are not fixed to a team permanently,each game has players of current status not yesterday’s players,Morroco team which went to world cup is not the same to day.
Every game will bring its own problems. It is up to our team to solve each one to come up victorious
Zambia can make it to the world cup . In 1994 Morocco beat zambia by a goal to nill and now it’s time for zambia to beat morocco.
Zambia it’s a time to break the burrier. This is the opportunity for Kamanga to make history
Morocco reached the semifinal in the last world cup. Let that sink in a little bit! No chance against Morocco period.
We are going to make it, Morocco is not a problem…
Zambia can manage beat morocco home and away let`s support the copper bullets
you see the match between germany (W) vs zambia (W) germany is ranked second in the world and zambia ranked 77 but zambia manage to beat germany by 3:2 So even chipolopolo can manage to beat moroco
No team in this group is underdog each game will come with it’s own challenges
Comment: but this time we can beat any team at home soil and only difence stil shaking and goal keeping, no chance for morocco here if bafana bafana done at home 2-1 what about zambia
On my own,ZAMBIA is an AXE,have power to uproot THINGS.
Kale bwa ngu boss, ba na chi po lo (po lo )
Help me please