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The group consisted of four teams: DR Congo, Guinea, Tanzania and Ethiopia. [2] The teams played against each other in a home-and-away round-robin format between September and November 2024. [3] DR Congo and Tanzania, the group winners and runners-up respectively, qualified for the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations.
Qualification ties are played on a home-and-away two-legged basis. If the aggregate score is tied after the second leg, the away goals rule would be applied, and if still level, the penalty shoot-out would be used to determine the winner (no extra time would be played).
All CAF member associations entered the competition, except Eritrea and Seychelles, who were excluded from the qualifiers.The seeding was based on the FIFA World Ranking from 15 February 2024, with teams ranked 1st to 44th received a bye to the qualifying group stage, while the teams ranked 45th to 52nd had to participate in the preliminary round.
The Guinea national football team (French: Équipe de football de Guinée) represents Guinea in men's international football and is controlled by the Guinean Football Federation. They have never qualified for the FIFA World Cup finals, and their best finish in the Africa Cup of Nations was runners-up in 1976 .
The group contains Egypt, Burkina Faso, Guinea-Bissau, Sierra Leone, Ethiopia and Djibouti. The group winner will directly qualify for the World Cup, and the runner-up could potentially compete in the second round to advance to the inter-confederation play-offs. [1] [2]
Equatorial Guinea won 3–1 on aggregate. However, on 3 July 2014, the CAF announced that Equatorial Guinea were disqualified for fielding the ineligible player Thierry Fidjeu in the tie, and as a result, Mauritania advanced to the second round. [23] Equatorial Guinea later qualified for the final tournament as replacement hosts.
Guinea national football team results (2020–present) This article includes a sports-related list of lists . If an internal link incorrectly led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article.
Guinea-Bissau and Nigeria met for only the fourth time, and all have come within the past two years. The first meeting came in the group stage finale of the 2021 Africa Cup of Nations in Garoua, Cameroon, where goals from Umar Sadiq and William Troost-Ekong gave Nigeria a 2-0 victory and eliminated Guinea-Bissau from the tournament.