Nigeria’s U-20 men’s football national team, Flying Eagles will face Egypt, South Africa and Morocco in Group B of the CAF U-20 Africa Cup of Nations in Cote d’Ivoire, reports The Standard Gazette.
The seven-time African champions were one of the teams seeded for the draw of the tournament, which will be held from 26 April – 18 May 2025.
Nigeria came up against the junior Pharaohs of Egypt in the group phase of the last edition and pipped the North Africans 1-0 on their way to reaching the latter stages of the tournament.
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Former Malian player, Adama Coulibaly, who was an assistant at the draw conducted inside the CAF headquarters in Cairo on Thursday noted: “There’s no doubt that the toughest group is the group B that has Nigeria, Egypt, South Africa and Morocco.”
Hosts Cote d’Ivoire will have to contend with DR Congo, Ghana, Tanzania and the yet-to-emerge representative team of the Central Africa zone, in a five-team group A.
Cup-holders Senegal head group C, which also has Zambia and two debutants Kenya and Sierra Leone.
The two top-placed teams in each group, alongside the best two third-placed finishers in the three groups, will advance to the championship’s quarter-finals.
Four teams will represent Africa at the 2025 FIFA U-20 men’s World Cup in Chile.
GROUP A: Cote d’Ivoire, UNNIFAC, DR Congo, Ghana, Tanzania
GROUP B: Nigeria, Egypt, South Africa, Morocco
GROUP C: Senegal, Zambia, Kenya, Sierra Leone
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