Who has qualified for AFCON 2021 and who are the favorites?
Following Egypt’s back-to-back-to-back AFCON titles triumph between 2006 and 2010, the tournament has had five different winners and nine different finalists, underscoring just how difficult it is to predict a tournament winner can be.
Holders Algeria, who boast the dual attacking threat of Manchester City’s Riyad Mahrez and West Ham’s Saïd Benrahma are nevertheless the favourites with the bookies.
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While many pundits are tipping the Mohamed Salah-led Egypt to triumph or the talent-packed Senegal who boast Salah’s Liverpool teammate Sadio Mané, as well as Edouard Mendy and Cheikhou Kouyate, a smart bet could be the Ivory Coast, who will have Wilfried Zaha, Nicolas Pepe and Eric Bailly to count upon, as well as one of the world’s most in-form strikers with Ajax’s on fire Sebastien Haller.
Group A
- Cameroon (hosts)
- Burkina Faso
- Cape Verde Islands
- Ethiopia
Group B
- Gambia
- Mali
- Mauritania
- Tunisia
Group C
- Comoros Islands
- Gabon
- Ghana
- Morocco
Group D
- Egypt
- Guinea Bissau
- Nigeria
- Sudan
Group E
- Algeria
- Equatorial Guinea
- Ivory Coast
- Sierra Leone
Group F
- Gambia
- Mali
- Mauritania
- Tunisia
