Ahead of the highly anticipated FIFA 2018 World Cup qualifiers draw, the Confederation of African Football (CAF) has outlined the procedure.
The draw for the African Confederation is set for Friday June 24, 2016 at the Headquarters in Cairo, Egypt.
According to procedure, the teams in Pot 4 will be drawn first. The team drawn first from Pot 4 will be placed in Group A, and its exact position in the group will be determined by a ball drawn from a second pot that will contain four balls with the position numbers 1-4.
The team drawn second from Pot 4 will be placed in Group B, and its position in the group will also be determined by a ball drawn from the second pot. The team drawn third will be placed in Group C, and its position drawn from the second pot. The team drawn fourth will be placed in Group D, and its position drawn from the second pot.
Finally, the team in the last ball in Pot 4 will be placed in Group E, and its position will again be drawn from the second pot.
This very same procedure will then be applied for Pot 3, then for Pot 2, and finally for Pot 1. When the last ball containing the name of the final team in Pot 1 has been drawn and its position in Group E has been confirmed by drawing the last remaining ball in the second pot, the draw will be concluded.
Uganda is in Pot 4 alongside Burkina Faso, Zambia, Gabon and Libya.
At the end of qualification, the topping team from each group will represent Africa at the FIFA World Cup in Russia.
The summary of pots
Pot 1: Algeria, Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Senegal, Tunisia
Pot 2: Cape Verde Islands, Egypt, Congo DR, Nigeria, Mali
Pot 3: Cameroon, Morocco, Guinea, South Africa, Congo
Pot 4: Uganda, Burkina Faso, Zambia, Gabon, Libya
