Sunday 16/Mar/2025 – 08:21 am
Prepare Egypt team Football is under the leadership of Hossam Hassan to resume his career in the African World Cup qualifiers, during the March camp in preparation for the confrontations of Ethiopia and Sierra Leone.
The Pharaohs will meet with Ethiopia on March 21 in the fifth round of the qualifiers for the World Cup, before hosting Sierra Leone on the 25th of the same month in the sixth round confrontations.
What does Egypt need to qualify for the 2026 World Cup?
Egypt has 6 games out of 10 rounds in the African qualifiers for the World Cup scheduled to be held in the United States of America, where the Pharaohs will face: Ethiopia (twice), Sierra Leone, Burkina Faso and Djibouti.
The Pharaohs lead the first group ranking with 10 points before the establishment of the fifth and sixth rounds during March, 4 points behind Guinea -Bissau, his closest attachment in the group with 6 points.
Egypt needs to win 5 out of 6 games and score 15 full points, to ensure qualification for the World Cup Finals for the fourth time in history, representing the first group.
In the event that the Egyptian team is equal to the points with Burkina Faso, direct confrontations will be resorted to, and the Pharaohs will need not to lose more than one goal outside its stadium, after winning 2-1 in the Cairo match.
Egypt Group ranking in the 2026 World Cup qualifiers
1- Egypt – 10 points
2- Guinea -Bissau – 6 points
3- Burkina Faso – 5 points
4- Sierra Leone – 5 points
5- Ethiopia – 3 points
6- Djibouti – one point
It is noteworthy that the owners of the first places in the ten grouping groups will qualify for the World Cup finals directly, while the best 4 teams are ranked second in a separation supplement that the winner qualifies for the global attaché between the continents.
