The senior national team of Nigeria will be in Pot 1 alongside other seeded teams when the draw for the 2022 Africa Cup of Nations which will be hosted by Cameroon .
All the teams in Pot 1 are the top four teams on the African continent base on the latest FIFA ranking and the host of the tournament but Nigeria would have missed out if not for the fact that 3rd seed Algeria go into the draws as defending champions.
Super Eagles were seeded alongside the host, Senegal, Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco in Pot 1 while Pot 2 where they will definitely get an opponent has Egypt, Ghana, Côte d’Ivoire, Burkina Faso, Mali and Guinea.
Pot 3 has Cape Verde, Gabon, Mauritania, Zimbabwe, Guinea Bissau and Sierra Leone. Pot 4 is occupied by Malawi, Sudan, Comoros, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia and Gambia.
Already coach of the senior national team of Nigeria Gernot Rohr is in Cameroon alongside other officials of the Nigeria Football Federation for the draws.