Confederation of African Football (CAF) has postponed the planned Africa cum word Cup qualifiers set for Qatar in 2022.
Today, the Africa football governing body in a statement cited the havoc wrecked by the coronavirus pandemic on football schedules across the continent as the main reason to push forward the qualifiers.
“The CAF emergency committee in consultation with FIFA decided to postpone the CAF qualifier for the FIFA World Cup, Qatar 2022 that were due to be played in June 2021 after taking into consideration the current challenges caused by the covid19 pandemic and the need to ensure optimal playing conditions for participating team,” explained CAF in a statement released yesterday.
It added: “The qualifiers will now take place in the existing windows of September, October, November and March 2022.”