This week, as club football takes a break, national teams will take center stage with the African qualification matches for the 2026 World Cup.
The fifth round of qualifying matches will run from Wednesday, March 19, to Saturday, March 22. Over these days, 25 matches will take place across nine different qualification groups.
The Dailysports team has compiled the schedule and results for the fifth round of the African World Cup qualifiers.
Note: Match times are listed in Central European Time.
Fifth Round
March 19
17:00 Eswatini – Cameroon 0:0
17:00 Liberia – Tunisia 0:1
17:00 Central African Republic – Madagascar 1:4
March 20
14:00 Mozambique – Uganda 3:1
17:00 Zimbabwe – Benin 2:2
17:00 Cape Verde – Mauritius 1:0
17:00 Malawi – Namibia 0:1
17:00 Sierra Leone – Guinea-Bissau 3:1
20:00 Gabon – Seychelles 3:0
20:00 Gambia – Kenya 3:3
20:00 Libya – Angola 1:1
22:00 Comoros – Mali 0:3
March 21
14:00 Botswana – Algeria 1:3
14:00 Equatorial Guinea – São Tomé and Príncipe 2:0
17:00 Burkina Faso – Djibouti 4:1
17:00 DR Congo – South Sudan 1:0
17:00 South Africa – Lesotho 2:0
17:00 Rwanda – Nigeria 0:2
20:00 Burundi – Ivory Coast 0:1
20:00 Ghana – Chad 5:0
22:00 Guinea – Somalia 0:0
22:00 Ethiopia – Egypt 0:2
22:30 Niger – Morocco 1:2
March 22
17:00 Togo – Mauritania 2:2
20:00 Sudan – Senegal
