2023 AFCON: Super Eagles Land in Group A, Set To Battle Host Nation Ivory Coast, Two Others

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Three times Africa Cup of Nations winners, Nigeria have been drawn in Group A of the 2023 African Cup of Nations holding in Côte d’Ivoire in 2024

The draw which was held on Thursday in Abidjan, Ivory Coast also had in Group A the host nation Ivory Coast, Equatorial Guinea, and Guinea-Bissau

The Super Eagles have won the AFCON title on three different occasions while they have settled for the second position on four different occasions and were knocked out of the last AFCON in Cameroon after losing by 0-1 to Tunisia in the second round.

They are the team with the most third-place finish having won the loser’s final eight times.

AFCON 2023 DRAW

GROUP A

Cote D’ivoire
Nigeria
Guinea Bissau
Equatorial Guinea

GROUP B

Egypt
Ghana
Cape Verde
Mozambique

GROUP C

Senegal
Cameroon
Guinea
The Gambia

GROUP D

Algeria
Burkina Faso
Mauritania
Angola

GROUP E

Tunisia
Mali
South Africa
Namibia

GROUP F

Morocco
DR Congo
Zambia
Tanzania