Pots known for next week's draw

Next Friday CAF will be staging the draw for the final round of the African World Cup qualifiers. At the African football organization's headquarters on 24 June in Cairo, Egypt third round will be known for a 13 months long qualifying campaign and FIFA has finally revealed the pots.
Twenty teams have qualified for this stage. Five groups will be formed with four teams each. Matches will be played from October 2016 until November 2017. African continent is having one of the toughest route towards the World Cup as only the five group winners will qualify for the 2018 finals in Russia. And already we are seeing some of the favorites will clash each other i.e. some are inevitable for two strong teams to be on the same group, but (unfortunately) only five of them are heading towards the world's football biggest showdown - the World Cup finals.

Pot 1: Algeria, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Senegal, Tunisia.

Pot 2: Cape Verde, Egypt, Democratic Republic of Congo, Nigeria, Mali.

Pot 3: Cameroon, Morocco, Guinea, South Africa, Congo.

Pot 4: Uganda, Burkina Faso, Zambia, Gabon, Libya.