{"id":77735,"date":"2025-10-29T16:56:55","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T16:56:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=77735"},"modified":"2025-10-29T16:56:55","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T16:56:55","slug":"caf-confirms-dates-venues-for-2026-world-cup-playoffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/10\/29\/caf-confirms-dates-venues-for-2026-world-cup-playoffs\/","title":{"rendered":"CAF Confirms Dates, Venues for 2026 World Cup Playoffs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Fakande Oluwamayowa<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Confederation of African Football (CAF), has confirmed venues and dates for the 2026 FIFA World Cup African playoffs to be held in Rabat, Morocco, from November 13 to 16, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Four teams, Nigeria, Gabon, Cameroon, and DR Congo will compete in the mini-tournament.<\/p>\n<p>The semi-finals will take place on Thursday, November 13, at El Barid Stadium and the Prince Moulay El Hassan Sports Complex.<\/p>\n<p>Nigeria will face Gabon in the opening game at 5:00 p.m., followed by Cameroon vs DR Congo at 8:00 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>The final is scheduled for Sunday, November 16, at the Prince H\u00e9ritier Moulay El Hassan Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>The winner will progress to the intercontinental playoffs for Africa\u2019s 10th and final World Cup slot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Fakande Oluwamayowa &nbsp; The Confederation of African Football (CAF), has confirmed venues and dates for the 2026 FIFA World Cup African playoffs to be held in Rabat, Morocco, from November 13 to 16, 2025. Four teams, Nigeria, Gabon, Cameroon, and DR Congo will compete in the mini-tournament. The semi-finals will take place on Thursday, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":77736,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,175],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-sports"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77735"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77735\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77737,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77735\/revisions\/77737"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}