2025 Africa Cup of Nations qualification

All CAF member associations entered the competition, except Eritrea and Seychelles, who were excluded from the qualifiers. The seeding was based on the FIFA World Ranking from 15 February 2024, with teams ranked 1st to 44th received a bye to the qualifying group stage, while the teams ranked 45th to 52nd had to participate in the preliminary round. The preliminary round draw was held on 20 February 2024, 14:00 CAT (UTC+2) at the CAF headquarters in Cairo, Egypt. For the first time since their suspensions, Kenya and Zimbabwe made their phased returns to the qualifying stage. ==Schedule==

The schedule of the qualifying tournament was as follows. ==Preliminary round==

The eight teams were split into four ties which were played in home-and-away two-legged format. ==Group stage==

Draw The group stage draw took place on 4 July 2024 at 2:30 pm (UTC+2) in Johannesburg, South Africa. The 48 national teams involved were divided into twelve groups of four each, which consisted of the 44 teams that entered directly, in addition to the four winners of the preliminary round, and were seeded into four pots of twelve each based on the June 2024 FIFA World Rankings (shown in parentheses). Teams in bold qualified for the final tournament. Tiebreakers The teams were ranked according to points (3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, 0 points for a loss). If tied on points, tiebreakers were applied in the following order (Regulations Article 14): • Points in head-to-head matches among tied teams; • Goal difference in head-to-head matches among tied teams; • Goals scored in head-to-head matches among tied teams; • Away goals scored in head-to-head matches among tied teams; • If more than two teams were tied, and after applying all head-to-head criteria above, a subset of teams were still tied, all head-to-head criteria above were reapplied exclusively to this subset of teams; • Goal difference in all group matches; • Goals scored in all group matches; • Away goals scored in all group matches; • Drawing of lots Group A Group B Group C Group D Group E Group F Group G Group H Group I Group J {{2025 Africa Cup of Nations qualification group tables|Group J Group K Group L ==Goalscorers==

The following teams qualified for the final tournament. :1 Bold indicates champions for that year. Italics indicates hosts for that year. ==References==