{"id":234012,"date":"2026-05-22T04:28:52","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T02:28:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ivory-coast\/west-africa-gambia-pair-with-ivory-coast-in-2027-afcon-qualifiers\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T04:28:52","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T02:28:52","slug":"west-africa-gambia-pair-with-ivory-coast-in-2027-afcon-qualifiers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ivory-coast\/west-africa-gambia-pair-with-ivory-coast-in-2027-afcon-qualifiers\/","title":{"rendered":"West Africa: Gambia Pair With Ivory Coast in 2027 Afcon Qualifiers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">The Gambia have been drawn against Ivory Coast, Ghana and Somalia in Group C of the 2027 Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"15\">The draw for the continent&#8217;s biggest football fiesta qualifiers was held in Cairo, Egypt, yesterday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"17\">The Gambia will play against Ivory Coast, Ghana and Somalia home and away matches during the qualifier.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">The Scorpions will be resolute to win their qualifier matches to snatch qualification to the 2027 Africa Cup of Nations to be co-hosted in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">The&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202605210675.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Ivory Coast\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/ivory-coast\/\">C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire (Ivory Coast)<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Gambia have been drawn against Ivory Coast, Ghana and Somalia in Group C of the 2027 Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers. The draw for the continent&#8217;s biggest football fiesta qualifiers was held in Cairo, Egypt, yesterday. The Gambia will play against Ivory Coast, Ghana and Somalia home and away matches during the qualifier. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":234013,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1087],"tags":[9488,258,256,6560,6183,6555,6408,6559,1218,257,13056,7318,254,4375],"class_list":["post-234012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ivory-coast","tag-afcon","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-coast","tag-cote-divoire","tag-cote-divoire-news","tag-gambia","tag-ivory","tag-ivory-coast-news","tag-news","tag-pair","tag-qualifiers","tag-south-africa-today","tag-west"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234012\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}