{"id":242487,"date":"2026-08-28T20:02:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T18:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/africa-road-to-egypt-mapped-out-following-totalenergies-caf-u-23-afcon-2027-qualifiers-draw\/"},"modified":"2026-08-28T20:02:00","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T18:02:00","slug":"africa-road-to-egypt-mapped-out-following-totalenergies-caf-u-23-afcon-2027-qualifiers-draw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/africa-road-to-egypt-mapped-out-following-totalenergies-caf-u-23-afcon-2027-qualifiers-draw\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa: Road to Egypt Mapped Out Following TotalEnergies CAF U-23 Afcon 2027 Qualifiers Draw"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li><em>42 nations will compete for seven places alongside hosts Egypt at the TotalEnergies CAF U-23 AFCON 2027<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Three qualifying rounds to be played between September 2026 and March 2027<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Final tournament will form part of Africa&#8217;s pathway to the Los Angeles 2028 Olympic Games<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"40\">The pathway to the TotalEnergies CAF Under-23 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) Egypt 2027 has been mapped out following the conclusion of the Qualifiers Draw at the headquarters of the Conf\u00e9d\u00e9ration Africaine de Football (CAF) in&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202608280172.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Egypt\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/egypt\/\">Egypt<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>42 nations will compete for seven places alongside hosts Egypt at the TotalEnergies CAF U-23 AFCON 2027 Three qualifying rounds to be played between September 2026 and March 2027 Final tournament will form part of Africa&#8217;s pathway to the Los Angeles 2028 Olympic Games The pathway to the TotalEnergies CAF Under-23 Africa Cup of Nations [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":242488,"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":[338],"tags":[9488,258,256,3742,6981,4697,415,39753,257,7318,7414,254,38847,10472],"class_list":["post-242487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-egypt","tag-afcon","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-caf","tag-draw","tag-egypt","tag-egypt-news","tag-mapped","tag-news","tag-qualifiers","tag-road","tag-south-africa-today","tag-totalenergies","tag-u23"],"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\/242487","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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242487\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}