CHAN 2016 QUALIFIERS....GHANA IN TOUGH GROUP AS ALGERIA OPTS OUT

Ghana are among the 42 countries who have
registered to play in the qualifiers for the 2016
African Nations Championship (CHAN),
GHANAsoccernet.com can exclusively reveal.
The Local Black Stars have been registered to play
to qualify for the tournament which will be played
in Rwanda early next year.
The draw for the tournament will be held by the
Confederation of African Football (CAF) on 5 April
at its headquarters in Cairo next week.
The CHAN is in its fourth edition and it is the
competition reserved for home-based players only.
Ghana have been placed in West Zone B where CAF
has scheduled three countries to qualify for the
zone that includes Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast Niger,
Nigeria and Togo.
Just three countries from North Africa have
registered to play in the qualifiers for the
competition with Libya, Morocco and Tunisia as the
countries to fight for the two slots from that
zone.
Algeria, one of the tough sides in Africa, are
among the countries from the north to have opted
out.
The qualifiers will be held between 19-21 June and
28-30 August.
Rwanda, the host country, has automatically
qualified.
The final tournament was scheduled from January
16 to February 7, 2016.
Zones and Number of countries to qualify

North Zone (To qualify 2) : Libya, Morocco, Tunisia.

West Zone A (To qualify 2) : Gambia, Guinea,
Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Senegal,
Sierra Leone.

West Zone B (To Qualify 3) : Burkina Faso, Ivory
Coast, Ghana, Niger, Nigeria, Togo.

Central Zone (To Qualify 3) : Cameroon, Central
African Republic, Congo, Chad, DR Congo, Gabon.

Central East region (3 to qualify including Rwanda,
the host country) : Burundi, Djibouti, Ethiopia,
Kenya, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda.

South Zone (To qualify 3) : South Africa, Angola,
Botswana, Comoros, Lesotho, Mauritius,
Mozambique, Namibia, Seychelles, Swaziland,
Zambia, Zimbabwe.