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David GOMBE
Uganda Nationwide U17 boys’ soccer workforce, the Uganda Cubs will play Ghana for a FIFA U17 World Cup slot.
The Uganda Cubs will battle Ghana within the playoffs qualifier with the winner progressing to the FIFA U17 Boys’ World Cup.
Uganda and Ghana will lock horns on Saturday night (8PM) in Morocco to find out who prevails to the worldwide showpiece.
Uganda did not safe an automated World Cup slot following a 3rd place end in Group B of the continuing U17 Africa Cup of Nations in Morocco with 4 factors. Ivory Coast and Cameroon climaxed the group marketing campaign prime and second respectively in addition to securing World Cup slots.
Ghana have been additionally completed third of their Group D with 4 factors, behind prime and second positioned Senegal and Algeria.
The winner between Uganda and Ghana will qualify for the FIFA U17 World Cup due in Qatar this 12 months in November.
In the meantime, the opposite playoff fixture will see Mozambique tackle Ethiopia for the remaining World Cup slot.
It ought to be famous that Uganda used the identical path to make it to final 12 months’s World Cup beating Gambia 2–1 to grow to be the primary Ugandan nationwide soccer workforce at any degree to achieve the worldwide showpiece.
In Qatar final time period, Uganda made historical past after they reached the quarterfinals of the World Cup earlier than Burkina Faso ended their marketing campaign.
Ten nations characterize Africa on the match with eight groups progressing mechanically by reaching the quarter-finals of the U17 AFCON. The remaining two spots are determined by way of playoffs that contain the 4 greatest third positioned groups.
The 2026 FIFA U-17 World Cup would be the twenty first version of the FIFA U-17 World Cup, the annual worldwide males’s youth soccer contested by the under-17 nationwide groups of the member associations of FIFA. It’s to be held in Qatar in November.This version is the second version of the annual cycle adopted by FIFA for the U-17 World Cup in addition to the second to be performed in a 48-team format (beforehand, held as a biennial 24-team match)