{"id":138143,"date":"2019-07-25T12:24:24","date_gmt":"2019-07-25T11:24:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=138143"},"modified":"2019-07-25T12:25:06","modified_gmt":"2019-07-25T11:25:06","slug":"afcon-2021-full-list-of-super-eagles-qualifying-fixtures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=138143","title":{"rendered":"AFCON 2021: Full list of Super Eagles&#8217; qualifying fixtures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/AFCON-2019-Nigeria-to-face-Algeria-in-semi-final.jpg\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">Nigeria will begin their quest to qualify for the 2021 Africa Cup of Nations, with a home game against Benin Republic on November 11.<\/p>\n<p>This follows the breakdown of the draw made in Cairo last week. <\/p>\n<p>On the day the Super Eagles host the Squirrels, Lesotho travel to Sierra in the same Group L qualifying series.<\/p>\n<p>Lesotho will be the next destination for the Eagles on November 19, to honour their Match Day 2 fixture.<\/p>\n<p>The qualification series will resume August 31, 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Full Fixtures<br \/>\nMatch Day 1: November 11, 2019<br \/>\nNigeria vs. Benin<br \/>\nSierra Leone vs. Lesotho<\/p>\n<p>Match Day 2: November 19, 2019<br \/>\nLesotho vs. Nigeria<br \/>\nBenin vs. Sierra Leone<\/p>\n<p>Match Day 3: August 31, 2020<br \/>\nNigeria vs. Sierra Leone<br \/>\nBenin vs. Lesotho<\/p>\n<p>Match Day 4: September 8, 2020<br \/>\nSierra Leone vs. Nigeria<br \/>\nLesotho vs. Benin<\/p>\n<p>Match Day 5: October 5, 2020<br \/>\nBenin vs. Nigeria<br \/>\nLesotho vs. Sierra Leone<\/p>\n<p>Match Day 6: November 9, 2020<br \/>\nNigeria vs. Lesotho<br \/>\nSierra Leone vs. Benin<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nigeria will begin their quest to qualify for the 2021 Africa Cup of Nations, with a home game against Benin Republic on November 11. This follows the breakdown of the draw made in Cairo last week. On the day the Super Eagles host the Squirrels, Lesotho travel to Sierra in the same Group L qualifying [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":135043,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[12787],"class_list":["post-138143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-afcon-2021"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=138143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138143\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/135043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=138143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=138143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=138143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}