Egypt qualify for FIFA World Cup 2026 with win over Djibouti

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Two goals from Salah and 1 from Adel marque Egypt the 3rd African state aft Morocco and Tunisia to publication a berth.

Published On 8 Oct 2025

Egypt person booked a berth astatine the FIFA World Cup 2026 with an casual 3-0 triumph implicit Djibouti successful Casablanca that gave them apical spot successful Group A with 1 crippled remaining.

Liverpool prima Mohamed Salah scored doubly and Ibrahim Adel claimed the different extremity for the Pharaohs connected Wednesday, arsenic they became the 3rd African state aft Morocco and Tunisia to publication their spot successful adjacent year’s finals successful North America.

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Salah has scored 9 goals successful Egypt’s marathon qualifying run that began 2 years ago.

Egypt person competed astatine 3 erstwhile World Cups but failed to suffice for the 2022 variation successful Qatar, wherever Morocco had their champion tally arsenic semifinalists and Tunisia were knocked retired successful the radical stage.

Meanwhile, Thomas Partey was connected the scoring expanse arsenic Ghana trounced the Central African Republic 5-0 successful Meknes, and they request 1 constituent from their last lucifer astatine location to Comoros to qualify.

Mohammed Salisu, Alexander Djiku, skipper Jordan Ayew, and Kamaldeen Sulemana were the different scorers for the Black Stars, who led 1-0 astatine half-time.

Cape Verde came from 2 goals down successful Tripoli to gully 3-3 with Libya and borderline person to a archetypal World Cup appearance.

The land federation of astir 550,000 inhabitants disconnected the seashore of Senegal volition clinch archetypal spot successful Group D if they decision Eswatini successful Praia connected Monday.

Known arsenic the Blue Sharks, the Cape Verdeans are 2 points up of Cameroon, who bushed Mauritius 2-0 successful Saint-Pierre with Manchester United striker Bryan Mbeumo among the extremity scorers.

Cape Verde person 20 points aft 9 rounds, 2 much than Cameroon, whose 8 World Cup appearances are an African record.

Cameroon, steadfast pre-qualifying favourites to triumph the group, had to unafraid maximum points successful Mauritius to support live their hopes of overtaking Cape Verde, but needed 92 minutes to guarantee success. They implicit their docket astatine location to Angola successful Yaounde and indispensable triumph to person immoderate anticipation of automatic qualification.

Should Cape Verde decorativeness first, Cameroon would anticipation to decorativeness among the 4 best-ranked runners-up and suffice for the playoffs successful November.

The winners of the African mini-tournament, comprising single-match semifinals and a final, beforehand to six-nation inter-continental playoffs adjacent March with 2 World Cup places up for grabs.

The 2026 tourney volition beryllium co-hosted by the United States, Mexico and Canada from June 11 to July 19.

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