Results see Mali qualify for Gabon
Mali will be at the 2017 Africa Cup of
Nations qualifiers finals in Gabon thanks to results in the penultimate round
of qualifiers.
The Eagles 3-0 win in South Sudan on
Saturday took them to 13 points to guarantee them one of the two best
runners-up places.
Should
Benin be readmitted to global football and complete their fixtures they can top
the group with two wins.
Mali
will top the pool with a draw or a win in their last qualifier against Benin.
2017 Africa Cup of Nations finalists:
Gabon (hosts)
Ghana (Group H winners)
Mali (Group C winners or one of best two
runners-up)
Algeria (Group J winners)
Guinea-Bissau (Group E winners)
Senegal (Group K winners)
Morocco (Group F winners)
Zimbabwe (Group L winners)
Egypt (Group G winners) Cameroon (Group M winners)
Benin's
future in the tournament is in doubt as they are currently banned from global
football by Fifa.
However
they will be readmitted if elections for a new Benin Football Federation (FBF)
Executive Committee are held "no later than 11 June 2016."
The
Confederation of African Football have confirmed that if those elections do
happen Benin will be allowed to play their qualifier against Equatorial Guinea
on 12 June.
The match had been due to be played on
Sunday.
Group
D is the only other group where the runners-up can finish with 13 points as
Burkina Faso and Uganda both have 10 points and face Botswana and Comoros
respectively.
Tunisia
and Liberia both have 10 points at the Group A and face each other in the final
tie and so the runners-up can finish with a maximum possible 11 points.
It
is similar in Group B with DR Congo playing Central African Republic in the
last tie meaning the runner-up cannot finish with more than 12 points.
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