CAPE TOWN (Reuters) - Two rounds of 2021 Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers scheduled for March have been postponed due to the coronavirus outbreak, the Confederation of African Football (CAF) said on Friday.
Rounds three and four of the pool qualifiers were due to be played in the international window from March 25-31, but the CAF emergency committee has postponed the games until further notice, without providing alternative dates.
That could see a delay to the start of the African World Cup qualifiers that were due to start in October. CAF has also postponed qualifiers for the 2020 Women’s Africa Cup of Nations scheduled for April and this month’s Women’s Under-20 World Cup preliminaries.
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