Nigeria’s the Golden Eaglets have been left without a place in the expanded 2025 U-17 AFCON in Morocco.
Despite finishing third at last year’s WAFU B U-17 Championship in Ghana, the Golden Eaglets fell short in the qualifiers with Ivory Coast and winners Burkina Faso picking the automatic spots in the region.
The 2025 U-17 AFCON between March 30 and April 19, 2025, will be a qualifier for the 2025 FIFA U-17 World Cup in Qatar in November – a tournament Nigeria has won five times, but cannot now attend for the second consecutive time.
The Confederation of African Football has now allotted four slots in the expanded tournament to the Gambia, who finished third at the WAFU Zone A qualifiers; Tunisia and two countries from the CECAFA and COSAFA regions.
The two other spots for the 16-team tournament will be filled by the top two sides in the UNIFFAC region qualifiers featuring Cameroon, Gabon, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Congo Brazaville
