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Africa-Press<\/a> – Zimbabwe<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>The Confederation of African Football (CAF), has stripped eight countries of home advantage in next month\u2019s World Cup qualifiers (WCQ) after their grounds were deemed unfit at the international level.<\/p>\n

Burkina Faso, Central African Republic, Djibouti, Guinea Bissau, Malawi, Mali, Namibia and Niger have all had matches moved to neutral grounds at the start of the group phase of Africa\u2019s qualifiers for the next World Cup in Qatar.<\/p>\n

\u2013 August 31, Central African Republic v Cape Verde, moved to Douala, Cameroon<\/p>\n

\u2013 August 31, Mali v Rwanda, moved to Agadir, Morocco<\/p>\n

\u2013 September 1, Guinea-Bissau v Guinea, moved to Nouakchott, Mauritania<\/p>\n

\u2013 September 1, Niger v Burkina Faso, moved to Marrakech, Morocco<\/p>\n

\u2013 September 1, Namibia v Congo, moved to Johannesburg, South Africa<\/p>\n

\u2013 September 5, Djibouti v Niger, moved to Rabat, Morocco<\/p>\n

\u2013 September 6, Burkina Faso v Algeria, moved to Marrakech Morocco<\/p>\n

\u2013 September 7, Malawi v Mozambique, moved to Johannesburg, South Africa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Zimbabwe. The Confederation of African Football (CAF), has stripped eight countries of home advantage in next month\u2019s World Cup qualifiers (WCQ) after their grounds were deemed unfit at the international level. Burkina Faso, Central African Republic, Djibouti, Guinea Bissau, Malawi, Mali, Namibia and Niger have all had matches moved to neutral grounds at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":45111,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,35,16,15],"tags":[1493,2189,540,5913,1090,4005,19],"class_list":{"0":"post-45112","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-all-news","8":"category-homepage-english","9":"category-sport","10":"category-twitter","11":"tag-africa-press","12":"tag-africa-press-zimbabwe-2","13":"tag-caf","14":"tag-neutral-venue","15":"tag-world-cup","16":"tag-world-cup-qualifiers","17":"tag-zimbabwe"},"yoast_head":"\nEight African Teams Forced To Host WCQ On Neutral Venues - zimbabwe<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Confederation of African Football (CAF), has stripped eight countries of home advantage in next month\u2019s World Cup qu ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/eight-african-teams-forced-to-host-wcq-on-neutral-venues\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Eight African Teams Forced To Host WCQ On Neutral Venues\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Confederation of African Football (CAF), has stripped eight countries of home advantage in next month\u2019s World Cup qu ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/eight-african-teams-forced-to-host-wcq-on-neutral-venues\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"zimbabwe\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-08-17T14:26:02+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2021-08-17T13:33:13+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/sites\/14\/2021\/08\/img-611bba7e995f7.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1280\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"640\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/eight-african-teams-forced-to-host-wcq-on-neutral-venues\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/eight-african-teams-forced-to-host-wcq-on-neutral-venues\",\"name\":\"Eight African Teams Forced To Host WCQ On Neutral Venues - 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