{"id":22880,"date":"2021-04-02T13:32:06","date_gmt":"2021-04-02T10:32:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/?p=22880"},"modified":"2021-04-02T13:32:10","modified_gmt":"2021-04-02T10:32:10","slug":"2022-fifa-world-cup-qualifiers-uganda-cranes-fixtures-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/2021\/04\/02\/2022-fifa-world-cup-qualifiers-uganda-cranes-fixtures-out\/","title":{"rendered":"2022 FIFA World Cup Qualifiers: Uganda Cranes Fixtures Out"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Uganda Cranes will shift focus to the forthcoming Africa 2022 FIFA World Cup Qualifiers that will get underway in June this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Cranes are pooled in Group E alongside Mali and neighbours Kenya and Rwanda.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The quest for a first ever appearance at the global showpiece will begin with a trip to Nairobi to face Kenya between 5th<\/sup>-8th<\/sup> June 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Uganda will then return to action with a home fixture against Mali on matchday two. The dates will be between 11th<\/sup> -14th<\/sup> June.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Matchday three and four will be a double header against Rwanda with the first leg coming between 1st<\/sup> -4th<\/sup> September in Kigali before facing off in Kampala in a space of two-three days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The penultimate game will see Uganda host Kenya in the first week of October and later end the group phase with a trip to Bamako, Mali between 10th<\/sup>-12th<\/sup> October.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The group winner after six games will go into the final qualifying phase that will have nine other group leaders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There will be a draw for the final ten teams and the five winners on aggregate will represent Africa at the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar next year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Uganda Cranes will shift focus to the forthcoming Africa 2022 FIFA World Cup Qualifiers that will get underway in June this year. The Cranes are pooled in Group E alongside Mali and neighbours Kenya and Rwanda. The quest for a first ever appearance at the global showpiece will begin with a trip to Nairobi […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27983,"featured_media":22748,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_paywall_metabox":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[356,98,102],"tags":[31],"class_list":["post-22880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-big-story","category-news","category-sports","tag-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27983"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22880"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22882,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22880\/revisions\/22882"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}