#qualifying-draw

#qualifying-draw

The East Africans, who have only played two international games since February 2020, have been drawn against Eswatini. Eritrea withdrew from the same stage of qualifiers for the 2023 Afcon, and were excluded from the draw for the 2025 edition. The national team also pulled out of qualifying for the 2026 Fifa World Cup just a week before they were due to play their first game against the continent's top-ranked side Morocco.

"It's a positive reaction [to the draw]," the head coach told BBC Scotland of being in Group B4. "It makes it much more real. "This group have a desire to make the nation proud, their friends and family proud of how they go about doing that and a team that, when they focus on their strengths, that they believe in themselves, anything's possible."