Talk:2019 Africa Cup of Nations qualification

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Morocco, Malawi and the Comoros were actually harmed by expanding the format.

With the qualification already ongoing, the final tournament was expanded from 16 to 24 teams, meaning that more teams could now qualify. But if I'm understanding it correctly, that step actually reduced the chances of the Group B teams other than Cameroon to make it to the finals, paradoxically. Now it's sure that only one of Morocco, Malawi and the Comoros will qualify, while under the previous format it was possible that two of them would qualify in the event of Cameroon finishing 3rd or 4th and the group runner-up being among the three best runners-up. --Theurgist (talk) 14:27, 12 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Now that Cameroon was stripped of the hosting rights

The article, and its sub-articles, now confidently assume that all group runners-up will qualify, including whoever finishes 2nd in Group B (Morocco, Cameroon or the Comoros). But what happens if the hosting rights are assigned to a country that would otherwise have failed to qualify? Surely that team will be given an automatic spot, and if all winners and runners-up were to qualify also, that would bring the number of finalists to 25 instead of 24. I think we should wait for an official confirmation by CAF instead of making assumptions about the qualifying situation as it stands. --Theurgist (talk) 19:36, 9 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]