CHAN 2016: Eagles B to play Tunisia, Guinea, Niger

The home-based Super Eagles have drawn Tunisia, Guinea and Niger in the 2016 Orange African Nations Championship (CHAN) to be played in Rwanda.

In the ceremony staged at the Serena Hotel in Kigali Sunday evening, the Eagles B team will face 2011 champions, Tunisia, Niger, and debutants Guinea in Group C at the Nyamirambo Stadium, also in Kigali.

Host Rwanda have been drawn in Group A alongside Gabon, Morocco and Cote d’Ivoire for the fourth edition of the tournament designed exclusively for footballers playing in their domestic leagues.

Congo DR, winners of the maiden edition in 2009, are in Group B with 2011 losing finalists Angola, Cameroon and Ethiopia.

Zimbabwe, one of two teams to have competed at every edition of the CHAN since its birth in 2009, are in Group D with Mali, Uganda and Zambia.

The final tournament of the Orange CHAN 2016 will take place from January 16 to February 7, 2016, in Rwanda.

Group A will be based at the Amahoro Stadium in Kigali, Group B in Butare, with Gisenyi hosting Group D games.

THE GROUPS AT A GLANCE

A – Rwanda, Gabon, Morocco, Cote d’Ivoire

B – DR Congo, Angola.  Cameroon, Ethiopia

C – Tunisia, Nigeria Niger, Guinea

D – Zimbabwe, Mali, Uganda, Zambia