Overview

• Egypt beat Djibouti 3-0, with Mohamed Salah scoring twice and Ibrahim Adel opening the scoring.
• The result guarantees top spot with one match to spare, delivering direct entry to the 2026 finals in the United States, Canada and Mexico.
• Salah’s goals were his eighth and ninth of the campaign, making him the current top scorer in African qualifying.
• This will be Egypt’s fourth World Cup appearance after 1934, 1990 and 2018, and Salah’s second after missing out in 2022.
• CAF will send nine group winners directly, while the four best runners-up enter a November playoff feeding into a March inter-confederation tournament; Morocco and Tunisia have already qualified.