Group A: Kenya (hosts}, Morocco, Angola, DR Congo, Zambia

Group B: Tanzania, Madagascar, Mauritania, Burkina Faso, Central African Republic

Group C: Uganda, Niger, Guinea, Q2, Q1

Group D: Senegal, Congo, Sudan, Nigeria

Notes:

-- Two more teams will join the 17 qualifiers in the finals in August to bring the total number to 19.

-- The two final teams will be decided in a special final qualifier on a date to be announced. The teams involved will include Sierra Leone, Comoros, South Africa, Egypt and Algeria, who had pulled out of the previous CHAN qualifiers due to conflicting fixtures.

-- Tournament will be staged in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda in August.