| [The Egyptian national team is ranked second in the 2021 Arab Cup draw] | The draw started with pot 1 and completed with pot 4, from where a team was drawn and assigned to the first available group in the position of their pot i |
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| 197 Draw [ ] The group stage draw took place on 27 April 2021 at 21:00 at the Opera House in | forfeited their qualifying match due to the high number of cases among the South Sudan delegation |
| The 39 matches will be played in six venues, which will also be used for the 2022 FIFA World Cup | The match schedule was unveiled on 6 June 2021 |
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| Group stage [ ] The top two teams of each group advanced to the quarter-finals | , as the winners of the , were assigned to position D1 |
Group stage schedule Matchday Dates Matches Matchday 1 30 November — 1 December 2021 1 v 4, 2 v 3 Matchday 2 3—4 December 2021 4 v 2, 3 v 1 Matchday 3 6—7 December 2021 3 v 4, 1 v 2 Group A [ ] Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification 1 H 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Advance to 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0• , the second-highest ranked team, played against , the second-lowest ranked team, and so on.
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