2013 African Cup of Nations qualifiers: Seeding for the final round draw (24 February 2012)

The first round is scheduled for 29 February and 15 June. Egypt vs. Central African Republic will be played on 15 and 24 June.

According to El Watan, the CAF Ranking will be used to seed the teams. What does "CAF Ranking" mean? Is it something like the one used for the final tournament draw? Then we're looking at this ranking. However, seeing CAF's sudden interest about the FIFA Ranking procedure, maybe they will use the July 2012 FIFA ranking to seed the teams for the second round draw.

Here's the July 2012 FIFA ranking - with remaining matches counted as defeats:

* - 2012 AFCON teams will enter the qualifiers in the second round

Rank - Team - Points

1 Côte d'Ivoire *          893
 2 Ghana *                  672
 3 Mali *                   597
 4 Zambia *                 595
 5 Gabon *                  581
 6 Libya *                  531
 7 Tunisia *                522
 8 Algeria                  469
 9 Egypt                    463
10 Nigeria                  440
11 Cameroon                 421
12 Morocco *                413
13 Senegal *                410
14 Guinea *                 403
15 Burkina Faso *           386
16 Angola *                 382
17 Sierra Leone             364
18 Cape Verde Islands       334
19 Uganda                   324
20 Zimbabwe                 299
21 Malawi                   286
22 Niger *                  282
22 Sudan *                  282
24 Togo                     280
25 Botswana *               269
26 Mozambique               264
27 Equatorial Guinea *      261
28 Rwanda                   233
29 Namibia                  232
30 Central African Republic 222
31 Benin                    220
32 Gambia                   214
33 Chad                     196
33 Kenya                    196
33 Congo DR                 196
36 Tanzania                 191
37 Congo                    189
38 Liberia                  181
39 Burundi                  162
40 Ethiopia                 157
41 Madagascar               115
42 Guinea-Bissau            103
43 Sao Tome e Principe       94
44 Seychelles                46

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