South Africa in the same group as South Korea has 1.95% chance of winning the Nations Cup... Round of 16 clash with Cameroon

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• Africa Cup of Nations Round of 16 Qualified

South Africa, which is in the same group with the South Korean national soccer team in the 2026 FIFA North American World Cup, will face Cameroon in the round of 16 of the 2025 African Football Confederation (CAF) Africa Cup of Nations. South Africa's updated chances of winning the tournament after the round of 16 matches were only 1.95%.

The Africa Cup of Nations, which is being held in Morocco, concluded the group stage with Group E and Group F matches on the 1st (Korea Standard Time). Twenty-four teams were divided into six groups to play the group stage, and the top four teams with good performance among the first and second and third place in each group reached the round of 16 tournaments. South Africa, which defeated Angola and lost to Egypt, ranked second in Group B with a victory over Zimbabwe and reached the round of 16 for the second consecutive time.

South Africa will compete with Cameroon, which passed Group F in second place, to advance to the quarterfinals. Cameroon defeated Gabon, drew with Ivory Coast, and won against Mozambique to pass Group F (2 wins and 1 draw). The team was eliminated from the 2026 FIFA North American World Cup qualifying round and could not make it to the World Cup finals. South Africa ranked 61st and Cameroon 57th in the FIFA rankings.

If South Africa beats Cameroon and reaches the quarterfinals, it will face the winner of the "champion" Morocco and Tanzania. Morocco is the highest team in Africa with FIFA ranking 11th, and Tanzania is 112th, so Morocco is likely to advance to the quarterfinals. Moreover, Tanzania is also a team that is "lucky" to reach the round of 16 tournaments with the fourth-best performance among the third-place teams in each group, even though it has not won a single game with two draws and one loss in Group C.

In addition to the South African-Cameroon and Morocco-Tanzania matches, the round of 16 matches at the Africa Cup of Nations were held with Mali-Tunisia, Senegal-Sudan, Egypt-Benin, Ivory Coast-Burkina Faso, Algeria-Congo Democratic Republic and Nigeria-Mozambique, respectively.

Football statistics media Opta predicted a 1.95% chance of South Africa's victory shortly after the round of 16, ranking 10th among the 16 teams. Morocco had the highest 24.57 percent, followed by Egypt with 14.25 percent, Senegal with 13.74 percent, Algeria with 11.7 percent, and Nigeria with 10.18 percent. The team with the lowest probability of winning was Benin, with a probability of only 0.25%.

Meanwhile, South Korea, led by head coach Hong Myung-bo, was in Group A with the winners of South Africa, Mexico, and the UEFA Playoff (PO) Pass D (Denmark, Czech Republic, Ireland, and North Macedonia) in the 2026 North American World Cup finals. They will face South Africa in the final group match. This is the first North American World Cup to face off in history.

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