The Sierra Leone Football Association  has expressed determination as the path to the Total Energies AFCON 2023 has been laid. SLFA has revealed the fixtures of Leone Stars matches.

Leone Stars will commence their race for a ticket to Cote d’Ivoire against the Super Eagles.

The Sierra Leone senior national team will kick off their 2023 Africa Cup of Nations qualification campaign against Nigeria, the Sierra Leone Football Association has confirmed.

According to the draw held on Tuesday in Johannesburg which was steered by the Confederation of African Football director of competitions Samson Adamu and assisted by South African football great Lucas Radebe and former Chelsea star Salomon Kalou, the three-time African kings were zoned in Group A alongside the Leone Stars, Guinea Bissau as well as Sao Tome and Principe.

In a press release recently made available, the Nigeria Football Fedration has confirmed that the country will host John Keister’s side before heading to Sao Tome and Principe. The window for these two matches is between May 30 to June 14, 2022.

With the window for Matchdays 3 and 4 being 19th – 27th of September, the Leone Stars will try Sao Tome/ Mauritius for size home and away encounter.

The last two matches are within the period of March 20th to 28th, 2023. There, Nigeria will head to Freetown for their reverse fixture against Sierra  Leone before Sierra Leone departs for their last encounter against the dogs of Guinea Bissau .

Meanwhile, Mauritius have a pending protest against Sao Tome and Príncipe, who won their preliminary qualifying fixture.

The Dodos insisted that one of Sao Tome’s players had tested positive for Covid-19. Should they win their appeal, Adriano Eusebio’s team would be thrown out of the competition for Mauritius.