[3] Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, all matches of matchdays 3 and 4 scheduled for March 2020 were postponed until further notice.

[8] All eight teams from Pot 5 were drawn into four ties and played in home-and-away two-legged format.

The four winners advanced to the group stage to join the 44 teams which entered directly.

The 2021 Africa Cup of Nations hosts, Cameroon, participated in the qualifiers with the team guaranteed a spot in the finals regardless of its ranking in the group.

If tied on points, tiebreakers were applied in the following order (Regulations Article 14): The following teams qualified for the final tournament.