AMAVUBI of Rwanda’s delegation for Saturday’s 2026 FIFA World Cup qualifying clash against the Super Eagles will arrive in Lagos on Tuesday afternoon, the Nigeria Football Federation has confirmed.
A one-man advance party will be in Lagos on tomorrow, but the full delegation will land in the city on Tuesday aboard a Rwandair Airline flight at 1.15pm, and will proceed to Uyo, where the match will be played, by 4pm of the same day.
The Matchday 7 encounter is important for both teams as they are both well adrift of group leaders South Africa, who have 13 points (prior to FIFA’s decision on their use of an ineligible player in the win over Lesotho in March this year).
Rwanda are second in the group with eight points, same as Benin Republic, with the Super Eagles fourth on seven points.
Lesotho have six points, with Zimbabwe propping up the table on four points.
While the world still awaits FIFA’s decision, the Super Eagles and Rwanda’s Amavubi will look to benefit from Bafana Bafana’s error.
The Crocodiles of Lesotho will leap to nine points if South Africa are penalised for their infraction, while Bafana’s gap over the Super Eagles will reduce to three points.
Saturday’s showdown at the Godswill Akpabio Stadium comes five months and two weeks after the Super Eagles defeated the Amavubi 2-0 in the latter’s homeground in Kigali in a Matchday 5 encounter.
It also comes nine months and two weeks after an inspired Amavubi came from behind to defeat the Super Eagles 2-1 in a 2025 AFCON final-day qualification match at the same Godswill Akpabio Stadium.
Unfortunately for the Amavubi, the win did not earn them qualification, as Benin Republic took the second ticket from the group behind Nigeria, after drawing with Libya in Tripoli.
While the Amavubi have a date with bottom-placed Zimbabwe on Matchday 8, the Super Eagles must fly to Bloemfontein to confront group leaders South Africa.