The draw for the 2017 WAFU Cup of Nations will be held at the Labadi Beach Hotel in Accra, the capital of Ghana at 4pm today.

Officials of WAFU and Fox Sports – sponsors of the competition – arrived in the country yesterday ahead of today’s event.

All the 16 countries participating in the tournament have sent their representatives to attend the pre-tournament workshop which will held this morning. (This is a closed door event).

The draw will held at 4pm with some of West Africs’s top former footballers, administrators and diplomats attending the event.

The event will start at 4pm sharp and the media is expected to be seated by 3:30pm.

The details for the competition will be revealed at the event.

The participating teams for the tournament are:

Benin

Burkina Faso

Cape Verde

Ivory Coast

Gambia

Ghana

Guinea

Guinea Bissau

Liberia

Mali

Mauritania

Niger

Nigeria

Senegal

Sierra Leone

Togo

The tournament is sponsored by FOX SPORTS.

Cape Coast and Sekondi are the host venues for the competition.