Schedules have been released for both of the aforementioned rounds. I won't list the full schedule here yet since games won't start until June. But the matchdays are as follows:
CONCACAF Round 3:
June 8 2012
June 12 2012
September 7 2012
September 11 2012
October 12 2012
October 16 2012
CAF Round 2:
June 1 2012
June 8 2012
March 22 2013
June 7 2013
June 14 2013
September 6 2013
CONCACAF has the shorter timeframe for this round as they still have a double round-robin Round 4 to play in 2013. Africa on the other hand is taking full advantage of their new shortened qualifying system, spreading 6 games out over 15 months. I like the idea of spreading the games out over such a wide span of time, as it gives teams an opportunity to recover from a bad performance or physical game, except they've completely negated those benefits by twice hosting games within a week of each other. That doesn't make sense to me...
I'll have detailed breakdowns of each group for both rounds (as well as Asia Round 4, South America Round 1 and Oceania Round 2) closer to June when all those confederations will be back in qualifying.
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