2011 African Nations Championship – Qualification

The qualification phase for the 2011 African Championship of Nations begins in March 2010. These games do not count towards the FIFA ranking.

The inaugural edition of the competition featured eight teams, this edition will feature sixteen.

Qualification is divided into the CAF Zoning system. Each Zone has 2 or 3 teams that will qualify for the final tournament in 2011.

Zone	Number of qualifying teams
Zone North	2
Zone West A	2
Zone West B	3
Central Zone	3
Central East Zone	2 (plus hosts Sudan)
Southern Zone	3

Contents 1 Zone North 2 Zone West A 2.1 Preliminary Round 2.2 First Round 3 Zone West B 4 Central Zone 4.1 Preliminary Round 4.2 First Round 4.3 Play-Off 5 Central East Zone 5.1 Preliminary Round 5.2 First Round 5.3 Second Round 6 Southern Zone 6.1 First Round 6.2 Second Round 7 Qualified 8 References

Zone North

The first leg is scheduled to take place on March 12/13/14. The second leg is scheduled to take place on March 26/27/28.

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Algeria	(a) 2–2	Libya	1–0	1–2
Tunisia	(a) 3–3	Morocco	1–1	2–2

13 March 2010	Algeria	1 – 0	Libya	Koléa Attendance: 10,000 Referee: Bouchaib El Ahrach
	Youcef Ghazali  48'	Report

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17 April 2010	Libya	2 – 1	Algeria	June 11 Stadium, Tripoli
	Younes Al Shibani  26' (pen.) Ahmed Zuway  62'	Report	Sofiane Hanitser  90'

Tunisia and Algeria qualify for the final tournament.

Zone West A

Preliminary Round

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Sierra Leone	w/o	Mauritania

Mauritania withdrew.^[1]

First Round

The first leg is scheduled to take place on March 12/13/14. The second leg is scheduled to take place on March 26/27/28.

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Guinea	1-3	Mali	1–1	0–2
Senegal	1-1 (4-3p)	Sierra Leone	1–0	0–1

Mali and Senegal qualify for the final tournament.

Zone West B

The first leg is scheduled to take place on March 12/13/14. The second leg is scheduled to take place on March 26/27/28.

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Togo	1-6	Ivory Coast	1–2	0–4
Burkina Faso	0-1	Ghana	0–0	0–1
Niger	2-0	Nigeria	2–0	0–0

Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana, Niger qualify for the final tournament.

Central Zone

Preliminary Round

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Congo	w/o	Equatorial Guinea

Equatorial Guinea withdrew

First Round

The first leg is scheduled to take place on March 12/13/14. The second leg is scheduled to take place on March 26/27/28.

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Congo	1-4	Cameroon	1–1	0–3
Gabon	2-3	DR Congo	1–2	1–1

Cameroon and DR Congo qualify for the final tournament.

Play-Off

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Gabon	w/o	Congo

Congo withdrew

Gabon qualify for the final tournament.

Central East Zone

Preliminary Round

8 January	Djibouti	0 - 1	Somalia
		[1]	Yusuf Osman  73'

There was only one leg played due to Somalia being unable to host international fixtures.^[2]

First Round

The first leg is scheduled to take place on March 12/13/14. The second leg is scheduled to take place on March 26/27/28.

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Burundi	1-5	Uganda	1–1	0–4
Ethiopia	w/o	Kenya
Eritrea	w/o	Rwanda
Somalia	0-6	Tanzania	*–*	0–6

Both Ethiopia and Eritrea withdrew.

For Somalia vs Tanzania fixture, there will be only one leg played due to Somalia being unable to host international fixtures.

Second Round

The first leg is scheduled to take place on May 21/22/23.* The second leg is scheduled to take place on June 4/5/6.

• The Tanzania, Rwanda match was pushed forward to May 1 due to Rwanda’s hosting of the CECAFA Kagame Cup from 15–29 May.

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Uganda	(a) 2–2	Kenya	1–0	1–2
Tanzania	1–2	Rwanda	1–1	0–1

Uganda and Rwanda qualify for the final tournament.

Southern Zone

The first leg is scheduled to take place on March 12/13/14. The second leg is scheduled to take place on March 26/27/28.

First Round

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Botswana	1-2	South Africa	0–0	1–2
Seychelles	2-1	Namibia	1–0	1–1
Madagascar	0-2	Angola	0–0	0–2
Swaziland	1-5	Zimbabwe	1–2	0–3
Malawi	3-1	Mozambique	3–0	0–1

 Zambia receive bye to second round.

Second Round

The first leg is scheduled to take place on May 21/22/23. The second leg is scheduled to take place on June 4/5/6.

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
South Africa	2–1	Zambia	1–0	1–1
Seychelles	2–6	Zimbabwe	2–4	0–2
Angola	3–1	Malawi	1–1	2–0

Angola and South Africa and Zimbabwe qualify for the final tournament.

Qualified

•  Sudan - Hosts (Central East Zone)
• Algeria - Zone North
•  Tunisia - Zone North
•  Mali - Zone West A
•  Senegal - Zone West A
•  Côte d'Ivoire - Zone West B
•  Ghana - Zone West B
•  Niger - Zone West B
•  Cameroon - Central Zone
•  Congo DR - Central Zone
•  Gabon - Central Zone
•  Uganda - Central East Zone
•  Rwanda - Central East Zone
•  Angola - Southern Zone
• South Africa - Southern Zone
•  Zimbabwe - Southern Zone

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