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 Zones

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 participating teams	Number of qualifying teams	Number of teams not entered
North Zone	4	2	1 (Egypt)
Zone West A	5	2	4 (Cape Verde, Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia)
Zone West B	6	3	1 (Benin)
Central Zone	5	3	3 (Central African, Chad, São Tomé & Príncipe)
Central-East Zone	10 (including host Sudan)	3 (including host Sudan)	0
Southern Zone	11	3	3 (Comoros, Lesotho, Mauritius)
Total	41	16	12

North Zone

First Round

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

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Tunisia and Algeria qualify for the final tournament.

Zone West A

Preliminary Round

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

Mauritania withdrew.^[1]

First Round

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

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Mali and Senegal qualify for the final tournament.

Zone West B

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Togo	1–6	Côte d'Ivoire	1–2	0–4
Burkina Faso	0–1	Ghana	0–0	0–1
Niger	2–0	Nigeria	2–0	0–0

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Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana and 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

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

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Cameroon and DR Congo qualify for the final tournament.

Second Round

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Gabon	3–0	Congo	3–0 *	w/o

• Congo withdrew. Match was awarded 3–0 to Gabon.

Gabon qualify for the final tournament.

Central-East Zone

Preliminary Round

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Djibouti	0–1	Somalia	N/P	0–1

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

First Round

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Burundi	1-5	Uganda	1–1	0–4
Ethiopia	w/o	Kenya	w/o	0–3 *
Eritrea	w/o	Rwanda	w/o	0–3 *
Somalia	0-6	Tanzania	N/P	0–6

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• Ethiopia withdrew. Match was awarded 3–0 to Kenya.

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• Eritrea withdrew. Match was awarded 3–0 to Rwanda.

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There was only one leg played due to Somalia being unable to host international fixtures.

Second Round

The Tanzania vs 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

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Uganda and Rwanda qualify for the final tournament, along with host Sudan.

Southern Zone

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.

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Second Round

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

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

Qualified

Sudan - Host (Central-East Zone)  Algeria - North Zone  Tunisia - North Zone  Mali - Zone West A  Senegal - Zone West A  Ivory Coast - Zone West B  Ghana - Zone West B  Niger - Zone West B

Cameroon - Central Zone  DR Congo - Central Zone  Gabon - Central Zone  Uganda - Central-East Zone  Rwanda - Central-East Zone  Angola - Southern Zone South Africa - Southern Zone  Zimbabwe - Southern Zone

References

African Nations Championship Tournaments Ivory Coast 2009 Sudan 2011 South Africa 2014 Rwanda 2016 Kenya 2018 Qualification 2009 2011 2014 2016 Finals 2009 2011 2014 2016 Squads 2009 2011 2014 2016