Football at the 2015 All-Africa Games – Men's qualification

2015 All-Africa Games men's football tournament qualification

Tournament details
Dates	21 February – 12 April 2015
Teams	24 (from 1 confederation)
Tournament statistics
Matches played	24
Goals scored	45 (1.88 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Kahraba (4 goals)

The 2015 All-Africa Games men's football tournament qualifying rounds decided the participating teams of the 2015 All-Africa Games men's football tournament. A total of eight teams will play in the final tournament, to be hosted by Congo.

Teams

A total of 24 teams entered the qualifying rounds, organized by the Confederation of African Football (CAF).^[1]

Round	Teams entering round	No. of teams
First round	Burkina Faso  Burundi  DR Congo  Egypt  Ethiopia  Gabon  Guinea-Bissau  Ivory Coast  Kenya  Libya  Madagascar  Mali  Mozambique  Nigeria  Sudan  Swaziland  Tunisia  Uganda  Zambia  Zimbabwe	20
Second round	Cameroon  Ghana  Senegal  South Africa	4
Final tournament	Congo (hosts)	1

Did not enter
Algeria  Angola  Benin  Botswana  Cape Verde  Central African Republic  Chad  Comoros  Djibouti  Equatorial Guinea  Eritrea  Gambia  Guinea  Lesotho  Liberia  Malawi  Mauritania  Mauritius  Morocco  Namibia  Niger  Rwanda  São Tomé and Príncipe  Seychelles  Sierra Leone  Somalia  South Sudan  Tanzania  Togo

Format

Qualification ties were played on a home-and-away two-legged basis. If the sides were level on aggregate after the second leg, the away goals rule was applied, and if still level, the tie proceeded directly to a penalty shoot-out (no extra time was played).

Schedule

The schedule of the qualifying rounds was as follows.^[2]

Round	Leg	Date
First round	First leg	20–22 February 2015
	Second leg	6–8 March 2015
Second round	First leg	20–22 March 2015
	Second leg	10–12 April 2015

First round

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Burkina Faso	w/o	Libya	—	—
Ivory Coast	w/o	Guinea-Bissau	—	—
DR Congo	1–2	Burundi	0–1	1–1
Egypt	4–1	Kenya	3–0	1–1
Gabon	1–6	Nigeria	1–4	0–2
Zambia	w/o	Madagascar	—	—
Mali	w/o	Tunisia	—	—
Mozambique	0–0 (4–1 p)	Uganda	0–0	0–0
Swaziland	w/o	Zimbabwe	—	—
Ethiopia	1–4	Sudan	1–2	0–2

Note: Libya, Guinea-Bissau, Madagascar, Tunisia and Swaziland withdrew.^[3]

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Second round

The seven winners of the second round qualified for the final tournament, where they were joined by the hosts Congo.

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Burkina Faso	2–1	Ivory Coast	2–1	0–0
Burundi	0–4	Egypt	0–2	0–2
Nigeria	2–1	Zambia	0–0	2–1
Mali	3–3 (a)	Senegal	2–2	1–1
Mozambique	1–2	Ghana	1–0	0–2
Zimbabwe	2–1	Cameroon	1–0	1–1
Sudan	2–1	South Africa	2–0	0–1

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Qualified teams

The following eight teams qualified for the final tournament.

Team	Previous appearances in tournament1
Congo (hosts)	3 (1965, 1973, 1995)
Burkina Faso	1 (1973)
Egypt	7 (1973, 1978, 1987, 1991, 1995, 2003, 2007)
Ghana	5 (1973, 1978, 2003, 2007, 2011)
Nigeria	5 (1973, 1978, 1991, 1995, 2003)
Senegal	3 (1987, 2003, 2011)
Sudan	0 (debut)
Zimbabwe	2 (1991, 1995)

¹ Bold indicates champion for that year. Italics indicate host.

See also

• Football at the 2015 All-Africa Games – Women's qualification

References

External links

• All Africa Games Men 2015, Qualifiers, CAFonline.com
• Season at futbol24.com

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