2010 Africa Cup of Nations

2010 Africa Cup of Nations
Taça de África das Nações de 2010
Africa Cup of Nations 2010 official logo
Tournament details
Host country	Angola
Dates	10–31 January
Teams	15 (from 1 confederation)
Venue(s)	4 (in 4 host cities)
Final positions
Champions	Egypt (7th title)
Runners-up	Ghana
Third place	Nigeria
Fourth place	Algeria
Tournament statistics
Matches played	29
Goals scored	71 (2.45 per match)
Attendance	543,500 (18,741 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Gedo (5 goals)
Best player	Ahmed Hassan
Best goalkeeper	Essam El-Hadary

The 2010 Africa Cup of Nations, also known as the Orange Africa Cup of Nations for sponsorship reasons, was the 27th Africa Cup of Nations, the biennial football championship of Africa (CAF). It was held in Angola, where it began on 10 January 2010 and concluded on 31 January.^[1]^[2]

In the tournament, the hosts Angola were to be joined by 15 nations who advanced from the qualification process that began in October 2007 and involved 53 African national teams. The withdrawal of Togo after a terrorist attack on their bus upon arriving for the tournament reduced the number of participating nations to 15. A total of 29 games were played, instead of the scheduled 32 games. Egypt won the tournament, their seventh ACN title and an unprecedented third in a row, beating Ghana 1–0 in the final.^[3]

Host selection

Angola was awarded the right to host the tournament by CAF in a decision to rotate the hosting of the Cup and allow new nations like Angola, Gabon and Equatorial Guinea a chance to host the tournament. Bids from Mozambique, Namibia, Zimbabwe and Senegal were rejected. Gabon and Equatorial Guinea were also awarded the hosting rights to the 2012 Nations Cup, while Libya would be hosting the event for the second time in 2014. Two-time former host Nigeria is the reserve host for the 2010, 2012 and 2014 Nations Cups, in the event that any of the host countries fails to meet the requirements established by CAF.

Qualification

The Confederation of African Football announced that the 2010 FIFA World Cup qualification would also be the qualification for this tournament. Despite the fact Angola are the host of the 2010 Africa Cup of Nations, they also needed to participate in the 2010 FIFA World Cup qualification. A similar situation was true for South Africa. Although they will be the hosts for the 2010 FIFA World Cup, they still needed to compete in the qualification tournament in order to qualify for the 2010 Africa Cup of Nations.^[4]

Qualified teams

A map of Africa showing the qualified nations, highlighted by stage reached.

Venues

Luanda	Luanda Cabinda Benguela Lubango	Cabinda
Estádio 11 de Novembro		Estádio Nacional do Chiazi

Capacity: 50,000		Capacity: 20,000
Benguela		Lubango
Estádio Nacional de Ombaka		Estádio Nacional da Tundavala

Capacity: 35,000		Capacity: 20,000

Draw

The draw for the final tournament took place on 20 November 2009 at the Talatona Convention Centre in Luanda, Angola. The 16 teams were split into four pots, with Pot 1 containing the top four seeded nations. Angola were seeded as hosts and Egypt as reigning holders. The remaining 14 teams were ranked based on their records in the three last editions of the competition. Cameroon and Côte d'Ivoire had the two strongest records and so completed the top seeded Pot 1. The four seeded teams were placed into their groups in advance of the final draw.

Pot 1	Pot 2	Pot 3	Pot 4
Angola Egypt Cameroon Ivory Coast	Ghana Nigeria Tunisia Mali	Zambia Benin Algeria Togo (withdrew)	Burkina Faso Mozambique Gabon Malawi

Match officials

The following referees were chosen for the 2010 Africa Cup of Nations.

Referees	Assistant Referees
Mohamed Benouza Hélder Martins de Carvalho Coffi Codjia Noumandiez Doue Essam Abd El Fatah Koman Coulibaly Rajindraparsad Seechurn Khalil Al Ghamdi Badara Diatta Eddy Maillet Daniel Bennett Jerome Damon Khalid Abdel Rahman Kokou Djaoupe Kacem Bennaceur Muhmed Ssegonga	Inácio Manuel Candido Desire Gahungu Evarist Menkouande Nasser Sadek Abdel Nabi Angesom Ogbamariam Ayuba Haruna Hassan Kamranifar Fooad El Maghrabi Moffat Champiti Redouane Achik Peter Edibe Mohammed Al Ghamdi Enock Molefe Celestin Ntagungira Bechir Hassani Kenneth Chichenga

Squads

Group stage

Tie-breaking criteria

If two or more teams end the group stage with the same number of points, their ranking is determined by the following criteria:^[5]

points earned in the matches between the teams concerned;
goal difference in the matches between the teams concerned;
number of goals scored in the matches between the teams concerned;
goal difference in all group matches;
number of goals scored in all group matches;
fair play points system taking into account the number of yellow and red cards;
drawing of lots by the organising committee.

All times given as local time (UTC+1)

Key to colours in group tables
	Group winners and runners-up advance to the quarter-finals

Group A

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Angola	3	1	2	0	6	4	+2	5
Algeria	3	1	1	1	1	3	−2	4
Mali	3	1	1	1	7	6	+1	4
Malawi	3	1	0	2	4	5	−1	3

Algeria finished ahead of Mali due to winning the match between the teams (see tie-breaking criteria).

Angola v Mali

10 January 2010
20:00

Angola	4–4	Mali
Flávio 36', 42' Gilberto 67' (pen.) Manucho 74' (pen.)	Report	Keita 79', 90+3' Kanouté 88' Yatabaré 90+4'

Estádio 11 de Novembro, Luanda
Attendance: 45,000
Referee: Essam Abd El Fatah (Egypt)

Malawi v Algeria

11 January 2010
14:45

Malawi	3–0	Algeria
Mwafulirwa 17' Kafoteka 35' Banda 48'	Report

Estádio 11 de Novembro, Luanda
Attendance: 1,000
Referee: Badara Diatta (Senegal)

Mali v Algeria

14 January 2010
17:00

Mali	0–1	Algeria
	Report	Halliche 43'

Estádio 11 de Novembro, Luanda
Attendance: 4,000
Referee: Muhmed Ssegonga (Uganda)

Angola v Malawi

14 January 2010
19:30

Angola	2–0	Malawi
Flávio 49' Manucho 55'	Report

Estádio 11 de Novembro, Luanda
Attendance: 48,500
Referee: Desire Doue Normandiez (Côte d'Ivoire)

Angola v Algeria

18 January 2010
17:00

Angola	0–0	Algeria
	Report

Estádio 11 de Novembro, Luanda
Attendance: 40,000
Referee: Jerome Damon (South Africa)

Mali v Malawi

18 January 2010
17:00

Mali	3–1	Malawi
Kanouté 1' Keita 3' Bagayoko 85'	Report	Mwafulirwa 58'

Estádio do Chiazi, Cabinda
Attendance: 21,000
Referee: Rajindraparsad Seechurn (Mauritius)

Group B

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Ivory Coast	2	1	1	0	3	1	+2	4
Ghana	2	1	0	1	2	3	−1	3
Burkina Faso	2	0	1	1	0	1	−1	1
Togo	withdrew, officially disqualified

Togo were disqualified from the tournament after missing their opening game against Ghana.^[6] Group B became a three-team group.

Ivory Coast v Burkina Faso

11 January 2010
17:00

Ivory Coast	0–0	Burkina Faso
	Report

Estádio do Chiazi, Cabinda
Attendance: 5,000
Referee: Kacem Bennaceur (Tunisia)

Ghana v Togo

11 January 2010
19:30

Ghana	Cancelled	Togo

Estádio do Chiazi, Cabinda

Burkina Faso v Togo

15 January 2010
17:00

Burkina Faso	Cancelled	Togo

Estádio do Chiazi, Cabinda

Ivory Coast v Ghana

15 January 2010
19:30

Ivory Coast	3–1	Ghana
Gervinho 23' Tiéné 66' Drogba 90'	Report	Gyan 90+3' (pen.)

Estádio do Chiazi, Cabinda
Attendance: 23,000
Referee: Jerome Damon (South Africa)

Burkina Faso v Ghana

19 January 2010
17:00

Burkina Faso	0–1	Ghana
	Report	A. Ayew 30'

Estádio 11 de Novembro, Luanda
Attendance: 8,000
Referee: Eddy Maillet (Seychelles)

Ivory Coast v Togo

19 January 2010
17:00

Ivory Coast	Cancelled	Togo

Estádio do Chiazi, Cabinda

Group C

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Egypt	3	3	0	0	7	1	+6	9
Nigeria	3	2	0	1	5	3	+2	6
Benin	3	0	1	2	2	5	−3	1
Mozambique	3	0	1	2	2	7	−5	1

Egypt v Nigeria

12 January 2010
17:00

Egypt	3–1	Nigeria
Moteab 34' Hassan 54' Gedo 87'	Report	Obasi 12'

Estádio Nacional de Ombaka, Benguela
Attendance: 18,000
Referee: Rajindraparsad Seechurn (Mauritius)

Mozambique v Benin

12 January 2010
19:30

Mozambique	2–2	Benin
Miro 29' Fumo 54'	Report	Omotoyossi 14' (pen.) Khan 20' (o.g.)

Estádio Nacional de Ombaka, Benguela
Attendance: 15,000
Referee: Khalid Abdel Rahman (Sudan)

Nigeria v Benin

16 January 2010
17:00

Nigeria	1–0	Benin
Yakubu 42' (pen.)	Report

Estádio Nacional de Ombaka, Benguela
Attendance: 8,000
Referee: Hélder Martins de Carvalho (Angola)

Egypt v Mozambique

16 January 2010
19:30

Egypt	2–0	Mozambique
Khan 47' (o.g.) Gedo 81'	Report

Estádio Nacional de Ombaka, Benguela
Attendance: 16,000
Referee: Kokou Djaoupe (Togo)

Egypt v Benin

20 January 2010
17:00

Egypt	2–0	Benin
Elmohamady 7' Moteab 23'	Report

Estádio Nacional de Ombaka, Benguela
Attendance: 12,500
Referee: Daniel Bennett (South Africa)

Nigeria v Mozambique

20 January 2010
17:00

Nigeria	3–0	Mozambique
Odemwingie 45', 47' Martins 86'	Report

Estádio Nacional da Tundavala, Lubango
Attendance: 8,050
Referee: Koman Coulibaly (Mali)

Group D

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	Pts
Zambia	3	1	1	1	5	5	4
Cameroon	3	1	1	1	5	5	4
Gabon	3	1	1	1	2	2	4
Tunisia	3	0	3	0	3	3	3

Sub-table of results between teams on equal points:

Team	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	Pts
Zambia	2	1	1	4	4	3
Cameroon	2	1	1	3	3	3
Gabon	2	1	1	2	2	3

The tie-breaking criteria for teams level on points consider only the results of matches between those teams (in this case, this excludes their results against Tunisia). This is shown in the sub-table above. All three teams were level on points and goal difference, and were ranked based on goals scored: Zambia 4, Cameroon 3, Gabon 2.

Cameroon v Gabon

13 January 2010
17:00

Cameroon	0–1	Gabon
	Report	Cousin 17'

Estádio Nacional da Tundavala, Lubango
Attendance: 15,000
Referee: Daniel Bennett (South Africa)

Zambia v Tunisia

13 January 2010
19:30

Zambia	1–1	Tunisia
J. Mulenga 19'	Report	Dhaouadi 40'

Estádio Nacional da Tundavala, Lubango
Attendance: 17,000
Referee: Koman Coulibaly (Mali)

Gabon v Tunisia

17 January 2010
17:00

Gabon	0–0	Tunisia
	Report

Estádio Nacional da Tundavala, Lubango
Attendance: 16,000
Referee: Coffi Codjia (Benin)

Cameroon v Zambia

17 January 2010
19:30

Cameroon	3–2	Zambia
Geremi 68' Eto'o 72' Idrissou 86'	Report	J. Mulenga 8' C. Katongo 81' (pen.)

Estádio Nacional da Tundavala, Lubango
Attendance: 15,000
Referee: Khalil Al Ghamdi (Saudi Arabia)

Gabon v Zambia

21 January 2010
17:00

Gabon	1–2	Zambia
F. Do Marcolino 83'	Report	Kalaba 28' Chamanga 62'

Estádio Nacional de Ombaka, Benguela
Attendance: 11,065
Referee: Mohamed Benouza (Algeria)

Cameroon v Tunisia

21 January 2010
17:00

Cameroon	2–2	Tunisia
Eto'o 47' N'Guémo 64'	Report	Chermiti 1' Chedjou 63' (o.g.)

Estádio Nacional da Tundavala, Lubango
Attendance: 19,000
Referee: Noumandiez Désiré Doué (Côte d'Ivoire)

Knockout stage

All times given as local time (UTC+1)

Quarter-finals

Semi-finals

Final

24 January – Luanda

Angola

28 January – Luanda

Ghana

25 January – Estádio Nacional da Tundavala, Lubango

Nigeria

Zambia

0 (4)

31 January – Luanda

Nigeria (p)

0 (5)

Ghana

24 January – Estádio do Chiazi, Cabinda

Egypt

Ivory Coast

28 January – Estádio Nacional de Ombaka, Benguela

Algeria (aet)

Algeria

Third place

25 January – Estádio Nacional de Ombaka, Benguela

Egypt

Egypt (aet)

Nigeria

Cameroon

Algeria

30 January – Estádio Nacional de Ombaka, Benguela

Quarter-finals

Angola v Ghana

24 January 2010
17:00

Angola	0–1	Ghana
	Report	Gyan 15'

Estádio 11 de Novembro, Luanda
Attendance: 50,000
Referee: Mohamed Benouza (Algeria)

Ivory Coast v Algeria

24 January 2010
20:30

Ivory Coast	2–3 (a.e.t.)	Algeria
Kalou 4' Keïta 89'	Report	Matmour 39' Bougherra 90+2' Bouazza 92'

Estádio do Chiazi, Cabinda
Attendance: 10,000
Referee: Eddy Maillet (Seychelles)

Egypt v Cameroon

25 January 2010
17:00

Egypt	3–1 (a.e.t.)	Cameroon
Hassan 37', 104' Gedo 92'	Report	Emana 25'

Estádio Nacional de Ombaka, Benguela
Attendance: 12,000
Referee: Jerome Damon (South Africa)

Zambia v Nigeria

25 January 2010
20:30

Zambia	0–0 (a.e.t.)	Nigeria
	Report
	Penalties
Chivuta C. Katongo Mayuka Nyrienda Mweene	4–5	Mikel Martins Obinna Odemwingie Enyeama

Estádio Nacional da Tundavala, Lubango
Attendance: 10,000
Referee: Essam Abd El Fatah (Egypt)

Semi-finals

Ghana v Nigeria

28 January 2010
16:00

Ghana	1–0	Nigeria
Gyan 21'	Report

Estádio 11 de Novembro, Luanda
Attendance: 7,500
Referee: Daniel Bennett (South Africa)

Algeria v Egypt

28 January 2010
20:30

Algeria	0–4	Egypt
	Report	Abd Rabo 38' (pen.) Zidan 65' Abdel-Shafy 80' Gedo 90+2'

Estádio Nacional de Ombaka, Benguela
Attendance: 25,000
Referee: Coffi Codjia (Benin)

Third Place Play-off

Nigeria v Algeria

30 January 2010
17:00

Nigeria	1–0	Algeria
Obinna 56'	Report

Estádio Nacional de Ombaka, Benguela
Attendance: 12,000
Referee: Badara Diatta (Senegal)

Final

Ghana v Egypt

31 January 2010
17:00

Ghana	0–1	Egypt
	Report	Gedo 85'

Estádio 11 de Novembro, Luanda
Attendance: 45,000
Referee: Koman Coulibaly (Mali)

Awards

Best player of the competition: Ahmed Hassan^[7]
Fair Play player of the competition: Ahmed Fathy^[7]
Discovery Player of the Tournament: Gedo^[7]
Goalkeeper of the competition: Essam El-Hadary^[7]
Top scorer: Gedo^[7]

Best XI

The following players were selected as the best in their respective positions, based on their performances throughout the tournament. Their performances were analysed by the tournament's Technical Study Group (TSG), who picked the team.^[8]

Goalkeepers	Defenders	Midfielders	Forwards
Essam El-Hadary	Madjid Bougherra Wael Gomaa Mabiná	Ahmed Fathy Peter Odemwingie Alex Song Ahmed Hassan	Asamoah Gyan Mohamed Zidan Flávio

Substitutes

Goalscorers

5 goals

Gedo

3 goals

2 goals

1 goal

1 goal

1 goal

Own goals
2 goals

Dario Khan (playing against Benin and Egypt)

1 goal

Aurélien Chedjou (playing against Tunisia)

Statistics

Total number of goals scored: 71
Average goals per match: 2.45
Most goals scored by a team in the first round: 7 – Egypt and Mali
Most goals conceded by a team: 10 – Algeria
Most goals conceded by a team in the first round: 7 – Mozambique
Fewest goals conceded by a team in the first round: 1 – Egypt and Burkina Faso*** and Ivory Coast***
Fewest goals conceded by a team continuing on to the second round: 2 – Egypt
Fastest goal in a match: 36th second: Kanouté for Mali (against Malawi )
Latest goal scored in a match: 104th minute: Ahmed Hassan for Egypt (against Cameroon )
Most goals scored in a match: 8 – Angola 4–4 Mali
Fewest goals scored in a match: 0 – Ivory Coast vs. Burkina Faso , – Angola vs. Algeria , – Gabon vs. Tunisia – Zambia vs. Nigeria
Most goals scored by a losing team: 2 – Zambia (against Cameroon ); and Ivory Coast (against Algeria )
Most goals scored in a draw: 8 – Angola 4–4 Mali
Most goals scored by a winning team: 4 – Egypt (4–0 vs. Algeria )

*** indicates the team played only two matches in the group stage, due to the withdrawal of Togo from the tournament.

Mascot

Palanquinha, the mascot of the 2010 Africa Cup of Nations

The Mascot for the Tournament is Palanquinha, which was inspired by the Giant Sable Antelope (Hippotragus niger variani), a national symbol and a treasured animal in Angola. In Angola, this animal is found only in the Cangandala National Park in Malange Province.

Match ball

The official match ball for the tournament is the Adidas Jabulani Angola, a modified version of the Adidas Jabulani to be used at the 2010 FIFA World Cup, with the colours of the flag of Angola.

Attack on the Togo national team

On 8 January 2010, the team bus of the Togo national football team was attacked by gunmen in Cabinda, Angola as it travelled to the tournament. A spokesman for the Togolese football federation said assistant coach Améleté Abalo and press officer Stanislaud Ocloo had died as well as the driver. The separatist group Front for the Liberation of the Enclave of Cabinda-Military Position (FLEC-PM) claimed responsibility for the attack. The Togolese team withdrew from the competition the following day. The players initially decided to compete to commemorate the victims in this way, but were immediately ordered to return by the Togolese government.^[9]

Following their departure from Angola, Togo were formally disqualified from the tournament after failing to fulfil their opening Group B game against Ghana on 11 January.

On 30 January 2010, CAF banned Togo from participating in the next two Africa Cup of Nations tournaments and fined the team $50,000 due to "government involvement in the withdrawal from the tournament".^[10] Togo were unable to compete until the 2015 tournament, but that ban was lifted on 14 May 2010 by a ruling from the Court of Arbitration for Sport.^[11]

References

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↑ "Camino a la Copa Africana de Naciones Angola 2010". Fox Sport. 20 February 2009. Retrieved 30 January 2010.
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↑ "Angola 2010 – Fixture, stadiums and list of champions". Periodismo de fútbol internacional. Retrieved 30 January 2010.
↑ "Regulations of the Orange Africa Cup of Nations Angola 2010, art. 72, p. 29" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 6 January 2010. Retrieved 9 January 2010.
↑ "Togo officially disqualified from Africa Cup of Nations". BBC Sport (British Broadcasting Corporation). 11 January 2010. Retrieved 11 January 2010.
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↑ "CAF Releases top 11 of Orange CAN". cafonline.com. Confederation of African Football. 31 January 2010. Archived from the original on 4 February 2010. Retrieved 1 February 2010.
↑ "Togo head home as Africa Cup of Nations gets under way". BBC Sport. 10 January 2010. Archived from the original on 14 January 2010. Retrieved 6 February 2010.
↑ "Togo handed two-tournament Nations Cup suspension". ESPN Soccernet. 30 January 2010. Archived from the original on 3 February 2010. Retrieved 6 February 2010.
↑ "Togo's African Cup ban is lifted". bbc.co.uk. BBC. 14 May 2010. Retrieved 15 June 2015.

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