2010 FIFA World Cup qualification (CAF)

The Confederation of African Football (CAF) section of the 2010 FIFA World Cup qualification saw teams compete for five berths in the final tournament in South Africa. The qualification stage doubled as the qualification stage for the 2010 African Cup of Nations, with fifteen teams qualifying for the finals held in Angola.

Result:

  Countries that qualified for the 2010 World Cup and 2010 African Cup of Nations

  Countries that qualified for the 2010 African Cup of Nations

  Countries that did not qualify for the 2010 World Cup or 2010 African Cup of Nations

  Countries that withdrew or were disqualified

■ Host nation of the 2010 World Cup
◆ Host nation of the 2010 African Cup of Nations

In total, 53 nations participated; however, due to the presence of the two tournaments' respective hosts, 52 teams were involved in each competition. South Africa qualified automatically as host for the World Cup,[1] and Angola qualified as host for the African Cup of Nations. Both nevertheless competed in the qualifying phase to attempt to qualify for the other tournament.

This was the first time since 1934 that the hosts would compete in World Cup qualifiers. Angola's situation mirrored that of Egypt in the 2006 World Cup qualifiers in Africa, which doubled as the qualifiers to the 2006 African Cup of Nations hosted by Egypt.[2]

First round

Five knockout ties were originally required, involving the ten lowest ranked African countries (based on FIFA rankings as of July 2007). The actual draw was apparently conducted one day before the format was announced by CAF. The pairings were:[3]

•  Madagascar v  Comoros
•  Somalia v  Swaziland
•  São Tomé and Príncipe v  Central African Republic
•  Sierra Leone v  Guinea-Bissau
•  Seychelles v  Djibouti

São Tomé and Príncipe and the Central African Republic both withdrew in early September. As a result, Swaziland and Seychelles (the highest ranked of the ten nations) were no longer required to play in this round, and the teams they were originally matched against, Somalia and Djibouti, were redrawn to play each other instead.[4] The tie between Djibouti and Somalia was played as a one leg tie in Djibouti, as Somalia was not deemed suitable for FIFA matches; the other two ties were played as two leg ties.

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Madagascar	10–2	Comoros	6–2	4–0
Djibouti	1–0	Somalia	1–0	N/A
Sierra Leone	1–0	Guinea-Bissau	1–0	0–0

Second round

The 48 qualifiers (45 direct entrants plus 3 winners of the first round) were split into 12 groups of 4 in the draw held in Durban, South Africa on 25 November 2007. Teams in each group played a home-and-away round-robin in 2008, with the 12 groups winners and 8 best runners-up advancing to the third round. As not all groups were of equal size after the exclusion of Ethiopia and the withdrawal of Eritrea, when ranking the runners-up, their results against their group's 4th placed team would not be counted.[5]

Seeding

One team from each of the following pots were drawn into each group.[6]

Pot A	Pot B	Pot C	Pot D
Cameroon  Nigeria  Ivory Coast  Morocco  Ghana  Tunisia  Egypt  Guinea  Senegal  Mali  Angola  Togo	Zambia  South Africa  Cape Verde  DR Congo  Algeria  Burkina Faso  Benin  Mozambique  Libya  Ethiopia  Congo  Zimbabwe	Uganda  Botswana  Equatorial Guinea  Tanzania  Gabon  Malawi  Sudan  Burundi  Liberia  Rwanda  Eritrea  Namibia	Gambia  Mauritania  Kenya  Chad  Lesotho  Mauritius  Niger  Swaziland  Seychelles  Sierra Leone  Madagascar  Djibouti

Legend
Countries that advanced to the Third round

Group 1

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Cameroon	6	5	1	0	14	2	+12	16		—	2–0	2–1	5–0
Cape Verde	6	3	0	3	7	8	−1	9		1–2	—	1–0	3–1
Tanzania	6	2	2	2	9	6	+3	8		0–0	3–1	—	1–1
Mauritius	6	0	1	5	3	17	−14	1		0–3	0–1	1–4	—

Source:

Group 2

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Guinea	6	3	2	1	9	5	+4	11		—	3–2	0–0	4–0
Kenya	6	3	1	2	8	5	+3	10		2–0	—	2–0	1–0
Zimbabwe	6	1	3	2	4	6	−2	6[lower-alpha 1]		0–0	0–0	—	2–0
Namibia	6	2	0	4	7	12	−5	6[lower-alpha 1]		1–2	2–1	4–2	—

Source:
Notes:

1. Zimbabwe and Namibia are ranked by their overall goal difference.

Group 3

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Benin	6	4	0	2	12	8	+4	12		—	3–2	4–1	2–0
Angola	6	3	1	2	11	8	+3	10[lower-alpha 1]		3–0	—	0–0	3–1
Uganda	6	3	1	2	8	9	−1	10[lower-alpha 1]		2–1	3–1	—	1–0
Niger	6	1	0	5	5	11	−6	3		0–2	1–2	3–1	—

Source:
Notes:

1. Angola and Uganda are ranked by their overall goal difference.

Note: Angola were automatically qualified as hosts of the 2010 African Cup of Nations. However, they were subject to the same rules as other nations for continuation to the next stage of the qualifiers. Failure to advance from this group eliminated them from the qualifiers for the 2010 FIFA World Cup.

Group 4

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Nigeria	6	6	0	0	11	1	+10	18		—	2–0	4–1	2–0
South Africa	6	2	1	3	5	5	0	7[lower-alpha 1]		0–1	—	0–0	4–1
Sierra Leone	6	2	1	3	4	8	−4	7[lower-alpha 1]		0–1	1–0	—	2–1
Equatorial Guinea	6	1	0	5	4	10	−6	3		0–1	0–1	2–0	—

Source:
Notes:

1. South Africa and Sierra Leone are ranked by their overall goal difference.

Note: South Africa were automatically qualified as hosts of the 2010 FIFA World Cup. However, they were subject to the same rules as other nations for continuation to the next stage of the qualifiers. Failure to advance from this group eliminated them from the qualifiers for the 2010 African Cup of Nations.

Group 5

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Ghana	6	4	0	2	11	5	+6	12[lower-alpha 1]		—	2–0	3–0	3–0
Gabon	6	4	0	2	8	3	+5	12[lower-alpha 1]		2–0	—	1–0	2–0
Libya	6	4	0	2	7	4	+3	12[lower-alpha 1]		1–0	1–0	—	4–0
Lesotho	6	0	0	6	2	16	−14	0		2–3	0–3	0–1	—

Source:
Notes:

1. Ghana, Gabon and Libya are ranked by their overall goal difference.

Group 6

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Algeria	6	3	1	2	7	4	+3	10		—	1–0	3–2	3–0
Gambia	6	2	3	1	6	3	+3	9[lower-alpha 1]		1–0	—	0–0	3–0
Senegal	6	2	3	1	9	7	+2	9[lower-alpha 1]		1–0	1–1	—	3–1
Liberia	6	0	3	3	4	12	−8	3		0–0	1–1	2–2	—

Source:
Notes:

1. Gambia and Senegal are ranked by their overall goal difference.

Group 7

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Ivory Coast	6	3	3	0	10	2	+8	12		—	1–0	3–0	4–0
Mozambique	6	2	2	2	7	5	+2	8		1–1	—	3–0	1–2
Madagascar	6	1	3	2	2	7	−5	6		0–0	1–1	—	1–0
Botswana	6	1	2	3	3	8	−5	5		1–1	0–1	0–0	—

Source:

On 19 March 2008, FIFA announced the immediate suspension of the Malagasy Football Federation (FMF).[7] The suspension was lifted on 19 May 2008.[8]

Group 8

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Morocco	4	3	0	1	11	5	+6	9[lower-alpha 1]		—	2–0	4–1
Rwanda	4	3	0	1	7	3	+4	9[lower-alpha 1]		3–1	—	3–0
Mauritania	4	0	0	4	2	12	−10	0		1–4	0–1	—

Source:
Notes:

1. Morocco and Rwanda are ranked by their overall goal difference.

Ethiopia played four matches in this group, before FIFA announced the immediate suspension of the Ethiopian Football Federation (EFF) on 29 July 2008.[9] On 12 September 2008, FIFA excluded the EFF from the 2010 World Cup qualifiers and the results of their matches were cancelled.[10] While it was not clear if they were also explicitly excluded from the 2010 African Cup of Nations, their failure to complete the remaining fixtures effectively eliminated them from the tournament.

Group 9

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Burkina Faso	6	5	1	0	14	5	+9	16		—	0–0	2–0	4–1
Tunisia	6	4	1	1	11	3	+8	13		1–2	—	2–1	5–0
Burundi	6	2	0	4	5	9	−4	6		1–3	0–1	—	1–0
Seychelles	6	0	0	6	4	17	−13	0		2–3	0–2	1–2	—

Source:

Group 10

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Mali	6	4	0	2	13	8	+5	12		—	3–0	4–2	2–1
Sudan	6	3	0	3	9	9	0	9[lower-alpha 1]		3–2	—	2–0	1–2
Congo	6	3	0	3	7	8	−1	9[lower-alpha 1]		1–0	1–0	—	2–0
Chad	6	2	0	4	7	11	−4	6		1–2	1–3	2–1	—

Source:
Notes:

1. Sudan and Congo are ranked by their overall goal difference.

On 28 March 2008, FIFA announced the immediate suspension of the Chadian Football Federation.[11] The suspension was lifted on 7 May 2008.[12]

Chad was disqualified from the 2010 African Nations Cup qualifiers after failing to show up for their away match against Sudan, despite security guarantees. The match was subsequently rescheduled. Only matches between Mali, Sudan and Congo were taken into account for the qualification of the second round of the preliminaries of the African Cup of Nations. However, Chad was still able qualify for the 2010 FIFA World Cup.[13] This could have led to complications if Chad had advanced to the next round or if Chad's exclusion the now alternate group standings had produced different group winners and impacted on the ranking of the second-placed side.

For African Cup of Nations qualification:

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Mali	4	2	0	2	9	6	+3	6[lower-alpha 1]		—	3–0	4–2
Sudan	4	2	0	2	5	6	−1	6[lower-alpha 1]		3–2	—	2–0
Congo	4	2	0	2	4	6	−2	6[lower-alpha 1]		1–0	1–0	—

Source:
Notes:

1. Mali, Sudan and Congo are ranked by their overall goal difference.

Group 11

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Zambia	4	2	1	1	2	1	+1	7		—	1–0	1–0
Togo	4	2	0	2	8	3	+5	6		1–0	—	6–0
Swaziland	4	1	1	2	2	8	−6	4		0–0	2–1	—

Source:

Eritrea withdrew from the qualifiers on 25 March 2008 and were not replaced.[14]

Group 12

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Egypt	6	5	0	1	13	2	+11	15		—	2–0	2–1	4–0
Malawi	6	4	0	2	14	5	+9	12		1–0	—	2–1	8–1
DR Congo	6	3	0	3	14	6	+8	9		0–1	1–0	—	5–1
Djibouti	6	0	0	6	2	30	−28	0		0–4	0–3	0–6	—

Source:

Rankings of runners-up

Along with the 12 group winners, the 8 highest-ranked runners-up also advanced to the third round. Because not all groups contained an equal number of teams, only results against the first- and third-placed teams in each group counted.

Grp	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
8	Rwanda	4	3	0	1	7	3	+4	9
2	Kenya	4	2	1	1	6	3	+3	7
9	Tunisia	4	2	1	1	4	3	+1	7
11	Togo	4	2	0	2	8	3	+5	6
5	Gabon	4	2	0	2	3	3	0	6
10	Sudan	4	2	0	2	5	6	−1	6
12	Malawi	4	2	0	2	3	4	−1	6
7	Mozambique	4	1	2	1	5	3	+2	5
6	Gambia	4	1	2	1	2	2	0	5
3	Angola	4	1	1	2	6	6	0	4
1	Cape Verde	4	1	0	3	3	7	−4	3
4	South Africa	4	0	1	3	0	4	−4	1

Source:
Rules for classification: 1. Total points, 2. Goal difference, 3. Goals scored, 4. Away goals scored, 5. A play-off decider at a neutral ground (if necessary)

Third round

The 20 remaining sides were split into five groups of four. The draw for the groups took place on 22 October 2008 in Zürich, Switzerland.[15]

The five group winners qualified for the 2010 FIFA World Cup, and were joined by the group runners-up and third-placed teams in qualifying for the 2010 Africa Cup of Nations.

Seeding

Teams were seeded based on their FIFA World Rankings in October 2008 (number in parentheses).[16] One team from each of the following pots was drawn into each group.[17]

Pot 1	Pot 2	Pot 3	Pot 4
Cameroon (12)  Egypt (22)  Ghana (25)  Nigeria (27)  Ivory Coast (29)	Guinea (41)  Morocco (43)  Tunisia (47)  Mali (53)  Algeria (56)	Burkina Faso (63)  Gabon (67)  Zambia (70)  Kenya (79)  Benin (81)	Rwanda (87)  Togo (91)  Mozambique (100)  Sudan (106)  Malawi (109)

Legend
Countries that qualified for the 2010 World Cup and 2010 African Cup of Nations
Countries that qualified for the 2010 African Cup of Nations

Group A

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Cameroon	6	4	1	1	9	2	+7	13		—	2–1	3–0	0–0
Gabon	6	3	0	3	9	7	+2	9		0–2	—	3–0	3–1
Togo	6	2	2	2	3	7	−4	8		1–0	1–0	—	1–1
Morocco	6	0	3	3	3	8	−5	3		0–2	1–2	0–0	—

Source:

Group B

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Nigeria	6	3	3	0	9	4	+5	12		—	2–2	1–0	3–0
Tunisia	6	3	2	1	7	4	+3	11		0–0	—	2–0	1–0
Mozambique	6	2	1	3	3	5	−2	7		0–0	1–0	—	1–0
Kenya	6	1	0	5	5	11	−6	3		2–3	1–2	2–1	—

Source:

Group C

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Algeria	6	4	1	1	9	4	+5	13[lower-alpha 1]		—	3–1	1–0	3–1
Egypt	6	4	1	1	9	4	+5	13[lower-alpha 1]		2–0	—	1–1	3–0
Zambia	6	1	2	3	2	5	−3	5		0–2	0–1	—	1–0
Rwanda	6	0	2	4	1	8	−7	2		0–0	0–1	0–0	—

Source:
Notes:

1. Algeria and Egypt finished with identical overall and head-to-head records. Algeria won the tiebreaking play-off 1–0 to qualify for the 2010 FIFA World Cup.

18 November 2009

20:30 UTC+3

Egypt	0–1	Algeria
	Report	Yahia  40'

Al-Merrikh Stadium, Omdurman (Sudan)

Attendance: 40,000

Referee: Eddy Maillet (Seychelles)

Group D

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Ghana	6	4	1	1	9	3	+6	13		—	1–0	2–2	2–0
Benin	6	3	1	2	6	6	0	10		1–0	—	1–1	1–0
Mali	6	2	3	1	8	7	+1	9		0–2	3–1	—	1–0
Sudan	6	0	1	5	2	9	−7	1		0–2	1–2	1–1	—

Source:

Group E

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Ivory Coast	6	5	1	0	19	4	+15	16		—	5–0	5–0	3–0
Burkina Faso	6	4	0	2	10	11	−1	12		2–3	—	1–0	4–2
Malawi	6	1	1	4	4	11	−7	4		1–1	0–1	—	2–1
Guinea	6	1	0	5	7	14	−7	3		1–2	1–2	2–1	—

Source:

Qualified teams

The following six teams from CAF qualified for the final tournament.

Team	Qualified as	Qualified on	Previous appearances in FIFA World Cup^1
South Africa	Hosts	15 May 2004	2 (1998, 2002)
Cameroon	Third round Group A winners	14 November 2009	5 (1982, 1990, 1994, 1998, 2002)
Nigeria	Third round Group B winners	14 November 2009	3 (1994, 1998, 2002)
Algeria	Third round Group C winners	18 November 2009	2 (1982, 1986)
Ghana	Third round Group D winners	6 September 2009	1 (2006)
Ivory Coast	Third round Group E winners	10 October 2009	1 (2006)

¹ Bold indicates champions for that year. Italic indicates hosts for that year.

Goalscorers

There were 506 goals scored over 198 games, for an average of 2.54 goals per game.

12 goals

• Moumouni Dagano

9 goals

• Samuel Eto'o

8 goals

• Razak Omotoyossi
• Frédéric Kanouté

6 goals

• Didier Drogba
• Dennis Oliech
• Chiukepo Msowoya

5 goals

• Mohamed Aboutrika
• Matthew Amoah
• Ismael Bangoura
• Pascal Feindouno
• Emmanuel Adebayor

4 goals

Shabani Nonda Emad Motaeb Amr Zaki Roguy Méyé

Junior Agogo Faneva Imà Andriatsima Seydou Keita Youssef Safri

Victor Obinna Ikechukwu Uche Issam Jemâa

3 goals

Rafik Saifi Antar Yahia Karim Ziani Flávio Yssouf Koné Achille Emaná Jean Makoun

Dady Lys Mouithys Zola Matumona Dieumerci Mbokani Ahmed Hassan Hosni Abd Rabo Prince Tagoe

Sekou Cissé Bakari Koné Boubacar Sanogo Esau Kanyenda Wilko Risser Jerson Tegete Adekamni Olufade

2 goals

Rafik Djebbour Abdelkader Ghezzal Mohamed Aoudou Séïdath Tchomogo Diphetogo Selolwane Aristide Bance Mahamoudou Kéré Henri Mbazumutima Claude Nahimana Albert Meyong Syriakata Hassan Hilaire Kedigui Wilfried Endzanga Ahmed Eid Daniel Cousin Bruno Ecuele Manga Fabrice Do Marcolino Bruno Zita Mbanangoyé Njogu Demba-Nyrén Mustapha Jarju Laryea Kingston Sulley Muntari Mamadou Bah

Kamil Zayatte Gervinho Salomon Kalou Romaric Yaya Touré McDonald Mariga Olivier Makor Dioh Williams Ahmed Saad Lalaina Nomenjanahary Rija Rakotomandimby Moses Chavula Robert Ng'ambi Sidi Yaya Keita Wesley Marquette Youssouf Hadji Adel Taarabt Domingues Miró Dário Tico-Tico Rudolph Bester Alhassane Issoufou

Obafemi Martins Peter Odemwingie Yakubu Joseph Yobo Labama Bokota Olivier Karekezi Saïd Makasi El Hadji Diouf Philip Zialor Kewullay Conteh Kagisho Dikgacoi Faisal Agab Muhannad El Tahir Haytham Tambal Danny Mrwanda Moustapha Salifou Oussama Darragi Hichem Essifi Chaouki Ben Saada Geofrey Massa Eugene Ssepuuya Gilbert Mushangazhike

1 goal

Nadir Belhadj Madjid Bougherra Karim Matmour Gilberto Locó Mantorras António Mendonça Job Yamba Asha Zé Kalanga Khaled Adénon Jocelyn Ahoueya Romuald Boco Stéphane Sessègnon Oumar Tchomogo Boitumelo Mafoko Habib Bamogo Charles Kaboré Issouf Ouattara Jonathan Pitroipa Alain Traoré Selemani Ndikumana André Bikey Gustave Bebbe Geremi Rigobert Song Somen Tchoyi Pierre Webó Babanco Lito José Semedo Marco Soares Léger Djimrangar Marius Mbaiam Misdongarde Betolngar Ibor Bakar Daoud Midtadi Gervais Batota Franchel Ibara Hérita Ilunga Lomana LuaLua Trésor Mputu Tsholola Tshinyama Ahmed Daher Yassin Hussein Moussa Hirir Rodolfo Bodipo Juan Ramón Epitié Juvenal Ronan Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang Moïse Brou Apanga Éric Mouloungui

Stéphane N'Guéma Ousman Jallow Aziz Corr Nyang Anthony Annan Stephen Appiah Kwadwo Asamoah Michael Essien Sambégou Bangoura Oumar Kalabane Kanga Akalé Kader Keïta Siaka Tiéné Didier Zokora Mohammed Jamal Austin Makacha Francis Ouma Julius Owino Allan Wanga Sello Muso Lehlohonolo Seema Omar Daoud Younes Shibani Hesham Shaban Osama Al Fazzani Guy Hubert Mamihasindrahona Praxis Rabemananjara Hubert Robson Jean Tsaralaza Elvis Kafoteka Joseph Kamwendo Jacob Ngwira Atusaye Nyondo Noel Mkandawire Adama Coulibaly Soumaila Coulibaly Mamadou Diallo Lassane Fané Modibo Maïga Tenema N'Diaye Mamadou Samassa Andy Sophie Dominique Da Silva Ahmed Teguedi Abdessalam Benjelloun Mounir El Hamdaoui Houssine Kharja Tarik Sektioui Nabil El Zhar Merouane Zemmama Carlitos Genito Costa Khaiseb Paulus Shipanga

Ismaël Alassane Kamilou Daouda Malam Moussa Michael Eneramo Obinna Nwaneri Christian Obodo Chidi Odiah Bobo Bola Patrick Mafisango Henri Camara Issiar Dia Ibrahima Faye Cheikh Gueye Kader Mangane Ibrahima Sonko Modou Sougou Don Annacoura Bernard St. Agne Mohamed Kallon Sheriff Suma Thembinkosi Fanteni Surprise Moriri Siphiwe Tshabalala Ahmed Aadil Saif Eldin Ali Idris Farah Hassan Korongo Mudather El Tahir Ala'a Eldin Yousif Siza Dlamini Collen Salelwako Athuman Idd Nizar Khalfan Khalfan Ngassa Kigi Makasi Floyd Ayité Tijani Belaïd Saber Ben Frej Radhi Jaïdi Ammar Jemal Fahid Ben Khalfallah Yassin Mikari Nabil Taïder Wissem Ben Yahia Andrew Mwesigwa David Obua Ibrahim Sekagya Dan Wagaluka Rainford Kalaba Francis Kasonde Christopher Katongo Felix Katongo Cuthbert Malajila Esrom Nyandoro

1 own goal

Saïdou Panandétiguiri (for Ivory Coast) Mamadou Tall (for Ivory Coast) Said Riyad (for Egypt)

Bruno Ecuele Manga (for Libya) Amin Erbati (for Gabon) Pascal Anicet (for Benin)

Kassaly Daouda (for Angola) Joseph Yobo (for Sierra Leone) Cheikh Gueye (for Algeria)

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External links

• African zone at FIFA.com