2006 FIFA World Cup qualification (CAF)

Listed below are the dates and results for the 2006 FIFA World Cup qualification rounds for Africa. 51 teams took part (only Comoros and Djibouti did not enter), competing for 5 World Cup places.

2006 FIFA World Cup qualification (CAF)
Tournament details
Dates10 October 2003 - 8 October 2005
Teams51 (from 1 confederation)
Tournament statistics
Matches played190
Goals scored506 (2.66 per match)
Attendance5,138,122 (27,043 per match)
Top scorer(s)Togo Emmanuel Adebayor (11 goals)
Qualification for championships (CAF)
FIFA World Cup
Africa Cup of Nations

Format

The qualification was composed of two Rounds. 9 teams entered the competition directly on the Second Round: the 5 teams that qualified for the 2002 World Cup Finals (Cameroon, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa, and Tunisia) and the 4 highest-ranking teams in the June 25, 2003 FIFA world rankings (Congo DR, Côte d'Ivoire, Egypt, and Morocco). The other 42 teams were paired 2-by-2 and played knock-out matches home-and-away. The 21 winners would advance to the Second Round.

In the Second Round, the 30 teams were divided in 5 groups of 6 teams each. Teams in each group would play against each other in a home-and-away basis. The team with most points in each group would qualify to the World Cup.

The competition also constituted the qualification competition for the 2006 African Nations Cup with the top three nations of each group qualifying (except for Egypt, which qualifies as the host nation, the fourth nation in Egypt's group qualifying in Egypt's place).

The African qualifying zone saw 4 out of 5 finals places going to World Cup debutants (Angola, Togo, Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana). Nigeria missed out on a fourth consecutive finals appearance while Cameroon did not reach their fifth consecutive finals.

The African zone also featured a group of death — Group 3, which brought together Africa's most frequent World Cup qualifier Cameroon with the two eventual finalists of the 2006 Africa Cup of Nations: Egypt and the Ivory Coast.

First round
Main article: 2006 FIFA World Cup qualification – CAF first round
Team 1 Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
Guinea-Bissau  1–4  Mali 1–2 0–2
Madagascar  3–4  Benin 1–1 2–3
Seychelles  1–5  Zambia 0–4 1–1
Botswana  4–1  Lesotho 4–1 0–0
Equatorial Guinea  1–2  Togo 1–0 0–2
São Tomé and Príncipe  0–9  Libya 0–1 0–8
Tanzania  0–3  Kenya 0–0 0–3
Niger  0–7  Algeria 0–1 0–6
Uganda  4–3  Mauritius 3–0 1–3 (a.e.t.)
Sudan  3–0  Eritrea 3–0 0–0
Zimbabwe  4–2  Mauritania 3–0 1–2
Swaziland  1–4  Cape Verde 1–1 0–3
Burundi  1–4  Gabon 0–0 1–4
Chad  3–3(a)  Angola 3–1 0–2
Congo  2–1  Sierra Leone 1–0 1–1
Ethiopia  1–3  Malawi 1–3 0–0
Rwanda  4–1  Namibia 3–0 1–1
Guinea  5–3  Mozambique 1–0 4–3
Gambia  2–3  Liberia 2–0 0–3
Somalia  0–7  Ghana 0–5 0–2
Burkina Faso  w/o  Central African Republic

Second round
Main article: 2006 FIFA World Cup qualification – CAF second round

Group 1
Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Togo Senegal Zambia Republic of the Congo Mali Liberia
1  Togo 10 7 2 1 20 8 +12 23 — 3–1 4–1 2–0 1–0 3–0
2  Senegal 10 6 3 1 21 8 +13 21 2–2 — 1–0 2–0 3–0 6–1
3  Zambia 10 6 1 3 16 10 +6 19 1–0 0–1 — 2–0 2–1 1–0
4  Congo 10 3 1 6 10 14 −4 10 2–3 0–0 2–3 — 1–0 3–0
5  Mali 10 2 2 6 11 14 −3 8 1–2 2–2 1–1 2–0 — 4–1
6  Liberia 10 1 1 8 3 27 −24 4 0–0 0–3 0–5 0–2 1–0 —
Source:
Rules for classification: Tiebreakers

Group 2
Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Ghana Democratic Republic of the Congo South Africa Burkina Faso Cape Verde Uganda
1  Ghana 10 6 3 1 17 4 +13 21 — 0–0 3–0 2–1 2–0 2–0
2  DR Congo 10 4 4 2 14 10 +4 16[lower-alpha 1] 1–1 — 1–0 3–2 2–1 4–0
3  South Africa 10 5 1 4 12 14 −2 16[lower-alpha 1] 0–2 2–2 — 2–0 2–1 2–1
4  Burkina Faso 10 4 1 5 14 13 +1 13 1–0 2–0 3–1 — 1–2 2–0
5  Cape Verde 10 3 1 6 8 15 −7 10 0–4 1–1 1–2 1–0 — 1–0
6  Uganda 10 2 2 6 6 15 −9 8 1–1 1–0 0–1 2–2 1–0 —
Source:
Rules for classification: Tiebreakers
Notes:
  1. Head-to-head points: Congo DR 4, South Africa 1.

Group 3
Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Ivory Coast Cameroon Egypt Libya Sudan Benin
1  Ivory Coast 10 7 1 2 20 7 +13 22 — 2–3 2–0 2–0 5–0 3–0
2  Cameroon 10 6 3 1 18 10 +8 21 2–0 — 1–1 1–0 2–1 2–1
3  Egypt 10 5 2 3 26 15 +11 17 1–2 3–2 — 4–1 6–1 4–1
4  Libya 10 3 3 4 8 10 −2 12 0–0 0–0 2–1 — 0–0 4–1
5  Sudan 10 1 3 6 6 22 −16 6 1–3 1–1 0–3 0–1 — 1–0
6  Benin 10 1 2 7 9 23 −14 5 0–1 1–4 3–3 1–0 1–1 —
Source:
Rules for classification: Tiebreakers

Group 4
Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Angola Nigeria Zimbabwe Gabon Algeria Rwanda
1  Angola 10 6 3 1 12 6 +6 21[lower-alpha 1] — 1–0 1–0 3–0 2–1 1–0
2  Nigeria 10 6 3 1 21 7 +14 21[lower-alpha 1] 1–1 — 5–1 2–0 1–0 2–0
3  Zimbabwe 10 4 3 3 13 14 −1 15 2–0 0–3 — 1–0 1–1 3–1
4  Gabon 10 2 4 4 11 13 −2 10 2–2 1–1 1–1 — 0–0 3–0
5  Algeria 10 1 5 4 8 15 −7 8 0–0 2–5 2–2 0–3 — 1–0
6  Rwanda 10 1 2 7 6 16 −10 5 0–1 1–1 0–2 3–1 1–1 —
Source:
Rules for classification: Tiebreakers
Notes:
  1. Head-to-head points: Angola 4, Nigeria 1.

Group 5
Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Tunisia Morocco Guinea Kenya Botswana Malawi
1  Tunisia 10 6 3 1 25 9 +16 21 — 2–2 2–0 1–0 4–1 7–0
2  Morocco 10 5 5 0 17 7 +10 20 1–1 — 1–0 5–1 1–0 4–1
3  Guinea 10 5 2 3 15 10 +5 17 2–1 1–1 — 1–0 4–0 3–1
4  Kenya 10 3 1 6 8 17 −9 10 0–2 0–0 2–1 — 1–0 3–2
5  Botswana 10 3 0 7 10 18 −8 9 1–3 0–1 1–2 2–1 — 2–0
6  Malawi 10 1 3 6 12 26 −14 6 2–2 1–1 1–1 3–0 1–3 —
Source:
Rules for classification: Tiebreakers

Qualified teams

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

Team Qualified as Qualified on Previous appearances in FIFA World Cup1
 TogoSecond Round Group 1 winners8 October 20050 (debut)
 GhanaSecond Round Group 2 winners8 October 20050 (debut)
 Ivory CoastSecond Round Group 3 winners8 October 20050 (debut)
 AngolaSecond Round Group 4 winners8 October 20050 (debut)
 TunisiaSecond Round Group 5 winners8 October 20053 (1978, 1998, 2002)
1 Bold indicates champions for that year. Italic indicates hosts for that year.

Goalscorers

There were 506 goals scored in 190 matches, for an average of 2.66 goals per match.

11 goals
9 goals
8 goals
7 goals
6 goals
5 goals
4 goals
3 goals
2 goals
1 goal
1 own goal

References
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