2011 African U-23 Championship qualification
This page provides the summaries of the matches of the first two qualifying rounds for the group stage of the 2012 CAF Men's Pre-Olympic Tournament. These matches also serve as part of the qualifiers for the Football at the 2012 Summer Olympics to be held in London.
Dates | 8 October 2010 – 19 June 2011 |
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Seeding
In total, 39 teams opted to enter the qualifying tournament. The top 25 teams based on the qualifiers and final round of the previous Olympics were given byes to the first qualifying round.
Seeded | Unseeded |
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Preliminary qualifying round
Team 1 | Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
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Sierra Leone | 2–2 (1–3 p) | Liberia | 1–1 | 1–1 |
Somalia | 0–1 | Sudan | 0–0 | 0–1 |
Botswana | 1–0 | Namibia | 1–0 | 0–0 |
DR Congo | w/o | Chad | — | — |
Ethiopia | w/o | Equatorial Guinea | — | — |
Swaziland | w/o | Mauritius | — | — |
Djibouti | w/o | Madagascar | — | — |
Sierra Leone 2–2 Liberia on aggregate. Liberia won 3–1 on penalties
Somalia | 0–0 | Sudan |
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Sudan | 1–0 | Somalia |
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Sudan won 1–0 on aggregate
Botswana | 1–0 | Namibia |
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Nato 20' |
Namibia | 0–0 | Botswana |
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Botswana won 1–0 on aggregate
First qualifying round
The matches in the preliminary round were held on 25–27 March 2011 (first leg) and 8–10 April 2011 (second leg).
Team 1 | Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
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Zambia | 3–0 | Rwanda | 2–0 | 1–0 |
Morocco | 3–2 | Mozambique | 2–0 | 1–2 |
Cameroon | 3–3 (1–3 p) | Tanzania | 2–1 | 1–2 |
Senegal | 1–1 (a) | Angola | 0–0 | 1–1 |
South Africa | 4–2 | Libya | 4–2 | 0–0 |
Algeria | 4–0 | Madagascar | 3–0 | 1–0 |
Egypt | 3–2 | Botswana | 2–0 | 1–2 |
Gabon | 4–1 | Swaziland | 3–1 | 1–0 |
Burkina Faso | 2–5 | DR Congo | 1–2 | 1–3 |
Ivory Coast | 4–0 | Liberia | 4–0 | 0–0 |
Tunisia | 3–0 | Malawi | 2–0 | 1–0 |
Benin | w/o | Gambia | — | — |
Uganda | 1–1 (2–4 p) | Congo | 1–0 | 0–1 |
Mali | 2–2 (a) | Guinea | 0–0 | 2–2 |
Nigeria | 9–1 | Equatorial Guinea | 5–0 | 4–1 |
Ghana | 1–2 | Sudan | 0–1 | 1–1 |
Rwanda | 0–1 | Zambia |
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Zambia won 3–0 on aggregate
Morocco | 2–0 | Mozambique |
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Morocco won 3–2 on aggregate
Tanzania 3–3 Cameroon. Tanzania won 5–3 on penalties
Angola 1–1 Senegal. Senegal won on away goals rule
South Africa | 4–2 | Libya |
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Libya | 0–0 | South Africa |
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South Africa won 4–2 on aggregate
Algeria | 3–0 | Madagascar |
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Algeria won 4–0 on aggregate
Egypt won 3–2 on aggregate
Swaziland | 0–1 | Gabon |
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Gabon won 5–2 on aggregate
Burkina Faso | 1–2 | DR Congo |
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DR Congo | 3–1 | Burkina Faso |
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Congo DR won 5–2 on aggregate
Côte d'Ivoire won 4–0 on aggregate
Tunisia won 3–0 on aggregate
Benin | w/o[2] | Gambia |
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Benin advance after The Gambia withdrew
Congo | 1–0 | Uganda |
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4–2 |
Congo 1–1 Uganda. Congo won 4–2 on penalties
Mali | 0–0 | Guinea |
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Guinea 2–2 Mali. Mali won on away goals rule
Nigeria won 9–1 on aggregate
Sudan won 2–1 on aggregate
Second qualifying round
The draw for the second qualifying round was held on April 13, 2011. CAF used FIFA rankings from March 2011 to seed the eight highest-ranked teams into Pot A.[3]
Côte d'Ivoire's fixture against Liberia had been delayed until 20 April due to the civil unrest. As Ivory Coast are the 2nd highest-ranking team in Africa, the winner of their first qualifying round fixture was also placed in Pot A.
Matches
The draw was conducted on April 13 in Cairo, Egypt.[5]
Team 1 | Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
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Algeria | 3–2 | Zambia | 3–0 | 0–2 |
Morocco | 3–2 | DR Congo | 2–1 | 1–1 |
Congo | 1–3 | Ivory Coast | 1–2 | 0–1 |
Gabon | 1–0 | Mali | 0–0 | 1–0 |
Sudan | 0–2 | Egypt | 0–0 | 0–2 |
Benin | 4–6 | South Africa | 3–1 | 1–5 |
Tunisia | 0–1 | Senegal | 0–0 | 0–1 |
Tanzania | 1–3 | Nigeria | 1–0 | 0–3 |
Algeria won 3–2 on aggregate
Morocco won 3–2 on aggregate
Congo | 1–2 | Ivory Coast |
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Ivory Coast | 1–0 | Congo |
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Gougouhi 10' | Report |
Côte d'Ivoire won 3–1 on aggregate
Gabon won 1–0 on aggregate
Sudan | 0–0 | Egypt |
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Egypt won 2–0 on aggregate
Benin | 3–1 | South Africa |
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Ndulula 31' |
South Africa | 5–1 | Benin |
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South Africa 6–4 on aggregate
Senegal won 1–0 on aggregate
Nigeria 3–1 on aggregate
References
- Mali to host Libya-South Africa Archived 2012-11-11 at the Wayback Machine www.fifa.com
- "Gambia's withdrawal sends Benin through". Archived from the original on 2012-11-11. Retrieved 2017-10-30.
- "Africa Men's 2012 Olympic Qualifier draw set for 13 April 2011 in Cairo". CAFonline.com. Archived from the original on 13 April 2011. Retrieved 10 April 2011.
- "Olympics – updated draw procedure, with teams". CAFonline.com. Archived from the original on 1 May 2011. Retrieved 12 April 2011.
- "2012 Olympic Draw conducted in Cairo". Archived from the original on 2011-04-17. Retrieved 2011-04-23.