2013 African Cup of Nations Qualification Thread

Since qualification matches have already started I could not wait any longer to create this thread. South Africa are the hosts.

Preliminary Round

Seychelles w/o Swaziland ; (Swaziland withdraws do to economic reasons)
São Tomé and Príncipe 1 Lesotho 0 (2nd leg 01/22)


First Round (1st leg 02/29)

Ethiopia v Benin
Rwanda v Nigeria
Congo v Uganda
Burundi v Zimbabwe
Gambia v Algeria
Kenya v Togo
São Tomé and Príncipe/Lesotho v Sierra Leone
Guinea-Bissau v Cameroon
Chad v Malawi
Seychelles v Congo DR
Tanzania v Mozambique
Central African Republic v Egypt
Madagascar v Cape Verde
Liberia v Namibia

Comoros, Djibouti, Eritrea, Mauritania, Mauritius, and Somalia did not enter.

2013?

Bob Bradley will lead us to glory against Central African Republic.

Bob Bradley

There is one next year aswell? Bollocks.

What a pain in the ass tournament this is.

Too many fails in this thread.

SammysTekkers@SportDirect wrote:There is one next year aswell? Bollocks.

They decided to switch it to odd years so that they don't clash with World Cup years.

SBSP wrote:2013?

It's moving from even years to odd years.

Just heard a commentator mention it.

Today's result was 0-0 so the first round is now finalized.

Ethiopia v Benin
Rwanda v Nigeria
Congo v Uganda
Burundi v Zimbabwe
Gambia v Algeria
Kenya v Togo
São Tomé and Príncipe v Sierra Leone
Guinea-Bissau v Cameroon
Chad v Malawi
Seychelles v Congo DR
Tanzania v Mozambique
Central African Republic v Egypt
Madagascar v Cape Verde
Liberia v Namibia

What a load of crap. Can't they just wait until 2015?

SBSP wrote:What a load of crap. Can't they just wait until 2015?

Stop moaning. It means City lose a few players this time next year as well.

It's one advantage of being a bunch of racists.

Cam wrote:It's one advantage of being a bunch of racists.

Qualifers start tomorrow!

Except for Egypt's. The requested they have theirs postponed. They will play both legs in June.

ahlycotc wrote:Except for Egypt's. The requested they have theirs postponed. They will play both legs in June.

Four meaningful fixtures in 24 days? Ouch.


2014 World Cup Qualifiers
1 June 2012 Egypt v Mozambique
8 June 2012 Guinea v Egypt


2013 African Cup of Nations Qualifiers
15 June 2012 Egypt v Central Africa Republic
24 June 2012 Central Africa Republic v Egypt

Yeah. Hopefully we will be in good form come June.

Here are my opinions of the first leg of the first round of qualifying, no clue how acurate they might be but here we go,

teams from the preliminary round

São Tomé and Príncipe 2-1 Sierra Leone

Seychelles* 0-4 Congo DR

*advanced from prelminary round by a walkover This fixture is over.

this fixture is the only other one that seems over

Madagascar 0-4 Cape Verde

wonder what the odds of the two island nations to be drawn together was?

also interesting

Rwanda 0-0 Nigeria

Wonder if Nigeria did not about the leg or I am not sure what is going on here.

A few upsets in the first leg...

Ethiopia 0-0 Benin
Rwanda 0-0 Nigeria
Kenya 2-1 Togo
São Tomé and Príncipe 2-1 Sierra Leone
Chad 3-2 Malawi
Tanzania 1-1 Mozambique

I totally forgot about this thread but it is time for an update.

Team 1 Agg. Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg

Ethiopia	1–1 (a)	Benin	0–0	1–1
Rwanda	0–2	Nigeria	0–0	0–2
Congo	3–5	Uganda	3–1	0–4
Burundi	2–2 (a)	Zimbabwe	2–1	0–1
Gambia	2–6	Algeria	1–2	1–4
Kenya	2–2 (a)	Togo	2–1	0–1
São Tomé and Príncipe	4–5	Sierra Leone	2–1	2–4
Guinea-Bissau	0–2	Cameroon	0–1	0–1
Chad	3–4	Malawi	3–2	0–2
Seychelles	0–7	Congo DR	0–4	0–3
Tanzania	2–2 (6 -7[9] p)	Mozambique	1–1	1–1
Egypt	122	Central African Republic	2–3	30 Jun
Madagascar	1–7	Cape Verde	0–4	1–3
Liberia	1–0	Namibia	1–0	0–0

Pot 1Pot 1 or Pot 2Pot 2

Zambia (26 pts) Ghana (22 pts) Côte d'Ivoire (22 pts) Egypt (21 pts) (if qualify) Mali (12 pts) Tunisia (10 pts) Cameroon (9 pts) Angola (9 pts) Gabon (8 pts) Nigeria (8 pts) Sudan (7 pts) Equatorial Guinea (6 pts) Algeria (6 pts) Guinea (5 pts) Burkina Faso (5 pts)	Morocco (4 pts) (6 pts) (Pot 1 if Central African Republic qualify; Pot 2 if Egypt qualify)	Senegal (4 pts) (2 pts) Libya (3 pts) Niger (3 pts) Botswana (3 pts) Malawi (2 pts) Mozambique (2 pts) Togo (2 pts) Cape Verde (0 pts) Central African Republic (0 pts) (if qualify) Congo DR (0 pts) Ethiopia (0 pts) Liberia (0 pts) Sierra Leone (0 pts) Uganda (0 pts) Zimbabwe (0 pts)