2012 African Cup of Nations [Qualifiers]

The 2012 African Cup of Nations will be the 28th edition of the African Cup of Nations. It will be co-hosted by Gabon and Equatorial Guinea. Fourty four (44) other nations will battle it out to join the two hosts in the tournament. All 11 group winners (and the runner-up from Group K) and the two best runner-ups (from groups A-J) will qualify to the tournament.

CAF later announced that this qualification will serve as the qualification for the 2013 African Cup of Nations. This comes after the decision to change the tournaments to odd years instead of the current pattern. The 2013 African Cup of Nations will be hosted by Libya. The qualifiers for the 2012 African Cup of Nations will receive a bye and automatically jump to the final round of qualifying for the 2013 African Cup of Nations. The final round of qualifications will consist of one tie, home and away.

Group A
Cape Verde | 3pld | 7pts
Mali | 3pld | 6pts
Zimbabwe | 3pld | 2pts
Liberia | 3pld | 1pts

Group B
Guinea | 3pld | 7pts
Nigeria | 3pld | 6pts
Ethiopia | 3pld | 3pts
Madagascar | 3pld | 1pts

Group C
Zambia | 4pld | 9pts
Libya | 3pld | 7pts
Mozambique | 4pld | 4pts
Comoros | 3pld | 0pts

Group D
Morocco | 4pld | 7pts
Central African Republic | 3pld | 4pts
Tanzania | 3pld | 4pts
Algeria | 4pld | 4pts

Group E
Senegal | 4pld | 10pts
Congo DR | 4pld | 7pts
Cameroon | 4pld | 5pts
Mauritius | 4pld | 0pts

Group F
Burkina Faso | 3pld | 9pts
Gambia | 2pld | 3pts
Namibia | 3pld | 0pts
Mauritania | WITHDREW

Group G
South Africa | 3pld | 7pts
Niger | 4pld | 6pts
Sierra Leone | 4pld | 5pts
Egypt | 3pld | 1pts

Group H
Ivory Coast | 3pld | 9pts
Benin | 3pld | 4pts
Rwanda | 3pld | 3pts
Burundi | 3pld | 1pts

Group I
Ghana | 4pld | 10pts
Sudan | 3pld | 7pts
Congo | 4pld | 3pts
Swaziland | 3pld | 0pts

Group J
Uganda | 4pld | 10pts
Kenya | 3pld | 4pts
Angola | 3pld | 3pts
Guinea Bissau | 3pld | 3pts

Group K
Botswana | 6pld | 16pts
Malawi | 5pld | 9pts
Tunisia | 5pld | 7pts
Togo | 6pld | 3pts
Chad | 6pld | 2pts

Since Mauritania withdrew and Group F has only three teams in it, only results against the 1st and 3rd place teams in each group will be considered for the Runner Up Rankings.
Runner Up Rankings
Sudan
Kenya
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Libya
Nigeria
Benin
Gambia
Tanzania
Mali
Niger
Cameroon

Guide:
Qualified
Runner-Up
Eliminated

Cape Verde to win.

(polskaGOLA) wrote:Cape Verde to win.

Well they are in good position to.

Aren't Nigeria banned?

Dan wrote:Aren't Nigeria banned?

For now. If they can get their stuff together, they are allowed back in the qualifiers.

EDIT: FIFA temporarily lifted the ban that was recently imposed on the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) due to government interference.

http://beta.filgoal.com/English/News.aspx?NewsID=72904

9 October 2010
Malawi 6-2 Chad
Kenya 0-0 Uganda
Tanzania 0-1 Morocco
Comoros 0-1 Mozambique
Rwanda 0-3 Benin
Burundi 0-1 Ivory Coast
Cameroon 1-1 Congo DR
Angola 1-0 Guinea Bissau
Burkina Faso 3-1 Gambia
Senegal 7-0 Mauritius
Mali 2-1 Liberia

10 October 2010
Zimbabwe v Cape Verde
Ghana v Sudan
Madagascar v Ethiopia
Central African Republic v Algeria
Togo v Tunisia
Niger v Egypt
Congo v Swaziland
Guinea v Nigeria
Sierra Leone v South Africa
Libya v Zambia

17 November 2010
Botswana 1-0 Tunisia
Togo 0-0 Chad

Botswana are on the verge of a historic qualification to the 2012 and 2013 African Cup of Nations tournaments after their victory over Tunisia for the second time in the group. Botswana need to defeat Chad in their next match to secure qualification or draw with Chad and hope Malawi don't defeat Togo.

Qualifications will be on break for now and resume again on 25 March 2011.

26 March 2011:
Malawi v Togo
Kenya v Angola
Rwanda v Burundi
Tanzania v Central African Republic
Guinea Bissau v Uganda
Cape Verde v Liberia
Senegal v Cameroon
Burkina Faso v Namibia
South Africa v Egypt
Mali v Zimbabwe

27 March 2011:
Mozambique v Zambia
Congo DR v Mauritius
Congo v Ghana
Madagascar v Guinea
Chad v Botswana
Niger v Sierra Leone
Sudan v Swaziland
Ivory Coast v Benin
Nigeria v Ethiopia
Algeria v Morocco

28 March 2011:
Libya v Comoros

Preventing quintuple post.

HT: South Africa 0-0 Egypt

One of the worst halves I've ever seen. Both teams are so shit and they both seem to want to draw. I don't know why Shehata has Zidan and Treka on the bench. They must come on in the second half.

I hope Libya win.

Why did Mauritania withdraw?

why do hardly any Egyptians play in Europe?
Zidan is only Reserve for Borussia

Gegilworld93 wrote:why do hardly any Egyptians play in Europe?
Zidan is only Reserve for Borussia

He isn't a reserve. He was a starter before his injury. Now he is used as a sub (usually plays the last 20 mins). Elmo plays regularly for Sunderland.

To answer your question, Egyptians don't adapt well abroad and become impatient when they don't play regularly.

True, forgot about El Mohamady.
Would like to see how Gedo would adapt to Europe, was class last African Cup.

Sucks that Zimbabwe are only third, care more about Switzerland than about them but still
Benjani ftw

Nigeria will obviously win
But seriously, we're behind Guinea

Go Comoros!

Never heard of them

This match is so bad, it's funny.

FT: South Africa 1-0 Egypt

South Africa score in literally the last second. Shehata must be sacked!

Fuck you Hassan Shehata. You are a fucking low life. Get the fuck out of the country. If the FA don't sack him, I'm going to be so pissed.

First, he puts our two best players on the bench for 80 minutes. He has been screwing up with the starting lineup for far too long. Your glory days are over, bitch. You might have won 3 consecutive African Cups, but our Olympic team which played last night could have done a better job. Then he tells our team to pass the ball around the whole game. It's like he wanted us to lose or at the most draw.

South Africa played like pure shit. My friends and I could have beaten them. There goes our chances of qualifying to the 2012 African Cup. It puts us in an even shittier situation for the 2013 African Cup. Lastly, Shehata has been a supporter of Mubarak during the revolution. We don't want him anymore.

Here is my proposal. Sack everyone: coaches and players.

Promote the whole Olympic team for the remaining African Cup matches.

Ain't him being a legend?

26 March 2011:
Malawi 1-0 Togo
Kenya 2-1 Angola
Rwanda 3-1 Burundi
Tanzania 2-1 Central African Republic
Guinea Bissau 0-1 Uganda
Cape Verde 4-2 Liberia
Senegal 1-0 Cameroon
Burkina Faso 4-0 Namibia
South Africa 1-0 Egypt
Mali 1-0 Zimbabwe

Why the fuck are they having another tournament already?

The Stig wrote:Why the fuck are they having another tournament already?

It's held every 2 years. CAF decided to hold it every odd year, so there will be one in 2012 and 2013 for the change.

4 June 2011
Zambia 3-0 Mozambique
Uganda 2-0 Guinea-Bissau
Namibia 1-4 Burkina Faso
Cameroon 0-0 Senegal
Sierra Leone 1-0 Niger
Morocco 4-0 Algeria

HT: Egypt 0-0 South Africa

Shit playing from Egypt. Only good players are Hadary and Shikabala. Everyone else is crap (especially Zidan, Elmo, and Fathallah).

Who is the favourite to win the whole thing right now?

cheesy wrote:Who is the favourite to win the whole thing right now?

The 2012 African Cup? I don't know. We are still in qualifiers so I don't even know who is going to play in the actual tournament. But probably Ghana or Ivory Coast. If Egypt can qualify, then they will be favorites by tournament time.