Africa Cup of Nations 1976 / qualification

A total of 32 teams registered to participate in the 1976 Africa Cup in Ethiopia.

The qualification went over three knockout rounds. Four teams failed to qualify. The hosts and the defending champions were exempt from qualifying matches.

Qualifying matches

Preliminary round

date		total		First leg	Return leg
August 10/24, 1974	Morocco	6-0	Gambia	3-0	3-0
	Mali		Lesotho	Lesotho withdrawn
August 10/24, 1974	Somalia	1: 2	Burundi	0: 2	1-0
August 10/24, 1974	Togo	3-0	Liberia	1-0	2-0
	Niger		Benin	Benin withdrawn
November 10/22, 1974	Tunisia	1: 1 (?:? I. E.)	Libya

First main round

09/14/1975	People's Republic of the Congo	-	Ivory Coast	1-0
09/28/1975	Ivory Coast	-	People's Republic of the Congo *	2: 1
	Nigeria *	-	Central African Republic		Central Africa withdrawn
09/14/1975	Morocco	-	Senegal	4-0
09/28/1975	Senegal	-	Morocco *	2: 1
09/14/1975	Mali	-	Ghana	3: 1
09/28/1975	Ghana *	-	Mali	4-0
09/14/1975	Burundi	-	Egypt	0: 3
09/28/1975	Egypt *	-	Burundi	2-0
	Tanzania *	-	Madagascar		Madagascar withdrawn
09/14/1975	Cameroon	-	Togo	3-0
09/28/1975	Togo *	-	Cameroon	4-0
09/14/1975	Niger	-	Guinea	2: 4
09/28/1975	Guinea *	-	Niger	3-0
09/14/1975	Tunisia	-	Algeria	1: 1
09/28/1975	Algeria	-	Tunisia *	1: 2
09/14/1975	Sudan	-	Kenya	1-0
09/28/1975	Kenya	-	Sudan *	0: 2
09/14/1975	Uganda	-	Mauritius	4-0
09/28/1975	Mauritius	-	Uganda *	1: 1
09/14/1975	Zambia	-	Malawi	3: 3
09/28/1975	Malawi	-	Zambia *	1: 6

Second main round

10/26/1975	People's Republic of the Congo	-	Nigeria	0: 1
11/9/1975	Nigeria *	-	People's Republic of the Congo	2: 1	Nigeria qualified
10/26/1975	Ghana	-	Morocco	2-0
11/9/1975	Morocco *	-	Ghana	2-0	Morocco qualified on penalties
10/26/1975	Tanzania	-	Egypt	1: 1
11/9/1975	Egypt *	-	Tanzania	5: 2	Egypt qualified
11/26/1975	Togo	-	Guinea	2: 2
11/9/1975	Guinea *	-	Togo	2-0	Guinea qualified
10/26/1975	Tunisia	-	Sudan	3: 2
11/9/1975	Sudan *	-	Tunisia	2: 1	Sudan qualified
10/26/1975	Zambia	-	Uganda	2: 1
11/9/1975	Uganda *	-	Zambia	3-0	Uganda qualified

automatically qualified:

•  Zaire (defending champion)
•  Ethiopia (hosts)