Africa Cup 2000
African Cup of Nations 2000
Number of nations
16 (of 47 applicants)
African champions
Cameroon Cameroon (3rd title)
venue
Ghana Ghana Nigeria Nigeria
Opening game
January 22, 2000
Endgame
February 13, 2000
Games
32
Gates
73 (⌀: 2.28 per game)
spectator
677,500 (⌀: 21,172 per game)
Top scorer
South Africa Shaun Bartlett (5 goals)
yellow cards
114 (⌀: 3.56 per game)
Yellow-red cards
2 (⌀: 0.06 per game)
Red cards
3 (⌀: 0.09 per game)
The Africa Cup 2000 ( English : African Cup of Nations , French : Coupe d'Afrique des Nations ) was the 22nd game of the African continental championship in football and took place from January 22nd to February 13th in Ghana and Nigeria and for the first time in two countries. Originally Zimbabwe provided as the host, however, waived so that on 15 March 1999 by the CAF were named Ghana and Nigeria as a substitute host.
As in previous years, there was also a qualification to reduce the field of participants with the record number of 47 applicants to the sixteen final round participants, with the two hosts Ghana and Nigeria and defending champion Egypt automatically qualified. Ultimately, the following teams qualified: Algeria , Egypt , Burkina Faso , Ivory Coast , Ghana , Gabon , Cameroon , DR Congo , Republic of the Congo , Morocco , Nigeria , Zambia , Senegal , South Africa , Togo and Tunisia .
The game was played with four groups of four teams each. The two best teams in each group then played the tournament winner from the quarter-finals in the knockout system as usual . The games were played in the Surulere Stadium (capacity: 55,000) in Lagos, in the Sani Abacha Stadium (capacity: 25,000) in Kano, in the Baba Yara Stadium (capacity: 51,500) in Kumasi and in the Sports Stadium (capacity: 25,000 ) in Accra.
Cameroon won its third Africa Cup title after 1984 and 1988 and qualified for the 2001 FIFA Confederations Cup in Japan and South Korea.
Group stage
Group A
Pl.
country
Sp.
S.
U
N
Gates
Diff.
Points
1.
Cameroon Cameroon
3
1
1
1
00 4: 200
+2
0 4th
2.
Ghana Ghana
3
1
1
1
00 3: 300
± 0
0 4th
3.
Ivory Coast Ivory Coast
3
1
1
1
00 3: 400
−1
0 4th
4th
Togo Togo
3
1
1
1
00 2: 300
−1
0 4th
January 22nd in Accra
Ghana
-
Cameroon
1: 1 (0: 1)
January 24th in Accra
Ivory Coast
-
Togo
1: 1 (1: 0)
January 27th in Accra
Ghana
-
Togo
2: 0 (2: 0)
January 28 in Accra
Cameroon
-
Ivory Coast
3: 0 (2: 0)
January 31st in Accra
Ghana
-
Ivory Coast
0: 2 (0: 1)
January 31 in Kumasi
Cameroon
-
Togo
0: 1 (0: 1)
Group B
Pl.
country
Sp.
S.
U
N
Gates
Diff.
Points
1.
South Africa South Africa
3
2
1
0
00 5: 200
+3
0 7th
2.
Algeria Algeria
3
1
2
0
00 4: 200
+2
0 5
3.
Congo Democratic Republic 1997 DR Congo
3
0
2
1
00 0: 100
−1
0 2
4th
Gabon Gabon
3
0
1
2
00 2: 600
−4
0 1
January 23 in Kumasi
South Africa
-
Gabon
3: 1 (1: 1)
January 24th in Kumasi
Algeria
-
DR Congo
0-0
January 27 in Kumasi
South Africa
-
DR Congo
1: 0 (1: 0)
January 29 in Kumasi
Gabon
-
Algeria
1: 3 (0: 2)
February 2 in Kumasi
South Africa
-
Algeria
1: 1 (1: 0)
February 2 in Accra
Gabon
-
DR Congo
0-0
Group C
Pl.
country
Sp.
S.
U
N
Gates
Diff.
Points
1.
Egypt Egypt
3
3
0
0
00 7: 200
+5
0 9
2.
Senegal Senegal
3
1
1
1
00 5: 400
+1
0 4th
3.
Zambia Zambia
3
0
2
1
00 3: 500
−2
0 2
4th
Burkina Faso Burkina Faso
3
0
1
2
00 4: 800
−4
0 1
January 23 in Kano
Egypt
-
Zambia
2: 0 (1: 0)
January 25th in Kano
Burkina Faso
-
Senegal
1: 3 (0: 2)
January 28 in Kano
Egypt
-
Senegal
1: 0 (1: 0)
January 29th in Kano
Zambia
-
Burkina Faso
1: 1 (1: 0)
February 1st in Kano
Egypt
-
Burkina Faso
4: 2 (1: 2)
February 1st in Lagos
Zambia
-
Senegal
2: 2 (0: 0)
Group D
Pl.
country
Sp.
S.
U
N
Gates
Diff.
Points
1.
Nigeria Nigeria
3
2
1
0
00 6: 200
+4
0 7th
2.
Tunisia Tunisia
3
1
1
1
00 3: 400
−1
0 4th
3.
Morocco Morocco
3
1
1
1
00 1: 200
−1
0 4th
4th
Congo Republic Republic of the Congo
3
0
1
2
00 0: 200
−2
0 1
January 23 in Lagos
Nigeria
-
Tunisia
4: 2 (1: 0)
January 25 in Lagos
Morocco
-
Republic of the Congo
1: 0 (0: 0)
January 28 in Lagos
Nigeria
-
Republic of the Congo
0-0
January 29 in Lagos
Tunisia
-
Morocco
0-0
February 3 in Lagos
Nigeria
-
Morocco
2: 0 (1: 0)
February 3 in Kano
Tunisia
-
Republic of the Congo
1: 0 (1: 0)
Final round
Quarter finals
February 6 in Accra
Cameroon Cameroon
-
Algeria Algeria
2: 1 (2: 0)
February 6 in Kumasi
South Africa South Africa
-
Ghana Ghana
1: 0 (1: 0)
February 7 in Kano
Egypt Egypt
-
Tunisia Tunisia
0: 1 (0: 1)
February 7 in Lagos
Nigeria Nigeria
-
Senegal Senegal
2: 1 n.V. (1: 1, 0: 1)
Semifinals
February 10 in Accra
Cameroon Cameroon
-
Tunisia Tunisia
3: 0 (0: 0)
February 10 in Lagos
Nigeria Nigeria
-
South Africa South Africa
2: 0 (2: 0)
3rd place match
February 12 in Accra
South Africa South Africa
-
Tunisia Tunisia
2: 2 1 (1: 1), 4: 3 i. E.
final
February 13 in Lagos
Nigeria Nigeria
-
Cameroon Cameroon
2: 2 n.V. (2: 2, 1: 2), 3: 4 i. E.
Best goal scorers
There were also 9 players with two and 33 players with one hit each.
Web links
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