Africa Cup 2013 / Qualification

The qualification for the Africa Cup 2013 began on January 15, 2012 with the game São Tomé and Príncipe against Lesotho. In contrast to previous qualifications, this qualification did not also serve as a World Cup qualification. The qualification for the Africa Cup 2012 functioned as a pre-qualification, as the participants in that championship were already qualified for the 3rd round of this qualification.

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Due to time constraints, the participants in the final round of the Africa Cup 2013 were determined in three knockout rounds. In a first selection round, the lowest ranked teams in the FIFA world rankings competed against each other in order to reduce the field to 44 teams. In a second round, the remaining 28 teams that were not participants in the Africa Cup of 2012 met each other. These played out 14 winners in the first and second leg, who in turn competed in a third qualifying round against the 16 participants of the 2012 Africa Cup. The winners qualified for the finals alongside hosts South Africa.

On January 30, 2010, Togo was excluded from qualifying for the 2013 Africa Cup (→  reason ), but this decision was reversed on May 14, 2010.

The national teams from Djibouti , Eritrea , Comoros , Mauritania , Mauritius and Somalia did not take part.

1 round

The first legs were scheduled for the 8th, the second leg for January 22nd, 2012. The first leg between São Tomé and Príncipe and Lesotho has been postponed to January 15. Swaziland withdrew for financial reasons ahead of the first leg.

game	pairing			First leg	Return leg	total
1	Seychelles	-	Swaziland	Retreat Swaziland
2	Sao Tome and Principe	-	Lesotho	1-0	0-0	1-0

2nd round

The first legs took place on February 29 (with the exception of the Central Africa v Egypt match, which was postponed to June 30), and the second legs were played between June 15 and 17, 2012. The winners qualified for the 3rd round, in which the participants of the Africa Cup 2012 also took part.

pairing			First leg	Return leg	total
Ethiopia	-	Benin	0-0	1: 1	1: 1
Rwanda	-	Nigeria	0-0	0: 2	0: 2
Republic of the Congo	-	Uganda	3: 1	0: 4	3: 5
Burundi	-	Zimbabwe	2: 1	0: 1	2: 2
Gambia	-	Algeria	1: 2	1: 4	2: 6
Kenya	-	Togo	2: 1	0: 1	2: 2
Sao Tome and Principe	-	Sierra Leone	2: 1	2: 4	4: 5
Guinea-Bissau	-	Cameroon	0: 1	0: 1	0: 2
Chad	-	Malawi	3: 2	0: 2	3: 4
Seychelles	-	Democratic Republic of Congo	0: 4	0: 3	0: 7
Tanzania	-	Mozambique	1: 1	1: 1, 6: 7 i. E.	2: 2
Central African Republic	-	Egypt	1: 1	3: 2	4: 3
Madagascar	-	Cape Verde	0: 4	1: 3	1: 7
Liberia	-	Namibia	1-0	0-0	1-0

3rd round

In the 3rd round, the winners of the 2nd round and the participants of the Africa Cup 2012 met each other in return games. The teams were divided into two pots according to their performance in the previous three tournament rounds:

Tournament victory (7 points), final (5), semi-final (3), quarter-final (2), preliminary round (1);

The points for the 2012 tournament were weighted three times, for 2010 twice and for 2008 simply.

Pot 1	Pot 2
Zambia (26 pts)  Ghana (22 pts)  Ivory Coast (22 pts)  Mali (12 pts)  Tunisia (10 pts)  Cameroon (9 pts)  Angola (9 pts)  Nigeria (8 pts)  Gabon (8 pts.)  Sudan (7 pts.)  Algeria (6 pts)  Equatorial Guinea (6 pts.)  Guinea (5 pts.)  Burkina Faso (5 pts.)  Morocco (4 pts.)	Senegal (4 points)  Libya (3 pts.)  Niger (3 pts.)  Botswana (3 points)  Malawi (2 pts)  Mozambique (2 pts)  Togo (2 points)  Ethiopia (0 pts)  Democratic Republic of the Congo (0 pts)  Cape Verde (0 pts)  Liberia (0 pts)  Sierra Leone (0 pts)  Zimbabwe (0 pts)  Uganda (0 pts.)  Central African Republic (0 pts)

The first legs took place on September 8 and 9, the second legs on October 13 and 14, 2012.

pairing			First leg	Return leg	total
Mali	-	Botswana	3-0	4: 1	7: 1
Zimbabwe	-	Angola	3: 1	0: 2	3: 3
Ghana	-	Malawi	2-0	1-0	3-0
Liberia	-	Nigeria	2: 2	1: 6	3: 8
Zambia	-	Uganda	1-0	0: 1, 9: 8 i. E.	1: 1
Cape Verde	-	Cameroon	2-0	1: 2	3: 2
Mozambique	-	Morocco	2-0	0: 4	2: 4
Sierra Leone	-	Tunisia	2: 2	0-0	2: 2
Guinea	-	Niger	1-0	0: 2	1: 2
Sudan	-	Ethiopia	5: 3	0: 2	5: 5
Libya	-	Algeria	10: 1 1	0: 2	0: 3
Ivory Coast	-	Senegal	4: 2	12: 0 2	6: 2
Democratic Republic of Congo	-	Equatorial Guinea	4-0	1: 2	5: 2
Gabon	-	Togo	1: 1	1: 2	2: 3
Central African Republic	-	Burkina Faso	1-0	1: 3	2: 3

¹The first leg was played in the Moroccan city ​​of Casablanca due to the uncertain political situation in Libya .

²The second leg was canceled after 74 minutes of play when the score was 2-0 for the Ivory Coast because of spectator riots and scored with this result. Senegal was disqualified.

Goalscorer

	Surname	Gates
1.	Dieumerci Mbokani	4th
2.	Didier Drogba	3
	Adane Girma	3
	Ryan Mendes	3
	Jair Nunes	3
	Islam Slimani	3
	El Arbi Hillel Soudani	3
	Ikechukwu Uche	3
9.	Emmanuel Adebayor	2
	Ibrahim Teteh Bangura	2
	Daniel cousin	2
	Cheick Diabaté	2
	Djaniny	2
	Casual Djime	2
	Dioko Kaluyituka	2
	Kei Kamara	2
	Déo Kanda	2
	Modibo Maïga	2
	David Manga	2
	Manucho	2
	Geofrey Massa	2
	Hilaire Momi	2
	Victor Moses	2
	Trésor Mputu Mabi	2
	Ahmed Musa	2
	Knowledge Musona	2
	Atusaye Nyondo	2
	Prince Oniangué	2
	Muhannad Tahir	2
	Alain Traoré	2

As of October 14, 2012

Web links

• Orange CAN 2013 (offline)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Togo's sanctions lifted and general amnesty. cafonline.com, May 14, 2010, archived from the original on December 2, 2013 ; Retrieved on August 16, 2015 (archived in the Internet Archive ). 
2. ↑ BBC: Swaziland pull out of Africa Cup of Nations qualifying (accessed February 16, 2012)
3. ↑ cafonline.com: Orange CAN 2013 FIXTURES (offline)
4. ↑ 2013 Afcon Qualifiers: Libya, Algeria to clash in Morocco. (No longer available online.) Starafrica.com, August 13, 2012, archived from the original on March 4, 2016 ; accessed on August 16, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
5. ↑ Senegal disqualified from 2013 Orange CAF Africa Cup of Nations. cafonline.com, October 16, 2012, archived from the original on May 24, 2014 ; Retrieved on August 16, 2015 (archived in the Internet Archive ).