Africa Cup 1974 / qualification
A total of 29 teams registered to take part in the 1974 Africa Cup in Egypt.
The qualification went over three knockout rounds. Five 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 | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Central African Republic | Gabon | Gabon withdrawn | |||
Sierra Leone | Dahomey | Dahomey retired | |||
August 12/27, 1973 | Somalia | 2: 5 | Uganda | 2-0 | 0: 5 |
First main round
date | total | First leg | Return leg | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
16./30.09.1973 | Upper Volta | 1: 9 | Zaire | 0: 5 | 1: 4 |
Cameroon | Niger | Niger withdrawn | |||
16./30.09.1973 | Central African Republic * | 5: 4 | Ivory Coast | 4: 2 | 1: 2 |
16./30.09.1973 | Ghana | 3: 3 (?:? I. E.) |
Senegal | 3: 2 | 0: 1 |
16./30.09.1972 | Sierra Leone | 3: 5 | Mali | 1: 1 | 2: 4 |
Guinea | Togo | Togo withdrawn | |||
16./30.09.1972 | Ethiopia | 2: 4 | Tanzania | 2: 1 | 0: 3 |
16./30.09.1972 | Lesotho | 1: 5 | Mauritius | 0-0 | 1: 5 |
16./30.09.1972 | Uganda | 3: 1 | Kenya | 1-0 | 2: 1 |
Algeria | Libya | Libya withdrawn | |||
16./30.09.1972 | Nigeria | 3: 2 | Sudan | 1: 1 | 2: 1 |
16./30.09.1972 | Zambia | 4: 3 | Madagascar | 3: 1 | 1: 2 |
* Central Africa disqualified
Second main round
date | total | First leg | Return leg | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
28.10./11.11.1973 | Cameroon | 2: 3 | Zaire | 2: 1 | 0: 2 |
28.10./11.11.1973 | Ghana | 0: 4 | Ivory Coast | 0: 3 | 0: 1 |
28.10./11.11.1973 | Mali | 3: 3 (?:? I. E.) |
Guinea | 2: 2 | 1: 1 |
28.10./11.11.1973 | Tanzania | 1: 1 (?:? I. E.) |
Mauritius | 1: 1 | 0-0 |
28.10./11.11.1973 | Uganda | 3: 2 | Algeria | 2: 1 | 1: 1 |
28.10./11.11.1973 | Zambia | 7: 4 | Nigeria | 5: 1 | 2: 3 |
automatically qualified:
- People's Republic of the Congo (defending champion)
- Egypt (hosts)