The Africa Cup 2004 ( English African Cup of Nations , French Coupe d'Afrique des Nations ) was the 24th playing of the African continental championship in football and took place from January 24th to February 14th for the third time after 1965 and 1994 in Tunisia instead of. Host Tunisia used their home advantage, won the tournament and became African champions for the first time in football. With this, Tunisia, with the French national coach Roger Lemerre , also qualified for the FIFA Confederations Cup 2005 in Germany.
As before, a qualification took place to reduce the field of participants from 51 applicants to the sixteen final round participants, with hosts Tunisia and defending champions Cameroon automatically qualifying. Ultimately, the following teams qualified: Algeria , Egypt (record number of participants with nineteen participations), Benin , Burkina Faso , Guinea , Cameroon , Kenya , DR Congo , Mali , Morocco , Nigeria , Rwanda, Zimbabwe , Senegal , South Africa and Tunisia .
Game mode
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 .
There were also 10 players with two and 36 players with one hit each.
Trivia
The ticket prices were three TND (€ 2.32) for the cheapest ticket and 30 TND (€ 23.24) for the most expensive ticket. The prices were different depending on the stadium and game.
The sports television broadcaster Eurosport broadcast 27 of the 32 games live and exclusively in 54 countries in Europe, the Middle East and North Africa. The games were offered in 19 languages. In the Arab countries, Al Jazeera Sports and ART broadcast all 32 games.