African Nations Cup 2011 / Qualification

To qualify for the African Nations Cup 2011 , the African national football teams were divided into 6 zones. The zones "North" and "West A" each received two starting places at the African Nations Cup , the other four zones each got three starting places, since 16 teams took part in the final round for the first time.

The qualifying games took place from March 2010.

North zone

1 round

Team 1		Team 2	First leg	Return leg	Overall result
Libya	-	Algeria	0: 1	2: 1	2: 2 1
Tunisia	-	Morocco	1: 1	2: 2	3: 3 1

¹ Away goals rule

•  Algeria qualified for the finals.
•  Tunisia qualified for the finals.

West zone A

Preliminary round

Team 1		Team 2	First leg	Return leg	Overall result
Sierra Leone	-	Mauritania			Retreat Mauritania

1 round

Team 1		Team 2	First leg	Return leg	Overall result
Guinea	-	Mali	1: 1	0: 2	1: 3
Senegal	-	Sierra Leone	1-0	0: 1	4: 3 n.e. (1: 1)

•  Mali qualified for the finals.
•  Senegal qualified for the finals.

West zone B

1 round

Team 1		Team 2	First leg	Return leg	Overall result
Togo	-	Ivory Coast	1: 2	0: 4	1: 6
Burkina Faso	-	Ghana	0-0	0: 1	0: 1
Niger	-	Nigeria	2-0	0-0	2-0

•  Ivory Coast qualified for the finals.
•  Ghana qualified for the finals.
•  Niger qualified for the finals.

Central East Zone

Preliminary round

Team 1		Team 2	First leg	Return leg	Overall result
Djibouti	-	Somalia	0: 1	no return leg	0: 1

1 round

Team 1		Team 2	First leg	Return leg	Overall result
Burundi	-	Uganda	1: 1	0: 4	1: 5
Ethiopia	-	Kenya			Withdrawal Ethiopia
Eritrea	-	Rwanda			Retreat Eritrea
Tanzania	-	Somalia	6-0	no return leg	6-0

2nd round

Team 1		Team 2	First leg	Return leg	Overall result
Uganda	-	Kenya	1-0	1: 2	2: 2 2
Rwanda	-	Tanzania	1: 1	1-0	2: 1

² Away goals rule

•  Rwanda qualified for the finals.
•  Uganda qualified for the finals.

Central zone

Preliminary round

Team 1		Team 2	First leg	Return leg	Overall result
Republic of the Congo	-	Equatorial Guinea			Equatorial Guinea retreat

1 round

Team 1		Team 2	First leg	Return leg	Overall result
Republic of the Congo	-	Cameroon	1: 1	0: 3	1: 4
Gabon	-	Democratic Republic of Congo	1: 2	1: 1	2: 3

•  Cameroon qualified for the finals.
•  Democratic Republic of the Congo qualified for the finals.

2nd round

Team 1		Team 2	First leg	Return leg	Overall result
Republic of the Congo	-	Gabon			Congo retreat

•  Gabon qualified for the finals.

South zone

1 round

Team 1		Team 2	First leg	Return leg	Overall result
Botswana	-	South Africa	0-0	1: 2	1: 2
Seychelles	-	Namibia	1-0	1: 1	2: 1
Madagascar	-	Angola	0-0	0: 2	0: 2
Swaziland	-	Zimbabwe	1: 2	0: 3	1: 5
Malawi	-	Mozambique	3-0	0: 1	3: 1

 Zambia is automatically placed for the 2nd round.

2nd round

Team 1		Team 2	First leg	Return leg	Overall result
Seychelles	-	Zimbabwe	2: 4	0: 2	2: 6
South Africa	-	Zambia	1-0	1: 1	2: 1
Angola	-	Malawi	1: 1	2-0	3: 1

•  Angola qualified for the finals.
•  Zimbabwe qualified for the finals.
•  South Africa qualified for the finals.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Somalia eject Djibouti in CHAN qualifier, CANonline, January 11, 2010
2. ↑ Football: Tanzania humiliates Somalia 6-0 in CHAN qualifying match, Afrique en ligne March 28, 2010 ( Memento from March 31, 2010 in the Internet Archive )