WAFU Cup of Nations 2019

WAFU Cup of Nations 2019
2019 WAFU Cup of Nations
Number of nations	16
winner	Senegal (2nd title)
venue	Senegal
Opening game	September 28, 2019
Endgame	October 13, 2019
Games	22nd
Gates	47  (⌀: 2.14 per game)

The WAFU Cup of Nations 2019 , the West African Football Championship , took place in Senegal from September 28 to October 13, 2019 . It was the third edition of the Regional Championship in West Africa under the sponsorship of FOX Sports . The tournament was organized by the West African Football Union / Union des Fédérations Ouest-Africaines de Football (WAFU-UFOA). The Senegalese national football team was the winner . The consolation round won the selection of Guinea .

Nigeria was initially announced as the host for 2019, but later received the right to host the WAFU Cup of Nations 2021 .

All games will take place in the Stade Lat-Dior in Thiès , the renovation of which was finished in time for this tournament and which offers space for 15,000 spectators.

Participant and mode

All 16 full members of the WAFU are eligible to play. The teams initially play eight winners in one game in a knockout system . In contrast to the previous event, the winners will go straight to the quarter-finals. The losers play in the quarter-finals of the consolation round. Because of the suspension of Sierra Leone, Morocco was invited to take its place. In the end, Sierra Leone took part.

Zone A	Zone B
Gambia	Benin
Guinea	Burkina Faso
Guinea-Bissau	Ivory Coast
Cape Verde	Ghana
Liberia	Niger
Mali	Nigeria
Mauritania	Togo
Senegal
Sierra Leone

Preliminary round

The losers move into the consolation round. The zone is indicated in brackets.

September 28, 2019 - Stade Lat-Dior , Thiès
Senegal (A)	-	Guinea-Bissau (A)	3: 1
Burkina Faso (B)	-	Mauritania (A)	5: 4 n.e. (1: 1)
September 29, 2019 - Stade Lat-Dior, Thiès
Nigeria (B)	-	Togo (B)	1: 2
Sierra Leone (A)	-	Liberia (A)	1: 0 *
September 30, 2019 - Stade Lat-Dior, Thiès
Mali (A)	-	Niger (B)	3: 1
Ivory Coast (B)	-	Cape Verde (A)	4: 1
October 1, 2019 - Stade Lat-Dior, Thiès
Ghana (B)	-	Gambia (A)	1-0
Guinea (A)	-	Benin (B)	1: 2

^* The game was interrupted in the 70 minutes after the floodlights failed. It ended on September 30th.

Consolation round

	Quarter finals					Semifinals					final
	1	Guinea-Bissau	0
	8th	Guinea	2
							Guinea	1
							Liberia	0
	4th	Liberia	1
	5	Niger	0
												Guinea	1
												Cape Verde	0
	3	Nigeria	1
	6th	Cape Verde	2
							Cape Verde	1
							Gambia	0
	2	Mauritania	0
	7th	Gambia	1

Quarter finals

October 3, 2019 - Stade Lat-Dior , Thiès
Guinea-Bissau	-	Guinea	0: 2
October 4, 2019 - Stade Lat-Dior, Thiès
Mauritania	-	Gambia	0: 1
October 5, 2019 - Stade Lat-Dior, Thiès
Nigeria	-	Cape Verde	1: 2
October 6, 2019 - Stade Lat-Dior, Thiès
Liberia	-	Niger	1-0

Semifinals

October 8, 2019 - Stade Lat-Dior , Thiès
Cape Verde	-	Gambia	1-0
October 9, 2019 - Stade Lat-Dior, Thiès
Guinea	-	Liberia	1-0

final

October 12, 2019 - Stade Lat-Dior , Thiès
Guinea	-	Cape Verde	1-0

Main round

	Quarter finals					Semifinals					final
	1	Senegal	1
	8th	Benin	0
							Senegal	2
							Mali	0
	4th	Sierra Leone	0
	5	Mali	1
												Senegal	4th
												Ghana	2
	3	Togo	0
	6th	Ivory Coast	1
							Ivory Coast	1
							Ghana	3
	2	Burkina Faso	1
	7th	Ghana	2

Quarter finals

October 3, 2019 - Stade Lat-Dior , Thiès
Senegal	-	Benin	1-0
October 4, 2019 - Stade Lat-Dior, Thiès
Burkina Faso	-	Ghana	1: 2
October 5, 2019 - Stade Lat-Dior, Thiès
Togo	-	Ivory Coast	0: 1
October 6, 2019 - Stade Lat-Dior, Thiès
Sierra Leone	-	Mali	0: 1

Semifinals

October 8, 2019 - Stade Lat-Dior , Thiès
Ivory Coast	-	Ghana	1: 3
October 9, 2019 - Stade Lat-Dior, Thiès
Senegal	-	Mali	2-0

final

October 13, 2019 - Stade Lat-Dior , Thiès
Senegal	-	Ghana	3: 1 i. E. (0: 0; 1: 1)

Web links

• soccer24.com: WAFU Cup of Nations 2019 - Soccer Africa, live results
• Official website for regional zone West A (English)
• Website of the WAFU – UFOA (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ WAFU Cup of Nations: Senegal to host 2019 tournament; Nigeria gets nod for 2021. Ghana Soccernet, July 17, 2018.
2. ↑ Nigeria to host 2019 edition of tournament. Pulse.ng, September 25, 2017.
3. ↑ Sport221, September 21, 2018: Wafu Cup of Nations: le Sénégal abrite la compétition en 2019
4. ↑ Senegal-football-infrastructure. Le stade Lat Dior a une capacité de 15,000 places (directeur) , Agence de presse senegalaise (APS) of March 3, 2019
5. ↑ ^{a b} Sport221, May 30, 2019: Une formule inédite pour la Wafu cup of nations 2019
6. ↑ Power outage forces postponement of Sierra Leone - Liberia Wafu Cup of Nations clash. Goal, September 30, 2019.
7. ↑ Match summary final