2014 FIFA World Cup qualification (CAF)

2014 FIFA World Cup qualification (CAF)
Tournament details
Dates	11 November 2011 – 19 November 2013
Teams	52 (from 1 confederation)
Tournament statistics
Matches played	152
Goals scored	389 (2.56 per match)
Attendance	2,887,430 (18,996 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Mohamed Aboutrika ; Mohamed Salah ; Asamoah Gyan ; (5 Goals)
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Last updated April 05, 2024

The African section of the 2014 FIFA World Cup qualification acted as the qualifies of the 2014 FIFA World Cup saw 52 teams from the Confederation of African Football (CAF) who competing for 5 spots of the 32 teams in the finals.

Format

Fifty-two out of the 53 national associations affiliated to CAF entered the qualifying to determine the continent's five slots for the next World Cup.^[1]

The proposed format, announced on 16 May 2011, began in November 2011 with the first round of 12 two-legged knock-out ties. The ties, involving the 24 lowest-ranked teams according to FIFA World Rankings, were drawn in Brazil on 30 July 2011.

The 12 winners joined the remaining 28 CAF entrants in the second round, which consists of 10 groups of 4. The winners of each group – held between June 2012 and September 2013 – advanced to the third round of 5 two-legged knock-out ties. The 5 winners of these ties – held in October and November 2013 – advanced to the 2014 FIFA World Cup finals.

Entrants

The July 2011 FIFA Ranking were used to seed the teams for the first two rounds, both of which were drawn in Brazil on 30 July 2011.^[2] (World rankings shown in brackets)^[3]

Bye to second round (ranked 1st to 28th)	Competing in first round (ranked 29th to 52nd)
Ivory Coast (14) Egypt (34) Ghana (36) Burkina Faso (39) Nigeria (43) Senegal (46) South Africa (49) Cameroon (50) Algeria (52) Tunisia (55) Gabon (60) Libya (63) Morocco (63) Guinea (68) Botswana (71) Malawi (72) Zambia (74) Uganda (76) Mali (77) Cape Verde (82) Benin (86) Zimbabwe (86) Central African Republic (89) Sierra Leone (93) Sudan (97) Niger (98) Angola (100) Gambia (102)	Mozambique (103) DR Congo (123) Togo (123) Liberia (125) Tanzania (127) Congo (129) Kenya (130) Rwanda (134) Ethiopia (139) Namibia (140) Burundi (143) Madagascar (149) Guinea-Bissau (151) Equatorial Guinea (155) Chad (158) Swaziland (169) Comoros (175) Lesotho (184) Eritrea (188) Somalia (191) Djibouti (194) Mauritius (195) Seychelles (199) São Tomé and Príncipe (unranked)

Notes

Mauritania did not participate in the 2014 FIFA World Cup qualifiers.^[4]

First round

The first round consisted of 12 home-and-away ties, featured the 24 lowest ranked teams in Africa. The ties were drawn at the World Cup Preliminary Draw at the Marina da Glória in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on 30 July 2011. The winners of these series proceeded to the second round.

Seeding

The July 2011 FIFA Ranking was used to seed the teams.

Pot 1	Pot 2
Mozambique DR Congo Togo Liberia Tanzania Congo Kenya Rwanda Ethiopia Namibia Burundi Madagascar	Guinea-Bissau Equatorial Guinea Chad Swaziland Comoros Lesotho Eritrea Somalia Djibouti Mauritius Seychelles São Tomé and Príncipe

Matches

The first legs were scheduled for 11–12 November 2011, with the second legs on 15–16 November 2011.

Team 1	Agg. Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Seychelles	0–7	Kenya	0–3	0–4
Guinea-Bissau	1–2	Togo	1–1	0–1
Djibouti	0–8	Namibia	0–4	0–4
Mauritius	w/o	Liberia	—	—
Comoros	1–5	Mozambique	0–1	1–4
Equatorial Guinea	3–2	Madagascar	2–0	1–2
Somalia	0–5	Ethiopia	0–0	0–5
Lesotho	3–2	Burundi	1–0	2–2
Eritrea	2–4	Rwanda	1–1	1–3
Swaziland	2–8	DR Congo	1–3	1–5
São Tomé and Príncipe	1–6	Congo	0–5	1–1
Chad	2–2 (a)	Tanzania	1–2	1–0

Note: Mauritius withdrew from the tournament on 31 October 2011.^[5] Liberia automatically advanced to the second round.

Second round

The second round saw the top 28 ranked CAF teams joined by the 12 winners from the first round. These teams were drawn into ten groups of four teams at the World Cup Preliminary Draw at the Marina da Glória in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on 30 July 2011. The matches were played from 1 June 2012 to 7 September 2013. The top team from each group advanced to the third round.

Seeding

The July 2011 FIFA Ranking was used to seed the teams.

Pot 1	Pot 2	Pot 3	Pot 4
Ivory Coast Egypt Ghana Burkina Faso Nigeria Senegal South Africa Cameroon Algeria Tunisia	Gabon Libya Morocco Guinea Botswana Malawi Zambia Uganda Mali Cape Verde	Benin Zimbabwe Central African Republic Sierra Leone Sudan Niger Gambia Angola Kenya ^† Togo ^†	Namibia ^† Liberia ^† Mozambique ^† Equatorial Guinea ^† Ethiopia ^† Lesotho ^† Rwanda ^† DR Congo ^† Congo ^† Tanzania ^†

^† First round winners whose identity was not known at the time of the draw

Groups

Cameroon were suspended by FIFA on 4 July 2013 for government interference.^[6] The suspension was lifted on 22 July 2013.^[7]

Group A

Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
Ethiopia	6	4	1	1	8	6	+2	13	Third round	—	2–1	1–0	2–0
South Africa	6	3	2	1	12	5	+7	11		1–1	—	4–1	2–0
Botswana	6	2	1	3	8	10	−2	7		3–0 ^{[lower-alpha 1]}	1–1	—	3–2
Central African Republic	6	1	0	5	5	12	−7	3		1–2	0–3	2–0	—

Source: ^[8]
Notes:

↑ Awarded

Group B

Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
Tunisia	6	4	2	0	13	6	+7	14	Third round	—	3–0 ^{[lower-alpha 1]}	2–1	3–1
Cape Verde	6	3	0	3	9	7	+2	9		1–2	—	1–0	3–0 ^{[lower-alpha 1]}
Sierra Leone	6	2	2	2	10	10	0	8		2–2	2–1	—	3–2
Equatorial Guinea	6	0	2	4	6	15	−9	2		1–1	0–3 ^{[lower-alpha 1]}	2–2	—

Source: ^[8]
Notes:

1 2 3 Awarded

Group C

Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
Ivory Coast	6	4	2	0	15	5	+10	14	Third round	—	1–1	2–0	3–0
Morocco	6	2	3	1	9	8	+1	9		2–2	—	2–1	2–0
Tanzania	6	2	0	4	8	12	−4	6		2–4	3–1	—	2–1
Gambia	6	1	1	4	4	11	−7	4		0–3	1–1	2–0	—

Source: ^[8]

Group D

Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
Ghana	6	5	0	1	18	3	+15	15	Third round	—	2–1	7–0	4–0
Zambia	6	3	2	1	11	4	+7	11		1–0	—	4–0	1–1
Lesotho	6	1	2	3	4	15	−11	5		0–2	1–1	—	0–0
Sudan	6	0	2	4	3	14	−11	2		1–3	0–3 ^{[lower-alpha 1]}	1–3	—

Source: ^[8]
Notes:

↑ Awarded

Group E

Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
Burkina Faso	6	4	0	2	7	4	+3	12	Third round	—	0–3 ^{[lower-alpha 1]}	1–0	4–0
Congo	6	3	2	1	7	3	+4	11		0–1	—	1–0	1–0
Gabon	6	2	1	3	5	6	−1	7		1–0	0–0	—	4–1
Niger	6	1	1	4	6	12	−6	4		0–1	2–2	3–0 ^{[lower-alpha 1]}	—

Source: ^[8]
Notes:

1 2 Awarded

Group F

Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
Nigeria	6	3	3	0	7	3	+4	12	Third round	—	2–0	1–1	1–0
Malawi	6	1	4	1	4	5	−1	7		1–1	—	2–2	0–0
Kenya	6	1	3	2	4	5	−1	6		0–1	0–0	—	1–0
Namibia	6	1	2	3	2	4	−2	5		1–1	0–1	1–0	—

Source: ^[8]

Group G

Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
Egypt	6	6	0	0	16	7	+9	18	Third round	—	4–2	2–0	2–1
Guinea	6	3	1	2	12	8	+4	10		2–3	—	6–1	1–0
Mozambique	6	0	3	3	2	10	−8	3		0–1	0–0	—	0–0
Zimbabwe	6	0	2	4	4	9	−5	2		2–4	0–1	1–1	—

Source: ^[8]

Group H

Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
Algeria	6	5	0	1	13	4	+9	15	Third round	—	1–0	3–1	4–0
Mali	6	2	2	2	7	7	0	8		2–1	—	2–2	1–1
Benin	6	2	2	2	8	9	−1	8		1–3	1–0	—	2–0
Rwanda	6	0	2	4	3	11	−8	2		0–1	1–2	1–1	—

Source: ^[8]

Group I

Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
Cameroon	6	4	1	1	8	3	+5	13	Third round	—	1–0	1–0	2–1
Libya	6	2	3	1	5	3	+2	9		2–1	—	0–0	2–0
DR Congo	6	1	3	2	3	3	0	6		0–0	0–0	—	2–0
Togo	6	1	1	4	4	11	−7	4		0–3 ^{[lower-alpha 1]}	1–1	2–1	—

Source: ^[8]
Notes:

↑ Awarded

Group J

Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
Senegal	6	3	3	0	9	4	+5	12	Third round	—	1–0	1–1	3–1
Uganda	6	2	2	2	5	6	−1	8		1–1	—	2–1	1–0
Angola	6	1	4	1	7	5	+2	7		1–1	1–1	—	3–0 ^{[lower-alpha 1]}
Liberia	6	1	1	4	3	9	−6	4		0–2	2–0	0–0	—

Source: ^[8]
Notes:

↑ Awarded

Third round

The third round saw the 10 group winners from the second round drawn into five home and away ties. The winners of each tie advanced to the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil.

Seeding

The draw of the play-offs was held on 16 September 2013 at the CAF headquarters in Cairo.^[9] The teams were seeded based on the September 2013 edition of the FIFA Ranking (shown below in brackets).^[10]^[11]

Pot 1	Pot 2
Ivory Coast (19) Ghana (24) Algeria (28) Nigeria (36) Tunisia (46)	Egypt (50) Burkina Faso (51) Cameroon (61) Senegal (66) Ethiopia (93)

Matches

The matches were played in the periods of 11–15 October and 16–19 November 2013.^[2]^[12]

Team 1	Agg. Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Ivory Coast	4–2	Senegal	3–1	1–1
Ethiopia	1–4	Nigeria	1–2	0–2
Tunisia	1–4	Cameroon	0–0	1–4
Ghana	7–3	Egypt	6–1	1–2
Burkina Faso	3–3 (a)	Algeria	3–2	0–1

Qualified teams

The following five teams from CAF qualified for the final tournament.

Team	Qualified as	Qualified on	Previous appearances in FIFA World Cup ¹
Ivory Coast	third round winners	16 November 2013	2 (2006, 2010)
Nigeria	third round winners	16 November 2013	4 (1994, 1998, 2002, 2010)
Cameroon	third round winners	17 November 2013	6 (1982, 1990, 1994, 1998, 2002, 2010)
Ghana	third round winners	19 November 2013	2 (2006, 2010)
Algeria	third round winners	19 November 2013	3 (1982, 1986, 2010)

¹Bold indicates champions for that year. Italic indicates hosts for that year.

Top goalscorers

There were 389 goals scored in 152 matches, for an average of 2.56 goals per match.

6 goals

5 goals

4 goals

Below are full goalscorer lists for each round:

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References

↑ "African Qualifiers – FIFA World Cup 2014" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 29 September 2011.
1 2 "2014 FIFA World Cup Brazil | Preliminary Competition Format and Draw Procedures | African Zone" (PDF). FIFA. Archived from the original (PDF) on October 27, 2011.
↑ "FIFA/Coca-Cola World Ranking". FIFA. 27 July 2011. Archived from the original on September 24, 2015.
↑ "2014 FIFA World Cup Brazil Preliminary Draw". FIFA. 21 November 2007. Archived from the original on 9 June 2008.
↑ "Mauritius withdraw from FIFA World Cup qualifiers". FIFA.com. 31 October 2011. Archived from the original on November 2, 2011.
↑ "Cameroon suspended indefinitely by FIFA". Yahoo! Sports. 4 July 2013.
↑ "FIFA lifts suspension of Cameroon". FOXNews.com. 22 July 2013.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 "FIFA World Cup qualification (CAF) 2014, football - table and standings". soccer365. Retrieved 4 April 2024.
↑ "Press Release following CAF EXCO May 2013 meetings". cafonline.com. 16 May 2013.
↑ "Dates set for African and European qualifying draws". FIFA. 15 June 2013. Archived from the original on June 18, 2013.
↑ "Latest FIFA Rankings reveal the play-off seedings for World Cup African qualifiers". Confederation of African Football. 12 September 2013. Archived from the original on 27 September 2013.
↑ "Play-off draw brings high drama". FIFA.com. 16 September 2013. Archived from the original on September 18, 2013.

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AFC	First round Second round Third round Bahrain v Indonesia Fourth round Fifth round (play-off)
CAF	First round Second round Third round
CONCACAF	First round Second round Third round Fourth round United States v Costa Rica
CONMEBOL	Round-robin
OFC	First round Second round (Nations Cup) Third round
UEFA	First round Group A Group B Group C Group D Group E Group F Group G Group H Group I Second round (play-offs)
Play-offs	AFC v CONMEBOL CONCACAF v OFC

2014 FIFA World Cup qualification (CAF)

Contents

Format

Entrants

First round

Seeding

Matches

Second round

Seeding

Groups

Group A

Group B

Group C

Group D

Group E

Group F

Group G

Group H

Group I

Group J

Third round

Seeding

Matches

Qualified teams

Top goalscorers

Related Research Articles

References

External links