2014 FIFA World Cup qualification (CAF)

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.

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]

Notes

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

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.

Matches

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

Team 1	Agg.	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.

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.

Group A

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Ethiopia	6	4	1	1	8	6	+2	13		—	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:
Notes:

1. Awarded

Group B

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Tunisia	6	4	2	0	13	6	+7	14		—	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:
Notes:

1. Awarded

Group C

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Ivory Coast	6	4	2	0	15	5	+10	14		—	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:

Group D

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Ghana	6	5	0	1	18	3	+15	15		—	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:
Notes:

1. Awarded

Group E

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Burkina Faso	6	4	0	2	7	4	+3	12		—	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:
Notes:

1. Awarded

Group F

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Nigeria	6	3	3	0	7	3	+4	12		—	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:

Group G

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Egypt	6	6	0	0	16	7	+9	18		—	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:

Group H

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Algeria	6	5	0	1	13	4	+9	15		—	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:

Group I

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Cameroon	6	4	1	1	8	3	+5	13		—	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:
Notes:

1. Awarded

Group J

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Senegal	6	3	3	0	9	4	+5	12		—	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:
Notes:

1. Awarded

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.

Matches

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

Team 1	Agg.	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

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

Team	Qualified as	Qualified on	Previous appearances in FIFA World Cup1
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)

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

There were 365 goals in 152 matches, for an average of 2.34 goals per match.

6 goals

5 goals

4 goals

3 goals

2 goals

1 goal

1 own goal

• Results and schedule (FIFA.com version)
• Results and schedule (CAFonline.com version)