2018 African Nations Championship

The 2018 African Nations Championship, known as the Total African Nations Championship (also referred to as CHAN 2018) was the 5th edition of the African Nations Championship, a biennial football tournament organized by the Confederation of African Football (CAF) exclusively featuring players from the respective national championships. It took place between 12 January and 4 February 2018. In February 2016, Kenya was announced as the host nation but in September 2017, CAF decided to change the host nation due to a lack of progress with preparations.[1][2] Morocco was announced as the host nation in October 2017.[3]

2018 African Nations Championship
بطولة أمم أفريقيا للمحليين 2018
2018 CHAN
Tournament details
Host countryMorocco
Dates13 January – 4 February 2018
Teams16 (from 1 confederation)
Venue(s)4 (in 4 host cities)
Final positions
Champions Morocco (1st title)
Runners-up Nigeria
Third place Sudan
Fourth place Libya
Tournament statistics
Matches played32
Goals scored58 (1.81 per match)
Top scorer(s) Ayoub El Kaabi (9 goals)
Best player(s) Ayoub El Kaabi
Fair play award Morocco

Unlike the African Cup of Nations, the competing national teams must be composed of players playing in their domestic league. For example, a Moroccan player is only eligible to play for the Morocco national team if he is playing for a Moroccan club.[4]

Hosts Morocco defeated Nigeria in the final to win their first title. DR Congo were the defending champions but failed to qualify for the first time ever after losing to Congo on away goals rule.

Host selection

Initially, Kenya was announced as the host nation in February 2016. But in September 2017, CAF decided to change the host nation due to a lack of progress with preparations.[5]

The CAF received three bids by the deadline of 30 September 2017 to replace Kenya as new hosts:[6]

The Ethiopian Football Federation did not provide the government's letter of guarantee, and were not considered. The CAF Emergency Committee decided to choose Morocco over Equatorial Guinea in October 2017.[7]

Qualification

The qualifying rounds took place from April to August 2017.[8]

Since Morocco had already qualified in the North Zone before being named as replacement hosts, their spot in the final tournament was re-allocated to Egypt, which lost to Morocco in the North Zone final qualifying round.[9] However, Egypt declined to participate citing a "congested domestic calendar".[10] As a result, the spot was reverted to Central-East Zone (as originally three teams would participate including Kenya as original hosts), and would go to the winner of a play-off in November 2017 between Ethiopia and Rwanda, the two teams which lost in the Central-East Zone final qualifying round.[11]

Qualified teams

The following 16 teams qualified for the final tournament.

Team Zone Appearance Previous best performance FIFA ranking
at start of event
 CameroonCentral Zone3rdQuarter-finals (2011, 2016)45
 Congo2ndGroup stage (2014)96
 Equatorial Guinea1stDebut146
 RwandaCentral-East Zone3rdQuarter-finals (2016)113
 Sudan2ndThird place (2011)136
 Uganda4thGroup stage (2011, 2014, 2016)75
 LibyaNorth Zone3rdChampions (2014)88
 Morocco (hosts)3rdQuarter-finals (2014)40
 AngolaSouth Zone3rdRunners-up (2011)141
 Namibia1stDebut118
 Zambia3rdThird place (2009)74
 GuineaWest A Zone2ndFourth place (2016)65
 Mauritania2ndGroup stage (2014)99
 Burkina FasoWest B Zone2ndGroup stage (2014)44
 Ivory Coast4thThird place (2016)61
 Nigeria3rdThird place (2014)51

Venues

Matches were held in Casablanca, Marrakech, Agadir and Tangier.

Casablanca Marrakesh
Stade Mohamed VStade de Marrakech
Capacity: 45,600Capacity: 45,240
TangierAgadir
Stade Ibn BatoutaStade Adrar
Capacity: 45,000Capacity: 45,480

Before their hosting rights were withdrawn, Football Kenya Federation planned to use four stadiums as competition venues.[12] However, only Nyayo National Stadium in Nairobi and Kasarani Stadium in Kasarani were considered to meet hosting requirements after CAF inspection, while Mombasa Municipal Stadium in Mombasa and Kinoru Stadium in Meru did not.[13]

Squads

Each squad can contain a maximum of 23 players (Regulations Article 72).[14] The finalized squads were announced by the CAF on 10 January 2018.[15][16] Players must play for clubs in their home country.

Match officials

A total of 32 match officials (16 referees and 16 assistant referees) were selected for the tournament. In addition, seven match official were selected to operate the video assistant referee (VAR) system starting from the quarter-finals, a first in African competitions.[17][18][19]

Draw

The draw of the final tournament was held on 17 November 2017, 19:30 WET (UTC±0), at Sofitel Rabat in Rabat, Morocco.[20]

The 16 teams were drawn into four groups of four teams.[21] The hosts Morocco were seeded in Group A. The remaining teams were seeded based on their results in the four most recent final tournaments: 2009 (multiplied by 1), 2011 (multiplied by 2), 2014 (multiplied by 3), 2016 (multiplied by 4):[22][23][24]

  • 7 points for winner
  • 5 points for runner-up
  • 3 points for semi-finalists
  • 2 points for quarter-finalists
  • 1 point for group stage

Based on the formula above, the four pots were allocated as follows:

Pot 1 Pot 2 Pot 3 Pot 4
  1.  Morocco (hosts) (10 pts)
  2.  Libya (22 pts)
  3.  Ivory Coast (15 pts)
  4.  Angola (14 pts)
  1.  Nigeria (13 pts)
  2.  Guinea (12 pts)
  3.  Cameroon (12 pts)
  4.  Zambia (11 pts)
  1.  Rwanda (10 pts)
  2.  Uganda (9 pts)
  3.  Sudan (6 pts)
  4.  Congo (3 pts)
  1.  Burkina Faso (3 pts)
  2.  Mauritania (3 pts)
  3.  Namibia (0 pts)
  4.  Equatorial Guinea (0 pts)

Group stage

The top two teams of each group advance to the quarter-finals.

Tiebreakers

Teams are ranked according to points (3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, 0 points for a loss), and if tied on points, the following tiebreaking criteria are applied, in the order given, to determine the rankings (Regulations Article 74):[14]

  1. Points in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
  2. Goal difference in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
  3. Goals scored in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
  4. If more than two teams are tied, and after applying all head-to-head criteria above, a subset of teams are still tied, all head-to-head criteria above are reapplied exclusively to this subset of teams;
  5. Goal difference in all group matches;
  6. Goals scored in all group matches;
  7. Drawing of lots.

All times are local, WET (UTC±0).[25]

Group A

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1  Morocco (H) 3 2 1 0 7 1 +6 7 Knockout stage
2  Sudan 3 2 1 0 3 1 +2 7
3  Guinea 3 1 0 2 3 5 2 3
4  Mauritania 3 0 0 3 0 6 6 0
Source: CAF
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers
(H) Host.
Morocco 4–0 Mauritania
Report
Guinea 1–2 Sudan
Report
  • Koko  19'
  • Saif Tere  75'
Referee: Hélder Martins de Carvalho (Angola)

Morocco 3–1 Guinea
Report
  • Saïdouba Camara  29'
Referee: Abou Coulibaly (Ivory Coast)
Sudan 1–0 Mauritania
Report
Referee: Sadok Selmi (Tunisia)

Sudan 0–0 Morocco
Report
Referee: Jean-Jacques Ndala Ngambo (DR Congo)
Mauritania 0–1 Guinea
Report
Referee: Jackson Pavaza (Namibia)

Group B

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1  Zambia 3 2 1 0 6 2 +4 7 Knockout stage
2  Namibia 3 2 1 0 3 1 +2 7
3  Uganda 3 0 1 2 1 4 3 1
4  Ivory Coast 3 0 1 2 0 3 3 1
Source: CAF
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers
Ivory Coast 0–1 Namibia
Report
Referee: Noureddine El Jaafari (Morocco)
Zambia 3–1 Uganda
Report

Ivory Coast 0–2 Zambia
Report
Uganda 0–1 Namibia
Report

Uganda 0–0 Ivory Coast
Report
Referee: Hélder Martins de Carvalho (Angola)
Namibia 1–1 Zambia
Report
Referee: Louis Hakizimana (Rwanda)

Group C

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1  Nigeria 3 2 1 0 4 1 +3 7 Knockout stage
2  Libya 3 2 0 1 4 1 +3 6
3  Rwanda 3 1 1 1 1 1 0 4
4  Equatorial Guinea 3 0 0 3 1 7 6 0
Source: CAF
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers
Libya 3–0 Equatorial Guinea
Report
Referee: Mahamadou Keita (Mali)
Nigeria 0–0 Rwanda
Report

Libya 0–1 Nigeria
Report
Rwanda 1–0 Equatorial Guinea
  • Manzi  66'
Report
Referee: Daniel Laryea (Ghana)

Rwanda 0–1 Libya
Report
Referee: Noureddine El Jaafari (Morocco)
Equatorial Guinea 1–3 Nigeria
Report
Referee: Abou Coulibaly (Ivory Coast)

Group D

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1  Congo 3 2 1 0 3 0 +3 7 Knockout stage
2  Angola 3 1 2 0 1 0 +1 5
3  Burkina Faso 3 0 2 1 1 3 2 2
4  Cameroon 3 0 1 2 1 3 2 1
Source: CAF
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers
Angola 0–0 Burkina Faso
Report
Cameroon 0–1 Congo
Report
  • Makiesse  72' (pen.)

Angola 1–0 Cameroon
Report
Referee: Maguette N'Diaye (Senegal)
Congo 2–0 Burkina Faso
Report
Referee: Pacifique Ndabihawenimana (Burundi)

Congo 0–0 Angola
Report
Burkina Faso 1–1 Cameroon
Report
  • Moussombo  52'

Knockout stage

In the knockout stage, extra time and penalty shoot-out are used to decide the winner if necessary, except for the third place match where penalty shoot-out (no extra time) is used to decide the winner if necessary (Regulations Article 75).[14]

Bracket

 
Quarter-finalsSemi-finalsFinal
 
          
 
27 January – Casablanca
 
 
 Morocco2
 
31 January – Casablanca
 
 Namibia0
 
 Morocco (a.e.t.)3
 
28 January – Agadir
 
 Libya1
 
 Congo1 (3)
 
4 February – Casablanca
 
 Libya (p)1 (5)
 
 Morocco4
 
27 January – Marrakech
 
 Nigeria0
 
 Zambia0
 
31 January – Marrakech
 
 Sudan1
 
 Sudan0
 
28 January – Tangier
 
 Nigeria1 Third place
 
 Nigeria (a.e.t.)2
 
3 February – Marrakech
 
 Angola1
 
 Libya1 (2)
 
 
 Sudan (p)1 (4)
 

Quarter-finals

Morocco 2–0 Namibia
Report
Referee: Mahamadou Keita (Mali)

Zambia 0–1 Sudan
Report
  • Saif Tere  32'

Nigeria 2–1 (a.e.t.) Angola
Report
  •  56'
Referee: Sadok Selmi (Tunisia)

Congo 1–1 (a.e.t.) Libya
  • Makiesse  32'
Report
  • Al Taher  14'
Penalties
3–5
  • Taktak
  • Khalleefah
  • Alaqoub
  • Al-Maghasi
  • Masaud

Semi-finals

Morocco 3–1 (a.e.t.) Libya
Report
  • Khalleefah  86'

Sudan 0–1 Nigeria
Report

Third place match

Libya 1–1 Sudan
Report
Penalties
  • Taktak
  • Elhouni
  • Alaqoub
  • Ablo
2–4

Final

Morocco 4–0 Nigeria
Report
Attendance: 75,000

Goalscorers

9 goals
3 goals
2 goals
1 goal

Awards

The following awards were given at the conclusion of the tournament:[26]

  • Total Man of the Tournament: Ayoub El Kaabi (Morocco)
  • Top scorer: Ayoub El Kaabi (Morocco) – 9 goals
  • Fair Play: Morocco
  • Team of the tournament:
    • Goalkeeper: Akram El Hadi (Sudan)
    • Defenders: Omer Suliman (Sudan), Stephen Eze (Nigeria), Badr Benoun (Morocco)
    • Midfielders: Solomon Ojo (Nigeria), Walid El Karti (Morocco), Salaheddine Saidi (Morocco), Zakaria Hadraf (Morocco), Abdulrahman Ramadhan (Libya)
    • Forwards: Ayoub El Kaabi (Morocco), Saleh Taher (Libya)
    • Substitutes: Anas Zniti (Morocco), Sand Masaud (Libya), Vladimir Antonio (Angola), Bader Hasan (Libya), Augustine Mulenga (Zambia), Saifeldin Bakhit (Sudan), Ismail El Haddad (Morocco)

Man of the match

StageTeam 1ResultTeam 2Man of the Match
First round of group stage matches
Group AMorocco 4–0 Mauritania Abdelilah Hafidi
Guinea 1–2 Sudan Saifeldin Malik Bakhit
Group BIvory Coast 0–1 Namibia Vetunuavi Hambira
Zambia 3–1 Uganda Lazarous Kambole
Group CLibya 3–0 Equatorial Guinea Saleh Al Taher
Nigeria 0–0 Rwanda Djihad Bizimana
Group DAngola 0–0 Burkina Faso
Cameroon 0–1 Congo Prestige Mboungou
Group AMorocco 3–1 Guinea Ayoub El Kaabi
Sudan 1–0 Mauritania Omer Suleiman Koko
Group BIvory Coast 0–2 Zambia Augustine Mulenga
Uganda 0–1 Namibia Lloyd Kazapua
Group CLibya 0–1 Nigeria Stephen Eze
Rwanda 1–0 Equatorial Guinea Thierry Manzi
Group DAngola 1–0 Cameroon
Congo 2–0 Burkina Faso Junior Makiesse
Group ASudan 0–0 Morocco Akram El Hadi Salim
Mauritania 0–1 Guinea Ibrahima Sory Sankhon
Group BUganda 0–0 Ivory Coast Kouamé N'Guessan
Namibia 1–1 Zambia Teberius Lombard
Group CRwanda 0–1 Libya Elmutasem Abushnaf
Equatorial Guinea 1–3 Nigeria Dayo Ojo
Group DCongo 0–0 Angola Francoeur Baron Kibamba
Burkina Faso 1–1 Cameroon Wend-Panga Bambara
Knockout stage matches
Quarter-finalsMorocco 2–0 Namibia Salaheddine Saidi
Zambia 0–1 Sudan Mohamed Hashim
Nigeria 2–1 (a.e.t.) Angola Ikechukwu Ezenwa
Congo 1–1 (a.e.t.)
(3–5 p)
 Libya Abdulrahman Khalleefah
Semi-finalsMorocco 3–1 (a.e.t.) Libya Ayoub El Kaabi
Sudan 0–1 Nigeria Gabriel Okechukwu
Third place matchLibya 1–1
(2–4 p)
 Sudan Muhannad El Tahir
FinalMorocco 4–0 Nigeria Zakaria Hadraf

Tournament team rankings

As per statistical convention in football, matches decided in extra time are counted as wins and losses, while matches decided by penalty shoot-outs are counted as draws.

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Final result
1  Morocco (H) 6 5 1 0 16 2 +14 16 Champions
2  Nigeria 6 4 1 1 7 6 +1 13 Runners-up
3  Sudan 6 3 2 1 5 3 +2 11 Third place
4  Libya 6 2 2 2 7 6 +1 8 Fourth place
5  Congo 4 2 2 0 4 1 +3 8 Eliminated in
quarter-finals
6  Zambia 4 2 1 1 6 3 +3 7
7  Namibia 4 2 1 1 3 3 0 7
8  Angola 4 1 2 1 2 2 0 5
9  Rwanda 3 1 1 1 1 1 0 4 Eliminated in
group stage
10  Guinea 3 1 0 2 3 5 2 3
11  Burkina Faso 3 0 2 1 1 3 2 2
12  Cameroon 3 0 1 2 1 3 2 1
13  Uganda 3 0 1 2 1 4 3 1
14  Ivory Coast 3 0 1 2 0 3 3 1
15  Equatorial Guinea 3 0 0 3 1 7 6 0
16  Mauritania 3 0 0 3 0 6 6 0
Source:
(H) Host.

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