Football at the 1987 All-Africa Games – Men's qualification

The men's qualification for football tournament at the 1987 All-Africa Games.

Qualification stage

Zone I (North Africa)

Libya and Morocco withdrew.

Algeria withdrew in protest of CAF's decision to order a replay of the first leg following Tunisia's protest that Algeria had fielded two professional players (Rabah Madjer and Chérif Oudjani).

CAF also rescinded an earlier decision to appoint Algeria as the replacement host of the 1988 African Cup of Nations finals (replacing original host Zambia), and awarded them to Morocco instead.

Tunisia qualified.

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Tunisia	w/o	Algeria	0–2	—

11 January 1987

Tunisia	0 – 2	Algeria
		Belloumi 18' Menad 87'

Stade El Menzah, Tunis

Referee: Mohamed Larache (Morocco)

21 February 1987

Algeria	cancelled	Tunisia

5 July Stadium, Algiers

Zone II (West Africa 1)

First round

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Guinea	w/o	Gambia	—	—
Senegal	bye

Second round

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Senegal	–	Gambia	–	–

Senegal qualified.

Zone III (West Africa 2)

First round

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Ivory Coast	4–2	Liberia	2–1	2–1
Ghana	–	Benin	–	–
Togo	w/o	Burkina Faso	—	—
Nigeria	bye

Second round

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Nigeria	0–1	Ivory Coast	0–0	0–1
Ghana	4–1	Togo	3–0	1–1

Third round

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Ghana	1–3	Ivory Coast	1–2	0–1

Ivory Coast qualified.

Zone IV (Central Africa)

Qualifying tournament of Zone IV was combined with the 1987 Central African Games football tournament.

Cameroon qualified.

Zone V (East Africa)

Somalia withdrew.

First round

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Egypt	w/o	Uganda	—	—
Tanzania	w/o	Ethiopia	—	—

Second round

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Tanzania	2–10	Egypt	2–4	0–6

Egypt qualified; In addition, Kenya qualified as hosts.

Zone VI (Southern Africa)

First round

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Malawi	2–2 (4–2 p)	Zimbabwe	1–1	1–1
Swaziland	–	Mozambique	–	–
Zambia	bye

Second round

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Swaziland	2–9	Malawi	1–3	1–6
Zambia	bye

Third round

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Zambia	3–3 (a)	Malawi	3–1	0–2

Malawi qualified.

Zone VII (Indian Ocean)

First round

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Djibouti	w/o	Madagascar	1–7	—
Seychelles	1–4	Mauritius	1–2	0–2

Second round

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Madagascar	3–3 (4–2 p)	Mauritius	2–1	1–2

Madagascar qualified.

Qualifying teams

The following countries have qualified for the final tournament:

Zone	Team
Hosts	Kenya
Zone I	Tunisia
Zone II	Senegal
Zone III	Ivory Coast
Zone IV	Cameroon
Zone V	Egypt
Zone VI	Malawi
Zone VII	Madagascar

External links

African Games 1987 - Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation

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