2010 FIFA World Cup qualification – CAF third round

This page provides the summaries of the CAF third round matches for the 2010 FIFA World Cup qualification. The 20 qualifiers (the 12 group winners and the best 8 runners-up from the second round) were split into five groups of four, in the draw held on 22 October 2008 in Zürich. Teams in each group will play a home-and-away round-robin in 2009, with the 5 groups winners advancing to the World Cup Finals in South Africa (together with hosts South Africa).^{[note 1]}

This round also doubles as the qualification stage for the 2010 African Cup of Nations, with the top three teams in each group qualifying for the finals (together with hosts Angola).^{[note 2]}

Seeding

Teams were seeded based on their FIFA World Rankings in October 2008 (number in parentheses).^[2] One team from each of the following pots was drawn into each group.^[3]

Pot 1	Pot 2	Pot 3	Pot 4
Cameroon (12)  Egypt (22)  Ghana (25)  Nigeria (27)  Ivory Coast (29)	Guinea (41)  Morocco (43)  Tunisia (47)  Mali (53)  Algeria (56)	Burkina Faso (63)  Gabon (67)  Zambia (70)  Kenya (79)  Benin (81)	Rwanda (87)  Togo (91)  Mozambique (100)  Sudan (106)  Malawi (109)

Group A

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
Cameroon	6	4	1	1	9	2	+7	13	Qualified for the 2010 FIFA World Cup and 2010 Africa Cup of Nations		—	2–1	3–0	0–0
Gabon	6	3	0	3	9	7	+2	9	Qualified for the 2010 Africa Cup of Nations		0–2	—	3–0	3–1
Togo	6	2	2	2	3	7	−4	8			1–0	1–0	—	1–1
Morocco	6	0	3	3	3	8	−5	3			0–2	1–2	0–0	—

Source: ^[4]

Togo	1–0	Cameroon
Adebayor 11'	Report

28 March 2009

16:00 UTC+0

Ohene Djan Stadium, Accra (Ghana)^{[note 3]}

Attendance: 26,450

Referee: Essam Abdel-Fatah (Egypt)

Morocco	1–2	Gabon
El Hamdaoui 83'	Report	P. Aubameyang 34' Méyé 45'

28 March 2009

20:00 UTC+0

Stade Mohammed V, Casablanca

Attendance: 38,000

Referee: Badara Diatta (Senegal)

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Gabon	3–0 Awarded[note 4]	Togo
Ecuele 11' Méyé 67' Brou 81'	Report

6 June 2009

15:30 UTC+1

Stade Omar Bongo, Libreville

Attendance: 20,000

Referee: Verson Lwanja (Malawi)

Cameroon	0–0	Morocco
	Report

7 June 2009

15:30 UTC+1

Stade Omnisports Ahmadou Ahidjo, Yaoundé

Attendance: 35,000

Referee: Rajindraparsad Seechurn (Mauritius)

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Morocco	0–0	Togo
	Report

20 June 2009

18:00 UTC+0

Stade Moulay Abdellah, Rabat

Attendance: 22,000

Referee: Wellington Kaoma (Zambia)

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Gabon	0–2	Cameroon
	Report	Emaná 65' Eto'o 67'

5 September 2009

15:30 UTC+1
^{[note 5]}

Stade Omar Bongo, Libreville

Attendance: 10,000

Referee: Alfred Ndinya (Kenya)

Togo	1–1	Morocco
Salifou 3'	Report	Taarabt 90+2'

6 September 2009

15:30 UTC+0

Stade de Kégué, Lomé

Attendance: 24,651

Referee: Muhmed Ssegonga (Uganda)

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Cameroon	2–1	Gabon
Makoun 25' Eto'o 64'	Report	Cousin 90'

9 September 2009

15:30 UTC+1
^{[note 5]}

Stade Omnisports Ahmadou Ahidjo, Yaoundé

Attendance: 38,000

Referee: Kacem Bennaceur (Tunisia)

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Cameroon	3–0	Togo
Geremi 29' Makoun 46' Emaná 54'	Report

10 October 2009

15:30 UTC+1

Stade Omnisports Ahmadou Ahidjo, Yaoundé

Attendance: 37,400

Referee: Wellington Kaoma (Zambia)

Gabon	3–1	Morocco
Mahdoufi 43' (o.g.) Mouloungui 65' Cousin 70'	Report	Taarabt 88'

10 October 2009

15:30 UTC+1

Stade Omar Bongo, Libreville

Attendance: 14,000

Referee: Noumandiez Doué (Ivory Coast)

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Morocco	0–2	Cameroon
	Report	Webó 19' Eto'o 52'

14 November 2009

15:30 UTC+0

Fez Stadium, Fes

Attendance: 17,000

Referee: Daniel Bennett (South Africa)

Togo	1–0	Gabon
Ayité 71'	Report

14 November 2009

15:30 UTC+0

Stade de Kégué, Lomé

Attendance: 10,000

Referee: Rajindraparsad Seechurn (Mauritius)

Group B

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
Nigeria	6	3	3	0	9	4	+5	12	Qualified for the 2010 FIFA World Cup and 2010 Africa Cup of Nations		—	2–2	1–0	3–0
Tunisia	6	3	2	1	7	4	+3	11	Qualified for the 2010 Africa Cup of Nations		0–0	—	2–0	1–0
Mozambique	6	2	1	3	3	5	−2	7			0–0	1–0	—	1–0
Kenya	6	1	0	5	5	11	−6	3			2–3	1–2	2–1	—

Source: ^[4]

Kenya	1–2	Tunisia
Oliech 70'	Report	Jemal 6' Jemâa 79'

28 March 2009

16:00 UTC+3

Nyayo National Stadium, Nairobi

Attendance: 27,000

Referee: Divine Evehe (Cameroon)

Mozambique	0–0	Nigeria
	Report

29 March 2009

15:00 UTC+2

Estádio da Machava, Maputo

Attendance: 35,000

Referee: Amanuel Eyob (Eritrea)

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Tunisia	2–0	Mozambique
Ben Yahia 21' (pen.) Darragi 90+1'	Report

6 June 2009

18:00 UTC+1

Stade 7 November, Tunis

Attendance: 30,000

Referee: Kokou Djaoupe (Togo)

Nigeria	3–0	Kenya
I. Uche 2' Obinna 72' (pen.), 77'	Report

7 June 2009

17:00 UTC+1

Abuja Stadium, Abuja

Attendance: 60,000

Referee: Abdellah El Achiri (Morocco)

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Kenya	2–1	Mozambique
J. Owino 8' Mariga 72' (pen.)	Report	Domingues 49'

20 June 2009

16:00 UTC+3

Kasarani Sports Complex, Nairobi

Attendance: 15,000

Referee: Yakhouba Keita (Guinea)

Tunisia	0–0	Nigeria
	Report

20 June 2009

19:10 UTC+1

Stade 7 November, Tunis

Attendance: 45,000

Referee: Koman Coulibaly (Mali)

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Mozambique	1–0	Kenya
Tico-Tico 66'	Report

6 September 2009

15:00 UTC+2

Estádio da Machava, Maputo

Attendance: 35,000

Referee: Koman Coulibaly (Mali)

Nigeria	2–2	Tunisia
Odemwingie 23' Eneramo 80'	Report	Taïder 24' Darragi 89'

6 September 2009

17:00 UTC+1

Abuja Stadium, Abuja

Attendance: 52,000

Referee: Daniel Bennett (South Africa)

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Nigeria	1–0	Mozambique
Obinna 90+3'	Report

11 October 2009

17:00 UTC+1

Abuja Stadium, Abuja

Attendance: 13,000

Referee: Khalid Abdel Rahman (Sudan)

Tunisia	1–0	Kenya
Jemâa 1'	Report

11 October 2009

17:00 UTC+1

Stade 7 November, Tunis

Attendance: 50,000

Referee: Badara Diatta (Senegal)

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Kenya	2–3	Nigeria
Oliech 15' Wanga 77'	Report	Martins 60', 81' Yakubu 64'

14 November 2009

16:00 UTC+3

Nyayo National Stadium, Nairobi

Attendance: 20,000

Referee: Eddy Maillet (Seychelles)

Mozambique	1–0	Tunisia
Dário 83'	Report

14 November 2009

15:00 UTC+2

Estádio da Machava, Maputo

Attendance: 30,000

Referee: Noumandiez Doué (Ivory Coast)

Group C

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
Algeria	6	4	1	1	9	4	+5	13[a]	Qualified for the 2010 FIFA World Cup and 2010 Africa Cup of Nations		—	3–1	1–0	3–1
Egypt	6	4	1	1	9	4	+5	13[a]	Qualified for the 2010 Africa Cup of Nations		2–0	—	1–1	3–0
Zambia	6	1	2	3	2	5	−3	5			0–2	0–1	—	1–0
Rwanda	6	0	2	4	1	8	−7	2			0–0	0–1	0–0	—

Source: ^[4]
Notes:

1. Algeria and Egypt finished with identical overall and head-to-head records. Algeria won the tiebreaking play-off 1–0 to qualify for the 2010 FIFA World Cup.

Rwanda	0–0	Algeria
	Report

28 March 2009

15:30 UTC+2

Stade Amahoro, Kigali

Attendance: 22,000

Referee: Coffi Codjia (Benin)

Egypt	1–1	Zambia
Zaki 27'	Report	Kasonde 56'

29 March 2009

19:30 UTC+2

Cairo International Stadium, Cairo

Attendance: 70,000

Referee: Koman Coulibaly (Mali)

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Zambia	1–0	Rwanda
Kalaba 78'	Report

6 June 2009

14:00 UTC+2

Konkola Stadium, Chililabombwe

Attendance: 28,000

Referee: Cheikh Ahmed Tidane Seck (Senegal)

Algeria	3–1	Egypt
Matmour 60' Ghezzal 64' Djebbour 77'	Report	Aboutrika 86'

7 June 2009

20:30 UTC+1

Stade Mustapha Tchaker, Blida

Attendance: 26,500

Referee: Daniel Bennett (South Africa)

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Zambia	0–2	Algeria
	Report	Bougherra 21' Saïfi 66'

20 June 2009

14:00 UTC+2

Konkola Stadium, Chililabombwe

Attendance: 9,000

Referee: Divine Evehe (Cameroon)

Egypt	3–0	Rwanda
Aboutrika 64', 90' Hosny 74' (pen.)	Report

5 July 2009

20:30 UTC+3
^{[note 6]}

Cairo Military Academy Stadium, Cairo

Attendance: 18,000

Referee: Emmanuel Imiere (Nigeria)

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Rwanda	0–1	Egypt
	Report	Hassan 67'

5 September 2009

15:30 UTC+2

Stade Amahoro, Kigali

Attendance: 20,000

Referee: Joseph Lamptey (Ghana)

Algeria	1–0	Zambia
Saïfi 59'	Report

6 September 2009

22:00 UTC+1

Stade Mustapha Tchaker, Blida

Attendance: 30,000

Referee: Rajindraparsad Seechurn (Mauritius)

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Zambia	0–1	Egypt
	Report	Hosny 69'

10 October 2009

14:00 UTC+2

Konkola Stadium, Chililabombwe

Attendance: 10,000

Referee: Kokou Djaoupe (Togo)

Algeria	3–1	Rwanda
Ghezzal 22' Belhadj 45+2' Ziani 90+5' (pen.)	Report	Mutesa 19'

11 October 2009

19:15 UTC+1

Stade Mustapha Tchaker, Blida

Attendance: 22,000

Referee: Yakhouba Keita (Guinea)

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Rwanda	0–0	Zambia
	Report

14 November 2009

15:30 UTC+2

Stade Amahoro, Kigali

Attendance: 18,000

Referee: Jamel Ambaya (Libya)

Egypt	2–0	Algeria
Zaki 3' Moteab 90+5'	Report

14 November 2009

19:30 UTC+2

Cairo International Stadium, Cairo

Attendance: 75,000

Referee: Jerome Damon (South Africa)

Tiebreaking play-off

Main article: 2009 Egypt v Algeria football matches

Egypt	0–1	Algeria
	Report	Yahia 40'

18 November 2009

20:30 UTC+3

Al-Merrikh Stadium, Omdurman (Sudan)

Attendance: 35,000

Referee: Eddy Maillet (Seychelles)

Alleged crowd violence at the playoff and the preceding match led to diplomatic tension between Egypt and Algeria.^{[citation needed]}

Group D

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
Ghana	6	4	1	1	9	3	+6	13	Qualified for the 2010 FIFA World Cup and 2010 Africa Cup of Nations		—	1–0	2–2	2–0
Benin	6	3	1	2	6	6	0	10	Qualified for the 2010 Africa Cup of Nations		1–0	—	1–1	1–0
Mali	6	2	3	1	8	7	+1	9			0–2	3–1	—	1–0
Sudan	6	0	1	5	2	9	−7	1			0–2	1–2	1–1	—

Source: ^[4]

Sudan	1–1	Mali
Mudather Karika 23'	Report	Kanouté 19'

28 March 2009

20:00 UTC+3

Al-Merrikh Stadium, Omdurman

Attendance: 35,000

Referee: Eddy Maillet (Seychelles)

Ghana	1–0	Benin
Tagoe 1'	Report

29 March 2009

17:00 UTC+0

Baba Yara Stadium, Kumasi

Attendance: 39,000

Referee: Daniel Bennett (South Africa)

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Benin	1–0	Sudan
Omotoyossi 22'	Report

7 June 2009

16:00 UTC+1

Stade de l'Amitié, Cotonou

Attendance: 26,000

Referee: Kenias Marange (Zimbabwe)

Mali	0–2	Ghana
	Report	Asamoah 67' Amoah 79'

7 June 2009

19:00 UTC+0

Stade 26 mars, Bamako

Attendance: 40,000

Referee: Divine Evehe (Cameroon)

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Sudan	0–2	Ghana
	Report	Amoah 6', 52'

20 June 2009

20:30 UTC+3

Al-Merrikh Stadium, Omdurman

Attendance: 30,000

Referee: Jamel Ambaya (Libya)

Mali	3–1	Benin
Maïga 29' Diallo 76' Kanouté 84'	Report	S. Tchomogo 15'

21 June 2009

19:00 UTC+0

Stade 26 mars, Bamako

Attendance: 40,000

Referee: Essam Abdel-Fatah (Egypt)

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Benin	1–1	Mali
Aoudou 87'	Report	Samassa 72'

6 September 2009

16:00 UTC+1

Stade de l'Amitié, Cotonou

Attendance: 33,000

Referee: Jerome Damon (South Africa)

Ghana	2–0	Sudan
Muntari 14' Essien 53'	Report

6 September 2009

17:00 UTC+0

Ohene Djan Stadium, Accra

Attendance: 38,000

Referee: Essam Abdel-Fatah (Egypt)

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Benin	1–0	Ghana
Aoudou 89'	Report

11 October 2009

16:00 UTC+1

Stade de l'Amitié, Cotonou

Attendance: 20,000

Referee: Verson Lwanja (Malawi)

Mali	1–0	Sudan
Kanouté 89'	Report

11 October 2009

18:00 UTC+0

Stade 26 mars, Bamako

Attendance: 15,000

Referee: Mohamed Benouza (Algeria)

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Sudan	1–2	Benin
Hassan Korongo 45+1' (pen.)	Report	Omotoyossi 34' (pen.) Koukou 62'

14 November 2009

20:00 UTC+3

Al-Merrikh Stadium, Omdurman

Attendance: 600

Referee: Slim Jedidi (Tunisia)

Ghana	2–2	Mali
Amoah 65' Annan 83'	Report	Fané 23' Ndiaye 68'

15 November 2009

17:00 UTC+0

Baba Yara Stadium, Kumasi

Attendance: 39,000

Referee: Badara Diatta (Senegal)

Group E

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
Ivory Coast	6	5	1	0	19	4	+15	16	Qualified for the 2010 FIFA World Cup and 2010 Africa Cup of Nations		—	5–0	5–0	3–0
Burkina Faso	6	4	0	2	10	11	−1	12	Qualified for the 2010 Africa Cup of Nations		2–3	—	1–0	4–2
Malawi	6	1	1	4	4	11	−7	4			1–1	0–1	—	2–1
Guinea	6	1	0	5	7	14	−7	3			1–2	1–2	2–1	—

Source: ^[4]

Burkina Faso	4–2	Guinea
Kéré 23' Traoré 30' Dagano 55' (pen.), 71'	Report	Feindouno 65' (pen.) Zayatte 86'

28 March 2009

18:00 UTC+0

Stade du 4 Août, Ouagadougou

Attendance: 30,000

Referee: Mohamed Benouza (Algeria)

Ivory Coast	5–0	Malawi
Romaric 1' Drogba 6' (pen.), 27' Kalou 59' B. Koné 70'	Report

29 March 2009

17:00 UTC+0

Stade Félix Houphouët-Boigny, Abidjan

Attendance: 34,000

Referee: Djamel Haimoudi (Algeria)

• 19 people were killed in a stampede before this match.^[8]

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Malawi	0–1	Burkina Faso
	Report	Dagano 68'

6 June 2009

14:30 UTC+2

Kamuzu Stadium, Blantyre

Attendance: 25,000

Referee: Kacem Bennaceur (Tunisia)

Guinea	1–2	Ivory Coast
S. Bangoura 65'	Report	B. Koné 44' Romaric 72'

7 June 2009

17:00 UTC+0

Stade 28 Septembre, Conakry

Attendance: 14,000

Referee: Essam Abdel-Fatah (Egypt)

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Burkina Faso	2–3	Ivory Coast
Pitroipa 27' Bancé 78'	Report	Y. Touré 14' Tall 54' (o.g.) Drogba 70'

20 June 2009

18:00 UTC+0

Stade du 4 Août, Ouagadougou

Attendance: 33,056

Referee: Jerome Damon (South Africa)

Guinea	2–1	Malawi
Feindouno 25', 43'	Report	Msowoya 88'

21 June 2009

17:00 UTC+0

Stade 28 Septembre, Conakry

Attendance: 14,000

Referee: Khalid Abdel Rahman (Sudan)

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Malawi	2–1	Guinea
Msowoya 46', 59'	Report	Kalabane 38'

5 September 2009

14:30 UTC+2

Kamuzu Stadium, Blantyre

Attendance: 15,000

Referee: Coffi Codjia (Benin)

Ivory Coast	5–0	Burkina Faso
Panandétiguiri 12' (o.g.) Drogba 48', 65' Y. Touré 55' Keïta 68'	Report

5 September 2009

17:00 UTC+0

Stade Félix Houphouët-Boigny, Abidjan

Attendance: 38,209

Referee: Eddy Maillet (Seychelles)

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Malawi	1–1	Ivory Coast
Ngwira 64'	Report	Drogba 67'

10 October 2009

14:30 UTC+2

Kamuzu Stadium, Blantyre

Attendance: 25,000

Referee: Abdellah El Achiri (Morocco)

Guinea	1–2	Burkina Faso
Bah 82'	Report	Dagano 37' (pen.) Bamogo 59'

11 October 2009

17:00 UTC+0

Ohene Djan Stadium, Accra (Ghana)^{[note 7]}

Attendance: 5,000

Referee: Jamel Ambaya (Libya)

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Burkina Faso	1–0	Malawi
Dagano 47'	Report

14 November 2009

16:00 UTC+0

Stade du 4 Août, Ouagadougou

Attendance: 20,000

Referee: Essam Abdel-Fatah (Egypt)

Ivory Coast	3–0	Guinea
Gervinho 16', 31' Tiéné 67'	Report

14 November 2009

16:00 UTC+0

Stade Félix Houphouët-Boigny, Abidjan

Attendance: 28,000

Referee: Kenias Marange (Zimbabwe)

Goalscorers

There were 135 goals scored in 61 matches, for an average of 2.21 goals per match.

6 goals

• Didier Drogba

5 goals

• Moumouni Dagano

4 goals

• Matthew Amoah

3 goals

• Samuel Eto'o
• Mohamed Aboutrika
• Pascal Feindouno
• Frédéric Kanouté
• Chiukepo Msowoya
• Victor Obinna

2 goals

• Abdelkader Ghezzal
• Rafik Saïfi
• Mohamed Aoudou
• Razak Omotoyossi
• Achille Emaná
• Jean Makoun
• Hosny Abd Rabo
• Amr Zaki
• Daniel Cousin
• Roguy Méyé
• Bakari Koné
• Romaric
• Yaya Touré
• Gervinho
• Dennis Oliech
• Adel Taarabt
• Obafemi Martins
• Oussama Darragi
• Issam Jemâa

1 goal

• Nadir Belhadj
• Madjid Bougherra
• Rafik Djebbour
• Karim Matmour
• Antar Yahia
• Karim Ziani
• Séïdath Tchomogo
• Romuald Boco
• Aristide Bancé
• Mahamoudou Kéré
• Habib Bamogo
• Jonathan Pitroipa
• Alain Traoré
• Geremi Njitap
• Pierre Webó
• Ahmed Hassan
• Emad Moteab
• Bruno Ecuele Manga
• Éric Mouloungui
• Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang
• Moise Brou
• Anthony Annan
• Kwadwo Asamoah
• Michael Essien
• Sulley Muntari
• Prince Tagoe
• Mamadou Bah
• Sambégou Bangoura
• Oumar Kalabane
• Kamil Zayatte
• Salomon Kalou
• Kader Keïta
• Siaka Tiéné
• McDonald Mariga
• Julius Owino
• Allan Wanga
• Jacob Ngwira
• Mamadou Diallo
• Lassane Fané
• Modibo Maïga
• Tenema Ndiaye
• Mamadou Samassa
• Mounir El Hamdaoui
• Domingues
• Tico-Tico
• Dário
• Michael Eneramo
• Peter Odemwingie
• Ikechukwu Uche
• Yakubu
• Patrick Mutesa Mafisango
• Mudathir El Tahir
• Hassan Korongo
• Emmanuel Adebayor
• Moustapha Salifou
• Floyd Ayité
• Ammar Jemal
• Nabil Taïder
• Wissem Ben Yahia
• Rainford Kalaba
• Francis Kasonde

1 own goal

• Mamadou Tall (against Ivory Coast)
• Saïdou Panandétiguiri (against Ivory Coast)
• Hicham Mahdoufi (against Gabon)

Notes

1. South Africa also entered World Cup qualifying in order to qualify for the 2010 African Cup of Nations. Had they made it to this round, their matches would not have been counted in determining who would advance to the World Cup finals in their group.^[1]
2. Had Angola made it to this round, all the other three teams in their group would have advanced to the African Cup of Nations finals.^[1]
3. Togo were barred from hosting qualifiers due to violence during their 2008 African Cup of Nations qualifier against Mali.
4. FIFA awarded Gabon a 3–0 win as a result of Togo fielding the ineligible player Abdoul-Gafar Mamah who played for Togo despite being suspended even though the original score ended as the same scoreline to Gabon.^[5]
5. The Gabon v Cameroon match was originally scheduled for 2009-06-20, but postponed at the request of Gabon for mourning the death of President Omar Bongo. The reverse match was also rescheduled.^[6]
6. Moved from original date of the weekend of 2009-06-20 due to Egypt's participation in the 2009 FIFA Confederations Cup.^[7]
7. Due to security concerns arising from the 2009 Guinea protest, the match was moved to Accra, Ghana.^[9]