2013 WAFU Nations Cup

The 2013 WAFU Nations Cup (known as the Go!TV WAFU Cup for sponsorship reasons) is an international home-based football competition. It was hosted in Ghana. The competition was organised by the West African Football Union (WAFU). It was originally scheduled to take place between October 24 and November 3,^[1] however it was delayed and began on 21 November.^[2]

2013 WAFU Nations Cup

Tournament details
Host country	Ghana
Dates	21–28 November
Teams	8 (from 1 sub-confederation)
Venue(s)	2 (in 2 host cities)
Final positions
Champions	Ghana (1st title)
Runners-up	Senegal
Third place	Togo
Fourth place	Benin
Tournament statistics
Matches played	14
Goals scored	43 (3.07 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Saibou Badarou
Best player(s)	Roger Gomis
Best goalkeeper	Ousmane Mané
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All games were played in Ashanti. The venues were the Baba Yara Stadium and the Len Clay Stadium. Ghana won the title after beating Senegal 3–1 in the final.^[3]

Participants

•  Benin
•  Burkina Faso
•  Liberia
•  Ghana
•  Niger
•  Senegal
•  Sierra Leone
•  Togo

Group stage

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Ghana	3	2	0	1	6	3	+3	6	Final
2	Benin	3	1	2	0	5	4	+1	5	Third place playoff
3	Burkina Faso	3	1	1	1	4	4	0	4
4	Sierra Leone	3	0	1	2	3	7	−4	1

Updated to match(es) played on 25 November 2013. Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Ghana	4–1	Sierra Leone
Akuffu 25' Annorbaah 48' L. Mohammed 51' S. Mohammed 70'	Report	Quee 10' G. Fofanah  ?'  67'

21 November 2013 (2013-11-21)

15:00

Baba Yara Stadium

Referee: Denis Dembele (Ivory Coast)

Benin	2–2	Burkina Faso
Suanon 40', 69'	Report	Ouédraogo 21' F. Kaboré 88'

21 November 2013 (2013-11-21)

17:00

Baba Yara Stadium

Referee: Joshua Amao (Nigeria)

Sierra Leone	0–1	Burkina Faso
	Report	Nébié 28' Daila  ?'  ?'

23 November 2013 (2013-11-23)

15:00

Baba Yara Stadium

Referee: Kokou Fagla (Togo)

Ghana	0–1	Benin
	Report	Coréa 88' (pen.)

23 November 2013 (2013-11-23)

17:00

Baba Yara Stadium

Referee: Jerry Yekeh (Liberia)

Ghana	2–1	Burkina Faso
Saka 19' Y. Mohamed 54'	Report	M. Kaboré 42' (pen.)

25 November 2013 (2013-11-25)

16:00

Baba Yara Stadium

Referee: Joshua Amao (Nigeria)

Sierra Leone	2–2	Benin
	Report	Suanon Agonhoussou

25 November 2013 (2013-11-25)

16:00

Len Clay Stadium

Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Senegal	3	3	0	0	7	1	+6	9	Final
2	Togo	3	2	0	1	8	4	+4	6	Third place playoff
3	Niger	3	0	1	2	2	6	−4	1
4	Liberia	3	0	1	2	1	7	−6	1

Updated to match(es) played on 26 November 2013. Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Togo	1–3	Senegal
Badarou 90'	Report	N'Diaye 5', 15' M'Baye 60'

22 November 2013 (2013-11-22)

16:00

Baba Yara Stadium

Liberia	1–1	Niger
Varney 43'	Report	Youssouf 33'

22 November 2013 (2013-11-22)

16:00

Len Clay Stadium

Liberia	0–4	Togo
Wulue  78'	Report	Badarou 63' Kokouvi 82' Arimiyaou 84' Mani 90+2'

24 November 2013 (2013-11-24)

15:00

Baba Yara Stadium

Referee: Cecil Fleisher (Ghana)

Niger	0–2	Senegal
	Report	Sagna 7' Sarr 26'

24 November 2013 (2013-11-24)

17:00

Baba Yara Stadium

Referee: Igue Brice (Benin)

Togo	3–1	Niger
Badarou ?' Mani ?', ?'	Report	Youssouf ?' (pen.)

26 November 2013 (2013-11-26)

15:00

Baba Yara Stadium

Senegal	2–0	Liberia
Mendy 2' N'Diaye 49' (pen.)	Report

26 November 2013 (2013-11-26)

17:00

Baba Yara Stadium

Referee: Joseph Lamptey (Ghana)

Knockout stage

Third place playoff

Benin	1–2	Togo
Dossou 35'	Report	Nouwoklo 13' Badarou 85'

28 November 2013 (2013-11-28)

14:30

Baba Yara Stadium

Referee: Joshua Amao (Nigeria)

Final

Ghana	3–1	Senegal
Adusei 2' (pen.), 85' (pen.) L. Mohammed 78'	Report	Gomis 22' Thioune  90+3'

28 November 2013 (2013-11-28)

16:30

Baba Yara Stadium

Referee: Jerry Yekeh (Liberia)

Goalscorers

Saibou Badarou won the top-scorer award.^[4] He scored 3 goals.

3 goals

• Saibou Badarou
• Abdel Fadel Suanon
• Talla N'Diaye

2 goals

• Sapol Mani
• Kwabena Adusei
• Latif Mohammed
• Oumarou Alio Youssouf

1 goal

• Iréké Agonhoussou
• Cédric Coréa
• Jodel Dossou
• Francis Kaboré
• Mohamed Kaboré
• Oumarou Nébié
• Bassirou Ouédraogo
• Michael Akuffu
• Theophilus Annorbaah
• Sulley Mohammed
• Yahaya Mohammed
• Godfred Saka
• Mohammed Varney
• Roger Gomis
• Soro M'Baye
• Dominique Mendy
• Richard Sagna
• Sidy Sarr
• Kwame Quee
• Kondo Arimiyaou
• Gazozo Kokouvi
• Martin Kossivi Nouwoklo