2017 Africa Cup of Nations qualification Group M

Group M of the 2017 Africa Cup of Nations qualification tournament was one of the thirteen groups to decide the teams which qualified for the 2017 Africa Cup of Nations finals tournament. The group consisted of four teams: Cameroon, South Africa, Gambia, and Mauritania.^[1]

The teams played against each other home-and-away in a round-robin format, between June 2015 and September 2016.^[2]

Cameroon, the group winners, qualified for the 2017 Africa Cup of Nations.^[3]

Standings

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Cameroon	6	4	2	0	7	2	+5	14	Final tournament		—	1–0	2–2	2–0
2	Mauritania	6	2	2	2	6	5	+1	8			0–1	—	3–1	2–1
3	South Africa	6	1	4	1	8	6	+2	7			0–0	1–1	—	0–0
4	Gambia	6	0	2	4	1	9	−8	2			0–1	0–0	0–4	—

Source: CAF
Rules for classification: Qualification tiebreakers

Matches

13 June 2015 (2015-06-13)

19:00 UTC+2^{[note 1]}

South Africa	0–0	Gambia
	Report

Moses Mabhida Stadium, Durban

Referee: Hamada Nampiandraza (Madagascar)

14 June 2015 (2015-06-14)

15:00 UTC+1

Cameroon	1–0	Mauritania
Aboubakar 89'	Report

Stade Ahmadou Ahidjo, Yaoundé

Referee: Yakhouba Keita (Guinea)

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5 September 2015 (2015-09-05)

17:00 UTC±0

Mauritania	3–1	South Africa
Abeid 5' Bagili 77' Moulaye Ahmed 85'	Report	Gabuza 68'

Stade Olympique, Nouakchott

Referee: Daouda Guèye (Senegal)

6 September 2015 (2015-09-06)

16:30 UTC±0

Gambia	0–1	Cameroon
	Report	Aboubakar 65'

Independence Stadium, Bakau

Referee: Mohamed Said Kordi (Tunisia)

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25 March 2016 (2016-03-25)

16:30 UTC±0

Mauritania	2–1	Gambia
Moulaye Ahmed 36', 90+5'	Report	Carayol 59'

Stade Olympique, Nouakchott

Referee: Isaac Montgomery (Liberia)

26 March 2016 (2016-03-26)

15:30 UTC+1

Cameroon	2–2	South Africa
Siani 45+1' Nkoulou 66'	Report	Rantie 17' Kekana 50'

Limbe Stadium, Limbe

Referee: Bamlak Tessema Weyesa (Ethiopia)

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29 March 2016 (2016-03-29)

16:30 UTC±0

Gambia	0–0	Mauritania
	Report

Independence Stadium, Bakau

Referee: Fidel Gomes (Guinea-Bissau)

29 March 2016 (2016-03-29)

19:00 UTC+2

South Africa	0–0	Cameroon
	Report

Moses Mabhida Stadium, Durban

Referee: Juste Ephrem Zio (Burkina Faso)

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3 June 2016 (2016-06-03)

17:00 UTC±0

Mauritania	0–1	Cameroon
	Report	Salli 29'

Stade Olympique, Nouakchott

Referee: Hamada Nampiandraza (Madagascar)

4 June 2016 (2016-06-04)

17:00 UTC±0

Gambia	0–4	South Africa
	Report	Gabuza 29', 38' Dolly 55', 79'

Independence Stadium, Bakau

Referee: Denis Dembélé (Ivory Coast)

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2 September 2016 (2016-09-02)

19:00 UTC+2

South Africa	1–1	Mauritania
Kekana 26'	Report	Guidileye 16'

Mbombela Stadium, Nelspruit

Referee: Eric Otogo-Castane (Gabon)

3 September 2016 (2016-09-03)

15:30 UTC+1

Cameroon	2–0	Gambia
Moukandjo 34' (pen.) Toko Ekambi 53'	Report

Limbe Stadium, Limbe

Referee: Joseph Lamptey (Ghana)

Goalscorers

3 goals

• Cheikh Moulaye Ahmed
• Thamsanqa Gabuza

2 goals

• Vincent Aboubakar
• Keagan Dolly
• Hlompho Kekana

1 goal

• Karl Toko Ekambi
• Benjamin Moukandjo
• Nicolas Nkoulou
• Edgar Salli
• Sébastien Siani
• Mustapha Carayol
• Aly Abeid
• Boubacar Bagili
• Diallo Guidileye
• Tokelo Rantie

Notes

1. The South Africa v Gambia match was delayed from the original kick-off time of 15:00 local time due to late arrival of officials.^[4]