2019 Africa Cup of Nations qualification Group A

Group A of the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations qualification tournament was one of the twelve groups to decide the teams which qualified for the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations finals tournament. The group consisted of four teams: Senegal, Equatorial Guinea, Sudan, and Madagascar (winners of the preliminary round).^[1]

The teams played against each other in home-and-away round-robin format between June 2017 and March 2019.^[2]

Senegal and Madagascar, the group winners and runners-up respectively, qualified for the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations.^[3]

Standings

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Senegal	6	5	1	0	12	2	+10	16	Final tournament		—	2–0	3–0	3–0
2	Madagascar	6	3	1	2	8	8	0	10			2–2	—	1–0	1–3
3	Equatorial Guinea	6	2	0	4	5	7	−2	6			0–1	0–1	—	1–0
4	Sudan	6	1	0	5	5	13	−8	3			0–1	1–3	1–4	—

Source: CAF
Rules for classification: Qualification tiebreakers

Matches

Sudan	1–3	Madagascar
El Tahir 72'	Report	Andriatsima 15', 83' Andriamatsinoro 62' (pen.)

9 June 2017 (2017-06-09)

22:00 UTC+3

El-Obeid Stadium, El-Obeid

Referee: Sadok Selmi (Tunisia)

Senegal	3–0	Equatorial Guinea
Sow 1', 72' Gueye 90'	Report

10 June 2017 (2017-06-10)

21:00 UTC+0

Stade Léopold Sédar Senghor, Dakar

Referee: Rédouane Jiyed (Morocco)

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Equatorial Guinea	1–0	Sudan
Nsue 30'	Report

8 September 2018 (2018-09-08)

16:00 UTC+1

Estadio de Bata, Bata

Referee: Hélder Martins de Carvalho (Angola)

Madagascar	2–2	Senegal
Voavy 43' Koulibaly 67' (o.g.)	Report	Konaté 26' Keita 62'

9 September 2018 (2018-09-09)

14:30 UTC+3

Mahamasina Municipal Stadium, Antananarivo

Referee: Joshua Bondo (Botswana)

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Equatorial Guinea	0–1	Madagascar
	Report	Andriatsima 19'

13 October 2018 (2018-10-13)

16:00 UTC+1

Estadio de Bata, Bata

Referee: Mehdi Abid Charef (Algeria)

Senegal	3–0	Sudan
Cissé 17' Gueye 18' Niang 50'	Report

13 October 2018 (2018-10-13)

19:00 UTC+0

Stade Léopold Sédar Senghor, Dakar

Referee: Bamlak Tessema Weyesa (Ethiopia)

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Madagascar	1–0	Equatorial Guinea
Rakotoharimalala 42'	Report

16 October 2018 (2018-10-16)

14:30 UTC+3

Vontovorona Stadium, Antananarivo^{[note 1]}

Referee: Mahamadou Keita (Mali)

Sudan	0–1	Senegal
	Report	S. Sarr 86'

16 October 2018 (2018-10-16)

19:30 UTC+2

Khartoum Stadium, Khartoum

Referee: Mustapha Ghorbal (Algeria)

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Equatorial Guinea	0–1	Senegal
	Report	Meseguer 52' (o.g.)

17 November 2018 (2018-11-17)

16:00 UTC+1

Estadio de Bata, Bata

Referee: Mahmoud El Banna (Egypt)

Madagascar	1–3	Sudan
Andriamatsinoro 77'	Report	Musa 2' Abuaagla 61' Yasir 85'

18 November 2018 (2018-11-18)

14:30 UTC+3

Vontovorona Stadium, Antananarivo^{[note 1]}

Referee: Bamlak Tessema Weyesa (Ethiopia)

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Sudan	1–4	Equatorial Guinea
Teiri 15'	Report	Nsue 19' (pen.), 36' (pen.) Ganet 49' Obiang 85'

22 March 2019 (2019-03-22)

16:00 UTC+2

Al-Hilal Stadium, Omdurman

Referee: Sékou Ahmed Touré (Guinea)

Senegal	2–0	Madagascar
Niang 27', 56'	Report

23 March 2019 (2019-03-23)

19:00 UTC+0

Stade Lat-Dior, Thiès

Referee: Youssef Essrayri (Tunisia)

Goalscorers

There were 30 goals scored in 12 matches, for an average of 2.5 goals per match.

3 goals

• Emilio Nsue
• Faneva Imà Andriatsima
• M'Baye Niang

2 goals

• Carolus Andriamatsinoro
• Idrissa Gueye
• Moussa Sow

1 goal

• Pablo Ganet
• Pedro Obiang
• Njiva Rakotoharimalala
• Paulin Voavy
• Keita Baldé
• Pape Abou Cissé
• Moussa Konaté
• Sidy Sarr
• Abuaagla Abdalla
• Seif Teiri
• Athar El Tahir
• Mohamed Musa Idris
• Yasir Muzamil

1 own goal

• Luis Meseguer (against Senegal)
• Kalidou Koulibaly (against Madagascar)

Notes

1. The final two home matches of Madagascar were switched from Mahamasina Municipal Stadium, Antananarivo to Vontovorona Stadium, Antananarivo after the CAF banned the stadium from being used following a deadly stampede during their home match against Senegal on 9 September 2018.^[4]