AFCON qualifiers 2023
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The Confederation of African Football (CAF)_ Executive Committee has approved a revised TotalEnergies Africa Cup of Nations Cote d’Ivoire 2023 qualification calendar. This was necessitated by the CAF Executive Committee’s commitment to make room for the African nations that have qualified for the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022
in November/ December 2022 to prepare adequately. Consequently, the September 2022 TotalEnergies Africa Cup of Nations Cote d’Ivoire match day three and match day four qualifiers have been moved to 20-28 March 2023. Match day five will now be on 12-20 June 2023 while match day six will be played on 4-12 September 2023. Below is the calendar: The race for a place at the 2023 African Cup of Nations in Côte d'Ivoire started on Tuesday 1 June. Three matches are on the menu for this first day. And three are already over with the victory of Ghana, Angola and Libya over Madagascar, Central African Republic and Botswana respectively. Note that Kenya (pool) and Zimbabwe (pool K) have been excluded from the qualifications. Program 1st day Angola 2-1 Central African Republic Goals: M'Bala Nzola (72nd), Dala Gelson (76th) for Angola, Samuel Nlend (32nd) for Central African Republic Libya 1-0 Botswana Goal: Saleh Al Taher (53rd) Ghana 3-0 Madagascar Goals: Mohammed Kudus (53rd), Felix Afena-Gyan (56th) and Osman Bukari (86th) Thursday 02 June 2022 Mozambique 1-1 Rwanda Goals: Blaise Nishimwe (65') for Rwanda, Stanley Ratifo (67') for Mozambique Tunisia 4-0 Equatorial Guinea Goals: Sliti (56'), Jaziri (77') and Msakni (80', 85') for Tunisia Friday 03 June 2022 Comoros 2-0 Lesotho Youssouf M'Changama (60th) and Benjaloud Youssouf (81st) for Comoros Togo 2-2 Eswatini Goals: Placca (20th); Kodjo Laba (86th) for Togo and Ndzinisa (84th), Ngwenya (90+5) for Eswatini Burkina Faso 2-0 Cape Verde Goals: Hassane Bandé (56th); Dango Ouattara (88th) for Burkina Faso Ivory Coast 3-1 Zambia Goals: Serge Aurier (67th); Christian Kouamé (76th); Ibrahima Sangaré (89th) for Ivory Coast and Patson Daka (90+4) for Zambia Saturday 04 June 2022 Namibia 1-1 Burundi Goals: Peter Shalulile (10th) for Namibia and Bonfils-Caleb Bimenyimana for Burundi (88th) Niger 1-1 Tanzania Goals: George Mpole Mwaigomole (1st) for Tanzania and Daniel Sosah for Niger (26th) Gambia 1-0 South Sudan Goal: Ablie Jallow (45th+4) Algeria 2-0 Uganda Goals: Aissa Mandi (28th), Youcef Belaili (60th) for Algeria Mali 4-0 Congo Goals: Mohamed Camara (1st), El Bilal Touré (20th, 40th) and Kalifa Coulibaly (44th) for Mali Mauritania 3-0 Sudan Goals: Aboubakar Kamara (27th, 30th), Abdallahi Mahmoud (77th) for Mauritania Senegal 3-1 Benin Goals: Sadio Mané (12th sp, 22nd, 60th sp) for Senegal and Olaitan for Benin (88th) Congo DR 0-1 Gabon Goal : Shavy Babicka (23rd) for Gabon Sunday 05 June 2022 Malawi 2-1 Ethiopia Goals: Mhango (10th sp and 34th sp) for Malawi and Nasir (68th sp) for Ethiopia Egypt 1-0 Guinea Goal: Mostafa Mohamed (87th) Thursday 09 June 2022 Guinea-Bissau 12:00 Mauritius Nigeria 16:00 Sierra Leone Morocco 19:00 South Africa Program 2nd day Central African Republic 1-1 Ghana Goals: Kudus (17th) for Ghana and Namnganda (41st) for Central African Republic Botswana 0-0 Tunisia Madagascar 1-1 Angola Goals: Rakotoharimalala (36th) for Madagascar and Gelson (43rd) for Angola Monday 6 June 2022 Equatorial Guinea 2-0 Libya Goals: Mohammed Touhami (CSC, 51st) and Federico Bikoro (84th) for Equatorial Guinea Tuesday 07 June 2022 Eswatini 1-3 Burkina Faso Goals: Sabelo Ndzinisa (64th) for Eswatini, Dango Ouattara (69th and 75th) and Stephane Aziz (85th) for Burkina Faso Zambia 2-1 Comoros Goals: Fardou Ben (13th) for Comoros, Enock Mwepu (42nd+2nd) Kings Kangwa (88th) for Comoros Cape Verde 2-0 Togo Goals: Julio Tavares (10th) and Jamiro Monteiro (90+4) Rwanda 0-1 Senegal Goal: Sadio Mané (90th+8 sp) Wednesday 08 June 2022 Kenya - Namibia (Cancelled) Uganda 1-1 Niger Tanzania 0-2 Algeria Goals: Ramy Bensebaini (45th+2) and Mohamed El Amine Amoura (89th) Congo 1-0 Gambia Goal: Antoine Makoumbou (74th) Gabon 0-0 Mauritania Sudan 7pm DR Congo Benin 7pm Mozambique Thursday 9 June 2022 South Sudan 12:00 Mali Ethiopia 16:00 Egypt Lesotho 17:00 Côte d'Ivoire Guinea 17:00 Malawi Burundi 19:00 Cameroon Monday 13 June 2022 South Africa 13:00 Zimbabwe Mauritius 13:00 Nigeria Sierra Leone 16:00 Guinea-Bissau Liberia 19:00 Morocco Who will qualify for Afcon 2023?The group consists of four teams: Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Guinea-Bissau and São Tomé and Príncipe. The teams shall play against each other in a home-and-away round-robin format, between 9 June 2022 and September 2023.
Will there be Afcon in 2023?The next Africa Cup of Nations will be played in Ivory Coast in 2024, and not 2023, Confederation of African Football (Caf) president Patrice Motsepe said on Sunday. The tournament was to be hosted in June-July 2023, which is the height of the rainy season in Ivory Coast.
How many teams qualify from each group for Afcon 2023?The top two teams in each group qualify for the final, except the group where hosts Ivory Coast will be competing.
Did Bafana Bafana qualify for Afcon 2023?Bafana will qualify for 2023 Afcon - Mosimane.
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