Africa Cup of Nations 2012 Qualifiers: Algeria with Morocco

February 20th, 2010 | by: Omar |

The draw for the 28th edition of the Africa Cup of Nations to be co-hosted by Equatorial Guinea and Gabon in 2012 has taken place in Lubumbashi today.

A total of 44 teams will take place in the qualifying series. It is worth noting that following a scandalous CAF decision, Togo will not participate as it has been banned from 2 consecutive ACN. The CAF took that incredible decision to punish Togo for withdrawing from the 2010 Angola CAN after the bus carrying the players and staff was shot out with machine guns killing and injuring several persons in the bus.

The 44 teams will battle for 14 out of the ACN 16 spots, 2 of the spots being reserved for Equatorial Guinea and Gabon that automatically qualify for co-hosting the competition. . The winners of each group will qualify for the finals as well as the three best second placed teams.

Algeria is in group 4 which includes: Morocco, Tanzania and Central Africa. The fifa rankings of those three teams are, in respective order, 65, 108 and 200 out of 203. It is a manageable group with Morocco offering toughest test. Morocco we know but Tanzania and Central Africa we know less and that could lead to difficulties, let’s just hope we don’t repeat the Malawi ACN 2010 disaster…

Algeria’s first game will take place in Algiers on the 3rd or 4th or 5th of September 2010.

September 3/4/5 2010 : Algeria – Tanzania
October 8/9/10 2010 : Central Africa – Algeria
March 25/26/27 2011 : Algeria – Morocco
June 3/4/5 2011 : Morocco- Algeria
September 2/3/4 2011 : Tanzania – Algeria
October 7/8/9 2011: Algeria – Central Africa

2012 will be the last even year in which the CAN will take place; the following ACN will take place in uneven years starting in 2013 with Libya as host country.

Below are the details of the draw:

Togo no where as unfairly banned for 2 ACN cups by the CAF…

Group 1:
Mali, Cap Vert, Zimbabwe, Liberia
Group 2:
Nigeria, Guinea, Ethiopia, Madagascar
Group 3:
Zambia, Mozambique, Libya, Comoros

Group 4:
ALGERIA, Morocco, Tanzania, Central Africa

Group 5:
Cameroon, Senegal, RD Congo, Mauricius
Group 6:
Burkina Faso, Gambia, Namibia, Mauritania
Group 7:
Egypt, South AFrica, Sierra Leone, Niger
Group 8:
Cote d’Ivoire, Benin, Rwanda, Burundi
Group 9:
Ghana, Congo, Sudan, Swaziland
Group 10:
Angola, Uganda, Kenya, Guinea-Bissau
Group 11:
Tunisia, Malawi, Tchad, Botswana

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we must the caf will be moved from egypt and all Caf organisation will be investigate for abusing there power and corrupt african don
donkey where in charge of the CAF , what a shame how the game become politic and we msut stop paying the fund for the stupid african in charge for many eyasr he think its belong to him heritage what a primitif we need a professioanal africa footbal in charge not the ignorant african leader stupid such the HQ in egypt for almost more than 20 years ??? and all the game has been fix and no one said a things we should North africa resign from CAF stupid corrupt ingorant and using our fund for there onw purpose what im paying money for ? peace of shit we should give to the poor rather than CAF of shit with egyptina cowards
Kazi

I know we’d all like that to happen but I wouldn’t bet on it. CAF was started by the Egyptians and the CAS, Court of Arbitration for Sport, would favour them unless we can get enough countries to support an investigation. I’m not saying that it is corrupt, but that would be the process to find out if they are.
Jonestown

On the basis that egypt plays the same countries in world cup qualifiers that they do in african cup (can’t even qualify for the world cup and win CAN), but one is FIFA run and the other CAF – I think there is a definate possibility of corruption. I wouldn’t trust the Egyptian authorities as far as I can throw them, and their government (a totalitarian disctatorship) needs a distraction from poverty, rampant inflation and unemployement.

Assuming there is no corruption and Egypt is just unlucky when it comes to qualifying for the World Cup – I’m sure they’d have no problem in the federation moving to South Africa for example, would they?
Jonestown

Kazi – I think by 2014, if they can’t qualify but are still winning CAF, the whole world will smell a rat.
Ferbi

I think by this time Guinea Bissau will shame and do somthing better in their life, regarding qualifying for CAF.