2006 FIFA World Cup qualification (CAF)

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2006 FIFA World Cup qualification (CAF)
Tournament details
Dates10 October 2003 - 9 October 2005
Teams51 (from 1 confederation)
Tournament statistics
Matches played190
Goals scored506 (2.66 per match)
Attendance5,616,922 (29,563 per match)
Top scorer(s)Togo Emmanuel Adebayor
(11 goals)
← 2002
2010 →
Qualification for championships (CAF)
FIFA World Cup
Africa Cup of Nations

Listed below are the dates and results for the 2006 FIFA World Cup qualification rounds for Africa. 51 teams took part (only Comoros and Djibouti did not enter), competing for 5 World Cup places.

Format[edit]

The qualification was composed of two rounds. Nine teams entered the competition directly on the second sound: the five teams that qualified for the 2002 World Cup Finals (Cameroon, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa, and Tunisia) and the four highest-ranking teams in the 25 June 2003 FIFA world rankings (Congo DR, Côte d'Ivoire, Egypt, and Morocco). The other 42 teams were paired to play knock-out matches home and away. The 21 winners would advance to the second round.

In the second round, the 30 teams were divided in five groups of six teams each. Teams in each group would play against each other in a home and away basis. The team with most points in each group would qualify to the World Cup.

The competition also constituted the qualification competition for the 2006 African Nations Cup with the top three nations of each group qualifying (except for Egypt, which qualifies as the host nation, the fourth nation in Egypt's group qualifying in Egypt's place).

The African qualifying zone saw four out of five finals places going to World Cup debutants (Angola, Togo, Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana). Nigeria missed out on a fourth consecutive finals appearance while Cameroon did not reach their fifth consecutive finals.

The African zone also featured a group of death — Group 3, which brought together Africa's most frequent World Cup qualifier Cameroon with the two eventual finalists of the 2006 Africa Cup of Nations: Egypt and the Ivory Coast.

First round[edit]

Main article: 2006 FIFA World Cup qualification – CAF first round
Team 1 Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
Guinea-Bissau  1–4  Mali 1–2 0–2
Madagascar  3–4  Benin 1–1 2–3
Seychelles  1–5  Zambia 0–4 1–1
Botswana  4–1  Lesotho 4–1 0–0
Equatorial Guinea  1–2  Togo 1–0 0–2
São Tomé and Príncipe  0–9  Libya 0–1 0–8
Tanzania  0–3  Kenya 0–0 0–3
Niger  0–7  Algeria 0–1 0–6
Uganda  4–3  Mauritius 3–0 1–3 (a.e.t.)
Sudan  3–0  Eritrea 3–0 0–0
Zimbabwe  4–2  Mauritania 3–0 1–2
Swaziland  1–4  Cape Verde 1–1 0–3
Burundi  1–4  Gabon 0–0 1–4
Chad  3–3(a)  Angola 3–1 0–2
Congo  2–1  Sierra Leone 1–0 1–1
Ethiopia  1–3  Malawi 1–3 0–0
Rwanda  4–1  Namibia 3–0 1–1
Guinea  5–3  Mozambique 1–0 4–3
Gambia  2–3  Liberia 2–0 0–3
Somalia  0–7  Ghana 0–5 0–2
Burkina Faso  w/o  Central African Republic

Second round[edit]

Main article: 2006 FIFA World Cup qualification – CAF second round

Group 1[edit]

Pos Team
 Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification Togo Senegal Zambia Republic of the Congo Mali Liberia
1  Togo 10 7 2 1 20 8 +12 23 2006 FIFA World Cup and 2006 African Cup of Nations — 3–1 4–1 2–0 1–0 3–0
2  Senegal 10 6 3 1 21 8 +13 21 2006 African Cup of Nations 2–2 — 1–0 2–0 3–0 6–1
3  Zambia 10 6 1 3 16 10 +6 19 1–0 0–1 — 2–0 2–1 1–0
4  Congo 10 3 1 6 10 14 −4 10 2–3 0–0 2–3 — 1–0 3–0
5  Mali 10 2 2 6 11 14 −3 8 1–2 2–2 1–1 2–0 — 4–1
6  Liberia 10 1 1 8 3 27 −24 4 0–0 0–3 0–5 0–2 1–0 —
Source: [1]
Rules for classification: Tiebreakers

Group 2[edit]

Pos Team
 Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification Ghana Democratic Republic of the Congo South Africa Burkina Faso Cape Verde Uganda
1  Ghana 10 6 3 1 17 4 +13 21 2006 FIFA World Cup and 2006 African Cup of Nations — 0–0 3–0 2–1 2–0 2–0
2  DR Congo 10 4 4 2 14 10 +4 16[a] 2006 African Cup of Nations 1–1 — 1–0 3–2 2–1 4–0
3  South Africa 10 5 1 4 12 14 −2 16[a] 0–2 2–2 — 2–0 2–1 2–1
4  Burkina Faso 10 4 1 5 14 13 +1 13 1–0 2–0 3–1 — 1–2 2–0
5  Cape Verde 10 3 1 6 8 15 −7 10 0–4 1–1 1–2 1–0 — 1–0
6  Uganda 10 2 2 6 6 15 −9 8 1–1 1–0 0–1 2–2 1–0 —
Source: [1]
Rules for classification: Tiebreakers
Notes:
  1. ^ a b Head-to-head points: Congo DR 4, South Africa 1.

Group 3[edit]

Pos Team
 Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification Ivory Coast Cameroon Egypt Libya Sudan Benin
1  Ivory Coast 10 7 1 2 20 7 +13 22 2006 FIFA World Cup and 2006 African Cup of Nations — 2–3 2–0 2–0 5–0 3–0
2  Cameroon 10 6 3 1 18 10 +8 21 2006 African Cup of Nations 2–0 — 1–1 1–0 2–1 2–1
3  Egypt[a] 10 5 2 3 26 15 +11 17 1–2 3–2 — 4–1 6–1 4–1
4  Libya 10 3 3 4 8 10 −2 12 0–0 0–0 2–1 — 0–0 4–1
5  Sudan 10 1 3 6 6 22 −16 6 1–3 1–1 0–3 0–1 — 1–0
6  Benin 10 1 2 7 9 23 −14 5 0–1 1–4 3–3 1–0 1–1 —
Source: [1]
Rules for classification: Tiebreakers
Notes:
  1. ^ Egypt qualified directly to the Africa Cup of Nations as hosts

Group 4[edit]

Pos Team
 Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification Angola Nigeria Zimbabwe Gabon Algeria Rwanda
1  Angola 10 6 3 1 12 6 +6 21[a] 2006 FIFA World Cup and 2006 African Cup of Nations — 1–0 1–0 3–0 2–1 1–0
2  Nigeria 10 6 3 1 21 7 +14 21[a] 2006 African Cup of Nations 1–1 — 5–1 2–0 1–0 2–0
3  Zimbabwe 10 4 3 3 13 14 −1 15 2–0 0–3 — 1–0 1–1 3–1
4  Gabon 10 2 4 4 11 13 −2 10 2–2 1–1 1–1 — 0–0 3–0
5  Algeria 10 1 5 4 8 15 −7 8 0–0 2–5 2–2 0–3 — 1–0
6  Rwanda 10 1 2 7 6 16 −10 5 0–1 1–1 0–2 3–1 1–1 —
Source: [1]
Rules for classification: Tiebreakers
Notes:
  1. ^ a b Head-to-head points: Angola 4, Nigeria 1.

Group 5[edit]

Pos Team
 Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification Tunisia Morocco Guinea Kenya Botswana Malawi
1  Tunisia 10 6 3 1 25 9 +16 21 2006 FIFA World Cup and 2006 African Cup of Nations — 2–2 2–0 1–0 4–1 7–0
2  Morocco 10 5 5 0 17 7 +10 20 2006 African Cup of Nations 1–1 — 1–0 5–1 1–0 4–1
3  Guinea 10 5 2 3 15 10 +5 17 2–1 1–1 — 1–0 4–0 3–1
4  Kenya 10 3 1 6 8 17 −9 10 0–2 0–0 2–1 — 1–0 3–2
5  Botswana 10 3 0 7 10 18 −8 9 1–3 0–1 1–2 2–1 — 2–0
6  Malawi 10 1 3 6 12 26 −14 6 2–2 1–1 1–1 3–0 1–3 —
Source: [1]
Rules for classification: Tiebreakers

Qualified teams[edit]

The following five teams from CAF qualified for the final tournament.

Team Qualified as Qualified on Previous appearances in FIFA World Cup1
 Togo Second Round Group 1 winners 8 October 2005 0 (debut)
 Ghana Second Round Group 2 winners 8 October 2005 0 (debut)
 Ivory Coast Second Round Group 3 winners 8 October 2005 0 (debut)
 Angola Second Round Group 4 winners 8 October 2005 0 (debut)
 Tunisia Second Round Group 5 winners 8 October 2005 3 (1978, 1998, 2002)
1 Bold indicates champions for that year. Italic indicates hosts for that year.

Top goalscorers[edit]

There were 506 goals scored in 190 matches, for an average of 2.66 goals per match.

11 goals

9 goals

8 goals

7 goals

6 goals

Below are full goalscorer lists for each round:

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b c d e "FIFA World Cup qualification (CAF) 2006, football - table and standings". soccer365.me. Retrieved 17 April 2024.
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