This page provides the summaries of the matches of the first two qualifying rounds for the group stage of the 2012 CAF Men's Pre-Olympic Tournament. These matches also serve as part of the qualifiers for the
Football at the 2012 Summer Olympics
The association football tournament at the 2012 Summer Olympics was held from 25 July to 11 August, and was the only sport to begin before the official opening day of the Olympic Games, two days before the opening ceremony. It was also the only ...
to be held in London.
Seeding
In total, 39 teams opted to enter the qualifying tournament. The top 25 teams based on the qualifiers and final round of the
previous Olympics were given byes to the
first qualifying round
First most commonly refers to:
* First, the ordinal form of the number 1
First or 1st may also refer to:
Acronyms
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Preliminary qualifying round
''Sierra Leone 2–2 Liberia on aggregate. Liberia won 3–1 on penalties''
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''Sudan won 1–0 on aggregate''
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''Botswana won 1–0 on aggregate''
First qualifying round
The matches in the preliminary round were held on 25–27 March 2011 (first leg) and 8–10 April 2011 (second leg).
''Zambia won 3–0 on aggregate''
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''Morocco won 3–2 on aggregate''
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''Tanzania 3–3 Cameroon. Tanzania won 5–3 on penalties''
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''Angola 1–1 Senegal. Senegal won on away goals rule''
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''South Africa won 4–2 on aggregate''
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''Algeria won 4–0 on aggregate''
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''Egypt won 3–2 on aggregate''
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''Gabon won 5–2 on aggregate''
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''Congo DR won 5–2 on aggregate''
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''Côte d'Ivoire won 4–0 on aggregate''
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''Tunisia won 3–0 on aggregate''
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''Benin advance after The Gambia withdrew''
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''Congo 1–1 Uganda. Congo won 4–2 on penalties''
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''Guinea 2–2 Mali. Mali won on away goals rule''
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''Nigeria won 9–1 on aggregate''
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''Sudan won 2–1 on aggregate''
Second qualifying round
The draw for the second qualifying round was held on April 13, 2011. CAF used
FIFA rankings
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from March 2011 to seed the eight highest-ranked teams into Pot A.
Côte d'Ivoire's fixture against Liberia had been delayed until 20 April due to the civil unrest. As Ivory Coast are the 2nd highest-ranking team in Africa, the winner of their first qualifying round fixture was also placed in Pot A.
Seeding
The pots were confirmed as follows:
Matches
The draw was conducted on April 13 in
Cairo
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, Egypt.
''Algeria won 3–2 on aggregate''
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''Morocco won 3–2 on aggregate''
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''Côte d'Ivoire won 3–1 on aggregate''
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''Gabon won 1–0 on aggregate''
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''Egypt won 2–0 on aggregate''
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''South Africa 6–4 on aggregate''
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''Senegal won 1–0 on aggregate''
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''Nigeria 3–1 on aggregate''
References
External links
African Olympic qualifying results
{{Qualification for the 2012 Summer Olympics Football tournament
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