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1970 FIFA World Cup qualification (CAF)

Tournament details
Dates	October 27th 1968 - November 8th 1969
Teams	11 (from 1 confederation)
Tournament statistics
Matches played	24
Goals scored	69 (2.88 per match)
Attendance	446,751 (18,615 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Garba Okoye (4 Goals)
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The Confederation of African Football (CAF) section of the 1970 FIFA World Cup qualification saw teams competing for one berth in the final tournament in Mexico.

Thirteen nations in total entered the qualifying stage but FIFA rejected the entries of Guinea and Zaire, leaving 11 nations to contest the qualifying spot.

Format

There would be three rounds of play:

• First Round: Ten teams were paired up to play knockout matches on a home-and-away basis, with Ghana receiving a bye to the Second Round. The winners (determined by aggregate score) would advance to the Second Round.
• Second Round: The six teams were paired up to play knockout matches on a home-and-away basis. The winners would advance to the Final Round.
• Final Round: The three remaining teams played against each other on a home-and-away basis. The group winner would qualify. In June 1969, FIFA announced that Morocco had suggested that the final round be played as a single round-robin at a neutral venue, but that Sudan would not agree to this change of the format.

Qualification

First round

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg	3rd leg
Zambia	6–6	Sudan	4–2	2–4 (aet)
Morocco	4–2	Senegal	1–0	1–2	2–0
Algeria	1–2	Tunisia	1–2	0–0
Nigeria	4–3	Cameroon	1–1	3–2
Libya	3–5	Ethiopia	2–0	1–5
Ghana	Bye

Zambia	4–2	Sudan
Mwila 34' Chitalu 47', 85' Kapengwe 65'		Osman Santo 16', 42'

Sudan	4–2 (a.e.t.)	Zambia
Abdel Kafi El-Sheikh 38' Ismaeil Bakhit 76', 81' Osman Santo 114'		Chitalu 22' Kapengwe 96'

The aggregate score was tied 6–6, but Sudan advanced to the Second Round as they scored more goals in the second match.

Morocco	1–0	Senegal
Benkhrif 72'

Senegal	2–1	Morocco
Diéme 26' Diop 32'		Akesbi 14'

The aggregate score was tied 2–2, and since extra time was not played in the second match, a play-off on neutral ground was played to decide who would advance to the Second Round.

Morocco	2–0	Senegal
Bamous 54' Hafnaoui 60'

Morocco advanced to the Second Round, via the play-off.

Algeria	1–2	Tunisia
Amirouche 29' (pen.)		Chakroun 72', 80'

Tunisia	0–0	Algeria

Tunisia advanced to the Second Round.

Nigeria	1–1	Cameroon
Aghoghovbia 47'		Owona 69'

Cameroon	2–3	Nigeria
Ayo ?' Bassanguen ?'		Ofuokwu ?' Anieke ?' Oshode ?'

Nigeria advanced to the Second Round.

Libya	2–0	Ethiopia
Al-Jahani 22' Koussa 49'

Ethiopia	5–1	Libya
Germa 1', 85' Feseha 11' Geremew 77', 84'		Ben Soed ?'

Ethiopia advanced to the Second Round.

Second round

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg	3rd leg
Tunisia	2–2	Morocco	0–0	0–0 (aet)	2–2 (aet)
Ethiopia	2–4	Sudan	1–1	1–3
Nigeria	3–2	Ghana	2–1	1–1

Tunisia	0–0	Morocco

Morocco	0–0 (a.e.t.)	Tunisia

The aggregate score was tied 0–0, and a play-off on neutral ground was played to decide who would advance to the Final Round.

Morocco	2–2 (a.e.t.)	Tunisia
Khanousi 27' Jarir 53'		Chaïbi 3' Cheman 87'

Morocco advanced to the Final Round, by winning a coin toss.

Ethiopia	1–1	Sudan
Mengistu 79'		Hasabu El Sagheir 9'

Sudan	3–1	Ethiopia
Gagarin 20', 60' Jagdoul 80'		Asfaw 65'

Sudan advanced to the Final Round.

Nigeria	2–1	Ghana
Imasuen 62' Oshode 64'		Ankrah 18'

Ghana	1–1	Nigeria
Ola 41'		Garba 19'

Nigeria advanced to the Final Round.

Final Round

Rank	Team	Pts	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
1	Morocco	5	4	2	1	1	5	3	+2
2	Nigeria	4	4	1	2	1	8	7	+1
3	Sudan	3	4	0	3	1	5	8	−3

Nigeria	2–2	Sudan
Okoye 33', 43'		Abbas 7' Jadallah Kheirelseid 30'

Morocco	2–1	Nigeria
El Filali 50' Faras 63'		Lawal 53'

Sudan	3–3	Nigeria
Abbas 33' Awad Koka 70' Bushra Wahba 84'		Okoye 49' Ineh 55' Opone 72'

Sudan	0–0	Morocco

Morocco	3–0	Sudan
El Filali 41' Jarir 76', 86'

Nigeria	2–0	Morocco
Lawal 67' (pen.) Okoye 82'

Morocco qualified.

Qualified teams

Team	Qualified as	Qualified on	Previous appearances in FIFA World Cup
Morocco	Final round winners	26 October 1969	0 (debut)

Bold indicates champions for that year. Italic indicates hosts for that year.

Goalscorers

4 goals

• Garba Okoye

3 goals

• Houmane Jarir
• Emment Kapengwe
• Babiker Santo

2 goals

• Zerga Geremew
• Asmeron Germa
• Mohammed El Filali
• Mohammed Lawal
• Olumuyiwa Oshode
• Nasr El-Din Abbas
• Ismaeil Bakhit
• Ali Gagarin
• Ezzedine Chakroun

1 goal

• Boualem Amirouche
• David Ayo
• Dieudonné Bassanguen
• Norbert Owona
• Kebede Asfaw
• Emmanuel Feseha
• Mengistu Worku
• Abekah Ankrah
• Emmanuel Ola
• Mahmoud Al-Jahani
• Ahmed Ben Soed
• Mohamed Koussa
• Hassan Akesbi
• Driss Bamous
• Boujemaa Benkhrif
• Ahmed Faras
• Cherkaoui Hafnaoui
• Moulay Khanousi
• Joseph Aghoghovbia
• Peter Anieke
• Sam Garba
• Sebastian Broderick Imasuen
• Sunday Ineh
• Augustine Ofuokwu
• Samuel Opone
• Emile Pierre Diéme
• Abdoulaye Makhtar Diop
• Jadallah Kheirelseid
• Hasabu El Sagheir
• Abdelkfi Elsheikh
• Jagdoul
• Awad Koka
• Bushra Wahba
• Tahar Chaïbi
• Abdesselem Cheman
• Godfrey Chitalu
• Sandy Kaposa
• Dickson Makwaza

References

1. FIFA rejected the entries of Guinea and Zaire
2. "Sudan won't play match". Daily Graphic. No. 5830. Accra. 30 June 1969. p. 15. Retrieved 4 October 2024.

External links

• African Zone at FIFA.com

• 1970 FIFA World Cup qualification
• FIFA World Cup qualification (CAF)
• 1969 in African football