2014 FIFA World Cup qualification – CAF first round

This page provides the summaries of the CAF first round matches for 2014 FIFA World Cup qualification.

Format

In this round the twenty-four lowest seeded teams were drawn into 12 home-and-away ties, at the World Cup Preliminary Draw at the Marina da Glória in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on 30 July 2011.^[1]

The matches were scheduled to be held with first legs on 11 November 2011 and second legs on 15 November 2011. The 12 winners advanced to the second round of the African qualifiers.

Seeding

The July 2011 FIFA Ranking was used to seed the teams.

Pot 1	Pot 2
Mozambique DR Congo Togo Liberia Tanzania Congo Kenya Rwanda Ethiopia Namibia Burundi Madagascar	Guinea-Bissau Equatorial Guinea Chad Swaziland Comoros Lesotho Eritrea Somalia Djibouti Mauritius Seychelles São Tomé and Príncipe

Results

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Seychelles	0–7	Kenya	0–3	0–4
Guinea-Bissau	1–2	Togo	1–1	0–1
Djibouti	0–8	Namibia	0–4	0–4
Mauritius	w/o^{[note 1]}	Liberia	—	—
Comoros	1–5	Mozambique	0–1	1–4
Equatorial Guinea	3–2	Madagascar	2–0	1–2
Somalia	0–5	Ethiopia	0–0	0–5
Lesotho	3–2	Burundi	1–0	2–2
Eritrea	2–4	Rwanda	1–1	1–3
Swaziland	2–8	DR Congo	1–3	1–5
São Tomé and Príncipe	1–6	Congo	0–5	1–1
Chad	2–2 (a)	Tanzania	1–2	1–0

11 November 2011

17:00 UTC+4

Seychelles	0–3	Kenya
	Report	Ochieng 41' Oliech 75', 81'

Stade Linité, Victoria

Attendance: 2,000

Referee: Dennis Batte (Uganda)

15 November 2011

16:00 UTC+3

Kenya	4–0	Seychelles
Onyango 19' Oliech 36' Mulama 45+1' Wanyama 74'	Report

Nyayo National Stadium, Nairobi

Attendance: 5,000

Referee: Victor Gomes (South Africa)

Kenya won 7–0 on aggregate and advanced to the second round.

11 November 2011

16:00 UTC±0

Guinea-Bissau	1–1	Togo
de Carvalho 38'	Report	Gakpé 32'

Estádio Lino Correia, Bissau

Attendance: 3,000

Referee: Malang Diedhiou (Senegal)

15 November 2011

15:30 UTC±0

Togo	1–0	Guinea-Bissau
Jonas 3' (o.g.)	Report

Stade de Kégué, Lomé

Attendance: 25,000

Referee: Mal Mohamadou (Cameroon)

Togo won 2–1 on aggregate and advanced to the second round.

11 November 2011

15:00 UTC+3

Djibouti	0–4	Namibia
	Report	Bester 13', 52' Kaimbi 50' Urikhob 88'

Stade National Gouled, Djibouti

Attendance: 3,000

Referee: Tessema Bamlak (Ethiopia)

15 November 2011

20:00 UTC+2

Namibia	4–0	Djibouti
Isaacks 17' Kaimbi 34', 58' Urikhob 81'	Report

Sam Nujoma Stadium, Windhoek

Attendance: 2,145

Referee: Samuel Chirindza (Mozambique)

Namibia won 8–0 on aggregate and advanced to the second round.

11 November 2011

15:00 UTC+3

Comoros	0–1	Mozambique
	Report	Miro 54' (pen.)

Stade Said Mohamed Cheikh, Mitsamiouli

Attendance: 3,000

Referee: David Jane (Lesotho)

15 November 2011

19:00 UTC+2

Mozambique	4–1	Comoros
Domingues 26' Sitoe 45' Whiskey 59' Baúque 84'	Report	Youssouf 72'

Estádio do Zimpeto, Maputo

Attendance: 10,000

Referee: Ruzive Ruzive (Zimbabwe)

Mozambique won 5–1 on aggregate and advanced to the second round.

11 November 2011

16:00 UTC+1

Equatorial Guinea	2–0	Madagascar
Juvenal 20' (pen.) Randy 74'	Report

Estadio de Malabo, Malabo

Attendance: 10,000

Referee: Eric Otogo-Castane (Gabon)

15 November 2011

15:50 UTC+3

Madagascar	2–1	Equatorial Guinea
Rajoarimanana 54' Ramanamahefa 90'	Report	Ellong 24'

Mahamasina Municipal Stadium, Antananarivo

Attendance: 5,000

Referee: Parmendra Nunkoo (Mauritius)

Equatorial Guinea won 3–2 on aggregate and advanced to the second round.

12 November 2011

15:45 UTC+3

Somalia	0–0	Ethiopia
	Report

Stade National Gouled, Djibouti (Djibouti)^{[note 2]}

Attendance: 3,000

Referee: Mohamed Hassan Ourouke (Djibouti)

16 November 2011

16:00 UTC+3

Ethiopia	5–0	Somalia
Oumed O. 5' Shimelis B. 62', 65' Getaneh K. 87', 90+2'	Report

Addis Ababa Stadium, Addis Ababa

Attendance: 22,000

Referee: Med Said Kordi (Tunisia)

Ethiopia won 5–0 on aggregate and advanced to the second round.

11 November 2011

20:00 UTC+2

Lesotho	1–0	Burundi
Ramabele 82'	Report

Setsoto National Stadium, Maseru

Attendance: 5,000

Referee: Rainhold Shikongo (Namibia)

15 November 2011

14:30 UTC+2

Burundi	2–2	Lesotho
Amissi 29' Ndikumana 88' (pen.)	Report	Tale 16' Mothoana 22'

Prince Louis Rwagasore Stadium, Bujumbura

Attendance: 7,200

Referee: Anthony Ramsy Raphael (Malawi)

Lesotho won 3–2 on aggregate and advanced to the second round.

11 November 2011

15:30 UTC+3

Eritrea	1–1	Rwanda
Tekle 35'	Report	Uzamukunda 58'

Cicero Stadium, Asmara

Attendance: 6,000

Referee: Mahamadou Keita (Mali)

15 November 2011

15:30 UTC+2

Rwanda	3–1	Eritrea
Karekezi 4' Iranzi 70' Bokota 79'	Report	Tedros 89'

Stade Amahoro, Kigali

Attendance: 10,000

Referee: Joshua Bondo (Botswana)

Rwanda won 4–2 on aggregate and advanced to the second round.

11 November 2011

16:00 UTC+2

Swaziland	1–3	DR Congo
Shongwe 63'	Report	Kaluyituka 18' Mputu 22' Bokese 72'

Somhlolo National Stadium, Lobamba

Attendance: 785

Referee: Janny Sikazwe (Zambia)

15 November 2011

15:30 UTC+1

DR Congo	5–1	Swaziland
Mputu 8', 49' Kaluyituka 46', 61' Diba Ilunga 66'	Report	Shongwe 63'

Stade des Martyrs, Kinshasa

Attendance: 24,000

Referee: Jean Michel Moukoko (Congo)

DR Congo won 8–2 on aggregate and advanced to the second round.

11 November 2011

15:00 UTC±0

São Tomé and Príncipe	0–5	Congo
	Report	Moussilou 1' Douniama 5' Malonga 27' Oniangue 54' Tchilimbou 69'

Estádio Nacional 12 de Julho, São Tomé

Attendance: 3,000

Referee: Sosthene Ngbokaye (Central African Republic)

15 November 2011

15:30 UTC+1

Congo	1–1	São Tomé and Príncipe
N'Ganga 56'	Report	Gando 50'

Stade Municipal, Pointe-Noire

Attendance: 12,000

Referee: Oumar Mahamat Tahir (Chad)

Congo won 6–1 on aggregate and advanced to the second round.

11 November 2011

16:00 UTC+1

Chad	1–2	Tanzania
Labbo 16'	Report	Ngassa 11' Bakari 80'

Stade Omnisports Idriss Mahamat Ouya, N'Djamena

Attendance: 10,000

Referee: Bunmi Ogunkolade (Nigeria)

15 November 2011

16:00 UTC+3

Tanzania	0–1	Chad
	Report	Labbo 47'

Benjamin Mkapa National Stadium, Dar es Salaam

Attendance: 42,700

Referee: Hamada Nampiandraza (Madagascar)

2–2 on aggregate. Tanzania won on the away goals rule and advanced to the second round.

Goalscorers

There were 66 goals scored in 22 matches, for an average of 3 goals per match.

3 goals

2 goals

1 goal

1 own goal

Jonas Mendes (against Togo)

Notes

^ Liberia automatically advanced to the second round as Mauritius withdrew from the tournament on 31 October 2011.^[2]
^ Due to the lack of security in Mogadishu, Somalia's home game was played at a neutral venue. An earlier Somali request for the match to be played in Nairobi was rejected by FIFA due to a ban on international matches being played in Kenya.^[3]

References

^ "2014 FIFA World Cup Brazil - Preliminary Competition Format and Draw Procedures - African Zone" (PDF). FIFA. Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 October 2011.
^ "Mauritius withdraw from FIFA World Cup qualifiers". FIFA. 31 October 2011. Archived from the original on 2 November 2011.
^ "Somalia/Ethiopia World Cup 2014 match venue switched". cafonline.com. Confederation of African Football. 19 October 2011. Archived from the original on 22 October 2011. Retrieved 21 October 2011.

External links

[Mauritius-3] Liberia automatically advanced to the second round as Mauritius withdrew from the tournament on 31 October 2011.^[2]

[Somalia-5] Due to the lack of security in Mogadishu, Somalia's home game was played at a neutral venue. An earlier Somali request for the match to be played in Nairobi was rejected by FIFA due to a ban on international matches being played in Kenya.^[3]

[CAF_Draw-1] "2014 FIFA World Cup Brazil - Preliminary Competition Format and Draw Procedures - African Zone" (PDF). FIFA. Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 October 2011.

[2] "Mauritius withdraw from FIFA World Cup qualifiers". FIFA. 31 October 2011. Archived from the original on 2 November 2011.

[4] "Somalia/Ethiopia World Cup 2014 match venue switched". cafonline.com. Confederation of African Football. 19 October 2011. Archived from the original on 22 October 2011. Retrieved 21 October 2011.

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2014 FIFA World Cup qualification – CAF first round

Format

Seeding

Results

Goalscorers

Notes

References

External links

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