2002 FIFA World Cup qualification (CAF)

Tournament details
Dates	7 April 2000 - 29 July 2001
Teams	48 (from 1 confederation)
Tournament statistics
Matches played	149
Goals scored	375 (2.52 per match)
Attendance	3,528,675 (23,682 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Ibrahima Bakayoko (11 goals)

Listed below are the dates and results for the 2002 FIFA World Cup qualification rounds for (Africa).

The Confederation of African Football was allocated five qualifying berths for the 2002 FIFA World Cup. 51 teams entered the qualification process.

Burundi withdrew before the draw was made while Niger chose not to participate.

Guinea was excluded from the competition during the second round for government interference with its national association, resulting in their results obtained in second round annulled.

Africa's five automatic qualifying berths were taken by Cameroon, Senegal, Tunisia, South Africa, and Nigeria.

Tournament structure

There were two rounds of play:

• First Round: The 50 teams were divided into 5 pools of 10 teams each. In each pool, the 10 teams were paired up to play knockout matches on a home-and-away basis. The winners advanced to the Second Round.
• Second Round: The 25 teams were divided into 5 groups of 5 teams each. The teams played against each other on a home-and-away basis. The group winners qualified.

First round

Pool A

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Mauritania	1–5	Tunisia	1–2	0–3
Guinea-Bissau	0–3	Togo	0–0	0–3
Cape Verde	0–2	Algeria	0–0	0–2
Benin	1–2	Senegal	1–1	0–1
Gambia	0–3	Morocco	0–1	0–2

Pool B

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Madagascar	2–1	Gabon	2–0	0–1
Botswana	0–2	Zambia	0–1	0–1
Swaziland	1–8	Angola	0–1	1–7
Lesotho	0–3	South Africa	0–2	0–1
Sudan	2–2 (a)	Mozambique	1–0	1–2

Pool C

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
São Tomé and Príncipe	2–4	Sierra Leone	2–0	0–4
Central African Republic	1–4	Zimbabwe	0–1	1–3
Rwanda	2–4	Ivory Coast	2–2	0–2
Equatorial Guinea	2–5	Congo	1–3	1–2
Libya	4–3	Mali	3–0	1–3

Pool D

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Djibouti	2–10	DR Congo	1–1	1–9
Seychelles	1–4	Namibia	1–1	0–3
Eritrea	0–4	Nigeria	0–0	0–4
Somalia	0–6	Cameroon	0–3	0–3
Mauritius	2–6	Egypt	0–2	2–4

Pool E

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Malawi	2–0	Kenya	2–0	0–0
Tanzania	2–4	Ghana	0–1	2–3
Uganda	4–7	Guinea	4–4	0–3
Ethiopia	2–4	Burkina Faso	2–1	0–3
Chad	0–1	Liberia	0–1	0–0

Second round

Group A

Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts  Cameroon 8 6 1 1 14 4 10 19  Angola 8 3 4 1 11 9 2 13  Zambia 8 3 2 3 14 11 3 11  Togo 8 2 3 3 10 13 -3 9  Libya 8 0 2 6 7 19 -12 2

Angola – 2–0 3–1 1–1 2–1 Cameroon 3–0 – 1–0 2–0 1–0 Libya 1–1 0–3 – 3–3 2–4 Togo 1–1 0–2 2–0 – 3–2 Zambia 1–1 2–2 2–0 2–0 –

Group B

Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts  Nigeria 8 5 1 2 15 3 12 16  Liberia 8 5 0 3 10 8 2 15  Sudan 8 4 0 4 8 10 -2 12  Ghana 8 3 2 3 10 9 1 11  Sierra Leone 8 1 1 6 2 15 -13 4

Ghana – 1–3 0–0 5–0 1–0 Liberia 1–2 – 2–1 1–0 2–0 Nigeria 3–0 2–0 – 2–0 3–0 Sierra Leone 1–1 0–1 1–0 – 0–2 Sudan 1–0 2–0 0–4 3–0 –

Group C

Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts  Senegal 8 4 3 1 14 2 12 15  Morocco 8 4 3 1 8 3 5 15  Egypt 8 3 4 1 16 7 9 13  Algeria 8 2 2 4 11 14 -3 8  Namibia 8 0 2 6 3 26 -23 2

Algeria – 1–1 1–2 1–0 1–1 Egypt 5–2 – 0–0 8–2 1–0 Morocco 2–1 1–0 – 4–0 0–0 Namibia 0–4 1–1 0–0 – 0–5 Senegal 3–0 0–0 1–0 4–0 –

Group D

Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts  Tunisia 8 6 2 0 23 4 19 20  Ivory Coast 8 4 3 1 18 8 10 15  DR Congo 8 3 1 4 7 16 -9 10  Madagascar 8 2 0 6 5 15 -10 6  Congo 8 1 2 5 5 15 -10 5

Congo – 1–1 1–1 2–0 1–2 Congo DR 2–0 – 1–2 1–0 0–3 Ivory Coast 2–0 1–2 – 6–0 2–2 Madagascar 1–0 3–0 1–3 – 0–2 Tunisia 6–0 6–0 1–1 1–0 –

Group E

Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts  South Africa 6 5 1 0 10 3 7 16  Zimbabwe 6 4 0 2 7 5 2 12  Burkina Faso 6 1 2 3 7 8 -1 5  Malawi 6 0 1 5 4 12 -8 1  Guinea 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1

Burkina Faso – – 4–2 1–1 1–2 Guinea – – – – – Malawi 1–1 – – 1–2 0–1 South Africa 1–0 – 2–0 – 2–1 Zimbabwe 1–0 – 2–0 0–2 –

¹ Guinea were disqualified on 19 March 2001 after being suspended by FIFA on 2 March due to financial irregularities and the Guinean sports minister's failure to meet a third and final FIFA deadline to reinstate the elected Guinean FA executive. Their match results were annulled.

Qualified teams

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

Team	Qualified as	Qualified on	Previous appearances in FIFA World Cup1
Cameroon	Final round group 1 winners	1 July 2001	4 (1982, 1990, 1994, 1998)
Nigeria	Final round group 2 winners	29 July 2001	2 (1994, 1998)
Senegal	Final round group 3 winners	21 July 2001	0 (debut)
Tunisia	Final round group 4 winners	15 July 2001	2 (1978, 1998)
South Africa	Final round group 5 winners	1 July 2001	1 (1998)

¹ Bold indicates champions for that year. Italic indicates hosts for that year.

Goalscorers

There were 379 goals scored in 145 matches, for an average of 2.61 goals per match.

11 goals

8 goals

6 goals

5 goals

4 goals

3 goals

2 goals

1 goal

1 own goal

References

• FIFA.com results
• Rsssf.com results