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

Football at the 2012 Summer Olympics

Football at the 2012 Summer Olympics is scheduled to be held in London and several other cities in the United Kingdom, from 25 July to 11 August. The finals will be played at Wembley Stadium. Associations affiliated with FIFA are invited to send their full women's national teams and men's U-23...

 to be held in London.

Seeding

In total, 39 teams opted to entered the qualifying tournament. The top 25 teams based on the qualifiers and final round of the previous Olympics

Football at the 2008 Summer Olympics

Football at the 2008 Summer Olympics was held in Beijing and several other cities in the People's Republic of China from 6 August to 23 August. Associations affiliated with FIFA were invited to send their full women's national teams and men's U-23 teams to participate...

 were given byes to the first qualifying round.

Seeded	Unseeded

Preliminary qualifying round

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
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	2–2 (1–3 p)		1–1	1–1
	0–1		0–0	0–1
	1–0		1–0	0–0

First Leg

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Second Leg

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

Team 1	Agg	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
	3–0		2–0	1–0
	3–2		2–0	1–2
	3–3 (1–3 p)		2–1	1–2
	1–1 (a Away goals rule The away goals rule is a method of breaking ties in association football and other sports when teams play each other twice, once at each team's home ground. By the away goals rule, the team that has scored more goals "away from home" will win if scores are otherwise equal... )		0–0	1–1
	4–2		4–2	0–0
	4–0		3–0	1–0
	3–2		2–0	1–2
	4–1		3–1	1–0
	2–5		1–2	1–3
	4–0		4–0	0–0
	3–0		2–0	1–0
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	1–1 (2–4 p)		1–0	0–1
	2–2 (a Away goals rule The away goals rule is a method of breaking ties in association football and other sports when teams play each other twice, once at each team's home ground. By the away goals rule, the team that has scored more goals "away from home" will win if scores are otherwise equal... )		0–0	2–2
	9–1		5–0	4–1
	1–2		0–1	1–1

Notes

• Note 1: Benin advanced to the final round after Gambia withdrew.

The matches in the preliminary round were held on 25–27 March 2011 (first leg) and 8–10 April 2011 (second leg).

First Leg

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Second Leg

Zambia won 5–0 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 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:

Pot A		Pot B

Draw

The draw was conducted on April 13th in Cairo

Cairo

Cairo , is the capital of Egypt and the largest city in the Arab world and Africa, and the 16th largest metropolitan area in the world. Nicknamed "The City of a Thousand Minarets" for its preponderance of Islamic architecture, Cairo has long been a centre of the region's political and cultural life...

, Egypt

Egypt

Egypt , officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, Arabic: , is a country mainly in North Africa, with the Sinai Peninsula forming a land bridge in Southwest Asia. Egypt is thus a transcontinental country, and a major power in Africa, the Mediterranean Basin, the Middle East and the Muslim world...

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Team 1	Agg	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
	3–2		3–0	0–2
	3–2		2–1	1–1
	1–3		1–2	0–1
	1-0		0–0	1-0
	0–2		0–0	0–2
	4–6		3–1	1–5
	0–1		0–0	0–1
	1–3		1–0	0–3

First Leg

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Second Leg

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

External links

• African Olympic qualifying results