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2018 African Nations Championship qualification
Tournament details
DatesJune – October 2017
Teams42 (from 1 confederation)
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The 2018 African Nations Championship qualification will be a men's football competition which decided the participating teams of the 2018 African Nations Championship. Only national team players who were playing in their country's own domestic league will be eligible to compete in the tournament.

A total of 43 teams will qualify to play in the final tournament, including Kenya who qualified automatically as hosts.

Teams

A total of 43 CAF member national teams will enter the qualifying rounds, split into zones according to their regional affiliations.

Zone Spots Teams entering qualification Did not enter
Northern Zone 2 spots
Zone West A 2 spots
Zone West B 3 spots
Central Zone 3 spots
Central-East Zone 2 spots +
 Kenya (hosts)
Southern Zone 3 spots
Total 15 spots + hosts 43 teams
Notes
  • Central African Republic were excluded by the CAF from participating because of their withdrawal against DR Congo in the 2016 African Nations Championship qualification.
  • Chad withdrawn on 27 March 2016, but however, on 24 May 2016, Chad announced that they won't be able to qualify for CHAN 2018, and São Tomé and Príncipe offically entered the qualification, along with Equatorial Guinea.
  • Egypt are expected to withdraw from the CHAN 2018, but however, a decision will be made on 31 May 2016 if Egypt could enter CHAN 2018.

Schedule

The draw will be held in April 2017, at the CAF Headquarters in Cairo, Egypt.

The schedule of the qualifying rounds will be as follows.

Northern Zone
Matchday Date
Matchdays 1–3
(Host: Morocco) 		June 2017
Matchdays 4–6
(Host: Tunisia) 		August 2017
Matchdays 7–9
(Host: Algeria) 		October 2017
All other zones
Round Matchday Date
Preliminary round First leg June 2017
Second leg July 2017
First round First leg October 2017
Second leg October 2017

Format

In the Northern Zone, teams played each other on a double round-robin basis. The teams were ranked according to points (3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, 0 points for a loss). If tied on points, tiebreakers would be applied in the following order:

  1. Number of points obtained in games between the teams concerned;
  2. Goal difference in games between the teams concerned;
  3. Goals scored in games between the teams concerned;
  4. Away goals scored in games between the teams concerned;
  5. If, after applying criteria 1 to 4 to several teams, two teams still have an equal ranking, criteria 1 to 4 are reapplied exclusively to the matches between the two teams in question to determine their final rankings. If this procedure does not lead to a decision, criteria 6 to 9 apply;
  6. Goal difference in all games;
  7. Goals scored in all games;
  8. Away goals scored in all games;
  9. Drawing of lots.

In all other zones, qualification ties were played on a home-and-away two-legged basis. If the aggregate score was tied after the second leg, the away goals rule would be applied, and if still level, the penalty shoot-out would be used to determine the winner (no extra time would be played).

The top two teams in the Northern Zone and the 13 winners of the first round in all other zones qualified for the final tournament.

Northern Zone

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1 A1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2018 African Nations Championship
2 A2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
3 A3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
4 A4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
First match(es) will be played: June 2017. Source: CAF
Rules for classification: Qualification tiebreakers

Zone West A

Preliminary round

Team 1 Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg

First round

Winners qualify for 2018 African Nations Championship.

Team 1 Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg

Zone West B

First round

Winners qualify for 2018 African Nations Championship.

Team 1 Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg

Central Zone

First round

Winners qualify for 2018 African Nations Championship.

Team 1 Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg

Central-East Zone

  •  Kenya qualified automatically for the final tournament as hosts.
  •  Sudan received a bye to the first round.

Preliminary round

Team 1 Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg

First round

Winners qualify for 2018 African Nations Championship.

Team 1 Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
Sudan 

Southern Zone

Preliminary round

Team 1 Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg

First round

Winners qualify for 2018 African Nations Championship.

Team 1 Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg

Qualified teams

Team Qualifying zone Qualified on Previous appearances in tournament
 Kenya (hosts) Central-East Zone (automatic) 0 (debut)
TBD Northern Zone
TBD
TBD Zone West A
TBD
TBD Zone West B
TBD
TBD
TBD Central Zone
TBD
TBD
TBD Central-East Zone
TBD
TBD Southern Zone
TBD
TBD
1 Bold indicates champion for that year. Italic indicates host for that year.
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