Football at the 1984 Summer Olympics – Men's African Qualifiers

Main article: Football at the 1984 Summer Olympics – Men's qualification

1984 Summer Olympics – Men's Football African Qualifiers
Dates	3 March 1983 – 26 February 1984
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International football competition

This page provides the summaries of the matches of the qualifying rounds for the Football at the 1984 Summer Olympics to be held in Los Angeles. In the end three countries qualified.

Preliminary round

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Mauritania	2–6	Gambia	1–3	1–3
Mozambique	3–0	Lesotho	3–0	0–0
Angola	w/o	Niger	—	—
Benin	w/o	Sierra Leone	—	—
Mauritius	w/o	Madagascar	—	—
Uganda	w/o	Congo	—	—

3 March 1983 (1983-03-03)

Mauritania	1–3	Gambia

Stade Olympique, Nouakchott 20 March 1983 (1983-03-20)

Gambia	3–1	Mauritania

Box Bar Stadium, Banjul

6 March 1983 (1983-03-06)

Mozambique	3–0	Lesotho

Estádio da Machava, Maputo 20 March 1983 (1983-03-20)

Lesotho	0–0	Mozambique

Setsoto Stadium, Maseru

First round

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Angola	3–4	Cameroon	1–1	2–3
Gambia	0–3	Ghana	0–2	0–1
Guinea	0–3	Morocco	0–0	0–3
Kenya	1–2	Libya	1–0	0–2
Mozambique	0–3	Zimbabwe	0–1	0–2
Nigeria	3–2	Togo	2–1	1–1
Senegal	4–0	Benin	2–0	2–0
Sudan	1–2	Egypt	0–0	1–2
Tunisia	4–1	Gabon	3–0	1–1
Uganda	4–4 (a)	Algeria	4–1	0–3
Ethiopia	w/o	Tanzania	—	—
Zambia	w/o	Mauritius	—	—

10 July 1983 (1983-07-10)

Angola	1–1	Cameroon
Afonso		Aoudou

Estádio da Cidadela, Luanda 24 July 1983 (1983-07-24)

Cameroon	3–2	Angola
		Sarmento Afonso

Stade Ahmadou Ahidjo, Yaounde

26 June 1983 (1983-06-26)

Gambia	0–2	Ghana

Box Bar Stadium, Banjul 10 July 1983 (1983-07-10)

Ghana	1–0	Gambia

Accra Sports Stadium, Accra

15 May 1983 (1983-05-15)

Guinea	0–0	Morocco

Stade du 28 Septembre, ConakryAttendance: 25,000Referee: ... Iyoubi (Cameroon) 29 May 1983 (1983-05-29)

Morocco	3–0	Guinea
Krimau 5'

Stade Mohammed V, Casablanca

8 May 1983 (1983-05-08)

Kenya	1–0	Libya
Jacaranda 70'

Nairobi City Stadium, Nairobi 22 May 1983 (1983-05-22)

Libya	2–0	Kenya

11 June Stadium, Tripoli

29 May 1983 (1983-05-29)

Mozambique	0–1	Zimbabwe

Estádio da Machava, Maputo 12 June 1983 (1983-06-12)

Zimbabwe	2–0	Mozambique

Rufaro Stadium, Harare

9 July 1983 (1983-07-09)

Nigeria	2–1	Togo
Adeshina

Liberty Stadium, Ibadan 24 July 1983 (1983-07-24)

Togo	1–1	Nigeria
		Adeshina

Stade Municipal, Lomé

29 May 1983 (1983-05-29)

Senegal	2–0	Benin

Stade Demba Diop, Dakar 12 June 1983 (1983-06-12)

Benin	0–2	Senegal

Stade de l'Amitié, Cotonou

4 June 1983 (1983-06-04)

Sudan	0–0	Egypt

Khartoum Stadium, Khartoum 29 July 1983 (1983-07-29)

Egypt	2–1	Sudan
Al Khatib Suleiman 55'		Alnager 62'

Osman Ahmed Osman Stadium, Cairo

17 April 1983 (1983-04-17)

Tunisia	3–0	Gabon
Chebbi 44' Dhiab 80' Bayari 89'

Stade El Menzah, Tunis 1 May 1983 (1983-05-01)

Gabon	1–1	Tunisia
Mboumba 79'		Hergal 38'

Stade Omar Bongo, Libreville

28 May 1983 (1983-05-28)

Uganda	4–1	Algeria
Kateregga 4' Omondi 53', 89' Sekatawa 88'		Yahi 82'

Nakivubo Stadium, KampalaAttendance: 30,000Referee: Mustapha Issa Badaoui (Sudan) 10 June 1983 (1983-06-10)

Algeria	3–0	Uganda
Madjer 49' (pen.) Bensaoula 64' Bencheikh 77'

5 July stadium, AlgiersAttendance: 34,000Referee: Walid Ben Hamida (Tunisia)

Algeria on away goals rule

Second round

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Libya	2–3	Algeria	2–1	0–2
Morocco	2–1	Senegal	1–0	1–1
Nigeria	2–1	Ghana	0–0	2–1
Zambia	1–2	Egypt	1–0	0–2
Zimbabwe	3–3 (a)	Ethiopia	3–2	0–1
Cameroon	w/o	Tunisia	—	—

14 October 1983 (1983-10-14)

Libya	2–1	Algeria
Al-Meliani 53' Al-Marghani 71' (pen.)		Tlemçani 83'

11 June Stadium TripoliAttendance: 30 000Referee: ... Kakalo (Congo) 28 October 1983 (1983-10-28)

Algeria	2–0	Libya
Belloumi 16' Merzekane 71'

5 July stadium, AlgiersAttendance: 48 850Referee: Karim Camara (Guinea)

25 September 1983 (1983-09-25)

Morocco	1–0	Senegal
El Haddaoui (pen.)

Stade Mohammed V, Casablanca 9 October 1983 (1983-10-09)

Senegal	1–1	Morocco
		Souadi (pen.)

Stade Demba Diop, Dakar

15 October 1983 (1983-10-15)

Nigeria	0–0	Ghana

Ahmadu Bello Stadium, Kaduna 30 October 1983 (1983-10-30)

Ghana	1–2	Nigeria
		Ehilegu Omughele

Accra Sports Stadium, Accra

9 October 1983 (1983-10-09)

Zambia	1–0	Egypt

Independence Stadium, Lusaka 29 October 1983 (1983-10-29)

Egypt	2–0	Zambia
El Khatib 1' Abdelghani 82'

Cairo International Stadium, Cairo

2 October 1983 (1983-10-02)

Zimbabwe	3–2	Ethiopia

Rufaro Stadium, Harare 16 October 1983 (1983-10-16)

Ethiopia	1–0	Zimbabwe

Addis Ababa Stadium, Addis Ababa

Ethiopia on away goals rule

Third round

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Algeria	1–2	Egypt	1–1	0–1
Cameroon	5–1	Ethiopia	4–0	1–1
Nigeria	0–0 (3–4 p)	Morocco	0–0	0–0

6 January 1984 (1984-01-06)

Algeria	1–1	Egypt
Bensaoula 1'		Youssef 39'

5 July stadium, AlgiersAttendance: 38 250Referee: Ali Bin Nasser (Tunisia) 17 February 1984 (1984-02-17)

Egypt	1–0	Algeria
Nabiel 57'

Cairo International Stadium, CairoAttendance: 120,000Referee: Cheikh Djibril M'Baye (Senegal)

22 January 1984 (1984-01-22)

Cameroon	4–0	Ethiopia

Stade Ahmadou Ahidjo, Yaoundé 11 February 1984 (1984-02-11)

Ethiopia	1–1	Cameroon
		Abega

Addis Ababa Stadium, Addis Ababa

11 February 1984 (1984-02-11)

Nigeria	0–0	Morocco

Surulere Stadium, Lagos 26 February 1984 (1984-02-26)

Morocco	0–0	Nigeria

Penalties
	4–3

Stade Mohammed V, Casablanca

Cameroon, Egypt and Morocco qualified.

External links

Games of the XXIII. Olympiad - African Football Qualifying Tournament (Los Angeles, USA, 1984) - Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation

African U-23 Championship and U-23 Africa Cup of Nations

Editions

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