2002 FIFA World Cup qualification (CAF)

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 and Comoros chose not to participate.

Guinea was excluded from the competition during the Final Round for government interference with its national association, resulting in their results obtained in final 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 Final Round.
Final 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.	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.	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.	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.	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.	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

Final round

Key to colours in group tables
	Group winners qualify for the 2002 FIFA World Cup

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


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	–

Guinea were excluded on March 19, 2001 after the Guinean sports minister had failed to meet a third FIFA deadline to reinstall the Guinean FA functionaries. 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

11 goals

8 goals

6 goals

5 goals

4 goals

3 goals

2 goals

1 goal

1 own goal