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This page provides the summaries of the CAF third round matches for the 2010 FIFA World Cup qualification. The 20 qualifiers (the 12 group winners and the best 8 runners-up from the second round) were split into five groups of four, in the draw held on 22 October 2008 in Zürich. Teams in each group will play a home-and-away round-robin in 2009, with the 5 groups winners advancing to the World Cup Finals in South Africa (together with hosts South Africa).

This round also doubles as the qualification stage for the 2010 African Cup of Nations, with the top three teams in each group qualifying for the finals (together with hosts Angola).

Seeding

Teams were seeded based on their FIFA World Rankings in October 2008 (number in parentheses). One team from each of the following pots was drawn into each group.

Group A

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
Cameroon	6	4	1	1	9	2	+7	13	Qualified for the 2010 FIFA World Cup and 2010 Africa Cup of Nations		—	2–1	3–0	0–0
Gabon	6	3	0	3	9	7	+2	9	Qualified for the 2010 Africa Cup of Nations		0–2	—	3–0	3–1
Togo	6	2	2	2	3	7	−4	8			1–0	1–0	—	1–1
Morocco	6	0	3	3	3	8	−5	3			0–2	1–2	0–0	—

Togo	1–0	Cameroon
Adebayor 11'	Report

Morocco	1–2	Gabon
El Hamdaoui 83'	Report	P. Aubameyang 34' Méyé 45'

Gabon	3–0 Awarded	Togo
Ecuele 11' Méyé 67' Brou 81'	Report

Cameroon	0–0	Morocco
	Report

Morocco	0–0	Togo
	Report

Gabon	0–2	Cameroon
	Report	Emaná 65' Eto'o 67'

Togo	1–1	Morocco
Salifou 3'	Report	Taarabt 90+2'

Cameroon	2–1	Gabon
Makoun 25' Eto'o 64'	Report	Cousin 90'

Cameroon	3–0	Togo
Geremi 29' Makoun 46' Emaná 54'	Report

Gabon	3–1	Morocco
Mahdoufi 43' (o.g.) Mouloungui 65' Cousin 70'	Report	Taarabt 88'

Morocco	0–2	Cameroon
	Report	Webó 19' Eto'o 52'

Togo	1–0	Gabon
Ayité 71'	Report

Group B

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
Nigeria	6	3	3	0	9	4	+5	12	Qualified for the 2010 FIFA World Cup and 2010 Africa Cup of Nations		—	2–2	1–0	3–0
Tunisia	6	3	2	1	7	4	+3	11	Qualified for the 2010 Africa Cup of Nations		0–0	—	2–0	1–0
Mozambique	6	2	1	3	3	5	−2	7			0–0	1–0	—	1–0
Kenya	6	1	0	5	5	11	−6	3			2–3	1–2	2–1	—

Kenya	1–2	Tunisia
Oliech 70'	Report	Jemal 6' Jemâa 79'

Mozambique	0–0	Nigeria
	Report

Tunisia	2–0	Mozambique
Ben Yahia 21' (pen.) Darragi 90+1'	Report

Nigeria	3–0	Kenya
I. Uche 2' Obinna 72' (pen.), 77'	Report

Kenya	2–1	Mozambique
J. Owino 8' Mariga 72' (pen.)	Report	Domingues 49'

Tunisia	0–0	Nigeria
	Report

Mozambique	1–0	Kenya
Tico-Tico 66'	Report

Nigeria	2–2	Tunisia
Odemwingie 23' Eneramo 80'	Report	Taïder 24' Darragi 89'

Nigeria	1–0	Mozambique
Obinna 90+3'	Report

Tunisia	1–0	Kenya
Jemâa 1'	Report

Kenya	2–3	Nigeria
Oliech 15' Wanga 77'	Report	Martins 60', 81' Yakubu 64'

Mozambique	1–0	Tunisia
Dário 83'	Report

Group C

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
Algeria	6	4	1	1	9	4	+5	13	Qualified for the 2010 FIFA World Cup and 2010 Africa Cup of Nations		—	3–1	1–0	3–1
Egypt	6	4	1	1	9	4	+5	13	Qualified for the 2010 Africa Cup of Nations		2–0	—	1–1	3–0
Zambia	6	1	2	3	2	5	−3	5			0–2	0–1	—	1–0
Rwanda	6	0	2	4	1	8	−7	2			0–0	0–1	0–0	—

1. ^ Algeria and Egypt finished with identical overall and head-to-head records. Algeria won the tiebreaking play-off 1–0 to qualify for the 2010 FIFA World Cup.

Rwanda	0–0	Algeria
	Report

Egypt	1–1	Zambia
Zaki 27'	Report	Kasonde 56'

Zambia	1–0	Rwanda
Kalaba 78'	Report

Algeria	3–1	Egypt
Matmour 60' Ghezzal 64' Djebbour 77'	Report	Aboutrika 86'

Zambia	0–2	Algeria
	Report	Bougherra 21' Saïfi 66'

Egypt	3–0	Rwanda
Aboutrika 64', 90' Hosny 74' (pen.)	Report

Rwanda	0–1	Egypt
	Report	Hassan 67'

Algeria	1–0	Zambia
Saïfi 59'	Report

Zambia	0–1	Egypt
	Report	Hosny 69'

Algeria	3–1	Rwanda
Ghezzal 22' Belhadj 45+2' Ziani 90+5' (pen.)	Report	Mutesa 19'

Rwanda	0–0	Zambia
	Report

Egypt	2–0	Algeria
Zaki 3' Moteab 90+5'	Report

Tiebreaking play-off

Egypt	0–1	Algeria
	Report	Yahia 40'

Alleged crowd violence at the playoff and the preceding match led to diplomatic tension between Egypt and Algeria.

Group D

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
Ghana	6	4	1	1	9	3	+6	13	Qualified for the 2010 FIFA World Cup and 2010 Africa Cup of Nations		—	1–0	2–2	2–0
Benin	6	3	1	2	6	6	0	10	Qualified for the 2010 Africa Cup of Nations		1–0	—	1–1	1–0
Mali	6	2	3	1	8	7	+1	9			0–2	3–1	—	1–0
Sudan	6	0	1	5	2	9	−7	1			0–2	1–2	1–1	—

Sudan	1–1	Mali
Mudather Karika 23'	Report	Kanouté 19'

Ghana	1–0	Benin
Tagoe 1'	Report

Benin	1–0	Sudan
Omotoyossi 22'	Report

Mali	0–2	Ghana
	Report	Asamoah 67' Amoah 79'

Sudan	0–2	Ghana
	Report	Amoah 6', 52'

Mali	3–1	Benin
Maïga 29' Diallo 76' Kanouté 84'	Report	S. Tchomogo 15'

Benin	1–1	Mali
Aoudou 87'	Report	Samassa 72'

Ghana	2–0	Sudan
Muntari 14' Essien 53'	Report

Benin	1–0	Ghana
Aoudou 89'	Report

Mali	1–0	Sudan
Kanouté 89'	Report

Sudan	1–2	Benin
Hassan Korongo 45+1' (pen.)	Report	Omotoyossi 34' (pen.) Koukou 62'

Ghana	2–2	Mali
Amoah 65' Annan 83'	Report	Fané 23' Ndiaye 68'

Group E

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
Ivory Coast	6	5	1	0	19	4	+15	16	Qualified for the 2010 FIFA World Cup and 2010 Africa Cup of Nations		—	5–0	5–0	3–0
Burkina Faso	6	4	0	2	10	11	−1	12	Qualified for the 2010 Africa Cup of Nations		2–3	—	1–0	4–2
Malawi	6	1	1	4	4	11	−7	4			1–1	0–1	—	2–1
Guinea	6	1	0	5	7	14	−7	3			1–2	1–2	2–1	—

Burkina Faso	4–2	Guinea
Kéré 23' Traoré 30' Dagano 55' (pen.), 71'	Report	Feindouno 65' (pen.) Zayatte 86'

Ivory Coast	5–0	Malawi
Romaric 1' Drogba 6' (pen.), 27' Kalou 59' B. Koné 70'	Report

• 19 people were killed in a stampede before this match.

Malawi	0–1	Burkina Faso
	Report	Dagano 68'

Guinea	1–2	Ivory Coast
S. Bangoura 65'	Report	B. Koné 44' Romaric 72'

Burkina Faso	2–3	Ivory Coast
Pitroipa 27' Bancé 78'	Report	Y. Touré 14' Tall 54' (o.g.) Drogba 70'

Guinea	2–1	Malawi
Feindouno 25', 43'	Report	Msowoya 88'

Malawi	2–1	Guinea
Msowoya 46', 59'	Report	Kalabane 38'

Ivory Coast	5–0	Burkina Faso
Panandétiguiri 12' (o.g.) Drogba 48', 65' Y. Touré 55' Keïta 68'	Report

Malawi	1–1	Ivory Coast
Ngwira 64'	Report	Drogba 67'

Guinea	1–2	Burkina Faso
Bah 82'	Report	Dagano 37' (pen.) Bamogo 59'

Burkina Faso	1–0	Malawi
Dagano 47'	Report

Ivory Coast	3–0	Guinea
Gervinho 16', 31' Tiéné 67'	Report

Goalscorers

There were 135 goals scored in 61 matches, for an average of 2.21 goals per match.

6 goals

• Didier Drogba

5 goals

• Moumouni Dagano

4 goals

• Matthew Amoah

3 goals

• Samuel Eto'o
• Mohamed Aboutrika
• Pascal Feindouno
• Frédéric Kanouté
• Chiukepo Msowoya
• Victor Obinna

2 goals

• Abdelkader Ghezzal
• Rafik Saïfi
• Mohamed Aoudou
• Razak Omotoyossi
• Achille Emaná
• Jean Makoun
• Hosny Abd Rabo
• Amr Zaki
• Daniel Cousin
• Roguy Méyé
• Bakari Koné
• Romaric
• Yaya Touré
• Gervinho
• Dennis Oliech
• Adel Taarabt
• Obafemi Martins
• Oussama Darragi
• Issam Jemâa

1 goal

• Nadir Belhadj
• Madjid Bougherra
• Rafik Djebbour
• Karim Matmour
• Antar Yahia
• Karim Ziani
• Séïdath Tchomogo
• Romuald Boco
• Aristide Bancé
• Mahamoudou Kéré
• Habib Bamogo
• Jonathan Pitroipa
• Alain Traoré
• Geremi Njitap
• Pierre Webó
• Ahmed Hassan
• Emad Moteab
• Bruno Ecuele Manga
• Éric Mouloungui
• Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang
• Moise Brou
• Anthony Annan
• Kwadwo Asamoah
• Michael Essien
• Sulley Muntari
• Prince Tagoe
• Mamadou Bah
• Sambégou Bangoura
• Oumar Kalabane
• Kamil Zayatte
• Salomon Kalou
• Kader Keïta
• Siaka Tiéné
• McDonald Mariga
• Julius Owino
• Allan Wanga
• Jacob Ngwira
• Mamadou Diallo
• Lassane Fané
• Modibo Maïga
• Tenema Ndiaye
• Mamadou Samassa
• Mounir El Hamdaoui
• Domingues
• Tico-Tico
• Dário
• Michael Eneramo
• Peter Odemwingie
• Ikechukwu Uche
• Yakubu
• Patrick Mutesa Mafisango
• Mudathir El Tahir
• Hassan Korongo
• Emmanuel Adebayor
• Moustapha Salifou
• Floyd Ayité
• Ammar Jemal
• Nabil Taïder
• Wissem Ben Yahia
• Rainford Kalaba
• Francis Kasonde

1 own goal

• Mamadou Tall (against Ivory Coast)
• Saïdou Panandétiguiri (against Ivory Coast)
• Hicham Mahdoufi (against Gabon)

Notes

1. South Africa also entered World Cup qualifying in order to qualify for the 2010 African Cup of Nations. Had they made it to this round, their matches would not have been counted in determining who would advance to the World Cup finals in their group.
2. Had Angola made it to this round, all the other three teams in their group would have advanced to the African Cup of Nations finals.
3. Togo were barred from hosting qualifiers due to violence during their 2008 African Cup of Nations qualifier against Mali.
4. FIFA awarded Gabon a 3–0 win as a result of Togo fielding the ineligible player Abdoul-Gafar Mamah who played for Togo despite being suspended even though the original score ended as the same scoreline to Gabon.
5. ^ The Gabon v Cameroon match was originally scheduled for 2009-06-20, but postponed at the request of Gabon for mourning the death of President Omar Bongo. The reverse match was also rescheduled.
6. Moved from original date of the weekend of 2009-06-20 due to Egypt's participation in the 2009 FIFA Confederations Cup.
7. Due to security concerns arising from the 2009 Guinea protest, the match was moved to Accra, Ghana.

References

1. ^ Qualification procedure for the 2nd round and 3rd round for world Cup/ CAN 2010. Confederation of African Football.
2. African seeds established, FIFA. Retrieved 13 October 2008
3. 3rd stage format and draw, FIFA. Retrieved 22 October 2008
4. ^ "FIFA World Cup qualification (CAF) 2010, football - table and standings". soccer365.me. Retrieved 11 April 2024.
5. "Soccer-Morocco fail to get World Cup qualifier result overturned". ESPN.com. Retrieved 14 November 2024.
6. "Gabon-Cameroon encounter postponed". FIFA. Archived from the original on 19 June 2009. Retrieved 15 June 2009.
7. Egypt's Rwanda World Cup qualifier postponed Archived 29 September 2011 at the Wayback Machine. Daily News Egypt.
8. Desbordes, Michel; Richelieu, André, eds. (2012). Global sport marketing: contemporary issues and practice. Routledge. p. 176. ISBN 9780415507202.
9. Guinea 2010 qualifier moved BBC; 3 October 2009

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