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FIXTURE & TABLE

FIXTURE & TABLE





Fixtures for the 2013 Africa Cup of Nations in South Africa
19 January to 10 February : lAST Holders: Zambia

GROUP - A : 


TEAMS           P 	W 	D 	L 	GF 	GA   	GD 	 Pts

South Africa    3	1	2	0	4	2    	 +2	  5
Cape Verde      3	1	2	0	3	2    	 +1	  5
Morocco         3	0	3	0	3	3    	 0	  3
Angola		3	0	1	2	1	3   	 -2	  1

FIXTURES & RESULTS
19/01/13: South Africa   0-0 Cape Verde

19/01/13: Angola   0-0 Morocco

23/01/13: South Africa   2-0 Angola
SAF: Sangweni 30', Majoro 62'

23/01/13: Morocco   1-1 Cape Verde
MOR :El-Arabi 78'
CAV :Platini 36'

27/01/13: South Africa   2-2 Morocco
SOA : El Adoua 10', Hafidi 82'
MOR : Mahlangu 71', Sangweni 86'
27/01/13: Cape Verde   2-1 Angola
CPV :F. Varela 81', Heldon 90+1'
ANG : Nando OWN Goal 33'

GROUP - B : 


TEAMS           P 	W 	D 	L 	GF 	GA   	GD  	Pts

Ghana    	3	2	1	0	6	2    	+4	 7
Mali		3	1	1	1	2	2    	0	 4
DR Congo        3	0	3	0	3	3    	0	 3
Niger	        3	0	1	2	0	4    	-4	 1

FIXTURES & RESULTS
20/01/13: Ghana   2-2 DR Congo
GHN : Emmanuel Badu Agyemang (40'), Kwadwo Asamoah (49')
DRC : Tresor Mputu Mabi 53', Deiudonne Mbokani(PEN 69')

20/01/13: Mali   1-0 Niger
MAL : Keita 84'

24/01/13: Ghana   1-0 Mali
GHA: Mubarae Wakaso 38' Pen.

24/01/13: Niger   0-0 DR Congo

28/01/13: Ghana   3-0 Niger
GHN : Asamoya Gyan 6', Atsu 23', Boye 49'

28/01/13: DR Congo   1-1 Mali
CON : Mbokani 3' (pen.)
NAL : Mah. Samassa 15'

GROUP - C : 


TEAMS           P 	W 	D 	L 	GF 	GA  	GD	Pts

Burkina Faso    3	1	2	0	5	1	+4	5
Nigeria		3	1	2	0	4	2	+2	5
Zambia   	3	0	3	0	2	2 	0	3
Ethiopia      	3	0	1	2	1	7 	-6	1

FIXTURES & RESULTS
21/01/13: Zambia   1-1 Ethiopia
zam : Mbesuma 40+3'
ETH : Adane G 65'

21/01/13: Nigeria   1-1 Burkina Faso
NIG : Emenike 23'
BKF : Traore 90+4'

25/01/13: Zambia   1-1 Nigeria
Mb> ZAM : Mweene 85' (pen.)
NIG : Emenike 57'

25/01/13: Burkina Faso   4-0 Ethiopia
BKF : Al. Traore Goal 34', 74',D. Kone 79', Pitroipa Goal 90+5'

29/01/13: Zambia   0-0 Burkina Faso

29/01/13: Ethiopia   0-2 Nigeria
NIG : Moses 79' (pen.), 90' (pen.)

GROUP - D : 


TEAMS           P 	W 	D 	L 	GF 	GA  	GD	Pts

Ivory Coasst    3	2	1	0	7	3	+4	7
Togo      	3	1	1	1	4	3	+1	4
Tunisia		3	1	4	1	2	4	-2	4
Algeria         3	0	1	2	2	5	-3	1

FIXTURES & RESULTS
22/01/13: Ivory Coast   2-1 Togo
IVC: Yaya Toure 8', Yao Kouassi Gervinho 88'
TOG : Jonathan Ayit 45+2'

22/01/13:Tunisia   1-0 Algeria
TUN : Msakni 90'

26/01/13: Ivory Coast   3-0 Tunisia
IVC : Gervinho 21', Y. Toure 87', Ya Konan 90'

26/01/13: Algeria   0-2 Togo
TOG : Immanuel Adebayor 31', Wome 90+3'

30/01/13: Ivory Coast   2-2 Algeria
iVC : Drogba 77', Bony 81'
ALG : Feghouli 64' (pen.), Soudani 70' 30/01/13: Togo   1-1 Tunisia TOG : Gakpe 13'
TUN :Mouelhi 30' (pen.)



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11.02.2013: BURKINA FASO   0-1   NIGERIA

NIG : Sunday Mbah 40'

BKF : Diakite, Kone, P. Koulibaly, Panandetiguiri, Koffi, Kone, Rouamba, Pitroipa, Kabore, Nakoulma, Bance.

NIG : Enyeama, Echiejile, Ambrose, Obobona, Omeruo, Brown, Mikel, Onazi, Moses, Uche, Mba.

Cards : Rouamba.(Burkina Faso) , Oshaniwa, Omeruo, Brown, Mikel, Onazi(Nigeria)

The African nations Cup won by Nigeria after a long gap of almost two decades (after 19 years). This is Nigeria"s third win when they defeated Burkina Faso at Soccer City,South Africa in presence of strong 85000 spectators to lift the cup by a margin of a solitary goal.

Nigeria are now rewarded with a Dollar 1.5 million first prize and a place at the FIFA Confederations Cup in Brazil, where they will face world and European champions Spain, Tahiti and Uruguay.It was a great let off for Burkina Faso in their first ever of the competition's final, they had previously only reached the last four of the tournament in 1998 where they lost to the champions Egypt.

Nigeria kept up the pressure from the very beginning of the match. In the initial stages Aristide Bance wasting a good chance when his low, 25-yard free-kick flashed wide of Enyeama's right post, before Ikechukwu Uche's turn on edge of box was miscued by the onrushing Ideye.

Burkina Faso were struggling from the initial stages to get out of their own half but Nigeria's dominance were fruitful just five minutes before the break, when Mba volleyed past Diakite from the middle of the box.The only goal came when Sunday Mba put Nigeria ahead with a superb volley five minutes before the break after a series of pressure to Burkina Faso, who had to compelled to be defensive in the continuous attack.

A long ball from the own half received by Moses whose shot was blocked and looped up to Mba, who volleyed the ball from the air to give the Super Eagles a deserved lead.

The goal gave the match a much-needed boost, with Burkina Faso increasing their urgency and making a couple of positive runs into the Nigeria box just before the half-time whistle.Nigeria got the chance to doubled their lead two minutes after the break when Moses played in Ideye, who was unable to convert the positive chance.

In the second half Burkina Faso had the chance when Wilfried Sanou came close to levelling for the Stallions but hiseffort were in vain by Vincent Enyeama brilliantly.

Burkina Faso were able to retain the team that started against Ghana in a semifinal settled by a shootout after the red card given to midfielder Jonathan Pitroipa was rescinded when the referee admitted he erred.Nigeria won the African Nations Cup for the first time in 1980, overcome Algeria 3-0 in Lagos with three first-half goals, and the second honour came after 14 years when they fought back from behind to beat Zambia 2-1 in Tunis.

SEMI FINALS Fixtures and Results :

06/012/13: MALI   1-4 NIGERIA
MAL : C. Diarra 75'
NIG : Echiejile 25', Ideye 30', Emenike 44', Musa 60'

06/012/13: BURKINA FASO   1-1, 3-2 (Pen) GHANA
BUR : Bance 60'
GHA : Mubarak 13' (pen.)
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QUARTER FINALS Fixtures and Results :

02/02/13: GHANA   2-0 CAPE VERDE
GHA : Wakaso 54' (pen.), 90+5'.

02/02/13: SOUTH AFRICA   1-1, 1-3 (Pen) MALI
SOU : Rantie 31'
MAL : Keita 58'

03/02/13: IVORY COAST   1-2 NIGERIA
NIG : Emenike 43', Mba 78'
IVO : Tiote 50'
03/02/13: BURKINA FASO   1-0 Togo
BUR : Pitroipa 105'



PAST WINNERS

ALL TIME WINNERS LIST





The original trophy, made of silver, was the Abdelaziz Abdallah Salem Trophy, named after the first CAF president, Egyptian Abdelaziz Abdallah Salem. As the first winner of three Nations Cup tournaments, Ghana obtained the right to permanently hold the trophy in 1978.

Egypt won the gold-plated cup indefinitely after they became three-time champions in 2010, in an unprecedented achievement by winning three consecutive continental titles.

THE LISTS OF ALL TIME WINNERS 
Year 	Host Nation 			Winner 		Score 			Second Place
2012 	Gabon / Equatorial Guinea 	Zambia 		0 - 0 (8-7 PEN) 	Ivory Coast
2010 	Angola 				Egypt 		1 - 0 			Ghana
2008 	Ghana 				Egypt 		1 - 0 			Cameroon
2006 	Egypt 				Egypt 		0 - 0 (3-2 PEN) 	Ivory Coast
2004 	Tunisia 			Tunisia 	2 - 1 			Morocco
2002 	Mali 				Cameroon 	0 - 0 (3-2 PEN) 	Senegal
2000 	Ghana / Nigeria 		Cameroon 	2 - 2 (4-3 PEN) 	Nigeria
1998 	Burkina Faso 			Egypt 		2 - 0 			South Africa
1996 	South Africa 			South Africa 	2 - 0 			Tunisia
1994 	Tunisia 			Nigeria 	2 - 1 			Zambia
1992 	Senegal 			Ivory Coast 	0 - 0 (11-10 PEN) 	Ghana
1990 	Algeria 			Algeria 	1 - 0 			Nigeria 
1988 	Morocco 			Cameroon 	1 - 0 			Nigeria
1986 	Egypt 				Egypt 		0 - 0 (5-4 PEN) 	Cameroon
1984 	Ivory Coast 			Cameroon 	3 - 1 			Nigeria
1982 	Libya 				Ghana 		1 - 1 (7-6 PEN) 	Libya
1980 	Nigeria 			Nigeria 	3 - 0 			Algeria
1978 	Ghana 				Ghana 		2 - 0 			Uganda
1976 	Ethiopia 			Morocco 	1 - 1 			Guinea
1974 	Egypt 				Zaire 		2 - 0 			Zambia
1972 	Cameroon 			Congo 		1 - 0 			Mali
1970 	Sudan 				Sudan 		1 - 0 			Ghana
1968 	Ethiopia 			Congo DR	1 - 0 			Ghana
1965 	Tunisia 			Ghana 		3 - 2 			Tunisia
1963 	Ghana 				Ghana 		3 - 0 			Sudan
1962 	Ethiopia 			Ethiopia 	4 - 2 			Egypt
1959 	Egypt 				Egypt 		2 - 1 			Sudan
1957 	Sudan 				Egypt 		4 - 0 			Ethiopia




WINNERS BY NATIONS 

Champion(s)


 					
Egypt  		(7) 
Cameroon 	(4) 	
Ghana 		(4) 
Congo DR 	(2)
Nigeria 	(2) 
Algeria 	(1)
Morocco 	(1)
Tunisia 	(1) 
Congo 		(1) 	 
Ivory Coash 	(1) 	
Ethiopia 	(1) 
Sudan 		(1)			 
South Africa 	(1) 
Zambia 		(1)




RECORDS





1957-2012 teams RECORDS 
 	  	  	  	  	  	  	  	 
Team 				P 	W 	D 	L 	F 	A 	GD 	Pts  	 
Egypt  				90 	51 	15 	24 	154 	84 	70 	168 	 	 
Nigeria  			80 	42 	19 	19 	112 	78 	34 	145 	 	 
Ghana  				77 	43 	14 	20 	101 	65 	36 	143 	 	 
Cameroon  			71 	37 	20 	14 	110 	67 	43 	131 	  
Côte d'Ivoire  			77 	34 	18 	25 	112 	85 	27 	120 	 	 
Zambia  			61 	26 	15 	20 	77 	64 	13 	93 	 	 
Algeria  			57 	20 	17 	20 	67 	67 	0 	77 	 	 
Morocco  			54 	19 	19 	16 	63 	51 	12 	76 	 	 
Tunisia  			57 	18 	21 	18 	74 	71 	3 	75 	 	 
Congo DR  			56 	16 	15 	25 	65 	81 	-16 	63 	 	 
Senegal  			46 	15 	11 	20 	52 	46 	6 	56 	 	 
South Africa  			31 	13 	9 	9 	37 	32 	5 	48 	 	 
Mali  				34 	13 	9 	12 	44 	48 	-4 	48   
Guinea  			35 	11 	12 	12 	52 	51 	1 	45  	 
Sudan  				24 	7 	6 	11 	28 	38 	-10 	27   
Ethiopia  			24 	7 	2 	15 	28 	54 	-26 	23   
Angola  			20 	4 	9 	7 	28 	33 	-5 	21   
Congo  				22 	5 	6 	11 	21 	34 	-13 	21  	 
Gabon  				15 	5 	4 	6 	15 	21 	-6 	19  	 
Libya  				11 	3 	5 	3 	12 	13 	-1 	14  	 
Togo  				18 	2 	6 	10 	13 	32 	-19 	12  	 
Burkina Faso  			26 	2 	6 	18 	22 	52 	-30 	12  	 
Uganda  			16 	3 	1 	12 	17 	31 	-14 	10   
Kenya  				14 	1 	4 	9 	8 	24 	-16 	7  	 
Equatorial Guinea  		4 	2 	0 	2 	3 	5 	-2 	6  	 
Zimbabwe  			6 	2 	0 	4 	8 	13 	-5 	6  	 
Liberia  			5 	1 	2 	2 	5 	7 	-2 	5  	 
Rwanda  			3 	1 	1 	1 	3 	3 	0 	4  	 
Malawi  			6 	1 	1 	4 	6 	11 	-5 	4   
Sierra Leone  			5 	1 	1 	3 	2 	11 	-9 	4   
Namibia  			6 	0 	2 	4 	9 	18 	-9 	2   
Mozambique  			12 	0 	2 	10 	4 	26 	-22 	2  	 
Tanzania  			3 	0 	1 	2 	3 	6 	-3 	1  
Benin  				9 	0 	1 	8 	4 	20 	-16 	1   
Niger  				3 	0 	0 	3 	1 	5 	-4 	0  	 
Mauritius  			3 	0 	0 	3 	2 	8 	-6 	0  	 
Botswana  			3 	0 	0 	3 	2 	9 	-7 	0




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South Africa ready for kick off on 19th Janunary : By Michael Mugote (Uganda)

14.01.2013 : The 29th Edition of the Orange African Cup of Nations starts 19th-January 2013 in South Africa's city Johannesburg with two games on the list. The tournament which is very much waited to watch by all African and World enthusiastic football fans will see group 'A' first and second games of South Africa battling debutant Cape Verde Islands and Angola taking on Morocco respectively.

In last years Tournament the Winner Zambia team practiced in Goa-India. Francis Kasonde, Joseph Musonda, Andrew Sinkala, Oswald Kalamba ..Those 1st eleven Players of Zambia played in India against Dempo SC on 29th November in a friendly at Goa where they won 5-0. and in first match they beat GOA XI 4-1. Before participating in the African Cup of Nations the Trip was their trainaing camp. .......2012 Edition of AFRICA NATIONS CUP

South Africa captain, Bongani Khumalo believes all the players are prepared and ready for victory. "The players are all willing to sacrifice everything they have and do well for the country. So we are confident to get positive results in every match". South Africa FA website reported him saying.

In group 'B', former champions Ghana will play up against DR. Congo before Mali verse Niger in the other game.

Defending champions Zambia, who canceled their last warm up friendly against Namibia in order to put room for players to rest, are set to meet rivals Nigeria in group 'C' as Burkina Faso will entertain Ethiopia who is the only East-Africa representative nation in this tournament. Captain Katongo's Zambia managed a single point in the trio warm up games the western African team played.

In Group 'D', Didier Drogba and Toure's Ivory Coast will play Tunisia while Algeria plays Adebayor's Togo.This tournament was scheduled to be hosted by Libya; the decision was made by CAF after unstopping internal wars in Libya.

For the first time in CAF history, the hosts of three successive tournaments were chosen at the same time; Angola was chosen to host in 2010, Gabon/Equatorial Guinea were chosen as hosts for the 2012 Cup and South Africa for this 2013 edition.

CAF also switched the tournament to being held in even-numbered years to odd- years so that it does no longer clash with the World cup. 7 times wining record owners, Egypt, will miss the tournament after being out defeated by Central African Republic in the qualifiers.

The winner of this tournament will qualify in the 2013 FIFA Confederation Cup in Brazil as the representative from CAF and will join Spain (Europe) Uruguay (South America) and Tahiti in group D.



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