Which Teams Have Qualified for the 2010 Africa Cup of Nations in Angola?

November 16th, 2009 | by: Daryl |

Update: Full Angola 2010 schedule here.

can2010 This weekend was the World Cup qualifying climax in Africa, and there was plenty of qualification drama to go around. The winners of each of the five groups qualified for World Cup 2010, and everyone else missed out. But there was a pretty decent consolation prize for the ten second and third placed teams, as World Cup qualifying doubles as Africa Cup of Nations qualifying and the top three in each group qualified for the 2010 Africa Cup of Nations (also known as the African Nations Cup, ACN and CAN) in Angola.

Those 15 nations plus hosts Angola will compete for the trophy Egypt won in both 2006 and 2008. The 16 Angola 2010 teams will be:

Angola
Ghana
Cote d’Ivoire
Tunisia
Algeria
Egypt
Cameroon
Gabon
Nigeria
Mali
Benin
Burkina Faso
Mozambique
Zambia
Togo
Malawi

Angola 2010 runs from January 10th to January 31st in 2010. It will be a nice straigthforward four groups of four, top two teams from each group makes the quarterfinals setup. The groups will be drawn this Friday, November 20th, 2009.

UDPATE: I should have pointed this out firs time around, but South Africa have failed to qualify for Angola 2010. They entered qualification along with everyone else, but were knocked out at the second round (the first group stage). Big blow for South Africa not to qualify for Angola, as the tournament could have provided vital tournament practice.

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tom

how did it work with south africa since they were not part of a WC qualifying group? it seems like they got the shaft here…
Hideo

They were int eh fiurst round of qualifying and lost out. See the following link for details:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_FIFA_World_Cup_qualification_-_CAF_Second_Round#Group_4
The qualification did double up as World Cup qualifying of course as you say, and had they made it through to the final round of qualifying I’m not sure how it would have worked.
Similarly Angola were in the first round of qualifying but didn’t make it through, since they were trying for a World Cup place.
http://www.worldcupblog.org Daryl

There were three rounds of qualifying. South Africa entered qualifying like everyone else, but were knocked out in the second round.
http://www.malawi.worldcupblog.org sscouser

Daryl, you listed Mali twice. Malawi is missing on the list.
http://malawi.worldcupblog.org/team-news/the-wait-is-over-for-malawi-angola-here-we-come.html
http://www.worldcupblog.org Daryl

My apologies sscouser, just a typo. Corrected now.
http://hull.theoffside.com MW

Any early predictions? I am going with Cote d’Ivoire. They’ll break the Egypt/Cameroon monopoly.
http://www.malawi.worldcupblog.org sscouser

Thanks. I just hope Malawi will not miss from your list of 4 teams that you think will win it all.

Don’t worry about South Africa’s absence. They will make it up. South African League will be in recess for the entire month of January when their national team will be in camp. The league will also release all selected players to join the national team from March 1, 2010 right up to the commencement of the World Cup.
Seth

I’m also going to go with Ivory Coast winning it all.
mamawe

ANGOLA WILL WIN,FOR SURE.
John Manda

i hope that MALAWI Is going there with MISSION.
kennedy kungwa

malawi ultimately deserved it. gooo malawi
Njobvu Kazi

Go Zambia and make us pround