The men's qualification for
football
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tournament at the
1987 All-Africa Games
The 4th All-Africa Games were played from August 1, 1987, to August 12, 1987, in Nairobi, Kenya. 42 countries participated in fourteen sports.
From the beginning the intent had been to hold the African Games every four years. Economic difficulti ...
.
Qualification stage
Zone I (North Africa)
Libya and Morocco withdrew.
Algeria withdrew in protest of
CAF's decision to order a replay of the first leg following
Tunisia's protest that Algeria had fielded two professional players (
Rabah Madjer
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He reached stardom as a Porto player during the 1980s, being widely regarded as one of the ...
and
Chérif Oudjani).
CAF also rescinded an earlier decision to appoint
Algeria as the replacement host of the
1988 African Cup of Nations
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finals (replacing original host
Zambia), and awarded them to
Morocco instead.
Tunisia qualified.
Zone II (West Africa 1)
;First round
;Second round
''Senegal qualified.''
Zone III (West Africa 2)
;First round
''Ivory Coast advanced to the second round.''
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''Ghana advanced to the second round.''
;Second round
''Ivory Coast advanced to the third round.''
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''Ghana advanced to the third round.''
;Third round
''Ivory Coast qualified.''
Zone IV (Central Africa)
Qualifying tournament of Zone IV was combined with the 1987 Central African Games football tournament.
''Cameroon qualified.''
Zone V (East Africa)
Somalia withdrew.
;First round
;Second round
''Egypt qualified; In addition, Kenya qualified as hosts.''
Zone VI (Southern Africa)
;First round
''Malawi advanced to the second round.''
;Second round
''Malawi advanced to the third round.''
;Third round
''Malawi qualified.''
Zone VII (Indian Ocean)
;First round
''Madagascar advanced to the second round.''
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''Mauritius advanced to the second round.''
;Second round
''Madagascar qualified.''
Qualifying teams
The following countries have qualified for the final tournament:
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Qualification
1987
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