The 2015 African Games men's football tournament qualification decided the participating teams of the 2015 African Games men's football tournament. A total of eight teams qualified to play in the men's

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tournament, including

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who qualified automatically as hosts. Both the qualifying rounds and the final tournament were age-restricted and open to men's under-23 national teams only.

Teams

A total of 24 teams entered the qualifying rounds, organized by the

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(CAF).

Format

Qualification ties were played on a home-and-away

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basis. If the aggregate score was tied after the second leg, the

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would be applied, and if still level, the penalty shoot-out would be used to determine the winner (no

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would be played). The seven winners of the second round qualified for the final tournament.

Schedule

The schedule of the qualifying rounds was as follows.

Qualification rounds

First round

Note: Libya, Guinea-Bissau, Madagascar, Tunisia and Swaziland withdrew. ''Burkina Faso won on walkover.'' ---- ''Ivory Coast won on walkover.'' ---- ''Burundi won 2–1 on aggregate.'' ---- ''Egypt won 4–1 on aggregate.'' ---- ''Nigeria won 6–1 on aggregate.'' ---- ''Zambia won on walkover.'' ---- ''Mali won on walkover.'' ---- ''0–0 on aggregate. Mozambique won on penalties.'' ---- ''Zimbabwe won on walkover.'' ---- ''Sudan won 4–1 on aggregate.''

Second round

Winners qualified for

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. ''Burkina Faso won 2–1 on aggregate.'' ---- ''Egypt won 4–0 on aggregate.'' ---- ''Nigeria won 2–1 on aggregate.'' ---- ''3–3 on aggregate. Senegal won on away goals.'' ---- ''Ghana won 2–1 on aggregate.'' ---- ''Zimbabwe won 2–1 on aggregate.'' ---- ''Sudan won 2–1 on aggregate.''

Qualified teams

The following eight teams qualified for the final tournament. :

¹ Bold indicates champion for that year. ''Italic'' indicates host for that year.

On 26 August 2015, the CAF announced that Egypt had withdrawn from the competition. Burundi, the team eliminated by Egypt in the final round, declined to replace them due to short notice. Therefore, only seven teams competed in the final tournament.

Goalscorers

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* Maher Osman ;2 goals *

Taiwo Awoniyi Taiwo Micheal Awoniyi (born 12 August 1997) is a Nigerian professional Association football, footballer who plays as a forward (association football), forward for club Nottingham Forest F.C., Nottingham Forest and the Nigeria national football ...

;1 goal * Faïçal Ouédraogo * Allassane Sango *

Abbas Nshimirimana Abbas Nshimirimana (born 19 May 1998) is a Burundian professional footballer A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American fo ...

Fiston Abdul Razak Fiston Abdul Razak (born 5 September 1993) is a Burundian footballer who currently plays for Olympique de Khouribga and the Burundi national team as a striker. Club career Before join JS Kabylie, he played successively for LLB Académic ...

* Brice Tchamabo * Katalay Ipumbu *

Mostafa Fathi Mostafa Mohamed Fathi Abdel Hamid Mohamed ( ara, مصطفى محمد فتحي عبد الحميد محمد; born 12 May 1994) is an Egyptian professional footballer who plays as a winger for Egyptian Premier League club Pyramids and the Egypt ...

Ramy Rabia Ramy Hisham Abdel Aziz Rabia ( ar, رامي ربيعة; born 20 May 1993) is an Egyptian professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for Egyptian Premier League club Al Ahly and the Egypt national football team. He began his career w ...

* Mohamed Salem * Trezeguet *

Dawa Hotessa Dawa Hotessa is an Ethiopian professional footballer who plays as a forward for Ethiopian Premier League club Hadiya Hossana and the Ethiopia national team. International career In August 2014, coach Mariano Barreto invited Hotessa to be a p ...

Axel Méyé Axel Méyé Me Ndong (born 6 June 1995) is a Gabonese professional footballer who plays as a forward for CS Constantine and the Gabon national team. He has competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics In 2012, he played 41 minutes for the national tea ...

* Bright Adjei * Cédric Khaleb Kouadio * Vincent Omumbo * Alou Badra Sylla * Abdramane Traoré * Sidi Yaya Traoré * Salomão * Segun Oduduwa *

Etebo Oghenekaro Oghenekaro Peter Etebo (born 9 November 1995) is a Nigerian professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Aris Thessaloniki, on loan from Stoke City, and the Nigeria national team. Etebo started out at Warri Wolves where he spent three ...

* Peter Onyekachi *

Elhadji Pape Diaw Elhadji Pape Diaw (born 31 December 1994) is a Senegalese professional association football, footballer who plays as a Defender (association football), defender for French club Stade Lavallois, Laval. He is also under contract with Ukrainian Prem ...

* Moussa Koné * Ousseynou Thiouné *

Menzi Masuku Menzi Alson Masuku (born 15 April 1993) is a South African soccer player who plays as a winger for Royal AM. International goals :''Scores and results list South Africa's goal tally first.'' Honours ;Orlando Pirates Runners-up * MTN 8: ...

Athar El Tahir Ather El Tahir Babikir Mohamed (; born 24 October 1996) is a Sudanese footballer who plays as a right-back In the sport of association football, a defender is an outfield position whose primary role is to stop attacks during the game and pre ...

* Ibrahim Gaafar * Mohamed Mukhtar * Friday Samu * Blessing Moyo *

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;Own goal * Salomão (playing against Ghana)

References

External links

African Games Men 2015, Qualifiers
CAFonline.com
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