The African section of the
1968 Summer Olympics football qualification acted as qualifiers for the
1968 Summer Olympics football tournament held in Mexico, for football teams from Africa. Three slots in the final tournament were available for African teams.
Format
Three groups of five to six teams compete in a home-and-away knockout stage. The winners of each group qualifies for the Summer Olympics football finals.
Groups
Group 1
Group 2
Group 3
Qualified teams
The following three teams from Africa qualified for the final tournament.
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1 Bold indicates champions for that year. ''Italic'' indicates hosts for that year.
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2 Includes all participations by a competing nation at the Summer Olympics (clubs representing nations, olympic teams, full national teams, etc.).
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3 Morocco withdrew due to refusing to play against Israel in the final tournament, and were replaced by Ghana.
References
{{DEFAULTSORT:Football at the 1968 Summer Olympics - Men's African Qualifiers
Africa
Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most populous continent after Asia. At about 30.3 million km2 (11.7 million square miles) including adjacent islands, it covers 20% of Earth's land area and 6% of its total surfac ...
1968
Events January–February
* January 1968, January – The I'm Backing Britain, I'm Backing Britain campaign starts spontaneously.
* January 5 – Prague Spring: Alexander Dubček is chosen as leader of the Communist Party of Cze ...