2019 Africa Cup of Nations qualification Group A

Group A of the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations qualification tournament was one of the twelve groups to decide the teams which qualified for the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations finals tournament. The group consisted of four teams: Senegal, Equatorial Guinea, Sudan, and Madagascar (winners of the preliminary round).^[1]

The teams played against each other in home-and-away round-robin format between June 2017 and March 2019.^[2]

Senegal and Madagascar, the group winners and runners-up respectively, qualified for the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations.^[3]

Standings

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Senegal	6	5	1	0	12	2	+10	16	Final tournament	—	2–0	3–0	3–0
2	Madagascar	6	3	1	2	8	8	0	10	Final tournament	2–2	—	1–0	1–3
3	Equatorial Guinea	6	2	0	4	5	7	−2	6		0–1	0–1	—	1–0
4	Sudan	6	1	0	5	5	13	−8	3		0–1	1–3	1–4	—

Source: CAF
Rules for classification: Qualification tiebreakers

Matches

9 June 2017

22:00 UTC+3

Sudan	1–3	Madagascar
El Tahir 72'	Report	Andriatsima 15', 83' Andriamatsinoro 62' (pen.)

El-Obeid Stadium, El-Obeid

Referee: Sadok Selmi (Tunisia)

10 June 2017

21:00 UTC+0

Senegal	3–0	Equatorial Guinea
Sow 1', 72' Gueye 90'	Report

Stade Léopold Sédar Senghor, Dakar

Referee: Rédouane Jiyed (Morocco)

8 September 2018

16:00 UTC+1

Equatorial Guinea	1–0	Sudan
Nsue 30'	Report

Estadio de Bata, Bata

Referee: Hélder Martins de Carvalho (Angola)

9 September 2018

14:30 UTC+3

Madagascar	2–2	Senegal
Voavy 43' Koulibaly 67' (o.g.)	Report	Konaté 26' Keita 62'

Mahamasina Municipal Stadium, Antananarivo

Referee: Joshua Bondo (Botswana)

13 October 2018

16:00 UTC+1

Equatorial Guinea	0–1	Madagascar
	Report	Andriatsima 19'

Estadio de Bata, Bata

Referee: Mehdi Abid Charef (Algeria)

13 October 2018

19:00 UTC+0

Senegal	3–0	Sudan
Cissé 17' Gueye 18' Niang 50'	Report

Stade Léopold Sédar Senghor, Dakar

Referee: Bamlak Tessema Weyesa (Ethiopia)

16 October 2018

14:30 UTC+3

Madagascar	1–0	Equatorial Guinea
Rakotoharimalala 42'	Report

Vontovorona Stadium, Antananarivo^{[note 1]}

Referee: Mahamadou Keita (Mali)

16 October 2018

19:30 UTC+2

Sudan	0–1	Senegal
	Report	S. Sarr 86'

Khartoum Stadium, Khartoum

Referee: Mustapha Ghorbal (Algeria)

17 November 2018

16:00 UTC+1

Equatorial Guinea	0–1	Senegal
	Report	Meseguer 52' (o.g.)

Estadio de Bata, Bata

Referee: Mahmoud El Banna (Egypt)

18 November 2018

14:30 UTC+3

Madagascar	1–3	Sudan
Andriamatsinoro 77'	Report	Musa 2' Abuaagla 61' Yasir 85'

Vontovorona Stadium, Antananarivo^{[note 1]}

Referee: Bamlak Tessema Weyesa (Ethiopia)

22 March 2019

16:00 UTC+2

Sudan	1–4	Equatorial Guinea
Teiri 15'	Report	Nsue 19' (pen.), 36' (pen.) Ganet 49' Obiang 85'

Al-Hilal Stadium, Omdurman

Referee: Sékou Ahmed Touré (Guinea)

23 March 2019

19:00 UTC+0

Senegal	2–0	Madagascar
Niang 27', 56'	Report

Stade Lat-Dior, Thiès

Referee: Youssef Essrayri (Tunisia)

Goalscorers

There were 30 goals scored in 12 matches, for an average of 2.5 goals per match.

3 goals

2 goals

1 goal

1 own goal

Luis Meseguer (against Senegal)
Kalidou Koulibaly (against Madagascar)

Notes

1 2 The final two home matches of Madagascar were switched from Mahamasina Municipal Stadium, Antananarivo to Vontovorona Stadium, Antananarivo after the CAF banned the stadium from being used following a deadly stampede during their home match against Senegal on 9 September 2018.^[4]

References

↑ "Total Africa Cup of Nations, Cameroon: Draw results and fixtures". CAF. 13 January 2017.
↑ "New Dates of the Qualifiers of AFCON, Cameroon 2019" (PDF). CAF.
↑ "Draw Procedure of the Qualifiers of the 32nd Edition of Total Africa Cup of Nations, Cameroon 2019" (PDF). CAFonline.com. Retrieved 12 January 2017.
↑ "Madagascar choose Vontovorona to stage Afcon qualifiers". BBC Sport. 6 October 2018.

External links

32nd Edition Of Total Africa Cup Of Nations, CAFonline.com

[Madagascar-5] 1 2 The final two home matches of Madagascar were switched from Mahamasina Municipal Stadium, Antananarivo to Vontovorona Stadium, Antananarivo after the CAF banned the stadium from being used following a deadly stampede during their home match against Senegal on 9 September 2018.^[4]

[1] "Total Africa Cup of Nations, Cameroon: Draw results and fixtures". CAF. 13 January 2017.

[2] "New Dates of the Qualifiers of AFCON, Cameroon 2019" (PDF). CAF.

[procedure-3] "Draw Procedure of the Qualifiers of the 32nd Edition of Total Africa Cup of Nations, Cameroon 2019" (PDF). CAFonline.com. Retrieved 12 January 2017.

[4] "Madagascar choose Vontovorona to stage Afcon qualifiers". BBC Sport. 6 October 2018.

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