Football at the 1976 Summer Olympics – Men's African Qualifiers

1976 Summer Olympics – Men's Football African Qualifiers

Dates	11 May 1975 – 4 April 1976
← 1972 1980 →

First round[]

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Algeria	2–3	Tunisia	1–1	1–2
Egypt	1–2	Sudan	1–1	0–1
Ethiopia	0–3	Tanzania	0–0	0–3
Gambia	0–7	Guinea	0–1	0–6
Ghana	10–1	Liberia	6–0	4–1
Mauritania	0–7	Mali	0–1	0–6
Malawi	w/o	Madagascar	–	–
Morocco	3–1	Libya	2–1	1–0
Nigeria	w/o	Cameroon	–	–
Togo	1–2	Senegal	1–1	0–1
Zaire	6–2	Upper Volta	4–1	2–1
Zambia	9–0	Mauritius	5–0	4–0

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Second round[]

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Guinea	3–6	Ghana	1–0	2–6
Malawi	2–5	Zambia	1–1	1–4
Nigeria	w/o	Mali	–	–
Senegal	3–3 (5-4p)	Zaire	3–1	0–2
Tanzania	1–2	Sudan	1–0	0–2
Tunisia	0–2	Morocco	0–1	0–1

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Third round[]

3 groups of 2 teams each. Winners qualify for the Final Tournament.

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Nigeria	3–2	Morocco	3–1	0–1
Senegal	1–2	Ghana	0–0	1–2
Zambia	2–2 (5-4p)	Sudan	2–2	0–0

Nigeria won 3–2 and qualified for the 1976 Summer Olympics football tournament.

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Ghana won 2–1 and qualified for the 1976 Summer Olympics football tournament.

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Zambia won 5–4 on penalties after 2–2 on aggregates and qualified for the 1976 Summer Olympics football tournament.

Boycott[]

The three African participants withdrew a day before the start of the Games and were not replaced. They boycotted the Olympics protesting the participation of New Zealand, whose rugby team planned a summer tour of South Africa in spite of the Soweto uprising.^[1]

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