Football at the 2003 All-Africa Games – Men's qualification

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The men's qualification for football tournament at the 2003 All-Africa Games.

Qualification stage[]

Zone I (North Africa)[]

Morocco and Tunisia withdrew.

Team 1 Agg. Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
Libya 1–1 (a) Algeria Algeria 1–1 0–0
 1–1 Algeria
Goal 68' (pen.) Messaoud Goal 62'
Algeria 0–0 

Algeria qualified.

Zone II (West Africa 1)[]

First round
Team 1 Agg. Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
Mali w/o Mauritania — —
Senegal Senegal 4–3 Guinea 1–1 3–2
Second round
Team 1 Agg. Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
Senegal Senegal 2–1 Mali 1–1 1–0

Senegal qualified.

Zone III (West Africa 2)[]

First round
Team 1 Agg. Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
Liberia Liberia w/o Benin — —
Togo w/o Niger — —
Second round
Team 1 Agg. Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
Liberia Liberia w/o Ghana Ghana — —
Togo w/o Ivory Coast Ivory Coast — —
Ghana Ghana bye
Ivory Coast Ivory Coast bye
Third round
Team 1 Agg. Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
Ghana Ghana w/o Ivory Coast Ivory Coast — —

Ghana qualified.

Zone IV (Central Africa)[]

First round
Team 1 Agg. Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
Rwanda w/o Republic of the Congo — —
Cameroon Ghana bye
Second round
Team 1 Agg. Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
Cameroon Cameroon 4–2 Rwanda 3–0 1–2

Cameroon qualified.

Zone V (East Africa)[]

Tournamen held in Egypt. Ethiopia, Sudan and Uganda withdrew after Egypt refused to honour their pledge to provide participating nations with return air tickets.

Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
 Egypt 2 1 1 0 2 1 +1 4
  2 0 1 1 1 2 −1 1
  (W) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
  (W) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
  (W) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Source:[citation needed]
(W) Withdrew
Egypt 0 – 0 
 1 – 2 Egypt

Egypt qualified.

Zone VI (Southern Africa)[]

First round
Team 1 Agg. Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
Eswatini 1–3 Namibia 1–1 0–2
Botswana 3–1 Lesotho 1–0 2–1
Cameroon Ghana bye
Second round
Team 1 Agg. Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
Zimbabwe Zimbabwe 2–1 Mozambique 1–0 1–1
Zambia Zambia 3–2 Namibia 2–0 1–2
South Africa South Africa 4–4 (4–3 p) Malawi 2–2 2–2
Angola Angola 5–2 Botswana 4–1 1–1
Third round
Team 1 Agg. Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
Zimbabwe Zimbabwe 2–2 (a) Zambia Zambia 2–1 0–1
South Africa South Africa 4–2 Angola Angola 2–0 2–2

South Africa & Zambia qualified.

Zone VII (Indian Ocean)[]

No matches, 2 teams qualify from Zone VI.

Qualifying teams[]

The following 8 nations qualified for men's play at the 2003 All Africa Games. Two teams qualify from Zone VI replacing Zone VII.

Zone Team
Hosts  Nigeria
Zone I  Algeria
Zone II  Senegal
Zone III  Ghana
Zone IV  Cameroon
Zone V  Egypt
Zone VI  South Africa
 Zambia
Zone VII no team

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