Football at the 2007 All-Africa Games – Men's tournament

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2007 Men's All-Africa Games
football tournament
Tournament details
Host countryAlgeria
CityAlgiers
Dates10 – 23 July
Teams8 (from 1 confederation)
Venue(s)5 (in 5 host cities)
Final positions
Champions Cameroon (4th title)
Runners-up 
Third place Tunisia
Fourth place Zambia
Tournament statistics
Matches played16
Goals scored35 (2.19 per match)
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The 2007 All-Africa Games football – Men's tournament was the 9th edition of the African Games men's football tournament for men. The football tournament was held in Algiers, Algeria between 10–23 July 2007 as part of the 2007 All-Africa Games. The tournament was age-restricted and open to men's under-23 national teams.

Qualification[]

Main article: Football at the 2007 All-Africa Games – Men's qualification

The following eight teams qualified for the final tournament.

Zone Team Appearance Previous best performance
Hosts  Algeria 7th Gold medal (1978)
Zone I  Tunisia 3rd Silver medal (1991)
Zone II   3rd Silver medal (1973)
Zone III  Ghana 4th Bronze medal (1978, 2003)
Zone IV  Cameroon 6th Gold medal (1991, 1999, 2003)
Zone V  Egypt 7th Gold medal (1987, 1995)
Zone VI  South Africa 3rd Bronze medal (1999)
 Zambia 4th Silver medal (1999)
Zone VII no team

Squads[]

Main article: Football at the 2007 All-Africa Games – Men's team squads

Final tournament[]

All times given as local time (UTC+1)

Group stage[]

Key to colours in group tables
Teams that advanced to the semifinals

Group A[]

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1  Cameroon 3 2 1 0 3 0 +3 7 Knockout stage
2  Tunisia 3 1 2 0 3 2 +1 5
3  South Africa 3 1 0 2 3 4 −1 3
4  Ghana 3 0 1 2 1 4 −3 1
Source:[citation needed]
Ghana 0 - 1 Cameroon
Christian Bekamenga Goal 65'
South Africa 1 - 2 Tunisia
George Maluleke Goal 3' Youssef Mouihbi Goal 14'
Hamza Younes Goal 81'
Cameroon 0 - 0 Tunisia
Ghana 0 - 2 South Africa
Bridget Motha Goal 25'
George Maluleka Goal 44'
Cameroon 2 - 0 South Africa
Guy Roger Toindouba Goal 2' Goal 26'
Tunisia 1 - 1 Ghana
Ben Amar Karim Goal 20' Emmanuel Allan Goal 23'

Group B[]

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1   3 2 1 0 6 4 +2 7 Knockout stage
2  Zambia 3 1 2 0 5 3 +2 5
3  Algeria (H) 3 1 1 1 4 4 0 4
4  Egypt 3 0 0 3 4 8 −4 0
Source:[citation needed]
(H) Host
 1 - 1 Zambia
Ak Bangoura Goal 59' Given Singuluma Goal 75'
Algeria 2 - 1 Egypt
Hadj Bouguèche Goal 66'
Sofiane Younès Goal 82'		 Amr El Halwani Goal 69'
Zambia 3 - 1 Egypt
Felix Sunzu Goal 14'
Timothy Mbewe Goal 35'
Signs Chibambo Goal 51'		 Ibrahim Mohamed Goal 74'
 2 - 1 Algeria
AK Bangoura Goal 52'
Ibrahima Camara Goal 88'		 Mohamed Amine Aoudia Goal 36'
Zambia 1 - 1 Algeria
Christopher Musonda Goal 90+' Mohamed Amine Aoudia Goal 44'
Egypt 2 - 3 
Reda El-Weshi Goal 4' Goal 68' Mohamed Camara Goal 78'
Mohamed Col CamaraGoal 79'
AK Bangoura Goal 86'

Knockout stage[]

Bracket[]

 
Semi-finalsGold medal match
 
      
 
19 July – Boumerdes
 
 
 Cameroon2
 
22 July – Alger
 
 Zambia1
 
 Cameroon1
 
19 July – Blida
 
 0
 
 1
 
 
 Tunisia0
 
Bronze medal match
 
 
22 July – Boumerdes
 
 
 Zambia0
 
 
 Tunisia1

Semifinals[]

Cameroon 2 - 1 Zambia
Franck Njembe Goal 50'
Christian Bekamenga Goal 56' (pen)		 Simon Bwalya Goal 90+2'
 1 - 0 Tunisia

Third Place Match[]

Zambia 0 - 1 Tunisia
Akram Maatouk Goal 73'

Final[]

Cameroon 1 - 0 
Otobong Goal 51' Report
Attendance: 5 000
Referee: Mohamed Benaissa (Algeria)

Final ranking[]

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Final result
1st place, gold medalist(s)  Cameroon 5 4 1 0 6 1 +5 13 Gold Medal
2nd place, silver medalist(s)   5 3 1 1 7 5 +2 10 Silver Medal
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)  Tunisia 5 2 2 1 4 3 +1 8 Bronze Medal
4  Zambia 5 1 2 2 6 6 0 5 Fourth place
5  Algeria (H) 3 1 1 1 4 4 0 4 Eliminated in
group stage
6  South Africa 3 1 0 2 3 4 −1 3
7  Ghana 3 0 1 2 1 4 −3 1
8  Egypt 3 0 0 3 4 8 −4 0
Source: todor66
(H) Host

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