Benin (hosts final tournament) automatically qualified
Preliminary Round [Apr 2 and 17, 2004]
Libya 2-2 0-0 Niger
Sierra Leone 0-0 1-1 Gambia [2nd leg Apr 18]
[Pa Landing K.; Edward Camara]
Sudan 1-0 2-1 Somalia [1st leg Apr 3, 2nd leg Apr 9]
[Isse Aden A. 89; Hassan I. Hassan 35, Mahmoud Makawi 81]
Lesotho w/o Mauritius [Mauritius withdrew]
Eritrea 0-1 0-0 Rwanda
Namibia 0-0 0-5 Botswana
[Moemedi "Jomo" Moatlhaping 30pen, 41, Betsho Pius 67, 69, 90]
Burundi o/w Congo(-Brazzaville) [Burundi withdrew]
First Round [Jul 18 and Aug 1, 2004]
Algeria 1-2 0-1 Niger [2nd leg Jul 31]
Morocco 3-0 0-1 Sierra Leone [1st leg Jul 17]
Egypt 4-0 0-0 Sudan
Ethiopia o/w Zambia [Ethiopia witdhrew]
South Africa 2-1 0-1 Lesotho [1st leg Jul 16]
Zimbabwe w/o Tanzania [Tanzania withdrew]
Mozambique 1-0 0-4 Rwanda [2nd leg Jul 31]
Angola 3-0 2-2 Botswana [2nd leg Jul 30]
Ivory Coast 2-0 0-2 Guinea [5-4 pen; 2nd leg Aug 2]
Ghana w/o Gabon [Gabon withdrew]
Tunisia 1-0 0-1 Burkina Faso [3-5 pen; 2nd leg Jul 31]
Congo-Kinshasa o/w Nigeria [Congo-Kinshasa withdrew]
Cameroon w/o Congo(-Brazzaville) [Congo withdrew]
Mali 3-1 0-0 Senegal [2nd leg Jul 31]
Second Round [Oct 2 and 24, 2004]
Morocco 4-0 n/p Niger [2nd leg Oct 23}
[Mohcine Iajour 15, 73, 75, Abdeslam Benjelloune 69; in Rabat]
[2nd leg not played following Niger's suspension by FIFA]
Zambia 2-0 0-3 Egypt
[David Mwape 22, Chalwe Kabamba 75; in Chingola]
[Hossam Osama 37, ?, Abdalla Al Said 70]
[in Cairo]
Zimbabwe 0-0 0-3 Lesotho
[in Harare]
[Bokang Mothoana 35, Tefo Maipato, Thabiso Maile 84pen]
[NB: Zimbabwe have formally complained Lesotho used several over-age
players, though the Harare paper 'The Herald' writes the same in
fact applied to the Zimbabwe team]
Angola 1-0 0-0 Rwanda [1st leg Oct 3]
[Lucas 90; in Cabinda]
[in Kigali]
Ghana 0-1 1-1 Ivory Coast [1st leg Oct 1]
[Abdramane Diaby 90]
[Abdramane Diaby 47pen; Vincent Angban 15; in Abidjan]
Nigeria 2-0 3-2 Burkina Faso [1st leg Oct 3; 2nd leg Oct 23]
[Solomon Okoronkwo 31, 38; in Ibadan]
[?, ?; Adedeji Adeyinka, Isaac Promise, Yaye Taiwo; in Ouagadougou]
Mali 1-0 1-2 Cameroon [1st leg Oct 3]
[in Bamako]
[Serges Ngal 80, Joel Nguemo 90; Kalifa Dembele 65]
Final Tournament (in Benin)
Benin qualified as hosts.
Group A
Jan 15 Ivory Coast 1-0 Mali
[Abdramane Diaby 61]
Benin 0-3 Nigeria
[Taye Taiwo 25pen, David Adwo 34, Obinna Nsofor 46]
Jan 18 Nigeria 3-1 Mali
[David Abwo 45+, Solomon Okoronkwo 81, Olubayo Adefemi 84;
Kalifa Dembele 55]
Ivory Coast 1-4 Benin
[Zahiri Yedi 90+; Coffi Agbesi 37, Gariga Maiga 492, 80pen,
Mathieu Adeniyi 52]
Jan 22 Nigeria 1-0 Ivory Coast
[Taye Taiwo 78]
Benin 3-3 Mali
[Romuald Boco 31, Bachirou Osseni 40, Razak Omotoyossi 44;
Kalifa Dembele 27, Boubacar Kebe 35, Koniba Ladji 65]
1.NIGERIA 3 3 0 0 7- 1 9
2.BENIN 3 1 1 1 7- 7 4
3.Ivory Coast 3 1 0 2 2- 5 3
4.Mali 3 0 1 2 4- 7 1
Group B
Jan 16 Egypt 1-0 Angola
[Hossam Nasr 20pen]
Morocco 2-0 Lesotho
[Rachid Tiberkrane 63, Tarik Bendamou 80]
Jan 19 Angola 1-2 Lesotho
[Manuel Zando 27; Dlomo Monaphathi 40, Bokang Mothoana 45]
Morocco 2-2 Egypt
[Mouhssine Iajour 49, Tarik Bendamou 76; Mahmoud Alla 46,
Islam Siam 84]
Jan 23 Angola 0-1 Morocco
[Mouhssine Iajour 39]
Egypt 4-1 Lesotho
[Abdou Abdallah 7, Farag Ahmed 12, Mohamed Abdallah 75,
Mahmoud Alla 82; Lintho Korie 88pen]
1.Egypt 3 2 1 0 7- 3 7
2.Morocco 3 2 1 0 5- 2 7
3.Lesotho 3 1 0 2 3- 7 3
4.Angola 3 0 0 3 1- 4 0
Semifinals
Jan 26 Nigeria 2-2 Morocco [aet, 5-3 pen]
[Solomon Okoronkwo 53, Obinna Victor Nsofor 114;
Mouhssine Iajour 11, 101]
Egypt 1-1 Benin [aet, 3-1 pen]
[Farag Ahmed 83; Gariga Abou Maiga 3]
Third Place Match
Jan 29 Morocco 1-1 Benin [aet, 3-5 pen]
[Mouhssine Iajour 11; Abdoulaye Ouzerou 45]
Final
Jan 29 Nigeria 2-0 Egypt
[Isaac Promise 45, 55]
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