Central African Games

Held three (or four?) times, for teams of Africa's "Zone 4". Possibly served twice (apart from 1972) as qualifying section for the African Games.

Palmares

Year Venue        Champions     Runners-up  
1972 Congo        Congo         Cameroon
1976 Gabon        Cameroon  3-2 Congo
1981 Angola       Zaire         Congo
1987 Congo        Cameroon  2-0 Angola

NB: the 1972 edition was a qualifying tournament for the
    1973 African Games and apparently was not official.

Central African Games 1976 (Gabon, June 29-July 14)


FIRST ROUND

Group 1
29- 6-76 Gabon         0-0 Cameroon          1.CAMEROON     3  2  1  0 10- 0  5
         Burundi       6-2 Rwanda            2.GABON        3  2  1  0  7- 1  5
 7- 7-76 Gabon         4-1 Burundi           3.Burundi      3  1  0  2  7-11  2
         Cameroon      5-0 Rwanda            4.Rwanda       3  0  0  3  2-14  0
10- 7-76 Gabon         3-0 Rwanda
         Cameroon      5-0 Burundi
NB: Zaire played all teams in the group but did not take part in the Games.
    7-76 Gabon         1-1 Zaire         
    7-76 Zaire         1-2 Cameroon     
    7-76 Zaire         1-0 Burundi     
    7-76 Zaire         6-1 Rwanda           
                                            
Group 2
29- 6-76 Congo         2-1 Central Afr. Rep. 1.CONGO        3  3  0  0 17- 2  6
         Chad          5-0 São Tomé/Príncipe 2.CENTRAL AFR. 3  2  0  1  4- 3  4
 7- 7-76 Congo        11-0 São Tomé/Príncipe 3.Chad         3  1  0  2  6- 5  2
         Central Afr.  1-0 Chad              4.São Tomé/Pr. 3  0  0  3  1-18  0
10- 7-76 Congo         4-1 Chad
         Central Afr.  2-1 São Tomé/Príncipe

SEMIFINALS

12- 7-76 Cameroon      3-0 Central African Republic
         Congo         1-0 Gabon

THIRD PLACE MATCH

14- 7-76 Gabon         3-1 Central African Republic

FINAL

14- 7-76 Cameroon      3-2 Congo

Central African Games 1981 (Angola, August 21-29)


21- 8-81 Congo         2-1 Gabon             1.ZAIRE        4  2  2  0  6- 3  6
         Angola        0-0 Cameroon          2.Congo        4  2  1  1  6- 4  5
23- 8-81 Zaire         2-0 Cameroon          3.Gabon        4  0  3  1  3- 4  3
         Angola        1-1 Gabon             4.Angola       4  0  3  1  3- 5  3
25- 8-81 Zaire         1-1 Gabon             5.Cameroon     4  0  3  1  0- 2  3
         Angola        1-3 Congo             NB: Cameroon were represented by 
27- 8-81 Zaire         2-1 Congo                 their youth team.
         Cameroon      0-0 Gabon
29- 8-81 Angola        1-1 Zaire
         Congo         0-0 Cameroon

Central African Games 1987 (Congo, April 18-30)


Group 1
18- 4-87 Congo         3-3 Angola            1.ANGOLA       2  1  1  0  5- 4  3
21- 4-87 Angola        2-1 Zaire             2.CONGO        2  0  2  0  3- 3  2
23- 4-87 Congo         0-0 Zaire             3.Zaire        2  0  1  1  1- 2  1

Group 2
20- 4-87 Cameroon      2-0 Gabon             1.CAMEROON     2  2  0  0  5- 0  4
22- 4-87 Gabon         3-1 Chad              2.GABON        2  1  0  1  3- 3  2
24- 4-87 Cameroon      3-0 Chad              3.Chad         2  0  0  2  1- 6  0

SEMIFINALS

27- 4-87 Angola        1-0 Gabon
         Cameroon      3-0 Congo

FIFTH PLACE MATCH

29- 4-87 Zaire         4-0 Chad

THIRD PLACE MATCH

29- 4-87 Congo         3-2 Gabon

FINAL

30- 4-87 Cameroon      2-0 Angola

About this document

Source: [Bak 96].

With thanks to Martin Arenlind (ets99mar@student.hk-r.se) and Mikael Jönsson (mikcat@frisurf.no) for information on the Zaire matches in 1976 and to Myk Cameron (myk@image.co.nz) for a score correction

Prepared and maintained by Karel Stokkermans for the Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation

Author: Karel Stokkermans
Last updated: 13 Jan 2011