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2017 Africa Cup of Nations

The 2017 Africa Cup of Nations (abbreviated as AFCON 2017 or CAN 2017), known as the Total 2017 Africa Cup of Nations for sponsorship reasons, was the 31st edition of the Africa Cup of Nations, the biennial international men's football championship of Africa organized by the Confederation of African Football (CAF). The tournament was scheduled to be hosted by Libya,[1] until CAF rescinded its hosting rights in August 2014 due to the Second Libyan civil war.[2] The tournament was instead hosted by Gabon.[3] This event was also part of the Africa Cup of Nations 60th Anniversary.

2017 Africa Cup of Nations
Coupe d'Afrique des Nations 2017
Tournament details
Host countryGabon
Dates14 January – 5 February
Teams16
Venue(s)4 (in 4 host cities)
Final positions
Champions Cameroon (5th title)
Runners-up Egypt
Third place Burkina Faso
Fourth place Ghana
Tournament statistics
Matches played32
Goals scored66 (2.06 per match)
Top scorer(s)Democratic Republic of the Congo Junior Kabananga
(3 goals)
Best player(s)Cameroon Christian Bassogog
Fair play award Egypt
← 2015
2019 →

Cameroon won their fifth title after defeating seven-time champions Egypt 2–1 in the final.[4] Burkina Faso finished third after beating Ghana 1–0 in the third place play-off.

As champions, Cameroon qualified for the 2017 FIFA Confederations Cup in Russia. Tournament hosts Gabon and defending champions Ivory Coast were both eliminated in the group stage.

Host selection

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First bidding

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Bids :

Nation Last hosted
Botswana[5] —
Cameroon[6] 1972
DR Congo[7] —
Guinea[8] —
Morocco[9] 1988
South Africa[10] 2013[11]
Zambia[12] —
Zimbabwe[13] —

CAF received 3 bids before 30 September 2010, the deadline, to host either the 2015 Africa Cup of Nations or 2017 from DR Congo, Morocco and South Africa. All three bids were originally put on a shortlist.[14] CAF then began an inspection procedure, on November and December 2010, intending to visit each bidding country to view stadiums, infrastructure, and football interest. They inspected the DR Congo first.[15] Shortly after the inspection, DR Congo informed CAF that they would be withdrawing their bids for both the 2015 and 2017 Africa Cup of Nations tournaments.[16] Morocco was the next country to be inspected, with CAF visiting the country in early November 2010.[17] South Africa was inspected in December 2010.

Nation Last hosted
Morocco 1988
South Africa 2013

On 29 January, during the 2011 CAF Super Cup, the CAF executive committee decided that Morocco would host 2015 Africa Cup of Nations, while the 2017 edition would be held in South Africa. However, due to the Libyan Civil War, Libya and South Africa traded years with South Africa hosting in 2013 and Libya hosting in 2017.[1]

Second bidding

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Bids :

  • Algeria
  • Egypt
  • Gabon
  • Ghana

After Libya was withdrawn as the venue on 22 August 2014, the CAF announced that they would be receiving applications for the new hosts until 30 September 2014.[18]

Algeria, Egypt, Gabon, and Ghana, were determined by the CAF to be compliant with the host criteria.[19][20] Later, Egypt withdrew.[21]

Other countries which expressed an interest but did not bid included Ethiopia,[22] Mali,[23] and Tanzania.[24] Kenya discussed a joint bid with neighbors Rwanda and Uganda,[25] but eventually bid alone.

On 8 April 2015,[26] CAF President Issa Hayatou announced Gabon as the replacement hosts following votes by the CAF Executive Committee.[3]

Results
Nation Votes
  Gabon 9
  Algeria 4
  Ghana 0
  Egypt Withdrew
Total votes 13

Qualification

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Main article: 2017 Africa Cup of Nations qualification
 
  Qualified
  Failed to qualify
  Withdrew or did not enter
  Not part of CAF

The draw for the qualification stage took place on 8 April 2015, immediately after the announcement of the host nation.[26] The host nation team were also drawn into a group and would play games against those in that group; however, those matches would only be considered as friendlies and not counted for the standings.

51 nations entered the qualifying stage with Eritrea and Somalia declining to enter and Chad withdrawing.

Due to the cancellation of Morocco being hosts of the 2015 edition, the national team of Morocco were originally banned by CAF from entering the 2017 and 2019 Africa Cups of Nations.[27] However, the ban was overturned by the Court of Arbitration for Sport, allowing Morocco to enter the tournament.[28]

Three-time champions Nigeria did not qualify.[29]

Qualified teams

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The following 16 teams qualified for the final tournament.[30]

Team Method of
qualification 		Date of
qualification 		Finals
appearance 		Last
appearance 		Previous best
performance 		FIFA ranking
at start of event
  Gabon Hosts 8 April 2015 7th 2015 Quarter-finals (1996, 2012) 108
  Morocco Group F winners 29 March 2016 16th 2013 Winners (1976) 57
  Algeria Group J winners 2 June 2016 17th 2015 Winners (1990) 39
  Cameroon Group M winners 3 June 2016 18th 2015 Winners (1984, 1988, 2000, 2002) 62
  Senegal Group K winners 4 June 2016 14th 2015 Runners-up (2002) 33
  Egypt Group G winners 4 June 2016 23rd 2010 Winners (1957, 1959, 1986, 1998, 2006, 2008, 2010) 35
  Ghana Group H winners 5 June 2016 21st 2015 Winners (1963, 1965, 1978, 1982) 54
  Guinea-Bissau Group E winners 5 June 2016 1st none Debut 68
  Zimbabwe Group L winners 5 June 2016 3rd 2006 Group stage (2004, 2006) 103
  Mali Group C winners 5 June 2016 10th 2015 Runners-up (1972) 64
  Ivory Coast Group I winners 3 September 2016 22nd 2015 Winners (1992, 2015) 34
  Uganda Group D runners-up 4 September 2016 6th 1978 Runners-up (1978) 73
  Burkina Faso Group D winners 4 September 2016 11th 2015 Runners-up (2013) 53
  Tunisia Group A winners 4 September 2016 18th 2015 Winners (2004) 36
  DR Congo Group B winners 4 September 2016 18th 2015 Winners (1968, 1974) 49
  Togo Group A runners-up 4 September 2016 8th 2013 Quarter-finals (2013) 90

Venues

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200km
124miles
 
4
3
2
1
Location of the Gabonese host cities of the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations
1
Libreville
2
Franceville
3
Oyem
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Port-Gentil

The four venues were confirmed in October 2016.[31]

City Stadium Capacity
Franceville Stade de l'Amitié 40,000
Libreville Stade de Franceville 25,000
Oyem Stade d'Oyem 20,500
Port-Gentil Stade de Port-Gentil 20,000

Squads

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Main article: 2017 Africa Cup of Nations squads

Each team could register a squad of 23 players.[32]

Match officials

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The following referees were chosen for the 2017 Africa Cup of Nations.

Referees
Assistant referees
  •   Albdelhak Etchiali
  •   Jerson Emiliano Dos Santos
  •   Jean-Claude Birumushahu
  •   Evarist Menkouande
  •   Elvis Guy Noupue Nguegoue
  •   Marius Donatien Tan
  •   Tahssen Abo El Sadat Bedyer
  •   Théophile Vinga
  •   Aboubacar Doumbouya
  •   Marwa Range
  •   Redouane Achik
  •   Arsénio Chadreque Marengula
  •   Yahaya Mahamadou
  •   Abel Baba
  •   Olivier Safari Kabene
  •   Djibril Camara
  •   El Hadji Malick Samba
  •   Zakhele Siwela
  •   Ali Waleed Ahmed
  •   Mohammed Abdallah Ibrahim
  •   Anouar Hmila

Format

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Only the hosts received an automatic qualification spot; the other 15 teams qualified through a qualification tournament. At the finals, the 16 teams were drawn into four groups of four teams each. The teams in each group played a single round robin. After the group stage, the top two teams from each group advanced to the quarter-finals. The quarter-final winners advanced to the semi-finals. The semi-final losers played in a third place match, while the semi-final winners played in the final.[32]

Draw

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The draw took place on 19 October 2016, 18:30 UTC 1, in Libreville, Gabon.[33][34]

The seedings approved by the Organising Committee of the Africa Cup of Nations at its meeting on Monday, 26 September 2016 at the CAF headquarters in Cairo, Egypt, was determined taking into account the performance of the qualified teams during the following competitions:[35][36][37]

  • Africa Cup of Nations final tournaments (2012, 2013, 2015)
  • Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers (2013, 2015, 2017)
  • FIFA World Cup (2014)
  • FIFA World Cup qualifiers (2014)
Pot 1 Pot 2 Pot 3 Pot 4
  Gabon (22 pts; hosts, assigned to A1)
  Ivory Coast (63.5 pts; title holders, assigned to C1)
  Ghana (56.5 pts)
  Algeria (43.5 pts) 		  Tunisia (34.5 pts)
  Mali (33.5 pts)
  Burkina Faso (33.5 pts)
  DR Congo (29.5 pts) 		  Cameroon (29 pts)
  Senegal (24 pts)
  Morocco (18.5 pts)
  Egypt (15.5 pts) 		  Togo (15.5 pts)
  Uganda (12 pts)
  Zimbabwe (10 pts)
  Guinea-Bissau (8.5 pts)

Group stage

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Group winners and runners-up advanced to the quarter-finals.

All times are local, WAT (UTC 1).[38]

Tiebreakers

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The teams were ranked according to points (3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, 0 points for a loss). If tied on points, tiebreakers were applied in the following order (Regulations Article 74):[32]

  1. Number of points obtained in games between the teams concerned;
  2. Goal difference in games between the teams concerned;
  3. Goals scored in games between the teams concerned;
  4. If, after applying criteria 1 to 3 to teams concerned, two or three teams still had an equal ranking, criteria 1 to 3 were reapplied exclusively to the matches between these teams in question to determine their final rankings. If this procedure did not lead to a decision, criteria 5 to 7 applied;
  5. Goal difference in all games;
  6. Goals scored in all games;
  7. Drawing of lots.

Group A

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Main article: 2017 Africa Cup of Nations Group A
Pos Team
 Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1   Burkina Faso 3 1 2 0 4 2 2 5 Advance to knockout stage
2   Cameroon 3 1 2 0 3 2 1 5
3   Gabon (H) 3 0 3 0 2 2 0 3
4   Guinea-Bissau 3 0 1 2 2 5 −3 1
Source: CAF
(H) Hosts
Gabon  1–1  Guinea-Bissau
Aubameyang   52' Report Juary   90 1'
Attendance: 39,230[39]
Referee: Gehad Grisha (Egypt)
Burkina Faso  1–1  Cameroon
Dayo   75' Report Moukandjo   35'
Gabon  1–1  Burkina Faso
Aubameyang   38' (pen.) Report Nakoulma   23'
Cameroon  2–1  Guinea-Bissau
 Report Piqueti   13'
Cameroon  0–0  Gabon
Report
Guinea-Bissau  0–2  Burkina Faso
Report

Group B

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Main article: 2017 Africa Cup of Nations Group B
Pos Team
 Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1   Senegal 3 2 1 0 6 2 4 7 Advance to knockout stage
2   Tunisia 3 2 0 1 6 5 1 6
3   Algeria 3 0 2 1 5 6 −1 2
4   Zimbabwe 3 0 1 2 4 8 −4 1
Source: CAF
Algeria  2–2  Zimbabwe
Mahrez   12', 82' Report
Tunisia  0–2  Senegal
Report
Algeria  1–2  Tunisia
Hanni   90 2' Report
Senegal  2–0  Zimbabwe
 Report
Senegal  2–2  Algeria
 Report Slimani   10', 52'
Zimbabwe  2–4  Tunisia
 Report

Group C

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Main article: 2017 Africa Cup of Nations Group C
Pos Team
 Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1   DR Congo 3 2 1 0 6 3 3 7 Advance to knockout stage
2   Morocco 3 2 0 1 4 2 2 6
3   Ivory Coast 3 0 2 1 2 3 −1 2
4   Togo 3 0 1 2 2 6 −4 1
Source: CAF
Ivory Coast  0–0  Togo
Report
DR Congo  1–0  Morocco
Kabananga   55' Report
Ivory Coast  2–2  DR Congo
 Report
Morocco  3–1  Togo
 Report Dossevi   5'
Morocco  1–0  Ivory Coast
Alioui   64' Report
Togo  1–3  DR Congo
Laba   69' Report

Group D

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Main article: 2017 Africa Cup of Nations Group D
Pos Team
 Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1   Egypt 3 2 1 0 2 0 2 7 Advance to knockout stage
2   Ghana 3 2 0 1 2 1 1 6
3   Mali 3 0 2 1 1 2 −1 2
4   Uganda 3 0 1 2 1 3 −2 1
Source: CAF
Ghana  1–0  Uganda
A. Ayew   32' (pen.) Report
Mali  0–0  Egypt
Report
Ghana  1–0  Mali
Gyan   21' Report
Egypt  1–0  Uganda
Said   89' Report
Egypt  1–0  Ghana
M. Salah   11' Report
Uganda  1–1  Mali
Miya   70' Report Bissouma   73'

Knockout stage

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Main article: 2017 Africa Cup of Nations knockout stage
 
Cameroon players celebrating their victory in the final

In the knockout stages, if a match was level at the end of normal playing time, extra time was played (two periods of 15 minutes each) and followed, if necessary, by a penalty shoot-out to determine the winner, except for the play-off for third place, where no extra time was played (Regulations Article 75).[32]

Bracket

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Quarter-finalsSemi-finalsFinal
 
          
 
 28 January – Libreville
 
 
  Burkina Faso2
 
 1 February – Libreville
 
  Tunisia0
 
  Burkina Faso1 (3)
 
 29 January – Port-Gentil
 
  Egypt (pen.)1 (4)
 
  Egypt1
 
 5 February – Libreville
 
  Morocco0
 
  Egypt1
 
 28 January – Franceville
 
  Cameroon2
 
  Senegal0 (4)
 
 2 February – Franceville
 
  Cameroon (pen.)0 (5)
 
  Cameroon2
 
 29 January – Oyem
 
  Ghana0 Third place play-off
 
  DR Congo1
 
 4 February – Port-Gentil
 
  Ghana2
 
  Burkina Faso1
 
 
  Ghana0
 

Quarter-finals

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Burkina Faso  2–0  Tunisia
 Report
Senegal  0–0 (a.e.t.)  Cameroon
Report
Penalties
 4–5
DR Congo  1–2  Ghana
M'Poku   68' Report
Egypt  1–0  Morocco
Kahraba   88' Report

Semi-finals

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Burkina Faso  1–1 (a.e.t.)  Egypt
Bancé   73' Report M. Salah   66'
Penalties
 3–4
Cameroon  2–0  Ghana
 Report

Third place play-off

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Burkina Faso  1–0  Ghana
Al. Traoré   89' Report
Attendance: 20,720

Final

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Main article: 2017 Africa Cup of Nations Final
Cameroon  2–1  Egypt
 Report Elneny   22'
Attendance: 38,250

Statistics

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Goalscorers

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There were 66 goals scored in 32 matches, for an average of 2.06 goals per match.

3 goals
2 goals
1 goal
Own goals

Awards

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The following awards were given at the conclusion of the tournament:[40]

Total Man of the Competition
Top Scorer
Fair Play prize
CAF Team of the tournament
Goalkeeper Defenders Midfielders Forwards Substitutes
  Fabrice Ondoa   Kara Mbodji
  Ahmed Hegazi
  Michael Ngadeu-Ngadjui 		  Charles Kaboré
  Mubarak Wakaso
  Bertrand Traoré
  Christian Atsu
  Mohamed Salah 		  Christian Bassogog
  Junior Kabananga 		  Essam El-Hadary
  Cheikhou Kouyaté
  Préjuce Nakoulma
  Aristide Bancé
  Benjamin Moukandjo
  Zezinho
  Mbark Boussoufa

Sponsorship

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In July 2016, Total secured an eight-year sponsorship package from the Confederation of African Football (CAF) to support ten of its principal competitions, including the Africa Cup of Nations (renamed the Total Africa Cup of Nations).[41]

Title sponsor Official sponsors

Tournament rankings

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Pos. Team G Pld W D L Pts GF GA GD
1   Cameroon A 6 3 3 0 12 7 3 4
2   Egypt D 6 3 2 1 11 5 3 2
3   Burkina Faso A 6 3 3 0 12 8 3 5
4   Ghana D 6 3 0 3 9 4 5 −1
Eliminated in the quarter-finals
5   Senegal B 4 2 2 0 8 6 2 4
6   DR Congo C 4 2 1 1 7 7 5 2
7   Morocco C 4 2 0 2 6 4 3 1
8   Tunisia B 4 2 0 2 6 6 7 −1
Eliminated in the group stage
9   Gabon A 3 0 3 0 3 2 2 0
10   Algeria B 3 0 2 1 2 5 6 −1
11   Ivory Coast C 3 0 2 1 2 2 3 −1
12   Mali D 3 0 2 1 2 1 2 −1
13   Uganda D 3 0 1 2 1 1 3 −2
14   Guinea-Bissau A 3 0 1 2 1 2 5 −3
15   Zambia B 3 0 1 2 1 4 8 −4
16   Togo C 3 0 1 2 1 2 6 −4

Match ball

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Mitre took over as the official match ball supplier following the expiration of the contract between Adidas and CAF. CAF Mitre Delta Hyperseam was the name of the official match ball.[44]

Mascot

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The official mascot of the tournament was "Samba", a black panther.[45]

Controversy

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Website attack

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On 21 January, Russian hacking group New World Hackers claimed to have taken the official CAF website down in response to CAF's decision to choose Gabon as host nation. "We did this in protest against Gabon", the person claiming to be one of the hackers wrote in an email. "They are running the Africa Cup in a country where the dictator Ali Bongo is killing innocent people!"[46]

Media

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Broadcasting

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Territory Channel Ref
 Asia-Pacific BeIN Sports [47]
  Australia beIN Sports [47]
  Bangladesh Sony SIX
Sony ESPN
  Benin ORTB
  Bhutan Sony SIX
Sony ESPN
  Brazil SporTV
  Canada beIN Sports (English)
Univision Canada (Spanish)
RDS (French) 		[47]
  Cape Verde RTC
  Caribbean Flow Sports
Central America ESPN
  Colombia Caracol TV
RCN Television
  Democratic Republic of the Congo RTNC
  DOMTOM France Télévisions
  Equatorial Guinea RTVGE
  France beIN Sports [47]
  Gabon GTV
  Ghana GTV/KTV
  India Sony SIX
Sony ESPN
  Ireland Eurosport Ireland
RTÉ Sport 		[48]
  Israel Sport 5
  Italy Fox Sports Italia [47]
  Ivory Coast RTI
  Cameroon CRTV
  Japan NHK
  Maldives Sony SIX
Sony ESPN
  Mali ORTM
  MENA beIN Sports
  Mexico Televisa
ESPN
  Nepal Sony SIX
Sony ESPN
  Netherlands Fox Sports Netherlands [47]
  New Zealand Sky Sport
 Pacific Islands Sky Sport
  Pakistan Sony SIX
Sony ESPN
  Portugal Eurosport Portugal
  San Marino Fox Sports Italia
  Senegal RTS
  South Africa SABC
  South America (except Brazil) ESPN
  South Korea JTBC3 Fox Sports
 Southeastern Europe Arena Sport 1
  Spain Eurosport Spain [47]
  Sri Lanka Sony SIX
Sony ESPN
 Sub-Saharan Africa SuperSport (English and Portuguese)
TV5Monde Afrique (French)
Canal Sport Afrique 		[47]
  Togo TVT international
  Turkey Tivibu Spor [47]
  United Kingdom Eurosport [48]
  United States beIN Sports (English and Spanish) [47]
  Vatican City Fox Sports Italia

^1 - Available in the following countries: Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro and Macedonia

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