2014 FIFA World Cup qualification – CAF second round

This page provides the summaries of the CAF second round matches for 2014 FIFA World Cup qualification.

The second round saw the top 28 ranked CAF teams joined by the 12 winners from the first round. These teams were drawn into ten groups of four teams, at the World Cup Preliminary Draw at the Marina da Glória in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on 30 July 2011.^[1]

The matches were played from 1 June 2012 to 10 September 2013. The winners of each group advanced to the third round.

The July 2011 FIFA World Ranking was used to seed the teams.

Pot 1	Pot 2	Pot 3	Pot 4
Ivory Coast  Egypt  Ghana  Burkina Faso  Nigeria  Senegal  South Africa  Cameroon  Algeria  Tunisia	Gabon  Libya  Morocco  Guinea  Botswana  Malawi  Zambia  Uganda  Mali  Cape Verde	Benin  Zimbabwe  Central African Republic  Sierra Leone  Sudan  Niger  Gambia  Angola  Kenya†  Togo†	Namibia†  Liberia†  Mozambique†  Equatorial Guinea†  Ethiopia†  Lesotho†  Rwanda†  DR Congo†  Congo†  Tanzania†

^† First round winners whose identity was not known at the time of the draw

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
Ethiopia	6	4	1	1	8	6	+2	13	Third round		—	2–1	1–0	2–0
South Africa	6	3	2	1	12	5	+7	11			1–1	—	4–1	2–0
Botswana	6	2	1	3	8	10	−2	7			3–0[a]	1–1	—	3–2
Central African Republic	6	1	0	5	5	12	−7	3			1–2	0–3	2–0	—

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Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
Tunisia	6	4	2	0	13	6	+7	14	Third round		—	3–0[a]	2–1	3–1
Cape Verde	6	3	0	3	9	7	+2	9			1–2	—	1–0	3–0[a]
Sierra Leone	6	2	2	2	10	10	0	8			2–2	2–1	—	3–2
Equatorial Guinea	6	0	2	4	6	15	−9	2			1–1	0–3[a]	2–2	—

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Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
Ivory Coast	6	4	2	0	15	5	+10	14	Third round		—	1–1	2–0	3–0
Morocco	6	2	3	1	9	8	+1	9			2–2	—	2–1	2–0
Tanzania	6	2	0	4	8	12	−4	6			2–4	3–1	—	2–1
Gambia	6	1	1	4	4	11	−7	4			0–3	1–1	2–0	—

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Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
Ghana	6	5	0	1	18	3	+15	15	Third round		—	2–1	7–0	4–0
Zambia	6	3	2	1	11	4	+7	11			1–0	—	4–0	1–1
Lesotho	6	1	2	3	4	15	−11	5			0–2	1–1	—	0–0
Sudan	6	0	2	4	3	14	−11	2			1–3	0–3[a]	1–3	—

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Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
Burkina Faso	6	4	0	2	7	4	+3	12	Third round		—	0–3[a]	1–0	4–0
Congo	6	3	2	1	7	3	+4	11			0–1	—	1–0	1–0
Gabon	6	2	1	3	5	6	−1	7			1–0	0–0	—	4–1
Niger	6	1	1	4	6	12	−6	4			0–1	2–2	3–0[a]	—

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Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
Nigeria	6	3	3	0	7	3	+4	12	Third round		—	2–0	1–1	1–0
Malawi	6	1	4	1	4	5	−1	7			1–1	—	2–2	0–0
Kenya	6	1	3	2	4	5	−1	6			0–1	0–0	—	1–0
Namibia	6	1	2	3	2	4	−2	5			1–1	0–1	1–0	—

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Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
Egypt	6	6	0	0	16	7	+9	18	Third round		—	4–2	2–0	2–1
Guinea	6	3	1	2	12	8	+4	10			2–3	—	6–1	1–0
Mozambique	6	0	3	3	2	10	−8	3			0–1	0–0	—	0–0
Zimbabwe	6	0	2	4	4	9	−5	2			2–4	0–1	1–1	—

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Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
Algeria	6	5	0	1	13	4	+9	15	Third round		—	1–0	3–1	4–0
Mali	6	2	2	2	7	7	0	8			2–1	—	2–2	1–1
Benin	6	2	2	2	8	9	−1	8			1–3	1–0	—	2–0
Rwanda	6	0	2	4	3	11	−8	2			0–1	1–2	1–1	—

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