2017 Africa Cup of Nations

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 →

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 The tournament was scheduled to be hosted by Libya,[1] until CAF rescinded its hosting rights in August 2014 due to the Second Libyan civil war.[2] The tournament was instead hosted by Gabon.[3] This event was also part of the Africa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.

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 Gabon 9
Algeria Algeria 4
Ghana Ghana 0
Egypt 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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Port-Gentil
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Oyem
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Franceville
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Libreville
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Libreville
2
Franceville
3
Oyem
4
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
  • Algeria Albdelhak Etchiali
  • Angola Jerson Emiliano Dos Santos
  • Burundi Jean-Claude Birumushahu
  • Cameroon Evarist Menkouande
  • Cameroon Elvis Guy Noupue Nguegoue
  • Ivory Coast Marius Donatien Tan
  • Egypt Tahssen Abo El Sadat Bedyer
  • Gabon Théophile Vinga
  • Guinea Aboubacar Doumbouya
  • Kenya Marwa Range
  • Morocco Redouane Achik
  • Mozambique Arsénio Chadreque Marengula
  • Niger Yahaya Mahamadou
  • Nigeria Abel Baba
  • Democratic Republic of the Congo Olivier Safari Kabene
  • Senegal Djibril Camara
  • Senegal El Hadji Malick Samba
  • South Africa Zakhele Siwela
  • Sudan Ali Waleed Ahmed
  • Sudan Mohammed Abdallah Ibrahim
  • Tunisia 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
Cameroon Fabrice Ondoa Senegal Kara Mbodji
Egypt Ahmed Hegazi
Cameroon Michael Ngadeu-Ngadjui 		Burkina Faso Charles Kaboré
Ghana Mubarak Wakaso
Burkina Faso Bertrand Traoré
Ghana Christian Atsu
Egypt Mohamed Salah 		Cameroon Christian Bassogog
Democratic Republic of the Congo Junior Kabananga 		Egypt Essam El-Hadary
Senegal Cheikhou Kouyaté
Burkina Faso Préjuce Nakoulma
Burkina Faso Aristide Bancé
Cameroon Benjamin Moukandjo
Guinea-Bissau Zezinho
Morocco 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
France 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
Arab League 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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