African Cup of Nations: Seeding for Angola 2010

The draw will take place on 20 November in Luanda. Probably CAF will use the same ranking system and method as in 2006, placing the host (Angola) in group A and the title holder (Egypt) in group C.

More info on the CAF Ranking system.

    Team         ACN'04 ACN'06 ACN'08 Total Pts
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 1 Egypt             1      7      7    36
 2 Cameroon          2      2      5    21
 3 Côte d'Ivoire     0      5      3    19
 4 Tunisia           7      2      2    17
 5 Nigeria           3      3      2    15
 6 Ghana             0      1      3    11 15
 7 Angola            0      1      2     8
 8 Mali              3      0      1     6 14
 9 Zambia            0      1      1     5  7
10 Benin             1      0      1     4
11 Algeria           2      0      -     2  4
12 Togo              0      1      -     2  0
13 Burkina Faso      1      0      -     1  1

This is how the pots will look like:

Pot 1: Angola, Egypt, Cameroon, Côte d'Ivoire
Pot 2: Tunisia, Nigeria, Ghana, Mali
Pot 3: Zambia, Benin, Algeria, Togo
Pot 4: Burkina Faso, Gabon, Malawi, Mozambique

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African Cup of Nations: Seeding for Angola 2010

11 November 2009

Fixed draw date - it was 30 November, now it's 20 November.
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The draw will take place on 20 November in Luanda. Probably CAF will use the same ranking system and method as in 2006, placing the host (Angola) in group A and the title holder (Egypt) in group C.

More info on the CAF Ranking system.

Qualified: Angola, cameroon, Gabon, Tunisia, Nigeria, Algeria, Egypt, Ghana, Mali, Benin, Côte d'Ivoire and Burkina Faso.

Togo, Morocco, Mozambique, Kenya, Zambia, Rwanda, Malawi and Guinea are fighting for the last four places.

Not taking into account teams that are already eliminated:

    Team         ACN'04 ACN'06 ACN'08 Total Pts
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 1 Egypt             1      7      7    36
 2 Cameroon          2      2      5    21
 3 Côte d'Ivoire     0      5      3    19
 4 Tunisia           7      2      2    17
 5 Nigeria           3      3      2    15
 6 Guinea            2      2      2    12
 7 Ghana             0      1      3    11 15
 8 Morocco           5      1      1    10
 9 Angola            0      1      2     8
10 Mali              3      0      1     6 14
11 Zambia            0      1      1     5  7
12 Benin             1      0      1     4
13 Algeria           2      0      -     2  4
14 Togo              0      1      -     2  0
15 Rwanda            1      0      -     1  4
16 Kenya             1      0      -     1  3
17 Burkina Faso      1      0      -     1  1

This is how the pots will look like:

Pot 1: Angola, Egypt, Cameroon, Côte d'Ivoire
Pot 2: Tunisia, Nigeria, Guinea, Ghana
Pot 3: Morocco, Mali, Zambia, Benin
Pot 4: Algeria, Kenya, Burkina Faso, Gabon

Teams in italic could be replaced by teams with a lower coefficient.

If Guinea fails to make it, Morocco will be in the 2nd pot - if they qualify.

If both Guinea and Morocco fail to make it, Mali will be in the 2nd pot.

If one of Guinea, Morocco or Zambia fail to make it, Algeria will be in the 3rd pot.

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2010 FIFA World Cup - Goal difference comes first

From Ugandan website The New Vision:

"FIFA’s website www.fifa.com at 10.00am yesterday adjusted the standings in Group 3 and Group 7, that had seemed to imply that head-to-head tie breakers were being used instead of goal difference, in the qualifiers. The change follows a query from The New Vision and Infostrada Sports. "

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2010 FIFA World Cup - League format tiebreakers (CAF)

According to the official 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa Regulations, the league format tiebreakers are as follows (article 17.6):

In the league format, the ranking in each group is determined as follows:
a) greatest number of points obtained in all group matches;
b) goal difference in all group matches;
c) greatest number of goals scored in all group matches. If two or more teams are equal on the basis of the above three criteria, their rankings will be determined as follows:
d) greatest number of points obtained in the group matches between the teams concerned;
e) goal difference resulting from the group matches between the teams concerned;
f) greater number of goals scored in all group matches between the teams concerned;
g) drawing of lots by the FIFA Organising Committee.

However, according to Ugandan website New Vision, these rules will only be applied in the third and final round of the qualifiers. For the second round, it seems the CAF tiebreaking rules (head-to-head results coming first) take precedence.

Here's the most interesting part of the article:

The table standings FIFA sent to the local football governing body FUFA indicate that Uganda are second in Group 3 , and will be among the teams considered as best runners-up after next week’s final round, if they beat Benin.

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2010 WCQ CAF - Seeding criteria

Great find by jonny63. These are the seeding criteria for the second group stage of the 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa and Angola 2010 African Cup of Nations qualifiers.

Criteria for designation of seeded teams for the combined preliminaries of the South Africa 2010 World Cup and Angola 2010 ACN has been approved.

The criteria are as follows:

The sum of the points accumulated in conformity of the following three criteria will be added in order to determine the five teams who will be in the first pot, those who will be in the second pot and so on.

Criteria No. 1

The number of points obtained during the group matches of the first round. Each team will play six matches in this round having the possibility of reaching a maximum total points of 18. Each team among the 20 who will qualify to the second round will keep the points that they obtained during the first round.

Criteria No. 2

The classification during the final tournament of the African Cup of Nations 2008 in Ghana will be taken into consideration.

At the end of the competition, the teams will be classified from 1 to 16. The Africa Champion will get 16 points, the runner-up 15 and the team coming at the third place 14 and finally the team coming at the last place will get only one point.

The countries who will qualify to the second round and which did not qualify to the finals of the African Cup of Nations 2008 will receive one point each under this criterion.

Criteria No. 3

The 20 teams having qualified to the second round will be classified from 1 to 20 in conformity to their last FIFA ranking before the date scheduled for the draw of the second round.

The team coming in the first place will get 20 points, the second 19 points and the team coming at the 20^th place will get one point.

The points obtained by adding the points obtained in each one of the above mentioned criteria will be added.

The first five teams will be placed in the pot No. 1, the teams from 6 to 10 in the pot No. 2, the teams from 11 to 15 in the third pot and the teams from 16 to 20 in the fourth pot.

Each group in the second round will comprise one team from each one of the 4 pots.

See the article at CAFOnline.com.

With Eritrea withdrawing from Group 11, there's a problem with the first criteria, as the teams qualifying out of this group will have at most 12 points.

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African Cup of Nations: Seeding for Angola 2010

CAF Ranking system

The last three tournaments count towards the ranking (ACN 2004, ACN 2006, ACN 2008).

Points are awarded in this fashion:

7 - winner
5 - finalist
3 - semifinalists
2 - quarterfinalists
1 - teams eliminated in the group stage

Points from the most recent tournament are multiplied by 3, the next one by 2, the last one by 1.

If two or more teams have the same total, they will be ranked on the total number of points (3 for a win, 1 for a loss).

More info on the seeding system -> CAFOnline.com

    Team         ACN'04 ACN'06 ACN'08 Total Pts
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 1 Egypt             1      7      5    30
 2 Cameroon          2      2      5    21
 3 Côte d'Ivoire     0      5      3    19
 4 Tunisia           7      2      2    17
 5 Nigeria           3      3      2    15
 6 Guinea            2      2      2    12
 7 Ghana             0      1      3    11 15
 8 Senegal           2      3      1    11 13
 9 Morocco           5      1      1    10
10 Angola            0      1      2     8
11 Mali              3      0      1     6 14
12 South Africa      1      1      1     6  6
13 Zambia            0      1      1     5  7
14 Congo DR          1      2      -     5  4
15 Benin             1      0      1     4
16 Zimbabwe          1      1      -     3  6
17 Namibia           0      0      1     3  1
18 Sudan             0      0      1     3  0
19 Algeria           2      0      -     2  4
20 Libya             0      1      -     2  1
21 Togo              0      1      -     2  0
22 Rwanda            1      0      -     1  4
23 Kenya             1      0      -     1  3
24 Burkina Faso      1      0      -     1  1

Egypt and Cameroon get 5 points because the final hasn't been played yet.

If the qualified teams would be determined based on the January 2008 FIFA rankings, these would be the pots:

Pot 1: Angola (host), Egypt, Cameroon, Côte d'Ivoire
Pot 2: Tunisia, Nigeria, Guinea, Ghana
Pot 3: Senegal, Morocco, Mali, Zambia
Pot 4: Congo DR, Algeria, Togo, Mozambique

A possible draw:

Group A: Angola, Nigeria, Senegal, Mozambique
Group B: Cameroon, Tunisia, Mali, Togo
Group C: Egypt, Ghana, Morocco, Congo DR
Group D: Côte d'Ivoire, Guinea, Zambia, Algeria

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