1990 FIFA World Cup qualification (CAF)
Tournament statistics
Top scorer(s)Cameroon François Omam-Biyik (4 goals)

The Confederation of African Football (CAF) section of the 1990 FIFA World Cup qualification saw teams competing for two berths in the final tournament in Italy.

26 nations in total entered the qualifying stage. FIFA rejected the entries of Mauritius and Mozambique due to their outstanding debts, leaving 24 nations to contest the qualifying spots. Lesotho, Rwanda and Togo withdrew after the draw for the first round, which took place on 12 December 1987, but before playing a match. Libya won their first round tie and advanced to the second round, but withdrew halfway through that stage, meaning all their results in the group were annulled.

Format

  • First Round: Algeria, Cameroon, Ivory Coast, Egypt, Kenya, Morocco, Nigeria and Zaire, the eight best ranked teams according to FIFA, received byes and advanced to the Second Round directly. The remaining sixteen teams were paired up to play knockout matches on a home-and-away basis. The winners would advance to the Second Round.
  • Second Round: The eight winners from the first round were joined by the eight seeded teams and divided into four groups of four teams each. The teams would play against each other on a home-and-away basis. The group winners would advance to the Final Round.
  • Final Round: The four remaining teams were paired up to play knockout matches on a home-and-away basis. The winners would qualify.

First round

Eight knockout (two-legged) ties were originally required, involving the sixteen lowest ranked African countries. The withdrawals of three teams meant only five ties were actually contested. The eight successful teams advanced to the group format of the second round.

Team 1 Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
Angola  2–1  Sudan 0–0 2–1
Zimbabwe  w/o  Lesotho – –
Zambia  w/o  Rwanda – –
Uganda  2–3  Malawi 1–0 1–3
Libya  3–2  Burkina Faso 3–0 0–2
Ghana  0–2  Liberia 0–0 0–2
Tunisia  5–3  Guinea 5–0 0–3
Gabon  w/o  Togo – –
Algeria  bye
Cameroon  bye
Egypt  bye
Ivory Coast  bye
Kenya  bye
Morocco  bye
Nigeria  bye
Zaire  bye

Second round

The eight qualifiers from the first round were joined by the eight highest-ranked CAF teams. The teams were split into four groups of four which played a home-and-away round-robin, with the four group winners advancing to the final round.

Legend
Countries that advanced to the final round

Group A

Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
 Algeria 431061+57
 Ivory Coast 412151+44
 Zimbabwe 4013110−91
 Libya Withdrew after one match
  Algeria Ivory Coast Zimbabwe
Algeria  – 1–0 3–0
Ivory Coast  0–0 – 5–0
Zimbabwe  1–2 0–0 –

Libya played one match in this group before withdrawing from the competition, annulling their results.

Group B

Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
 Egypt 632162+48
 Liberia 622223−16
 Malawi 613234−15
 Kenya 613224−25
  Egypt Kenya Liberia Malawi
Egypt  – 2–0 2–0 1–0
Kenya  0–0 – 1–0 1–1
Liberia  1–0 0–0 – 1–0
Malawi  1–1 1–0 0–0 –

Group C

Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
 Cameroon 641196+39
 Nigeria 631275+27
 Angola 612367−14
 Gabon 620459−44
  Cameroon Nigeria Angola Gabon
Cameroon  – 1–0 1–1 2–1
Nigeria  2–0 – 1–0 1–0
Angola  1–2 2–2 – 2–0
Gabon  1–3 2–1 1–0 –

Group D

Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
 Tunisia 63125507
 Zambia 630376+16
 Zaire 62227706
 Morocco 613245−15
  Tunisia Zambia Zaire Morocco
Tunisia  – 1–0 1–0 2–1
Zambia  1–0 – 4–2 2–1
Zaire  3–1 1–0 – 0–0
Morocco  0–0 1–0 1–1 –

Final round

Team 1 Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
Algeria  0-1  Egypt 0-0 0–1
Cameroon  3-0  Tunisia 2-0 1-0

The four group winners from the second round were drawn into two ties. The winner of each two-legged tie qualified for the 1990 FIFA World Cup.

Algeria 0–0 Egypt
Attendance: 55,000
Referee: Sydney Picon-Ackong (Mauritius)
Egypt 1–0 Algeria
H. Hassan 4'
Attendance: 100,000

Egypt won 1–0 on aggregate and qualified for the 1990 World Cup.

Cameroon 2–0 Tunisia
Mfédé 54'
Kundé 90+1'
Attendance: 80,000
Referee: Abdelali Naciri (Morocco)
Tunisia 0–1 Cameroon
Omam-Biyik 14'
Attendance: 45,000

Cameroon won 3–0 on aggregate and qualified for the 1990 World Cup.

Qualified teams

Team Qualified as Qualified on Previous appearances in FIFA World Cup1
 Egyptfinal round winners17 November 19891 (1934)
 Cameroonfinal round winners19 November 19891 (1982)
1 Bold indicates champions for that year. Italic indicates hosts for that year.

Goalscorers

4 goals
3 goals
2 goals
1 goal
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