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1988 African Cup of Nations

كأس أمم إفريقيا 1988 Coupe d'Afrique des Nations 1988
Tournament details
Host country	Morocco
Dates	13–27 March
Teams	8
Venue(s)	2 (in 2 host cities)
Final positions
Champions	Cameroon (2nd title)
Runners-up	Nigeria
Third place	Algeria
Fourth place	Morocco
Tournament statistics
Matches played	16
Goals scored	23 (1.44 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Lakhdar Belloumi Roger Milla Gamal Abdelhamid Abdoulaye Traoré (2 goals each)
Best player(s)	Roger Milla
Best goalkeeper	Joseph-Antoine Bell
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The 1988 African Cup of Nations was the 16th edition of the Africa Cup of Nations, the association football championship of Africa (CAF). It was hosted by Morocco, who replaced original host Zambia. Just like in 1986, the field of eight teams was split into two groups of four. The tournament final was held in Casablanca at Stade Mohamed V. Cameroon won its second championship, beating Nigeria in the final 1−0.

This tournament has the fewest goals-per-game average in Africa Cup of Nations tournaments.

Host selection

The original host was Zambia but after their withdrawal in December 1986 due to financial issues, the Confederation of African Football approached Algeria which agreed to host the tournament. However, in February 1987 the CAF rescinded this decision following a dispute with Algeria which protested the CAF's decision to order a replay of the first leg match of the 1987 All-Africa Games qualification against Tunisia. CAF had made this decision following Tunisia's protest that Algeria had fielded two professional players. Morocco was chosen in the end to host the 1988 Africa Cup of Nations replacing Algeria.

Qualified teams

The 8 qualified teams are:

Team	Qualified as	Qualified on	Previous appearances in tournament
Morocco	Hosts		5 (1972, 1976, 1978, 1980, 1986)
Egypt	Holders	21 March 1986	10 (1957, 1959, 1962, 1963, 1970, 1974, 1976, 1980, 1984, 1986)
Algeria	2nd round winners	14 April 1987	5 (1968, 1980, 1982, 1984, 1986)
Cameroon	2nd round winners	18 July 1987	5 (1970, 1972, 1982, 1984, 1986)
Kenya	2nd round winners	18 July 1987	1 (1972)
Nigeria	2nd round winners	18 July 1987	6 (1963, 1976, 1978, 1980, 1982, 1984)
Ivory Coast	2nd round winners	19 July 1987	7 (1965, 1968, 1970, 1974, 1980, 1984, 1986)
Zaire	2nd round winners	19 July 1987	6 (1965, 1968, 1970, 1972, 1974, 1976)

Notes

1. Bold indicates champion for that year, Italic indicates host.

Squads

Venues

The competition was played in two venues in Casablanca and Rabat.

Casablanca	CasablancaRabat
Stade Mohamed V
Capacity: 80,000
Rabat
Stade Moulay Abdellah
Capacity: 52,000

Group stage

Tiebreakers

If two or more teams finished level on points after completion of the group matches, the following tie-breakers were used to determine the final ranking:

1. Goal difference in all group matches
2. Greater number of goals scored in all group matches
3. Drawing of lots

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Morocco (H)	3	1	2	0	2	1	+1	4	Advance to Knockout stage
2	Algeria	3	1	1	1	2	2	0	3
3	Ivory Coast	3	0	3	0	2	2	0	3
4	Zaire	3	0	2	1	2	3	−1	2

Morocco	1–1	Zaire
Merry 43' (pen.)	Report	Lutonadio 88'

Ivory Coast	1–1	Algeria
A. Traoré 48'	Report	Belloumi 16'

Ivory Coast	1–1	Zaire
A. Traoré 74'	Report	Kabongo 37'

Morocco	1–0	Algeria
El Haddaoui 52'	Report

Algeria	1–0	Zaire
Ferhaoui 36'	Report

Morocco	0–0	Ivory Coast
	Report

Note: Algeria qualified by drawing of lots.

Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Nigeria	3	1	2	0	4	1	+3	4	Advance to Knockout stage
2	Cameroon	3	1	2	0	2	1	+1	4
3	Egypt	3	1	1	1	3	1	+2	3
4	Kenya	3	0	1	2	0	6	−6	1

Cameroon	1–0	Egypt
Milla 5'	Report

Nigeria	3–0	Kenya
Yekini 6' Edobor 13' Okosieme 33'	Report

Cameroon	1–1	Nigeria
Milla 21'	Report	Okwaraji 6'

Egypt	3–0	Kenya
Abdelhamid 2', 65' Younes 58'	Report

Cameroon	0–0	Kenya
	Report

Nigeria	0–0	Egypt
	Report

Knockout stage

	Semi-finals				Final
	23 March – Rabat
	Nigeria (p)	1 (9)
					27 March – Casablanca
	Algeria	1 (8)
					Nigeria	0
	23 March – Casablanca
					Cameroon	1
	Morocco	0
	Cameroon	1
					Third place
					26 March – Casablanca
					Algeria (p)	1 (4)
					Morocco	1 (3)

Semifinals

Nigeria	1–1 (a.e.t.)	Algeria
Belgharbi 36' (o.g.)	Report	Maâtar 86'
Penalties
Eguavoen Adeshina Uwe Sofoluwe Yekini Okwaraji Nwosu Omokaro Okafor Rufai Eguavoen	9–8	Belloumi Belgherbi Maâtar Yahi Menad Bouafia Medane Chaib Megharia Drid Belloumi

Morocco	0–1	Cameroon
	Report	Makanaky 78'

Third place match

Morocco	1–1 (a.e.t.)	Algeria
Nader 67'	Report	Belloumi 87'
Penalties
El Gharef Benabicha Ouadani El Maataoui Timoumi Nader	3–4	Yahi Djahmoune Merzekane Chaib Megharia Belgherbi

Final

Cameroon	1–0	Nigeria
Kundé 55' (pen.)	Report

Goalscorers

There were 23 goals scored in 16 matches, for an average of 1.44 goals per match.

2 goals

• Lakhdar Belloumi
• Roger Milla
• Abdoulaye Traoré
• Gamal Abdelhamid

1 goal

• Abdelkader Ferhaoui
• Rachid Maâtar
• Emmanuel Kundé
• Cyrille Makanaky
• Ayman Younes
• Mustafa El Haddaoui
• Abdelkrim Merry
• Hassan Nader
• Humphrey Edobor
• Ndubuisi Okosieme
• Samuel Okwaraji
• Rashidi Yekini
• Eugène Kabongo
• Lutonadio

1 own goal

• Abdelrazak Belgharbi (against Nigeria)

CAF Team of the Tournament

Goalkeeper

• Joseph-Antoine Bell

Defenders

• Tijani El Maataoui
• Emmanuel Kundé
• John Buana
• Stephen Tataw

Midfielders

• Jacques Kinkomba Kingambo
• Emile Mbouh
• Henry Nwosu
• Paul Mfede

Forwards

• Roger Milla
• Aziz Bouderbala

References

1. "African Nations Cup 1988". RSSSF. E. Boesenberg, K. Stokkermans & F. Mazet. May 28, 2015.
2. "African Games 1987". RSSSF. Karel Stokkermans. January 21, 2016.
3. "MOROCCO 1988". fifaworldcup.co.uk. Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 28 January 2015.

External links

• Details at RSSSF

• 1988 African Cup of Nations
• International association football competitions hosted by Morocco
• 1987–88 in Moroccan football
• Africa Cup of Nations tournaments
• 1988 in African football
• March 1988 sports events in Africa