2014 African Nations Championship

The African Nations Cup 2014 was the third edition of the African Nations Cup. Organized by the African Football Federation tournament for national football teams of Africa was held in South Africa from 10 January to 1 February 2014 and was held for the second time with 16 teams instead. Only players were eligible to play that play in the National Championships in their home countries.

Qualification

Participant

• South Africa South Africa ( hosts )
• Libya Libya ( North Zone )
• Morocco Morocco ( North Zone )
• Mauritania Mauritania ( West Zone A)
• Mali Mali ( West Zone A)
• Ghana Ghana ( West Zone B)
• Nigeria Nigeria ( West Zone B)
• Burkina Faso Burkina Faso ( West Zone B)
• Ethiopia Ethiopia (Zone Central East)
• Uganda Uganda ( East Central Zone )
• Burundi Burundi ( Central Zone East)
• Republic of Congo Republic of Congo ( Central Zone)
• Gabon Gabon ( Central Zone)
• Democratic Republic of Congo Democratic Republic of Congo ( Central Zone)
• Zimbabwe Zimbabwe ( South Zone )
• Mozambique Mozambique ( South Zone )

Group stage

The 16 teams were divided into four groups of four teams. The draw took place on September 18, 2013 in Cairo. The winners and runners-up of all the groups came into the quarter-finals respectively.

Group A

Group B

Group C

Group D

Knockout rounds

Final

In the third final of the African Nations Championship meet on February 1, 2014 successive winners of the two semi-finals.

Impact on the FIFA World Ranking

The games will be counted by FIFA as friendlies and thus have a lower weighting than games at the African Cup of Nations. During winner Libya lost six places in the FIFA world rankings, the fourth-placed Zimbabwe could improve by five places. Quarter-finalists Mali deteriorated as much as 19 places. Decisive than the point gain in the Nations Cup was in most cases that points from previous African Cup regular intervals fell out of the ranking or have been downgraded in quality.