1988 African Cup of Nations

1988 African Cup of Nations

Coupe d'Afrique des nations de football 1988
Tournament details
Host country	Morocco
Dates	13 March - 27 March
Teams	8 (from 1 confederation)
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 Abdoulaye Traoré Gamal Abdelhamid (2 goals)
Best player	Aziz Bouderbala
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The 1988 African Cup of Nations was the 16th edition of the Africa Cup of Nations, the soccer 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.

Venues

Squads

Qualification

Qualified teams

First round

Group A

All matches played at Stade Mohamed V (55, 000), Casablanca.

	M	W	D	L	GF	GA	Pts
Morocco	3	1	2	0	2	1	4
Algeria	3	1	1	1	2	2	3
Côte d'Ivoire	3	0	3	0	2	2	3
Zaire	3	0	2	1	2	3	2

13 March 1988	Morocco	1 – 1	Zaire	Casablanca Attendance: 49, 051
	Merry  43'		Muntubila  88'

13 March 1988	Côte d'Ivoire	1 – 1	Algeria	Casablanca Attendance: 15, 230
	A. Traoré  48'		Belloumi  16'

16 March 1988	Côte d'Ivoire	1 – 1	Zaire	Casablanca Attendance: 9, 410
	A. Traoré  74'		Kabongo  37'

16 March 1988	Morocco	1 – 0	Algeria	Casablanca Attendance: 43, 712
	El Haddaoui  52'

19 March 1988	Algeria	1 – 0	Zaire	Casablanca Attendance: 18, 563
	Ferhaoui  36'

19 March 1988	Morocco	0 – 0	Côte d'Ivoire	Casablanca Attendance: 45, 742

Group B

All matches played at Stade Moulay Abdellah (40, 000), Rabat.

	M	W	D	L	GF	GA	Pts
Nigeria	3	1	2	0	4	1	4
Cameroon	3	1	2	0	2	1	4
Egypt	3	1	1	1	3	1	3
Kenya	3	0	1	2	0	6	1

14 March 1988	Cameroon	1 – 0	Egypt	Rabat Attendance: 29, 003
	Milla  5'

14 March 1988	Nigeria	3 – 0	Kenya	Rabat Attendance: 16, 567
	Yekini  6' Edobor  13' Okosieme  33'

17 March 1988	Cameroon	1 – 1	Nigeria	Rabat Attendance: 24, 839
	Milla  21'		Okwaraji  2'

17 March 1988	Egypt	3 – 0	Kenya	Rabat Attendance: 18, 756
	Abdelhamid  2', 65' Younes  58'

20 March 1988	Cameroon	0 – 0	Kenya	Rabat Attendance: 18, 768

20 March 1988	Nigeria	0 – 0	Egypt	Rabat Attendance: 11, 874

Knockout stage

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

Semi-Finals

23 March 1988	Nigeria	1 – 1 (9 – 8 p)	Algeria	Rabat Attendance: 33, 788
	Belgharbi  36' (o.g.)		Maatar  86'

23 March 1988	Morocco	0 – 1	Cameroon	Casablanca Attendance: 54, 023
			Makanaky  78'

3rd/4th places

26 March 1988	Morocco	1 – 1 (3 – 4 p)	Algeria	Casablanca Attendance: 40, 677
	Nadir  67'		Belloumi  87'

Final

27 March 1988	Cameroon	1 – 0	Nigeria	Casablanca Attendance: 37, 647
	Kundé  55' (pen)

African Cup of Nations 1988 Champions
Cameroon 2nd title

Top scorers

2 goals

1 goal

Own goal

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

External links

• Details at RSSSF