2004 African Cup of Nations

2004 African Cup of Nations

NOKIA African Cup of Nations Tunisia 2004
African Cup of Nations 2004 official logo
Tournament details
Host country	Tunisia
Dates	January 24 – February 14
Teams	16
Venue(s)	6 (in 6 host cities)
Final positions
Champions	Tunisia (1st title)
Runner-up	Morocco
Third place	Nigeria
Fourth place	Mali
Tournament statistics
Matches played	32
Goals scored	88 (2.75 per match)
Attendance	553,500 (17,297 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Patrick Mboma Frédéric Kanouté Jay-Jay Okocha Francileudo Santos (4 goals)

The 2004 African Cup of Nations was the 24th edition of the African Cup of Nations, the soccer championship of Africa (CAF). It was hosted by Tunisia. Just like in 2002, the field of sixteen teams was split into four groups of four. Tunisia won its first championship, beating Morocco in the final 2-1.

Host Cities & Venues

Squads

For a list of all squads that played in the final tournament, see 2004 African Cup of Nations (squads)

Qualification

For qualification results, see 2004 African Cup of Nations (qualification)

Participating teams

Participating countries

Finals

Group Stages

Teams in Bold progress to the Quarter Finals, teams in italics are eliminated from the tournament.

All times local : CET (UTC +1)

Group A

Team	Pts	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
Tunisia	7	3	2	1	0	6	2	+4
Guinea	5	3	1	2	0	4	3	+1
Rwanda	4	3	1	1	1	3	3	0
Congo DR	0	3	0	0	3	1	6	-5

January 24, 2004 19:30	Tunisia	2 - 1	Rwanda	Stade 7 Novembre, Radès Attendance: 60,000 Ref: Divine Evehe (Cameroon)
	Jaziri 27' Santos 57'		Elias 41'

January 25, 2004 14:00	Congo DR	1 - 2	Guinea	Stade El Menzah, Tunis Attendance: 2,000 Ref: Abubakar Sharaf (Cote d'Ivoire)
	Masudi 35'		T. Camara 68' Feindouno 81'

January 28, 2004 14:00	Rwanda	1 - 1	Guinea	Stade 15 Octobre, Bizerte Attendance: 4,000 Ref: Modou Sowe (Gambia)
	K. Kamanzi 90+3'		T. Camara 49'

January 28, 2004 16:15	Tunisia	3 - 0	Congo DR	Stade 7 Novembre, Radès Attendance: 20,000 Ref: Jérôme Damon (South Africa)
	Santos 55', 87' Braham 65'		Lua Lua

February 1, 2004 14:00	Tunisia	1 - 1	Guinea	Stade 7 Novembre, Radès Attendance: 18,000 Ref: Tessama Hailemalek (Ethiopia)
	Ben Achour 58'		T. Camara 84'

February 1, 2004 14:00	Rwanda	1 - 0	Congo DR	Stade 15 Octobre, Bizerte Attendance: 700 Ref: Falla Ndoye (Senegal)
	Makasi 74'

Group B

Team	Pts	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
Mali	7	3	2	1	0	7	3	+4
Senegal	5	3	1	2	0	4	1	+3
Kenya	3	3	1	0	2	4	6	-2
Burkina Faso	1	3	0	1	2	1	6	-5

January 26, 2004 14:00	Kenya	1 - 3	Mali	Stade 15 Octobre, Bizerte Attendance: 6,000 Ref: Tessema Hailemalak (Ethiopia)
	Rashid 58'		Sissoko 28' Kanouté 63', 81'

January 26, 2004 19:00	Senegal	0 - 0	Burkina Faso	Stade El Menzah, Tunis Attendance: 2,000 Ref: Mohamed Guezzaz (Morocco)

January 30, 2004 14:00	Senegal	3 - 0	Kenya	Stade 15 Octobre, Bizerte Attendance: 13,500 Ref: Essam Abd El Fatah (Egypt)
	Niang 4', 31' P.B. Diop 19'

January 30, 2004 19:00	Burkina Faso	1 - 3	Mali	Stade El Menzah, Tunis Attendance: 1,500 Ref: Abdul Hakim Shelmani (Libya)
	Minoungou 50'		Kanouté 34' Diarra 37' S. Coulibaly 78'

February 2, 2004 14:00	Senegal	1 - 1	Mali	Stade El Menzah, Tunis Attendance: 7,550 Ref: Divine Evehe (Cameroon)
	Beye 45+2'		D. Traoré 34'

February 2, 2004 14:00	Burkina Faso	0 - 3	Kenya	Stade 15 Octobre, Bizerte Attendance: 4,550 Ref: Modou Sowe (Gambia)
			Ake 51' Oliech 64' Baraza 83' Ake

Group C

Team	Pts	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
Cameroon	5	3	1	2	0	6	4	+2
Algeria	4	3	1	1	1	4	4	0
Egypt	4	3	1	1	1	3	3	0
Zimbabwe	3	3	1	0	2	6	8	-2

January 25, 2004 16:30	Zimbabwe	1-2	Egypt	Stade Taïeb El Mhiri, Sfax Attendance: 22,000 Ref: Lassina Paré (Burkina Faso)
	P. Ndlovu 46'		T.Abdel Hamid 58' Barakat 63'

January 25, 2004 19:00	Cameroon	1-1	Algeria	Stade Olympique de Sousse, Sousse Attendance: 20,000 Ref: Coffi Codjia (Benin)
	Mboma 43'		Zafour 52'

January 29, 2004 16:30	Cameroon	5-3	Zimbabwe	Stade Taïeb El Mhiri, Sfax Attendance: 15,000 Ref: Abubakar Sharaf (Cote d'Ivoire)
	Mboma 31', 44', 65' Mbami 40', 67'		P. Ndlovu 8', 47' (pen) Nyandoro 89'

January 29, 2004 19:00	Algeria	2-1	Egypt	Stade Olympique de Sousse, Sousse Attendance: 15,000 Ref: Alain Hammer (Luxembourg)
	Mamouni 13' Achiou 86'		Belal 25'

February 3, 2004 14:00	Cameroon	0-0	Egypt	Stade Mustapha Ben Jannet, Monastir Attendance: 20,000 Ref: Ali Bujsaim (UAE)

February 3, 2004 14:00	Algeria	1-2	Zimbabwe	Stade Olympique de Sousse, Sousse Attendance: 10,000 Ref: Eddy Maillet (Seychelles)
	Achiou 73'		Lupahla 65', 71'

Group D

Team	Pts	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
Morocco	7	3	2	1	0	6	1	+5
Nigeria	6	3	2	0	1	6	2	+4
South Africa	4	3	1	1	1	3	5	-2
Benin	0	3	0	0	3	1	8	-7

January 27, 2004 14:00	Nigeria	0-1	Morocco	Stade Mustapha Ben Jannet, Monastir Attendance: 15,000 Ref: Falla Ndoye (Senegal)
			Hadji 77'

January 27, 2004 18:00	South Africa	2-0	Benin	Stade Taïeb El Mhiri, Sfax Attendance: 12,000 Ref: Koman Coulibaly (Mali)
	Nomvethe 58', 76'

January 31, 2004 14:00	Nigeria	4-0	South Africa	Stade Mustapha Ben Jannet, Monastir Attendance: 15,000 Ref: Ali Bujsaim (UAE)
	Yobo 4' Okocha 64' (pen) Odemwingie 81', 83'

January 31, 2004 18:00	Morocco	4-0	Benin	Stade Taïeb El Mhiri, Sfax Attendance: 20,000 Ref: Eddy Maillet (Seychelles)
	Chamakh 17' Adjamonsi 73' (OG) Ouaddou 75' El Karkouri 80'

February 4, 2004 18:00	Morocco	1-1	South Africa	Stade Olympique de Sousse, Sousse Attendance: 6,000 Ref: Hichem Guirat (Tunisia)
	Safri 38' (pen)		Mayo 29'

February 4, 2004 18:00	Nigeria	2-1	Benin	Stade Taïeb El Mhiri, Sfax Attendance: 15,000 Ref: Essam Abd El Fatah (Egypt)
	Lawal 35' Utaka 76'		Latoundji 90'

Knockout Stages

	Quarter finals				Semi finals				Final
	February 7 (17:00) - Radès
	Tunisia	1
					February 11 (16:00) - Radès
	Senegal	0
					Tunisia (pen)	1 (5)
	February 8 (14:00) - Monastir
					Nigeria	1 (3)
	Cameroon	1
									February 14 (14:00) - Radès
	Nigeria	2
									Tunisia	2
	February 8 (17:00) - Sfax
									Morocco	1
	Morocco (aet)	3
					February 11 (19:00) - Sousse
	Algeria	1
					Morocco	4			Third place
	February 7 (14:00) - Tunis
					Mali	0
	Mali	2							Nigeria	2
	Guinea	1							Mali	1
									February 13 (13:00) - Monastir

Quarterfinals

February 7, 2004 14:00	Mali	2 - 1	Guinea	Stade El Menzah, Tunis Attendance: 1,450 Ref: Essam Abd El Fatah (Egypt)
	Kanouté 45' Diarra 90'		Feindouno 15'

February 7, 2004 17:00	Tunisia	1 - 0	Senegal	Stade 7 Novembre, Rades Attendance: 57,000 Ref: Ali Bujsaim (UAE)
	Mnari 65'

February 8, 2004 14:00	Cameroon	1 - 2	Nigeria	Stade Mustapha Ben Jannet, Monastir Attendance: 14,750 Ref: Mohamed Guezzaz (Morocco)
	Eto'o 42'		Okocha 45' Utaka 73'

February 8, 2004 17:00	Morocco	3 - 1 (AET)	Algeria	Stade Taïeb El Mhiri, Sfax Attendance: 22,000 Ref: Abdul Hakim Shelmani (Libya)
	Chamakh 90' Hadji 113' Zairi 120'		Cherrad 84'

Semifinals

February 11, 2004 16:00	Tunisia	1-1 (AET) 5-3 (PEN)	Nigeria	Stade 7 Novembre, Radès Attendance: 56,000 Ref: Coffi Codjia (Benin)
	Badra 82' (pen)		Okocha 67' (pen)

		Penalties
	Badra Santos Mhedhebi Ben Achour Haggui	5-3	Utaka Odemwingie Yobo Udeze

February 11, 2004 19:00	Morocco	4-0	Mali	Stade Olympique de Sousse, Sousse Attendance: 15,000 Ref: Abubakar Sharaf (Cote d'Ivoire)
	Mokhtari 14', 58' Hadji 80' Baha 90+1'

Third place playoff

February 13, 2004 20:00	Nigeria	2-1	Mali	Stade Mustapha Ben Jannet, Monastir Attendance: 2,500 Ref: Modou Sowe (Gambia)
	Okocha 16' Odemwingie 52'		Abouta 70'

Final

February 14, 2004 20:00	Tunisia	2-1	Morocco	Stade 7 Novembre, Radès Attendance: 60,000 Ref: N'Doye (Senegal)
	Santos 5' Jaziri 52'		Mokhtari 38'

2004 African Cup of Nations Champions
Tunisia 1st title

Individual scorers

External links

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