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2011 African Nations Championship

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Host country
  
Sudan

Venue(s)
  
5 (in 4 host cities)

Runners-up
  
Angola

Dates
  
4–25 February

Champions
  
Tunisia (1st title)


Teams
  
16 (from 1 confederation)

The 2011 African Nations Championship was the second edition of the African Nations Championship tournament. Each participating nation was represented mostly by players who play in their respective local divisions. The competition was hosted in Sudan from February 4 to 25, 2011. Tunisia won their first title by defeating Angola in the final 3–0.

Contents

Draw

  • The Final draw for the Groups was held on Saturday November 27, 2010 in Khartoum. The 16 teams were split into four pots, with Pot 1 containing the top four seeded nations. Sudan are seeded as hosts and Congo DR as reigning holders. Ghana and Senegal have the two strongest records and so they complete the top seeded for Pot 1. A draw will then be done to determine which of these two countries shall be awarded the letter B1 and which one will have the letter D1 .

    • The remaining twelve countries was categorized into three hats according to the following criteria in order of priority:

  • Results in the 1st Edition CHAN 2009
  • Zonal Separation as determined by CAF statutes

    • Tie-breaking criteria

    Where two or more teams end the group stage with the same number of points, their ranking is determined by the following criteria:

    1. points earned in the matches between the teams concerned;
    2. goal difference in the matches between the teams concerned;
    3. number of goals scored in the group matches between the teams concerned;
    4. number of away goals scored in the matches between the teams concerned;
    5. goal difference in all group matches;
    6. number of goals scored in all group matches;
    7. Yellow and red cards
    8. drawing of lots by the organizing committee.

    All times are in local, East Africa Time (UTC+03:00).

    Knockout phase

    All times are in local, East Africa Time (UTC+03:00).

    Scorers

    3 goals
    2 goals
    1 goal

    References

    2011 African Nations Championship Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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