2014 African Nations Championship

2014 African Nations Championship

2014 CHAN
Tournament details
Host country	South Africa
Dates	11 January — 1 February 2014
Teams	16 (from 1 confederation)
Venue(s)	4 (in 3 host cities)
Final positions
Champions	Libya (1st title)
Runners-up	Ghana
Third place	Nigeria
Fourth place	Zimbabwe
Tournament statistics
Matches played	32
Goals scored	73 (2.28 per match)
Attendance	296,440 (9,264 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Bernard Parker (4 goals)
Best player	Ejike Uzoenyi

The 2014 African Nations Championship was the third African Nations Championship football tournament. The 16 national teams featured players from the respective national championships. The tournament took place between 11 January and 1 February 2014 in South Africa.^[1] Originally, the tournament was to be hosted in Libya.^[2] This was the first African Nations Championship tournament where all matches were considered full international matches.^[3][4]

Hosts South Africa were knocked out in the group stages, which has been attributed to the national league not pausing during the tournament. Many clubs wouldn't release their players. CAF announced a rule change for future versions of the tournament.^[5]

Qualified nations

Team	Qualification
North Zone
Libya	Automatic
Morocco	Defeated Tunisia
Zone West A
Mauritania	Defeated Senegal
Mali	Defeated Guinea
Zone West B
Ghana	Automatic
Nigeria	Defeated Côte d'Ivoire
Burkina Faso	Defeated Niger
Central Zone
Congo	Defeated DR Congo
Gabon	Defeated Cameroon
DR Congo	Defeated Cameroon
Central-East Zone
Burundi	Defeated Sudan
Ethiopia	Defeated Rwanda
Uganda	Defeated Tanzania
Southern Zone
South Africa	Hosts
Zimbabwe	Defeated Zambia
Mozambique	Defeated Angola

Draw

The CHAN 2014 official draw was conducted at the CAF Headquarters on 18 September 2013 in Egypt.^[6]

Venues

The host cities were announced on 4 May 2012. Polokwane, Bloemfontein, and Cape Town will host the tournament. As the CEO of the LOC, said: "We are not going to let the success of Orange AFCON 2013 get into our heads and we are not taking anything for granted. We are applying the same formula we used during AFCON as well as the lessons learnt to make sure that Orange CHAN 2014 delivers in accordance with our objectives as well as CAF expectations. We are still going to return to the host cities for another round of visits as the LOC, at the end of August and again in November, together with CAF again. This is how serious we take this competition. We also share the same sentiments expressed by the CAF Vice President and Deputy Secretary General of CAF and we are pleased with what we have seen so far.".^[7]

Cape Town	Cape Town Polokwane Bloemfontein Athlone, Cape Town	Polokwane
Cape Town Stadium		Peter Mokaba Stadium
Capacity: 64,100		Capacity: 41,733
Mangaung (Bloemfontein)		Cape Town
Free State Stadium		Athlone Stadium
Capacity: 40,911		Capacity: 34,000

Squads

Group stage

All times are local (UTC+02:00).

Tiebreakers

The teams are ranked according to points (3 points for a win, 1 point for a tie, 0 points for a loss). If tied on points, tiebreakers are applied in the following order:^[8]

1. Greater number of points obtained in the matches between the concerned teams;
2. Best Goal difference resulting from the matches between the concerned teams;
3. Goal difference in all group matches;
4. Greatest number of goals scored in all group matches;
5. Fair Play point system in which the number of yellow and red cards are evaluated;
6. Drawing of lots by CAF Organising Committee.

Group A

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Status
Mali	3	2	1	0	5	3	+2	7	Advanced to the quarter-finals
Nigeria	3	2	0	1	8	5	+3	6
South Africa	3	1	1	1	5	5	0	4	Eliminated
Mozambique	3	0	0	3	4	9	−5	0

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Group B

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Status
Morocco	3	1	2	0	4	2	+2	5	Advanced to the quarter-finals
Zimbabwe	3	1	2	0	1	0	+1	5
Uganda	3	1	1	1	3	4	−1	4	Eliminated
Burkina Faso	3	0	1	2	2	4	−2	1

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Group C

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Status
Ghana	3	2	1	0	3	1	+2	7	Advanced to the quarter-finals
Libya	3	1	2	0	5	3	+2	5
Congo	3	1	1	1	3	3	0	4	Eliminated
Ethiopia	3	0	0	3	0	4	−4	0

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Group D

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Status
Gabon	3	2	1	0	5	2	+3	7	Advanced to the quarter-finals
DR Congo	3	2	0	1	3	2	+1	6
Burundi	3	1	1	1	4	4	0	4	Eliminated
Mauritania	3	0	0	3	4	8	−4	0

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Knockout stage

In the knockout stage, if a match is level at the end of normal playing time, extra time is played (two periods of 15 minutes each) and followed, if necessary, by kicks from the penalty mark to determine the winner, except for the third place match where no extra time is played.^[8]

	Quarter-finals				Semi-finals				Final
	Mali	1
	Zimbabwe	2
					Zimbabwe	0 (4)
					Libya (p)	0 (5)
	Gabon	1 (2)
	Libya (p)	1 (4)
									Libya (p)	0 (4)
									Ghana	0 (3)
	Ghana	1
	DR Congo	0
					Ghana (p)	0 (4)			Third place
					Nigeria	0 (1)
	Morocco	3
									Zimbabwe	0
	Nigeria (aet)	4
									Nigeria	1

Quarter-finals

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Semi-finals

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Third place match

Final

Player awards

Golden boot

• Bernard Parker (4)

Player of the tournament

• Ejike Uzoenyi

Goalscorers

4 goals

3 goals

2 goals

1 goal

Prize money

The winner of the 3rd Edition of Orange African Nations Championship in South Africa pocketed USD 750, 000 while the runner-up got USD 400,000. The Confederation of African Football (CAF) revealed the prize money ahead of the knock-out phase of CHAN 2014 tournament which took place in South Africa from 11- January till 1 February.

A total of 16 national shared $3.2 million, the rest of the prizes are as follows.^[9]

Description	USD	Total
Winner	750,000	750,000
Runner-up	400,000	400,000
Losing semi-finalists	250,000	500,000
Losing quarter-finalists	175,000	700,000
3rd in group	125,000	500,000
4th in group	100,000	400,000
Total		3,250,000

References

External links

• Orange African Nations Championship, CAFonline.com