Season Description The CAF qualification process began with a preliminary round played on 13 October and 17 November 2007 to narrow the field to 48 teams, and then 12 groups of four teams were drawn in Durban in November 2007.
The 12 groups winners and eight best runners-up advanced to the next stage. The procedure was complicated due to two of the groups being reduced to just three teams due to the withdrawal of Eritrea (before the commencement of the group) and the exclusion of Ethiopia (which saw all their results annulled). As a result, the comparison of the 12 runners-up did not include results against teams finishing fourth in 4-team groups.
The remaining 20 teams were placed in five groups of four teams at a draw held in Zürich on 22 October 2008. The winners of these groups qualified for the World Cup finals.
The qualifying competition for the 2010 World Cup was combined with the qualification process for the 2010 African Cup of Nations. Since South Africa was hosting the World Cup, it automatically qualified for that tournament, although it (unlike hosts in previous qualifying tournaments since 1938) played in the qualifiers themselves to facilitate the use of the same set of qualifying matches for the 2010 African Cup of Nations.
Had South Africa advanced to the third round (second group stage), their matches would not have been counted in determining who advances to the World Cup finals. However, South Africa were eliminated from the qualifiers after the second round. This meant that they could not qualify for the African Cup of Nations, and all matches in Round 3 counted towards World Cup qualification.
Madagascar vs Comoros - 11:30:00 Sierra Leone vs Guinea-Bissau - 16:30:00 Djibouti vs Somalia - 13:00:00 Comoros vs Madagascar - 12:00:00 Guinea-Bissau vs Sierra Leone - 16:30:00 Malawi vs Djibouti - 12:30:00 Tanzania vs Mauritius - 13:00:00 Uganda vs Niger - 13:00:00 Botswana vs Madagascar - 13:00:00 Rwanda vs Mauritania - 13:30:00 Cameroon vs Cape Verde - 14:30:00 Namibia vs Kenya - 15:00:00 Togo vs Zambia - 15:30:00 Morocco vs Ethiopia - 19:00:00 Senegal vs Algeria - 19:30:00 Burundi vs Seychelles - 13:30:00 Angola vs Benin - 14:30:00 Equatorial Guinea vs Sierra Leone - 14:30:00 Nigeria vs South Africa - 15:00:00 Liberia vs Gambia - 16:00:00 Ivory Coast vs Mozambique - 16:00:00 Guinea vs Zimbabwe - 17:00:00 Ghana vs Libya - 17:00:00 Tunisia vs Burkina Faso - 17:10:00 Mali vs Congo - 18:00:00 Egypt vs DR Congo - 18:00:00
Round 2 Djibouti vs Egypt - 12:00:00 Algeria vs Liberia - 18:30:00 Seychelles vs Tunisia - 12:30:00 Kenya vs Guinea - 13:00:00 South Africa vs Equatorial Guinea - 13:00:00 Sierra Leone vs Nigeria - 14:30:00 Chad vs Mali - 15:00:00 Cape Verde vs Tanzania - 17:00:00 Mauritania vs Morocco - 17:00:00 Libya vs Gabon - 18:00:00 Burkina Faso vs Burundi - 18:00:00 Mauritius vs Cameroon - 11:00:00 Madagascar vs Ivory Coast - 11:30:00 Zimbabwe vs Namibia - 13:00:00 Mozambique vs Botswana - 13:00:00 Ethiopia vs Rwanda - 13:00:00 Eswatini vs Togo - 13:00:00 Congo vs Sudan - 14:30:00 DR Congo vs Malawi - 14:30:00 Benin vs Uganda - 15:00:00 Niger vs Angola - 15:00:00 Lesotho vs Ghana - 16:00:00 Gambia vs Senegal - 17:00:00
Round 3 Djibouti vs DR Congo - 12:00:00 Mauritania vs Ethiopia - 17:00:00 Seychelles vs Burkina Faso - 12:30:00 Malawi vs Egypt - 12:30:00 Tanzania vs Cameroon - 13:00:00 Kenya vs Zimbabwe - 13:00:00 Uganda vs Angola - 13:00:00 Botswana vs Ivory Coast - 13:00:00 Rwanda vs Morocco - 13:30:00 Namibia vs Guinea - 14:00:00 Sierra Leone vs South Africa - 14:30:00 Gabon vs Ghana - 14:30:00 Niger vs Benin - 15:00:00 Chad vs Congo - 15:00:00 Gambia vs Algeria - 17:00:00 Sudan vs Mali - 17:00:00 Mauritius vs Cape Verde - 11:00:00 Madagascar vs Mozambique - 11:30:00 Lesotho vs Libya - 13:00:00 Burundi vs Tunisia - 13:00:00 Eswatini vs Zambia - 13:00:00 Equatorial Guinea vs Nigeria - 14:30:00 Liberia vs Senegal - 16:00:00
Round 4 Algeria vs Gambia - 18:30:00 Libya vs Lesotho - 19:00:00 Zambia vs Eswatini - 12:00:00 South Africa vs Sierra Leone - 13:00:00 Cameroon vs Tanzania - 14:30:00 Nigeria vs Equatorial Guinea - 15:00:00 Morocco vs Rwanda - 18:00:00 Burkina Faso vs Seychelles - 18:00:00 Tunisia vs Burundi - 18:30:00 Senegal vs Liberia - 19:30:00 Zimbabwe vs Kenya - 13:00:00 Mozambique vs Madagascar - 13:00:00 Ethiopia vs Mauritania - 13:00:00 Congo vs Chad - 14:30:00 DR Congo vs Djibouti - 14:30:00 Benin vs Niger - 15:00:00 Ivory Coast vs Botswana - 16:00:00 Cape Verde vs Mauritius - 17:00:00 Guinea vs Namibia - 17:00:00 Ghana vs Gabon - 17:00:00 Mali vs Sudan - 18:00:00 Egypt vs Malawi - 18:00:00 Angola vs Uganda - 14:30:00
Round 1 Gabon vs Lesotho - 14:30:00
Round 5 Djibouti vs Malawi - 18:00:00 Libya vs Ghana - 20:00:00 Algeria vs Senegal - 21:00:00 Mauritius vs Tanzania - 11:00:00
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