Morocco qualify as holders
Ghana qualify as hosts
Preliminary Round:
24/10/1976 Lilongwe Malawi 1-1 Mauritius
28/01/1977 Curepipe Mauritius 3-2 Malawi
First Round:
18/09/1977 Algeria 4-1 Kenya
02/10/1977 Kenya 2-1 Algeria
18/09/1977 Cameroon 2-0 Congo
02/10/1977 Congo 4-0 Cameroon
13/03/1977 Cairo Egypt 2-2 Tunisia
27/04/1977 Tunis Tunisia 3-2 Egypt
18/09/1977 Guinea 3-0 Libya
02/10/1977 Libya 0-2 Guinea
Mali w/o Niger
28/09/1977 Mauritius 2-3 Ethiopia
12/10/1977 Ethiopia 1-0 Mauritius
18/09/1977 Dakar Senegal 2-1 Togo
02/10/1977 Lome Togo 0-1 Senegal
18/09/1977 Sierra Leone 1-1 Nigeria
02/10/1977 Nigeria 2-0 Sierra Leone
Uganda w/o Tanzania
18/09/1977 Ouagadougou Upper Volta 0-1 Ivory Coast
02/10/1977 Abidjan Ivory Coast 4-1 Upper Volta
Zambia w/o Sudan
Gabon bye
Second Round:
30/10/1977 Algeria 2-0 Zambia
13/11/1977 Zambia 2-0 Algeria [aet]
[Zambia qualify 6-5 on penalties]
30/10/1977 Congo 3-2 Gabon
13/11/1977 Gabon 3-3 Congo
[Congo qualify]
Ivory Coast - Mali
[Both teams were disqualified, and Upper Volta, losers to Ivory Coast
in the previous round, were given a place in the finals]
30/10/1977 Ethiopia 0-0 Uganda
13/11/1977 Uganda 2-1 Ethiopia
[Uganda qualify]
30/10/1977 Senegal 3-1 Nigeria
13/11/1977 Nigeria 3-0 Senegal
[Nigeria qualify]
30/10/1977 Tunis Tunisia 3-0 Guinea
13/11/1977 Conakry Guinea 3-2 Tunisia
[Tunisia qualify]
Morocco qualify as holders
Ghana qualify as hosts
Group A (all matches in Accra)
5- 3-78 Ghana 2-1 Zambia
[Afriye 21, Abdul Razak 55; Kapita 8]
5- 3-78 Nigeria 4-2 Upper Volta
[Chukwu 17, Adekiye 31, Odegbami 44, 82; Hien 50, Koita 52]
8- 3-78 Zambia 2-0 Upper Volta
[P.Phiri 20, B.Phiri 88]
8- 3-78 Nigeria 1-1 Ghana
[Odegbami 33; Kluste 76]
10- 3-78 Zambia 0-0 Nigeria
10- 3-78 Ghana 3-0 Upper Volta
[Alhassan 3, 59, Mohammed]
1.GHANA 3 2 1 0 6- 2 5
2.NIGERIA 3 1 2 0 5- 3 4
3.Zambia 3 1 1 1 3- 2 3
4.Upper Volta 3 0 0 3 2- 9 0
Group B (all matches in Kumasi)
6- 3-78 Morocco 1-1 Tunisia
[Acila 29; Kaabi 63]
6- 3-78 Uganda 3-1 Congo
[Omondi 1, Semwanga 31, Kisitu 81; Mamounoubala 80]
9- 3-78 Tunisia 3-1 Uganda
[Labidi 36, Ben Aziza 38, 83; Musenze 71]
9- 3-78 Morocco 1-0 Congo
[Acila 28]
11- 3-78 Congo 0-0 Tunisia
11- 3-78 Uganda 3-0 Morocco
[Kisitu 13, Nsereko 32, Omondi 36]
1.UGANDA 3 2 0 1 7- 4 4
2.TUNISIA 3 1 2 0 4- 2 4
3.Morocco 3 1 1 1 2- 4 3
4.Congo 3 0 1 2 1- 4 1
Semifinals
(Accra)
14- 3-78 Ghana 1-0 Tunisia
[Abdul Razak 57]
(Kumasi)
14- 3-78 Uganda 2-1 Nigeria
[Nasur 11, Omondi 58; Martin Eyo 54]
Third Place Match (Accra)
16- 3-78 Nigeria awd Tunisia [awarded 2-0]
[Tunisia withdrew at 1-1 in 42']
Final (Accra)
16- 3-78 Ghana 2-0 Uganda
[Opoku Afriye 38, 64]
Thanks to Osvaldo José Gorgazzi for additional dates and venues of qualifying matches
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