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( Top Scorers in Qualifying; Past Tournament Winners & Hosts )


( Write-ups of teams that made the Quarterfinals: Congo, Equatorial Guinea, DR Congo, Tunisia, Algeria, Ghana, Guinea, and Ivory Coast )

Apologies for not posting this before AFCON got started. I guess now you can look and see if World Soccer's analysis was remotely close to what happened in the group stages. ;-P There are write ups for all of the other teams (like Gabon, Senegal, South Africa, and Cameroon) but I omitted them since this post is pretty long. If you would like to see them, let me know and I'll do another post.

Times are GMT. Click to enlarge. First set of games kick off at 2:00PM GMT.

The following countries are already qualified for AFCON 2015: Cape Verde, Algeria, Tunisia, South Africa, Cameroon, Zambia, Burkina Faso, Gabon, Senegal.  Morocco had to forfeit their bye with the AFCON 2015 location change to Equatorial Guinea, from what I understand. Not sure if Equatorial Guinea is taking their spot or if they are still disqualified. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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ExCo Resolutions 11/11/2014: Algeria, Egypt, Gabon & Ghana on final shortlist for #AFCON 2017 -http://t.co/9WEypNNE0D pic.twitter.com/WYc9gUfzbk
— CAF MEDIA (@CAF_Media) November 17, 2014

( This was part of Kenya's (rejected) bid, feat Lupita and Obama )

( #WeCanBeatEbola - FIFA and CAF join campaign against Ebola. Can there be humor with Ebola? Possibly, when footballers doing PSAs are involved. )

I know y'all are just chomping at the bit for even more matches these week (NO, everyone screams), and the Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers are here to provide.  This is a scheduled post - idk if it's going to post correctly or not, but I thought I'd throw this up if someone wanted to watch/follow the games and use it as a discussion post.  I probably will not be around for these games, unfortunately.  By my calculations, the first game will start about an hour after this post (hopefully) goes up.

Right now, Morocco (the 2015 AFCON host nation) has asked the CAF to postpone the final games in January due to the Ebola epidemic (ARTICLE), but no final decision has been made as of yet - it will be discussed at meetings on November 2-3 (ARTICLE).  As far as I can tell, all games today are being played as scheduled.  Prayer circle for everyone involved.

( AFCON Qualifiers - Wednesday, Oct 15th: 14 games for your eyeballs )

These times are local (and I don't know what time zones they are), but you can switch them to your local time at the CAF website for the matches.  Click on the little Earth graphic in the upper right corner. Presumably there will also be game summaries: AFCON FIXTURES @ CAF

Also, here's a list of broadcast games I snagged from a beIN Sports stream (these times are Eastern - EDT).  Don't know if any other channels are airing them.

( At least 8 games are being aired on TV )

The rest of the qualifiers are scheduled for Nov 14-15 and Nov 19. 

(Also, pretend Ghana has a tag.)