1976 Summer Olympics – Men's Football African Qualifiers

Dates	11 May 1975 – 4 April 1976
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Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Algeria	2–3	Tunisia	1–1	1–2
Egypt	1–2	Sudan	1–1	0–1
Ethiopia	0–3	Tanzania	0–0	0–3
Gambia	0–7	Guinea	0–1	0–6
Ghana	10–1	Liberia	6–0	4–1
Mauritania	0–7	Mali	0–1	0–6
Malawi	w/o	Madagascar	—	—
Morocco	3–1	Libya	2–1	1–0
Nigeria	w/o	Cameroon	—	—
Togo	1–2	Senegal	1–1	0–1
Zaire	6–2	Upper Volta	4–1	2–1
Zambia	9–0	Mauritius	5–0	4–0

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Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Guinea	3–6	Ghana	1–0	2–6
Malawi	2–5	Zambia	1–1	1–4
Nigeria	w/o	Mali	—	—
Senegal	3–3 (5–4 p)	Zaire	3–1	0–2
Tanzania	1–2	Sudan	1–0	0–2
Tunisia	0–2	Morocco	0–1	0–1

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3 groups of 2 teams each. Winners qualify for the Final Tournament.

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Nigeria	3–2	Morocco	3–1	0–1
Senegal	1–2	Ghana	0–0	1–2
Zambia	2–2 (5–4 p)	Sudan	2–2	0–0

Nigeria won 3–2 and qualified for the 1976 Summer Olympics football tournament.

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Ghana won 2–1 and qualified for the 1976 Summer Olympics football tournament.

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Zambia won 5–4 on penalties after 1–1 on aggregates and qualified for the 1976 Summer Olympics football tournament.

The three African participants boycotted the day before the start of the Games to protest the participation of New Zealand, whose rugby team planned a summer tour of South Africa in spite of the Soweto uprising.^[1]

Due to logistical issues and the large number of other African nations boycotting the Games, these teams could not be replaced, meaning the final tournament was played three teams short.