2013 Africa Cup of Nations

2013 Africa Cup of Nations

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Tournament details
Host country	South Africa
Teams	16 (from 1 confederation)
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The 2013 Africa Cup of Nations will be the 29th Africa Cup of Nations, the football championship of Africa organized by the Confederation of African Football (CAF). It was scheduled to be hosted by Libya, however a decision by CAF to move the competition to South Africa, means Libya will not host. Libya won the right to host the tournament after defeating a Nigerian bid along with three other bid winning nations, Angola, Gabon and Equatorial Guinea. Bids from Mozambique, Namibia, Zimbabwe and Senegal were rejected and did not reach the shortlist. For the first time in CAF history, the hosts of three successive tournaments were chosen at the same time; Angola was chosen to host in 2010, Gabon/Equatorial Guinea were chosen as hosts for the 2012 Cup and Libya for the 2013 edition.

The winners of the tournament will qualify for the 2013 FIFA Confederations Cup in Brazil as the representative from CAF.

Bids shortlist

Five countries were put on the shortlist to host the tournament including one joint bid.^{[citation needed]}

• Angola
• Gabon / Equatorial Guinea
• Libya
• Nigeria (Reserved Hosts)

Other countries that failed in their bids were:

• Benin / Central African Republic
• Botswana

Qualification

Main article: 2013 Africa Cup of Nations qualification

A total of 47 countries entered the qualification, including South Africa, which automatically qualified.

Qualified teams

Country	Qualified as	Date qualification was secured	Previous appearances in tournament1
South Africa	00Hosts	0328 September 2011	7 (1996, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2008)

¹ Bold indicates champion for that year

Venues

The South African Football Association have said that they will open bidding to all 2010 FIFA World Cup host cities, to host matches during the tournament. The stadiums used during the World Cup were:

Johannesburg	Cape Town	Durban	Johannesburg
Soccer City	Cape Town Stadium	Moses Mabhida Stadium	Ellis Park Stadium
26°14′5.27″S 27°58′56.47″E	33°54′12.46″S 18°24′40.15″E	29°49′46″S 31°01′49″E	26°11′51.07″S 28°3′38.76″E
Capacity: 94,700	Capacity: 55,000	Capacity: 54,000	Capacity: 60,000
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Pretoria	Johannesburg Durban Cape Town     Pretoria Port Elizabeth Bloemfontein Polokwane Rustenburg     Nelspruit		Port Elizabeth
Loftus Versfeld Stadium			Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium
25°45′12″S 28°13′22″E			33°56′16″S 25°35′56″E
Capacity: 50,000			Capacity: 48,000
Polokwane	Nelspruit	Bloemfontein	Rustenburg
23°55′29″S 29°28′08″E	25°27′42″S 30°55′47″E	29°07′02.25″S 26°12′31.85″E	25°34′43″S 27°09′39″E
Peter Mokaba Stadium	Mbombela Stadium	Free State Stadium	Royal Bafokeng Stadium
Capacity: 41,000	Capacity: 41,000	Capacity: 41,000	Capacity: 42,000

• ^1 Host city during 1996 African Cup of Nations
• ^2 Stadium/site used during 1996 African Cup of Nations
• ^3 Stadium expandable
• ^4 All capacities are approximate

Libyan civil war

The 2011 Libyan uprising against the government of Muammar Gaddafi meant that the staging of the 2013 tournament in Libya would not be feasible. In June 2011, an anonymous source at CAF stated that "CAF have decided to move the tournament to another country because of the current instability in Libya" A decision was made to move the tournament to South Africa, and Libya was instead given the 2017 Africa Cup of Nations which South Africa was initially due to host. Egypt had also expressed interest in hosting the event.

External links

• Orange CAN 2013