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1978 All-Africa Games
football tournament
Tournament details
Host countryAlgeria
CityAlgiers
Dates13–28 July 1978
Teams8 (from 1 confederation)
Venue(s)2 (in 1 host city)
Final positions
Champions Algeria (1st title)
Runners-up Nigeria
Third place Ghana
Fourth place Malawi
Tournament statistics
Matches played16
Goals scored37 (2.31 per match)
Top scorer(s)...
(... goals)
Best player(s)Algeria Ali Bencheikh
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Football at the 1978 All-Africa Games was held in Algiers, Algeria.

Qualification

Main article: Football at the 1978 All-Africa Games – Men's qualification

The following countries have qualified for the final tournament:

Squads

Main article: Football at the 1978 All-Africa Games – Men's team squads

Venues

Algiers
Algiers
Stade 5 Juillet 1962 Stade 20 Août 1955
Capacity: 85,000 Capacity: 20,000

Final tournament

The eight teams were divided into two groups of three teams. The two top teams from each group played the semifinals before the final match.

All times given as local time (UTC+1)

Group stage

Legend
Teams that advanced to the semifinals

Group A

Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
 Algeria 3 2 1 0 6 2 +4 5
 Egypt 3 2 1 0 6 2 +4 5
 Libya 3 1 0 2 3 4 –1 2
 Malawi 3 0 0 3 2 9 –7 0
Egypt 1 – 1 Algeria
El Khatib 11' Assad 17' (pen)
Referee: Hafedh Hadj Hamida (Tunisia)
Libya 2 – 1 Malawi
Algeria 2 – 1 Libya
Belkedrouci ...'
Bencheikh ...'		 ... ...'
Egypt 4 – 1 Malawi
Algeria 3 – 0 Malawi
Betrouni ...'
Aouis ...'
Kouici ...'
Egypt 1 – 0
abandoned		 Libya
  • Libya disqualified from the tournament due to their attack on the Egyptian team during the match . The match were abandoned
  • Egypt withdraw from the tournament due to the attack of the Libyan players on the Egyptian team and in protest of the bad intervention of the Algerian security against the Egyptian team

Group B

Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
 Nigeria 3 1 2 0 3 1 +2 4
 Ghana 3 1 2 0 3 2 +1 4
 Cameroon 3 0 2 1 2 3 –1 2
 Mali 3 0 2 1 3 5 –2 2
Nigeria 3 – 1 Mali
Ghana 2 – 1 Cameroon
Nigeria 0 – 0 Cameroon
Ghana 1 – 1 Mali
Nigeria 0 – 0 Ghana
Cameroon 1 – 1 Mali

Knockout Stage

 
Semi-finalsFinal
 
      
 
25 July
 
 
 Algeria2
 
28 July
 
 Ghana0
 
 Algeria1
 
25 July
 
 Nigeria0
 
 Nigeria1
 
 
 Malawi0
 
Third place
 
 
28 July
 
 
 Ghana1
 
 
 Malawi0

Semifinals

Algeria 2 – 0 Ghana
Ighili 57'
Belkedrouci 62'
Nigeria 1 – 0 Malawi

Bronze Medal match

Ghana 1 – 0 Malawi

Gold Medal match

Algeria 1 – 0 Nigeria
Bencheikh 33' report
Attendance: 60,000

Medals

Event Gold Silver Bronze
Football  Algeria  Nigeria  Ghana
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