# 2009 African Nations Championship qualification

The qualification phase for the 2009 African Championship of Nations began in March 2008. These games did not count towards the FIFA rankings.
The inaugural edition of the competition featured eight teams.

## North zone (1 seat)

Preliminary Round
| Team 1 | Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
| Libya | 2:2 (6:5) | Tunisia | 1:1 | 1:1 |
First Round
| Team 1 | Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
| Algeria | 2:2 (1:3) | Morocco | 1:1 | 1:1 |
| Libya | w/o | Egypt | w/o | |
Second Round
| Team 1 | Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
| Morocco | 3:4 | Libya | 3:1 | 0:3 |
* Libya qualified to CHAN - Côte d'Ivoire 2009.

## Zone West A (1 seat)

Preliminary Round
| Team 1 | Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
| Gambia | 1:1 | Mauritania | 1:1 | 0:0 |
First Round
| Team 1 | Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
| Senegal | 0:0 (5:4) | Mali | 0:0 | 0:0 |
| Mauritania | 3:3 | Guinea | 2:2 | 1:1 |
Second Round
| Team 1 | Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
| Guinea | 1:1 (1:3) | Senegal | 1:0 | 0:1 |
* Senegal qualified to the CHAN - Côte d'Ivoire 2009.

## Zone West B (1 seat)

Preliminary Round
| Team 1 | Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
| Ghana | 4:1 | Niger | 2:0 | 2:1 |
| Togo | w/o | Benin | w/o | |
First Round
| Team 1 | Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
| Ghana | 4:2 | Togo | 2:0 | 2:2 |
| Nigeria | 4:1 | Burkina Faso | 2:0 | 2:1 |
Second Round
| Team 1 | Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
| Ghana | 3:2 | Nigeria | 3:2 | 0:0 |
* Ghana qualified to CHAN - Côte d'Ivoire 2009.

## Central Zone (1 seat)

Preliminary Round
| Team 1 | Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
| Central African Republic | 0:2 | Gabon | 0:2 | w/o |
| Congo | w/o | Chad | Abd | |
* The Chadian Football Federation was suspended by CAF following a similar suspension by the FIFA due to the country's violation of the article guaranteeing the independence of FIFA member associations. Thus, the Chad national team was disqualified.
First Round
| Team 1 | Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
| Cameroon | 3:2 | Gabon | 1:2 | 2:0 |
| Congo DR | 4:2 | Congo | 3:0 | 1:2 |
Second Round
| Team 1 | Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
| Cameroon | 0:3 | Congo DR | 0:2 | 0:1 |
* DR Congo qualified to CHAN - Côte d'Ivoire 2009.

## Southern Zone (2 seats)

Preliminary Round
| Team 1 | Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
| Malawi | 2:2 | Mozambique | 2:1 | 0:1 |
| Swaziland | 1:4 | Zambia | 1:1 | 0:3 |
First Round
| Team 1 | Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
| Mozambique | 1:2 | Angola | 1:1 | 0:1 |
| Botswana | 1:3 | Zambia | 1:0 | 0:3 |
| Zimbabwe | 1:0 | Namibia | 0:0 | 1:0 |
| South Africa | w/o | Mauritius | w/o | |
Second Round
* Zambia and Zimbabwe qualified to CHAN - Côte d'Ivoire 2009.

## Central East Zone (1 seat)

Preliminary Round
| Team 1 | Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
| Rwanda | 1:0 | Burundi | 1:0 | 0:0 |
| Kenya | 1:2 | Tanzania | 1:0 | 0:2 |
| Eritrea | 2:5 | Uganda | 2:2 | 0:3 |
First Round
| Team 1 | Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
| Sudan | 5:1 | Rwanda | 4:0 | 1:1 |
| Tanzania | 3:1 | Uganda | 2:0 | 1:1 |
Second Round
| Team 1 | Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
| Tanzania | 5:2 | Sudan | 3:1 | 2:1 |
* Tanzania qualified to CHAN - Côte d'Ivoire 2009.