# 2002 FIFA World Cup qualification (CAF)

Listed below are the dates and results for the 2002 FIFA World Cup qualification rounds for Africa.
The Confederation of African Football was allocated five qualifying berths for the 2002 FIFA World Cup. 51 teams entered the qualification process.
Burundi withdrew before the draw was made, while Niger chose not to participate.
Guinea was excluded from the competition during the second round for government interference with its national association, resulting in their results obtained in second round being annulled.
Africa's five automatic qualifying berths were taken by Cameroon, Senegal, Tunisia, South Africa, and Nigeria.

## Format

There were two rounds of play:
* First round: The 50 teams were divided into five pools of ten teams each. In each pool, the ten teams were paired up to play knockout matches on a home-and-away basis. The winners advanced to the second round.
* Second round: The 25 teams were divided into five groups of five teams each. The teams played against each other on a home-and-away basis. The group winners qualified.

## First round
### Pool A

| Team 1 | Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
| Mauritania | 1–5 | Tunisia | 1–2 | 0–3 |
| Guinea-Bissau | 0–3 | Togo | 0–0 | 0–3 |
| Cape Verde | 0–2 | Algeria | 0–0 | 0–2 |
| Benin | 1–2 | Senegal | 1–1 | 0–1 |
| Gambia | 0–3 | Morocco | 0–1 | 0–2 |

### Pool B

| Team 1 | Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
| Madagascar | 2–1 | Gabon | 2–0 | 0–1 |
| Botswana | 0–2 | Zambia | 0–1 | 0–1 |
| Swaziland | 1–8 | Angola | 0–1 | 1–7 |
| Lesotho | 0–3 | South Africa | 0–2 | 0–1 |
| Sudan | 2–2 (a) | Mozambique | 1–0 | 1–2 |

### Pool C

| Team 1 | Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
| São Tomé and Príncipe | 2–4 | Sierra Leone | 2–0 | 0–4 |
| Central African Republic | 1–4 | Zimbabwe | 0–1 | 1–3 |
| Rwanda | 2–4 | Ivory Coast | 2–2 | 0–2 |
| Equatorial Guinea | 2–5 | Congo | 1–3 | 1–2 |
| Libya | 4–3 | Mali | 3–0 | 1–3 |

### Pool D

| Team 1 | Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
| Djibouti | 2–10 | DR Congo | 1–1 | 1–9 |
| Seychelles | 1–4 | Namibia | 1–1 | 0–3 |
| Eritrea | 0–4 | Nigeria | 0–0 | 0–4 |
| Somalia | 0–6 | Cameroon | 0–3 | 0–3 |
| Mauritius | 2–6 | Egypt | 0–2 | 2–4 |

### Pool E

| Team 1 | Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
| Malawi | 2–0 | Kenya | 2–0 | 0–0 |
| Tanzania | 2–4 | Ghana | 0–1 | 2–3 |
| Uganda | 4–7 | Guinea | 4–4 | 0–3 |
| Ethiopia | 2–4 | Burkina Faso | 2–1 | 0–3 |
| Chad | 0–1 | Liberia | 0–1 | 0–0 |

## Second round
### Group A

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification | | | | | |
| 1 | Cameroon | 8 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 14 | 4 | +10 | 19 | 2002 FIFA World Cup | — | 3–0 | 1–0 | 2–0 | 1–0 |
| 2 | Angola | 8 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 11 | 9 | +2 | 13 | | 2–0 | — | 2–1 | 1–1 | 3–1 |
| 3 | Zambia | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 14 | 11 | +3 | 11 | | 2–2 | 1–1 | — | 2–0 | 2–0 |
| 4 | Togo | 8 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 10 | 13 | −3 | 9 | | 0–2 | 1–1 | 3–2 | — | 2–0 |
| 5 | Libya | 8 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 7 | 19 | −12 | 2 | | 0–3 | 1–1 | 2–4 | 3–3 | — |

### Group B

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification | | | | | |
| 1 | Nigeria | 8 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 15 | 3 | +12 | 16 | 2002 FIFA World Cup | — | 2–0 | 3–0 | 3–0 | 2–0 |
| 2 | Liberia | 8 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 10 | 8 | +2 | 15 | | 2–1 | — | 2–0 | 1–2 | 1–0 |
| 3 | Sudan | 8 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 8 | 10 | −2 | 12 | | 0–4 | 2–0 | — | 1–0 | 3–0 |
| 4 | Ghana | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 10 | 9 | +1 | 11 | | 0–0 | 1–3 | 1–0 | — | 5–0 |
| 5 | Sierra Leone | 8 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 15 | −13 | 4 | | 1–0 | 0–1 | 0–2 | 1–1 | — |

### Group C

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification | | | | | |
| 1 | Senegal | 8 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 14 | 2 | +12 | 15 | 2002 FIFA World Cup | — | 1–0 | 0–0 | 3–0 | 4–0 |
| 2 | Morocco | 8 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 8 | 3 | +5 | 15 | | 0–0 | — | 1–0 | 2–1 | 3–0 |
| 3 | Egypt | 8 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 16 | 7 | +9 | 13 | | 1–0 | 0–0 | — | 5–2 | 8–2 |
| 4 | Algeria | 8 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 11 | 14 | −3 | 8 | | 1–1 | 1–2 | 1–1 | — | 1–0 |
| 5 | Namibia | 8 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 3 | 26 | −23 | 2 | | 0–5 | 0–0 | 1–1 | 0–4 | — |

### Group D

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification | | | | | |
| 1 | Tunisia | 8 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 23 | 4 | +19 | 20 | 2002 FIFA World Cup | — | 1–1 | 6–0 | 1–0 | 6–0 |
| 2 | Ivory Coast | 8 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 18 | 8 | +10 | 15 | | 2–2 | — | 1–2 | 6–0 | 2–0 |
| 3 | DR Congo | 8 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 16 | −9 | 10 | | 0–3 | 1–2 | — | 1–0 | 2–0 |
| 4 | Madagascar | 8 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 5 | 15 | −10 | 6 | | 0–2 | 1–3 | 3–0 | — | 1–0 |
| 5 | Congo | 8 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 15 | −10 | 5 | | 1–2 | 1–1 | 1–1 | 2–0 | — |

### Group E

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification | | | | | |
| 1 | South Africa | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 10 | 3 | +7 | 16 | 2002 FIFA World Cup | — | 2–1 | 1–0 | 2–0 | Canc. |
| 2 | Zimbabwe | 6 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 5 | +2 | 12 | | 0–2 | — | 1–0 | 2–0 | Canc. |
| 3 | Burkina Faso | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 8 | −1 | 5 | | 1–1 | 1–2 | — | 4–2 | 2–3 |
| 4 | Malawi | 6 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 12 | −8 | 1 | | 1–2 | 0–1 | 1–1 | — | Canc. |
| 5 | Guinea | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Excluded | Canc. | 3–0 | Canc. | 1–1 | — |
* ↑ Guinea were excluded on 19 March 2001 due to government interference in football. The results of their three matches were annulled.

## Qualified teams

The following five teams from CAF qualified for the final tournament.
| Team | Qualified as | Qualified on | Previous appearances in FIFA World Cup |
| Cameroon | Final round group 1 winners | 1 July 2001 | 4 (1982, 1990, 1994, 1998) |
| Nigeria | Final round group 2 winners | 29 July 2001 | 2 (1994, 1998) |
| Senegal | Final round group 3 winners | 21 July 2001 | 0 (debut) |
| Tunisia | Final round group 4 winners | 15 July 2001 | 2 (1978, 1998) |
| South Africa | Final round group 5 winners | 1 July 2001 | 1 (1998) |
    $^1$ Bold indicates champions for that year. Italic indicates hosts for that year.

## Top goalscorers

There were 379 goals scored in 145 matches, for an average of 2.61 goals per match.
11 goals
* Ibrahima Bakayoko
8 goals
* El Hadji Diouf
6 goals
* Akwá
* Patrick Mboma
* Zoubeir Baya
5 goals
* Ngidi Yemweni
* Ziad Jaziri
* Ali Zitouni
* Peter Ndlovu
4 goals
* Pascal Feindouno
* Souleymane Youla
* Abdeljalil Hadda
* Razundara Tjikuzu
* Victor Agali
* Nwankwo Kanu
* Shaun Bartlett
* Imed Mhedhebi
Below are full goalscorer lists for each round:
* First round
* Second round