2017 Africa Cup of Nations qualification Group C

Group C of the 2017 Africa Cup of Nations qualification tournament was one of the thirteen groups to decide the teams which qualified for the 2017 Africa Cup of Nations finals tournament. The group consisted of four teams: Mali, Equatorial Guinea, Benin, and South Sudan.^[1]

The teams played against each other home-and-away in a round-robin format, between June 2015 and September 2016.^[2]

Mali, the group winners, qualified for the 2017 Africa Cup of Nations.^[3]

Standings

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Mali	6	5	1	0	13	3	+10	16	Final tournament		—	5–2	1–0	2–0
2	Benin	6	3	2	1	12	10	+2	11			1–1	—	2–1	4–1
3	Equatorial Guinea	6	1	1	4	6	6	0	4			0–1	1–1	—	4–0
4	South Sudan	6	1	0	5	3	15	−12	3			0–3	1–2	1–0	—

Source: CAF
Rules for classification: Qualification tiebreakers

Matches

Mali	2–0	South Sudan
Maïga 17' S. Coulibaly 28'	Report

13 June 2015 (2015-06-13)

19:00 UTC±0

Stade du 26 Mars, Bamako

Referee: Joshua Amao (Nigeria)

Equatorial Guinea	1–1	Benin
Nsue 49'	Report	Sessègnon 42'

14 June 2015 (2015-06-14)

16:00 UTC+1

Estadio de Bata, Bata

Referee: Victor Gomes (South Africa)

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South Sudan	1–0	Equatorial Guinea
Bentiu 51'	Report

5 September 2015 (2015-09-05)

16:30 UTC+3

Juba Stadium, Juba

Referee: Israel Mujuni (Tanzania)

Benin	1–1	Mali
Sessègnon 33'	Report	Diaby 19'

6 September 2015 (2015-09-06)

16:00 UTC+1

Stade de l'Amitié, Cotonou

Referee: Eric Otogo-Castane (Gabon)

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South Sudan	1–2	Benin
Bruno 88'	Report	Gounongbe 11' Mounié 73'

23 March 2016 (2016-03-23)

16:30 UTC+3

Juba Stadium, Juba

Referee: Thierry Nkurunziza (Burundi)

Mali	1–0	Equatorial Guinea
Wagué 81'	Report

25 March 2016 (2016-03-25)

19:00 UTC±0

Stade du 26 Mars, Bamako

Referee: Denis Dembélé (Ivory Coast)

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Benin	4–1	South Sudan
Sessègnon 23', 89' Poté 37' Dossou 71'	Report	Lual 83'

27 March 2016 (2016-03-27)

16:00 UTC+1

Stade de l'Amitié, Cotonou

Referee: Ali Lemghaifry (Mauritania)

Equatorial Guinea	0–1	Mali
	Report	M. Yatabaré 90'

28 March 2016 (2016-03-28)

17:00 UTC+1

Estadio de Malabo, Malabo

Referee: Bernard Camille (Seychelles)

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South Sudan	0–3	Mali
	Report	Diaby 35' Maïga 47' Doumbia 58'

4 June 2016 (2016-06-04)

16:30 UTC+3

Juba Stadium, Juba

Referee: Djamal Aden (Djibouti)

Benin	2–1	Equatorial Guinea
Adénon 25' Djigla 60'	Report	Zarandona 59'

12 June 2016 (2016-06-12)^{[note 1]}

16:00 UTC+1

Stade de l'Amitié, Cotonou

Referee: Bakary Gassama (Gambia)

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Equatorial Guinea	4–0	South Sudan
Miranda 54' Randy 59' Nsue 67' Akapo 90'	Report

4 September 2016 (2016-09-04)

17:00 UTC+1

Estadio de Malabo, Malabo

Referee: Hélder Martins de Carvalho (Angola)

Mali	5–2	Benin
S. Yatabaré 19' Diaby 36' Marega 39' Traoré 65' Doumbia 80'	Report	Gounongbe 40' Sessègnon 90'

4 September 2016 (2016-09-04)

17:30 UTC±0

Stade du 26 Mars, Bamako

Referee: Gehad Grisha (Egypt)

Goalscorers

5 goals

• Stéphane Sessègnon

3 goals

• Abdoulay Diaby

2 goals

• Frédéric Gounongbe
• Emilio Nsue
• Moussa Doumbia
• Modibo Maïga

1 goal

• Khaled Adénon
• David Djigla
• Jodel Dossou
• Steve Mounié
• Mickaël Poté
• Carlos Akapo
• Josete Miranda
• Randy
• Iván Zarandona
• Salif Coulibaly
• Moussa Marega
• Adama Traoré
• Molla Wagué
• Mustapha Yatabaré
• Sambou Yatabaré
• Chol Peter Bentiu
• Sebit Bruno
• Atak Lual

Notes

1. The Benin v Equatorial Guinea match was postponed from the original date of 5 June 2016 to 12 June 2016, due to the suspension of the Benin Football Federation by FIFA. The match would be cancelled and the CAF would rule on the case if the condition for lifting the suspension was not met by 11 June 2016.^[4] A new president was elected on 10 June 2016, and as a result, the suspension was lifted and the match would take place accordingly.^[5]