The draw for Confédération Africaine de Football, 1st Round, preliminary competition for the Olympic Football Tournament was held today at FIFA House in Zurich.

Men’s Olympic Football Tournament, Sydney 2000
Preliminary Competition - Draw 1st Round CAF - Zurich 10 March 1999

 1st Match    Home    Away
POOL 1  UGANDA  ZAMBIA
 NIGERIA  NAMIBIA
 ANGOLA  BOTSWANA
 ZIMBABWE  MAURITIUS
 
POOL 2  CAMEROON  CONGO
 GUINEA  GABON
 GHANA  TANZANIA
 TOGO  SOUTH AFRICA
 
POOL 3  ALGERIA  COTE D’IVOIRE
 TUNESIA  SENEGAL
 MALI  EGYPT
 CONGO DR  MOROCCO


  • Cup system, home and away matches.
  • Home/away also was decided by the lot.
  • 1st leg to be played on 11, 12 or 13 June 1999
    2nd leg to be be played on 25, 26 or 27 June 1999
  • The 12 winners qualify for the 2nd round.


Draw Procedure
  Pool 1   Pool 2   Pool 3
  Seeded:
 Angola
 Nigeria
 Zambia
 Zimbabwe
  		  Seeded:
 Cameroon
 Ghana
 Guinea
 South Africa 		  Seeded:
 Côte d’Ivoire
 Egypt
 Morocco
 Tunisia
 
  Unranked:
 Namibia
 Uganda
 Mauritius
 Botswana
  		  Unranked:
 Togo
 Congo
 Gabon
 Tanzania
  		  Unranked:
 Algeria
 Senegal
 Mali
 Congo DR
 
 Lots were drawn to pair teams. Each seeded team to face an unranked team.