CECAFA Challenge Cup: Ethiopia 1 Malawi 1
Please disregard the earlier version of our post.
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania – The Ethiopian national football team drew 1-1 with Malawi in its last Group C match to qualify to the quarter-finals.
Oumed Oukuri of Defence Force scored Ethiopia’s equalizer.
There are 3 groups in this year’s CECAFA Challenge Cup. The top 2 teams from each group (6 in all) will automatically advance to the quarter-finals where they will be joined by the Best 2 third place finishers.
After today’s result, Zambia, Rwanda and Malawi have confirmed their qualifications to the quarter-finals by winning their respective groups. They are also joined by Tanzania, which finished as runner-up in Group A.
In Group A, Tanzania beats Burundi 2-0 today to finish runner-up, with Burundi taking 3rd place with 4 points +0 goal difference. Since there are already teams (Zanzibar, Uganda & Ethiopia) who have better goal differences than Burundi, the latter will not qualify as the one of the Best 3rd place finishers.
Ethiopia could end up finishing runner-up from Group C if Kenya defeats Uganda by 2 clear goals.
Group A: Burundi, Somalia, Tanzania and Zambia
11-27-2010: Burundi 2 Somalia 0 and Zambia 1 Tanzania 0
11-30-2010: Zambia 0 Burundi 0 and Tanzania 3 Somalia 0
12-03-2010: Zambia 6 Somalia 0
12-04-2010: Tanzania 2 Burundi 0
Group A Standing
| Pos. | Teams | GP | W | D | L | GF | GA | +/- | Pts |
| 1 | Zambia | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 0 | +7 | 7 |
| 2 | Tanzania | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 1 | +4 | 6 |
| 3 | Burundi | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | +0 | 4 |
| 4 | Kenya | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 5 | -2 | 0 |
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Group B: Sudan, Zanzibar, Rwanda and the Ivory Coast
11-28-2010: Zanzibar 2 Sudan 0 and Rwanda 2 Ivory Coast 1
12-01-2010: Sudan 0 Rwanda 0 and Ivory Coast 1 Zanzibar 0
12-03-2010: Zanzibar 0 Rwanda 0
12-05-2010: Ivory Coast vs Sudan
Group B Standing
| Pos. | Teams | GP | W | D | L | GF | GA | +/- | Pts |
| 1 | Rwanda | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | +1 | 5 |
| 2 | Zanzibar | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | +1 | 4 |
| 3 | Ivory Coast | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | +0 | 3 |
| 4 | Sudan | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | -2 | 1 |
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Group C: Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda and Malawi
11-29-2010: Uganda 2 Ethiopia 1 and Malawi 3 Kenya 2
12-03-2010: Ethiopia 2 Kenya 1 and Uganda 1 Malawi 1
12-04-2010: Ethiopia 1 Malawi 1
12-05-2010: Uganda vs Kenya
Group C Standing
| Pos. | Teams | GP | W | D | L | GF | GA | +/- | Pts |
| 1 | Malawi | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 4 | +1 | 5 |
| 2 | Uganda | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 2 | +1 | 4 |
| 3 | Ethiopia | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 | +0 | 4 |
| 4 | Kenya | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 5 | -2 | 0 |
