Football at the 1964 Summer Olympics – Men's African Qualifiers – Group 2

The 1964 Summer Olympics football qualification – Africa Group 2 was one of the three African groups in the Summer Olympics football qualification tournament to decide which teams would qualify for the 1964 Summer Olympics football finals tournament in Japan.^[1] Group 2 consisted of four teams: Dahomey, Ghana, Liberia, Tunisia. The teams played home-and-away knockout matches. Ghana qualified for the Summer Olympics football finals after defeating Tunisia 3–2 on aggregate in the second round.

Summary

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
First round
Dahomey	3–3	Tunisia	2–2	1–1
Liberia	4–6	Ghana	4–5	0–1
First round play-off
Dahomey	1–1 (a.e.t.) (t)	Tunisia
Second round
Ghana	3–2	Tunisia	2–0	1–2

First round

17 November 1963

Dahomey	2–2	Tunisia
Coréa 60', 63'	Report	Sassi 25', 35'

Attendance: 15,000

8 March 1964

Tunisia	1–1	Dahomey
Jedidi 37'	Report	Rahimi 49'

Stade Géo-André, Tunis

Attendance: 20,000

Dahomey and Tunisia tied 3–3 on aggregate and advanced to a play-off.

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18 January 1964

Liberia	4–5	Ghana
Brown ?', ?' ?', ?'	Report	Acquah ?', ?' ?', ?', ?'

Antoinette Tubman Stadium, Monrovia

2 February 1964

Ghana	1–0	Liberia
?'	Report

Accra Sports Stadium, Accra

Attendance: 15,000

Ghana won 6–4 on aggregate and advanced to the second round.

Play-off

18 April 1964

Dahomey	1–1 (a.e.t.)	Tunisia
Coréa 57'	Report	Jedidi 70'

Stade d'Honneur, Casablanca

Attendance: 1,000

Tunisia won the play-off via a toss and advanced to the second round.

Second round

31 May 1964

Ghana	2–0	Tunisia
Mfum 44' Kofi 88'	Report

Attendance: 20,000

21 June 1964

Tunisia	2–1	Ghana
Jedidi 12' Ben Othman 87'	Report	Salisu 57'

Attendance: 20,000

Ghana won 3–2 on aggregate and qualified for the Summer Olympics.

References

1. "Games of the XVII. Olympiad – Football Qualifying Tournament – (Tokyo, Japan, 1964): AFRICA". RSSSF. 27 July 2021.