1986 FIFA World Cup qualification (CAF)

Format

There would be four rounds of play:

• First Round: 3 teams, Algeria, Cameroon and Ghana, received byes and advanced to the Second Round directly. The remaining 26 teams were paired up to play knockout matches on a home-and-away basis. The winners would advance to the Second Round.
• Second Round and Third Round: In each of these rounds, the teams were paired up to play knockout matches on a home-and-away basis. The winners would advance to the next round, until there would be 4 teams left.
• Final Round: The 4 teams were paired up to play knockout matches on a home-and-away basis. The winners would qualify.

First round

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Egypt won 2–1 on agg. and advanced to the Second Round.

Tabu Tesfaye Kebede Masiga Onyango Kenya won 5–4 on agg. and advanced to the Second Round.

Leclézio Waya Malawi won 5–0 on agg. and advanced to the Second Round.

Msiska Bwalya Zambia won 3–1 on agg. and advanced to the Second Round.

Sudan advanced to the Second Round on away goals after a draw 1–1 on agg.

Dahane Labied Morocco won 5–0 on agg. and advanced to the Second Round.

Gasri Rakbaoui Gasri Tunisia won 6–0 on agg. and advanced to the Second Round.

N'Dri Ben Salah Ndour Wadda Tiéhi Ivory Coast won 6–3 on agg. and advanced to the Second Round.

Adeshina Nigeria won 4–0 on agg. and advanced to the Second Round.

Angola advanced to the Second Round on penalties after a draw won 1–1 on agg.

Madagascar advanced to the Second Round, Lesotho withdrew.

Libya advanced to the Second Round, Niger withdrew.

Guinea advanced to the Second Round, Togo withdrew.

Second round

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Njovu Zambia won 5–2 on agg. and advanced to the Third Round.

Dahane Morocco won 2–0 on agg. and advanced to the Third Round.

Menad Bouiche Machado Algeria won 3–2 on agg. and advanced to the Third Round.

Keshi Yekini Yekini Sofoluwe Nigeria won 6–1 on agg. and advanced to the Third Round.

Egypt advanced to the Third Round on penalties after a draw 1–1 on agg.

Hsoumi Tunisia won 2–1 on agg. and advanced to the Third Round.

Al-Beshari Al-Maadani Bani Libya won 4–0 on agg. and advanced to the Third Round.

Alhassan Ghana won 2–0 on agg. and advanced to the Third Round.

Third round

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Madjer Algeria won 3–0 on agg. and advanced to the Final Round.

Al-Qadi Libya won 2–0 on agg. and advanced to the Final Round.

Tunisia won 2–1 on agg. and advanced to the Final Round.

Bouderbala Morocco won 2–0 on agg. and advanced to the Final Round.

Final round

|} Menad Kaci-Saïd Menad Yahi Algeria won 7–1 on agg. and qualified for the 1986 FIFA World Cup.

Timoumi Bouderbala Morocco won 3–1 on agg. and qualified for the 1986 FIFA World Cup.

Qualified teams

:1 Bold indicates champions for that year. Italic indicates hosts for that year.

Goalscorers

;5 goals

• TUN Bassam Jeridi

;4 goals

• ALG Djamel Menad
• MAR Mustapha Merry

;3 goals

• ALG Rabah Madjer
• CIV Abdoulaye Traoré
• KEN Joe Masiga
• ZAM Michael Chabala

;2 goals

• ALG Tedj Bensaoula
• EGY Emad Suleiman
• ETH Mulugeta Kebede
• MWI Frank Sinalo
• MAR Aziz Bouderbala
• MAR Saad Dahane
• MAR Mohamed Timoumi
• NGA Humphrey Edobor
• NGA Rashidi Yekini
• TUN Mohamed Gasri
• TUN Abdelkader Rakbaoui

;1 goal

• ALG Nasser Bouiche
• ALG Mohamed Kaci-Saïd
• ALG Faouzi Mansouri
• ALG Hocine Yahi
• ANG Jesus
• ANG Eduardo Machado
• ANG Ivo Raimundo Traça
• CMR André Kana-Biyik
• CMR Louis-Paul M'Fédé
• CIV Oumar Ben Salah
• CIV Kouassi N'Dri
• CIV Joël Tiéhi
• EGY Alaa Mayhoub
• ETH Gebremedhin Haile
• ETH Dagne Tesfaye
• GAM Cheikh Ndour
• GAM Baboucar Sowe
• GAM Bai Malleh Wadda
• GHA George Alhassan
• GHA Opoku Nti
• GUI Alsény Diaby
• KEN Sammy Ayoyi
• KEN Sammy Onyango
• KEN Sam Tabu
• LBY Ali Al-Beshari
• LBY Abdel Razak Al-Farjani
• LBY Ibrahim Al-Maadani
• LBY Ayad Al-Qadi
• LBY Reda Al-Senussi
• LBY Aboubaker Bani
• LBY Abubaker Ben Brahim
• MAD Herilia Rafanodina
• MWI Ricky Phuka
• MWI Harry Waya
• MAR Mustapha El Haddaoui
• MAR Khalid Labied
• NGA Ademola Adeshina
• NGA Fatai Amoo
• NGA Okey Isima
• NGA Stephen Keshi
• NGA Dahiru Sadi
• NGA Yisa Sofoluwe
• NGA Clement Temile
• SEN Abdou Karim Sèye
• SUD Mazda
• TAN Peter Tino
• TUN Hakim Braham
• TUN Lotfi Hsoumi
• UGA Godfrey Katerega
• ZAM Kalusha Bwalya
• ZAM Jones Chilengi
• ZAM Fanny Hangunyu
• ZAM Lucky Msiska
• ZAM Aaron Njovu

;1 own goal

• EGY Hamada Sedki (playing against Zimbabwe)
• MRI Bernard Leclézio (playing against Malawi)