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2009 African Nations Championship

Inaugural edition of CHAN

Field	Value
tourney_name	African Nations Championship
year	2009
other_titles
image	African Nations Championship 2009.png
size	180px
country	Ivory Coast
dates	22 February – 8 March
num_teams	8
confederations	1
venues	2
cities	2
champion_other
count	1
second_other
third_other
fourth_other
matches	16
goals	30
top_scorer	Zambia Given Singuluma (5 goals)
player	COD Tresor Mputu
nextseason	[2011](2011-african-nations-championship)

The 2009 African Nations Championship, also known as CHAN 2009 for short, was the inaugural edition of the biennial association football tournament organized by CAF featuring national teams consisting of players playing in their respective local leagues. It was held in Ivory Coast from 22 February to 8 March 2009.

Qualification

Main article: 2009 African Nations Championship qualification

Thirty countries attempted to qualify for the tournament, with a total of 8 teams qualifying for this inaugural edition, including hosts Ivory Coast.

Squads

Main article: 2009 African Nations Championship squads

Each squad consisted of a total of 28 players.

Qualified teams

	CAF Zone 6 – Southern Zone

Draw

The draw for the group stage was held in Abidjan on Friday 26 December 2008.

Venues

Abidjan	Bouaké
{{location map+	Côte d'Ivoire	float=right	width=350	caption=Locations of the 2009 African Championship of Nations venues	places=
Stade Félix Houphouët-Boigny	Stade Bouaké
Capacity: 40,000	Capacity: 35,000
[[File:StadeFHB.jpg	180px]]	[[File:Stade de la paix en reconstruction.PNG	180px]]

Group stage

Tie-breaking criteria

Where two or more teams end the group stage with the same number of points, their ranking is determined by the following criteria:

points earned in the matches between the teams concerned;
goal difference in the matches between the teams concerned;
number of goals scored in the group matches between the teams concerned;
number of away goals scored in the matches between the teams concerned;
goal difference in all group matches;
number of goals scored in all group matches;
Yellow and red cards
drawing of lots by the organizing committee.

All times given as local time (UTC+00:00)

Key to colors in group tables

Group A

Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
3	1	2	0	4	1	+3	5
3	1	2	0	1	0	+1	5
3	1	1	1	2	2	0	4
3	0	1	2	0	4	−4	1

Group B

Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
3	1	2	0	6	3	+3	5
3	1	1	1	3	4	−1	4
3	0	3	0	3	3	0	3
3	0	2	1	1	3	−2	2

NB: Ghana coach Milovan Rajevac was sent to the stands in the 82nd minute for unsporting behaviour.

Knockout phase

|4 March – Bouaké| (pen.)|1 (7)||1 (6) |4 March – Abidjan||1||2 |8 March – Abidjan||0||2 |7 March – Abidjan||1||2

Semi-finals

Third-place play-off

Final

Main article: 2009 African Nations Championship Final

Bedi

References

(21 February 2009). "CHAN 2009: Squad List - African Nations Championship 2009".
(26 December 2008). "CHAN draw concluded today 26 of December 2008".
"Regulations of the African Nations Championship; Article 66, paragraph 5".
(5 March 2009). "Ghana and DRC in to CHAN final".

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