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Ghana - 5 March 1978 - 18 March 1978

Winner : Ghana

 

Podium

1	Ghana
2	Uganda
3	Nigeria

 

Group A (Ghana - 05/03/1978 - 10/03/1978)

Classification

	Team	Pts	MP	W	D	L	GF	GA	diff
1	Ghana	5	3	2	1	0	6	2	+4
2	Nigeria	4	3	1	2	0	5	3	+2
3	Zambia	3	3	1	1	1	3	2	+1
4	Burkina-Faso	0	3	0	0	3	2	9	-7

Last matches

5 March 1978
	Ghana	2 - 1	Zambia
	Nigeria	4 - 2	Burkina-Faso
8 March 1978
	Ghana	1 - 1	Nigeria
	Zambia	2 - 0	Burkina-Faso
10 March 1978
	Zambia	0 - 0	Nigeria
	Ghana	3 - 0	Burkina-Faso

Detail of the results

Group B (Ghana - 06/03/1978 - 11/03/1978)

Standing

	Team	Pts	MP	W	D	L	GF	GA	diff
1	Uganda	4	3	2	0	1	7	4	+3
2	Tunisia	4	3	1	2	0	4	2	+2
3	Morocco	3	3	1	1	1	2	4	-2
4	Congo	1	3	0	1	2	1	4	-3

Last matches

6 March 1978
	Morocco	1 - 1	Tunisia
	Uganda	3 - 1	Congo
9 March 1978
	Morocco	1 - 0	Congo
	Tunisia	3 - 1	Uganda
11 March 1978
	Congo	0 - 0	Tunisia
	Uganda	3 - 0	Morocco

Detail of the results

Final Round (Ghana - 14/03/1978 - 18/03/1978)

Semi-Finals

14 March 1978
	Ghana	1 - 0	Tunisia
	Uganda	2 - 1	Nigeria

Third Place Match

17 March 1978
	Nigeria	2 - 1	Tunisia

Final

18 March 1978
	Ghana	2 - 0	Uganda

Detail of the results

Statistics

• General statistics
  • Number of events : 3
  • Number of rounds : 5
  • Matches : 16
  • Home victories : 12 (75 %)
  • Away victories : 0 (0 %)
  • Drawn matches : 4 (25 %)

  • Best round in goals : 1st (34 goals)
  • Average of goals per match : 2.44
  • Goals scored average at home : 1.88
  • Goals scored average: away games : 0.56
  • Total number of goals : 39
  • Average goals per round : 7.8
• Various statistics
  
  

  Wins

  1	Ghana	4
  2	Uganda	3
  3	Nigeria	2
  4	Morocco	1
  5	Tunisia	1
  6	Zambia	1

  Drawn matches

  1	Nigeria	2
  2	Tunisia	2
  3	Congo	1
  4	Ghana	1
  5	Morocco	1
  6	Zambia	1

  Losses

  1	Burkina-Faso	3
  2	Congo	2
  3	Tunisia	2
  4	Uganda	2
  5	Morocco	1
  6	Nigeria	1

• Game/match scores
  
  

  2-1	3	19 %	3-1	2	13 %	3-0	2	13 %
  2-0	2	13 %	1-1	2	13 %	1-0	2	13 %
  0-0	2	13 %	4-2	1	6 %

Africa Cup of Nations 1978 - Participating teams

Burkina-Faso

Congo

Ghana

Morocco

Nigeria

Tunisia

Uganda

Zambia

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