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2014 African Nations Championship

2014 African Nations Championship
2014 CHAN
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Tournament details
Host country South Africa
Dates 11 January — 1 February 2014
Teams 16 (from 1 confederation)
Venue(s) 4 (in 3 host cities)
Final positions
Champions  Libya (1st title)
Runners-up  Ghana
Third place  Nigeria
Fourth place  Zimbabwe
Tournament statistics
Matches played 32
Goals scored 73 (2.28 per match)
Attendance 296,440 (9,264 per match)
Top scorer(s) South Africa Bernard Parker (4 goals)
Best player Nigeria Ejike Uzoenyi
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The 2014 African Nations Championship was the third African Nations Championship football tournament. The 16 national teams featured players from the respective national championships. The tournament took place between 11 January and 1 February 2014 in South Africa. Originally, the tournament was to be hosted in Libya. This was the first African Nations Championship tournament where all matches were considered full international matches.

Hosts South Africa were knocked out in the group stages, which has been attributed to the national league not pausing during the tournament. Many clubs wouldn't release their players. CAF announced a rule change for future versions of the tournament.

The CHAN 2014 official draw was conducted at the CAF Headquarters on 18 September 2013 in Egypt.

The host cities were announced on 4 May 2012. Polokwane, Bloemfontein, and Cape Town will host the tournament. As the CEO of the LOC, said: "We are not going to let the success of Orange AFCON 2013 get into our heads and we are not taking anything for granted. We are applying the same formula we used during AFCON as well as the lessons learnt to make sure that Orange CHAN 2014 delivers in accordance with our objectives as well as CAF expectations. We are still going to return to the host cities for another round of visits as the LOC, at the end of August and again in November, together with CAF again. This is how serious we take this competition. We also share the same sentiments expressed by the CAF Vice President and Deputy Secretary General of CAF and we are pleased with what we have seen so far.".

All times are local (UTC+02:00).

The teams are ranked according to points (3 points for a win, 1 point for a tie, 0 points for a loss). If tied on points, tiebreakers are applied in the following order:


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