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Dr Kwame Nkrumah Gold Cup

 Dr Kwame Nkrumah Gold Cup

1959-60

Qualifying Tournament (incomplete)

Zone A Semifinal
   -  -1959 Dahomey        2-0 Togo
   -  -1959 Togo           1-2 Dahomey
            Nigeria received a bye (presumably Cameroon withdrew)

Zone A Final
  8-11-1959 Dahomey        0-1 Nigeria           [at Cotonou]
 28-11-1959 Nigeria       10-1 Dahomey           [at Lagos]

Zone B
 Ghana qualified
 One of the matches in this zone may have been Ghana 8-1 Niger, but this has not been confirmed.

Zone C
 Sierra Leone qualified

Zone D
 Portuguese Guinea qualified. The only known results in this zone are:
 20-12-1959 Gambia         3-2 Cape Verde        [at Bathurst]          
   - 1-1960 Port. Guinea   3-2 Gambia


Final Tournament, held in Ghana

Semifinals
 31- 1-1960 Sierra Leone   4-3 Portuguese Guinea [at Kumasi]
 31- 1-1960 Ghana          w/o Nigeria

Final
  7- 2-1960 Ghana          6-2 Sierra Leone      [at Accra]
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1960

Qualifying Tournament (incomplete)

Zone A
 Nigeria qualified (automatically?)

Zone B
 Ghana qualified (automatically?)

Zone C
 Mali qualified. The only known result in this zone is:
 10- 7-1960 Mali           1-0 Sierra Leone      [at Bamako]

Zone D
 Portuguese Guinea qualified

Final Tournament, held in Nigeria

Semifinals
  2-10-1960 Nigeria        4-1 Portuguese Guinea [at Lagos]
  2-10-1960 Ghana          5-1 Mali              [at Ibadan]

Final
  9-10-1960 Nigeria        0-3 Ghana             [at Lagos]
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1961-63

Qualifying Tournament (incomplete)

Zone A Semifinal
  8-12-1962 Nigeria        3-1 Cameroon          [at Lagos]
  1- 1-1963 Cameroon       1-2 Nigeria           [at Yaoundé]

Zone A Final
 27- 1-1963 Dahomey        1-1 Nigeria           [at Cotonou]
  2- 2-1963 Nigeria        4-1 Dahomey           [at Benin City]

Zone B:
 Ghana qualfied

Zone C:
 Mali qualified

Zone D: 
 Senegal qualified. The only known results in this zone are:
   -  -1961 Gambia         lt  Senegal           [at Bathurst]
 19-11-1961 Senegal        2-3 Gambia            [at Dakar]


Final Tournament, held in Ghana

Semifinals
 24- 2-1963 Ghana          5-0 Nigeria           [at Kumasi]
 24- 2-1963 Mali           3-1 Senegal           [at Kumasi]

Third place match
 27- 2-1963 Nigeria        4-0 Senegal           [at Kumasi]

Final
  3- 3-1963 Ghana          4-0 Mali              [at Accra]
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1966-67

Following the 1963 tournament it was announced that the finals of the next edition would
be held in Lagos in 1965.  These were postponed to December 1966, then to March 1967.
Presumably the tournament was abandoned altogether but this has not yet been confirmed. 

Qualifying Tournament

The only known results are (Zone C):
 12-11-1966 Sierra Leone   1-1 Liberia           [at Freetown]
 19-11-1966 Liberia        2-0 Sierra Leone      [at Monrovia]

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