each. The teams in each group played a single round robin. After the group stage, the top two teams from each group advanced to the quarter-finals. The quarter-final winners advanced to the semi-finals. The semi-final losers played in a third place match, while the semi-final winners played in the final. Draw The draw took place on 20 September 2003 in Tunis. In parentheses, the FIFA World Rankings as of 14 January 2004. Match summary The 16 national teams participating in the tournament together played a total of 32 matches ranging from group stage and progression matches to knockout matches, with teams eliminated through the various progressive stages. Rest days are set aside during the different stages to allow players to recover during the tournament. Group stage Teams highlighted in green progress to the quarter-finals. All times local: CET (UTC+1) Tiebreakers Teams were ranked according to points (3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, 0 points for a loss), and if tied on points, the following tiebreaking criteria were applied, in the order given, to determine the rankings (Regulations Article 74): Points in head-to-head matches among tied teams; Goal difference in head-to-head matches among tied teams; Goals scored in head-to-head matches among tied teams; If more than two teams were tied, and after applying all head-to-head criteria above, a subset of teams were still tied, all head-to-head criteria above were reapplied exclusively to this subset of teams; Goal difference in all group matches; Goals scored in all group matches; Drawing of lots. Group A Group B Group C Group D Knockout stage Quarter-finals Semi-finals Third place match Final Statistics Goalscorers There were 88 goals scored in 32 matches, for an average of 2.75 goals per match. 4 goals Patrick M'Boma Frédéric Kanouté Jay-Jay Okocha Francileudo Santos 3 goals Aboubacar Titi Camara Youssouf Hadji Osaze Odemwingie Peter Ndlovu 2 goals Hocine Achiou Modeste M'Bami Mahamadou Diarra Marouane Chamakh John Utaka Mamadou Niang Siyabonga Nomvete Ziad Jaziri Pascal Feindouno 1 goal Abdelmalek Cherrad Mamar Mamouni Brahim Zafour Moussa Latoundji Dieudonné Minoungou Samuel Eto'o Alain Masudi Tamer Abdel Hamid Mohamed Barakat Ahmed Belal John Wamalwa Baraza Emmanuel Ake Titus Mulama Dennis Oliech Sedonoude Abouta Soumaïla Coulibaly Mohamed Sissoko Dramane Traoré Nabil Baha Talal El Karkouri Abdeslam Ouaddou Youssef Safri Jawad Zairi Garba Lawal Joseph Yobo João Elias Karim Kamanzi Saïd Abed Makasi Habib Beye Papa Bouba Diop Patrick Mayo Khaled Badra