Africa Cup

This article describes the Africa Cup of Nations for men in football. For the competition in women's football, see Africa Cup of Women . For more sports competitions in Africa see African Championship .

Africa Cup
Full name	Africa Cup of Nations Coupe d'Afrique des Nations
Association	CAF
First edition	1957
hierarchy	Continental Championship
Teams	24
Game mode	Round tournament (6 groups of 4 teams each) / knockout system (from round of 16)
Title holder	Algeria (2nd title)
Record winner	Egypt (7 wins)
Record player	Rigobert Song (36 games)
Record scorer	Samuel Eto'o (18 goals)
Website	cafonline.com

Award ceremony after the final of the Africa Cup in 2015

The Africa Cup (officially English Africa Cup of Nations and French Coupe d'Afrique des Nations ; in German-speaking countries less often also (soccer) Africa championship ) is a soccer tournament organized by the African soccer association CAF , in which the African national soccer associations determine their continental champions. The current winner of the Africa Cup in the year in which the FIFA Confederations Cup is held is qualified for this tournament.

To distinguish the Africa Cup of Nations from the African Nations Cup (African Nations Championship) , a tournament are eligible to play in the only players who play in the national championships of their home countries.

In 1957 the Africa Cup was launched. The finals have been held every two years since 1968. In 2010, the CAF decided to hold the Africa Cup in uneven years with effect from 2013 , so that it does not coincide with the World and European Championships in one year.

In the first edition in 1957 there were only three participants: Egypt , Sudan and Ethiopia ; South Africa wanted to participate but was excluded due to apartheid politics . Since then, the tournament has grown continuously, so that a qualifying round was necessary. In 2019, 24 teams will take part in the Africa Cup for the first time. From then on, the following mode applies: the teams play a preliminary round in six groups of four teams. The two best teams in each group and the best four thirds in the group reach the final round, which - beginning with the round of 16 - is played in the knockout system .

The most successful nation in the previous editions of the Africa Cup is Egypt, which has secured the title seven times and won three tournaments in a row in 2006, 2008 and 2010. Cameroon with five and Ghana with four titles follow in second and third place.

First participations

Up to and including the Africa Cup of Nations 1974, there was always at least one national football team that took part in an Africa Cup of Nations finals for the first time. Below is a list of the 43 first-time participants, each with the flags and names valid at the time. In addition, seven countries are listed in brackets, which for the first time only took part in an Africa Cup under a new name. A total of 56 national football associations are represented in the Confédération Africaine de Football (CAF).

• Teams in bold became African champions when they first participated.
• Teams in italics were hosts when they first participated.
• Teams in brackets participated for the first time under a different name.

year	First time participant
1957	Egypt	Ethiopia	Sudan
1959	not a first-time participant
1962	Uganda	Tunisia
1963	Ghana	Nigeria
1965	DR Congo	Ivory Coast	Senegal
1968	Algeria	Republic of the Congo	Uganda
1970	Guinea	Cameroon
1972	Kenya	Mali	Morocco	Togo
1974	Mauritius	Zambia
1976	not a first-time participant
1978	Upper Volta
1980	Tanzania
1982	Libya
1984	Malawi
1986	Mozambique
1988-1992	not a first-time participant
1994	Gabon	Sierra Leone
1996	Angola	Liberia	South Africa
1998	Namibia
2000-2002	not a first-time participant
2004	Benin	Rwanda	Zimbabwe
2006-2010	not a first-time participant
2012	Equatorial Guinea	Botswana	Niger
2013	Cape Verde
2015	not a first-time participant
2017	Guinea-Bissau
2019	Burundi	Madagascar	Mauritania

The tournaments at a glance

year	host	final			3rd place match
		winner	Result	2nd place	3rd place	Result	4th Place
1957 details	Sudan	Egypt	4-0	Ethiopia	Sudan	(only three participants)
1959 details	VA Republic	VA Republic	(League system)	Sudan	Ethiopia	(only three participants)
1962 details	Ethiopia	Ethiopia	4: 2 a.d.	VA Republic	Tunisia	3-0	Uganda
1963 details	Ghana	Ghana	3-0	Sudan	VA Republic	3-0	Ethiopia
1965 details	Tunisia	Ghana	3: 2 a.d.	Tunisia	Ivory Coast	1-0	Senegal
1968 details	Ethiopia	DR Congo	1-0	Ghana	Ivory Coast	1-0	Ethiopia
1970 details	Sudan	Sudan	1-0	Ghana	VA Republic	3: 1	Ivory Coast
1972 details	Cameroon	VR Congo	3: 2	Mali	Cameroon	5: 2	Zaire
1974 details	Egypt	Zaire	2: 2 2: 0 replay	Zambia	Egypt	4-0	VR Congo
1976 details	Ethiopia	Morocco	(League system)	Guinea	Nigeria	(League system)	Egypt
1978 details	Ghana	Ghana	2-0	Uganda	Nigeria	2: 0 1	Tunisia
1980 details	Nigeria	Nigeria	3-0	Algeria	Morocco	2-0	Egypt
1982 details	Libya	Ghana	1: 1 a.d. 7: 6 i. E.	Libya	Zambia	2-0	Algeria
1984 details	Ivory Coast	Cameroon	3: 1	Nigeria	Algeria	3: 1	Egypt
1986 details	Egypt	Egypt	0: 0 n.v. 5: 4 i. E.	Cameroon	Ivory Coast	3: 2	Morocco
1988 details	Morocco	Cameroon	1-0	Nigeria	Algeria	1: 1 n.V. 4: 3 i. E.	Morocco
1990 details	Algeria	Algeria	1-0	Nigeria	Zambia	1-0	Senegal
1992 details	Senegal	Ivory Coast	0: 0 aet. 11:10 i. E.	Ghana	Nigeria	2: 1	Cameroon
1994 details	Tunisia	Nigeria	2: 1	Zambia	Ivory Coast	3: 1	Mali
1996 details	South Africa	South Africa	2-0	Tunisia	Zambia	1-0	Ghana
1998 details	Burkina Faso	Egypt	2-0	South Africa	DR Congo	4: 4 4: 1 i. E.	Burkina Faso
2000 details	Ghana and Nigeria	Cameroon	2: 2 n.v. 4: 3 i. E.	Nigeria	South Africa	2: 2 4: 3 i. E.	Tunisia
2002 details	Mali	Cameroon	0: 0 n.v. 3: 2 i. E.	Senegal	Nigeria	1-0	Mali
2004 details	Tunisia	Tunisia	2: 1	Morocco	Nigeria	2: 1	Mali
2006 details	Egypt	Egypt	0: 0 n.v. 4: 2 i. E.	Ivory Coast	Nigeria	1-0	Senegal
2008 details	Ghana	Egypt	1-0	Cameroon	Ghana	4: 2	Ivory Coast
2010 details	Angola	Egypt	1-0	Ghana	Nigeria	1-0	Algeria
2012 details	Gabon and Equatorial Guinea	Zambia	0: 0 a.d. 8: 7 i. E.	Ivory Coast	Mali	2-0	Ghana
2013 details 2	South Africa	Nigeria	1-0	Burkina Faso	Mali	3: 1	Ghana
2015 details	Equatorial Guinea 3	Ivory Coast	0: 0 a.d. 9: 8 i. E.	Ghana	DR Congo	0: 0 4: 2 i. E.	Equatorial Guinea
2017 details	Gabon 4	Cameroon	2: 1	Egypt	Burkina Faso	1-0	Ghana
2019 details	Egypt	Algeria	1-0	Senegal	Nigeria	1-0	Tunisia
2022 details	Cameroon 5
2023 details	Ivory Coast 5
2025 details	Guinea 5, 6

¹ The Tunisian national team withdrew from the game after 42 minutes (when the score was 1: 1) - the game was then scored 2-0 for Nigeria.

² The 2014 tournament was brought forward to 2013. In future, the Africa Cup will be held in odd years so as not to coincide with the World Cup .

³ Morocco was suspended as host in November 2014. A new host was announced on November 14, 2014.

⁴ Libya was originally supposed to host the tournament, but after its withdrawal due to the effects of the civil war, Gabon was appointed as substitute host.

⁵ After Cameroon was withdrawn as host in 2019, the country was assured that it would host it in 2021. This means that the hosts are moving from 2021 and 2023 to 2023 and 2025.

⁶ Before the venues were postponed by two years each, Ethiopia , Uganda and Zambia had expressed interest in the 2025 event.

Leaderboards

after victories

rank	country	title	Year (s)	2nd place	3rd place	4th Place
1	/ VA Republic / Egypt	7th	1957, 1959, 1986, 1998, 2006, 2008, 2010	2	3	3
2	Cameroon	5	1984, 1988, 2000, 2002, 2017	2	1	1
3	Ghana	4th	1963, 1965, 1978, 1982	5	1	4th
4th	Nigeria	3	1980, 1994, 2013	4th	8th	/
5	Ivory Coast	2	1992, 2015	2	4th	2
6th	Algeria	2	1990, 2019	1	2	2
7th	DR Congo / Zaire	2	1968, 1974	/	2	1
8th	Zambia	1	2012	2	3	/
9	Tunisia	1	2004	2	1	3
10	Sudan	1	1970	2	1	/
11	Ethiopia	1	1962	1	1	2
	Morocco	1	1976	1	1	2
13	South Africa	1	1996	1	1	/
14th	Republic of the Congo	1	1972	/	/	1
15th	Senegal			2	/	3
16	Mali			1	2	3
17th	Burkina Faso			1	1	1
18th	/ Uganda			1	/	1
19th	Guinea			1	/	/
	/ Libya			1	/	/
21st	Equatorial Guinea			/	/	1

In 1957 and 1959 only three teams took part.

by host

rank	country	Tournaments	Year (s)
1	VA Republic / Egypt	5	1959, 1974, 1986, 2006, 2019
2	Ghana	4th	1963, 1978, 2000, 2008
3	/ Ethiopia	3	1962, 1968, 1976
	Tunisia	3	1965, 1994, 2004
5	Equatorial Guinea	2	2012, 2015
	Ivory Coast	2	1984, 2023
	Gabon	2	2012, 2017
	Cameroon	2	1972, 2021
	Nigeria	2	1980, 2000
	South Africa	2	1996, 2013
	Sudan	2	1957, 1970
12	Algeria	1	1990
	Angola	1	2010
	Burkina Faso	1	1998
	Guinea	1	2025
	/ Libya	1	1982
	Mali	1	2002
	Morocco	1	1988
	Senegal	1	1992

Participation and final round placement

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country	Tournament placements																															Meld. total	Participation		Disqu. / Withdrawal
	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9	10	11	12	13	14th	15th	16	17th	18th	19th	20th	21st	22nd	23	24	25th	26th	27	28	29	30th	31
	'57	'59	'62	'63	'65	'68	'70	'72	'74	'76	'78	'80	'82	'84	'86	'88	'90	'92	'94	'96	'98	'00	'02	'04	'06	'08	'10	'12	'13	'15	'17		HE	Agony
Egypt VA Republic	1	1	2	3	•	•	3	•	3	4th	•	4th	•	4th	1	E.	E.	E.	V	V	1	V	V	E.	1	1	1	•	•	•	2	31	23	8th	-
Equatorial Guinea													-			-	•			-		•	•	•	•	•	•	V	•	4th	•	14th	2	9	3
Ethiopia	2	3	1	4th	E.	4th	E.	•	•	E.	•	•	E.	•	-	•	•	•	•	•	•	-	•	•	•	•	•	•	E.	•	•	31	10	19th	2
Algeria						E.	•	•	•	•	•	2	4th	3	E.	3	1	E.	•	V	E.	V	E.	V	•	•	4th	•	E.	V	E.	26th	17th	9	-
Angola													•	•		•	•	•		E.	E.	•	•	•	E.	V	V	E.	E.	•	•	17th	7th	10	-
Benin								•	-	-		•	-	•	•			•	•	-	•	•	•	E.	•	E.	E.	•	•	•	•	21st	3	14th	4th
Botswana																			•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	E.	•	•	•	13	1	12	-
Burkina Faso Upper Volta						•	-	-	•		E.		•				•	•	•	E.	4th	E.	E.	E.	•	•	E.	E.	2	E.	3	21st	11	8th	2
Burundi										•		-							•		-	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	14th	-	12	2
DR Congo Zaire					E.	1	E.	4th	1	E.		•	•	-	•	E.	•	V	V	V	3	E.	V	E.	V	•	•	•	E.	3	V	26th	18th	7th	1
Djibouti																						•	•	-		-	•				•	6th	-	4th	2
Eritrea																						•	•	•	•	•	-			•		7th	-	5	1
Ivory Coast					3	3	4th	•	E.	•	•	E.		E.	3	E.	E.	1	3	E.	V	E.	E.	•	2	4th	V	2	V	1	E.	26th	22nd	4th	-
Guinea-Bissau																			•	•			-	-	•		•	•	•	•	E.	10	1	7th	2
Gambia										•		•	•	•	•	•	-	•		•		-	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	19th	-	17th	2
Gabon								•	-		•		-	•	•	•	•	•	E.	V	•	E.	•	•	•	•	E.	V	•	E.	E.	22nd	7th	13	2
Ghana			•	1	1	2	2	•	•	•	1	E.	1	E.	•	•	•	2	V	4th	E.	V	V	•	E.	3	2	4th	4th	2	4th	29	21st	8th	-
Guinea				•	•	•	E.	•	E.	2	•	E.	•	•	•	•	•	•	E.	•	E.	•	•	V	V	V	•	E.	•	V	•	28	11	17th	-
Cameroon						•	E.	3	•	•	•	•	E.	1	2	1	E.	4th	•	E.	V	1	1	V	V	2	V	•	•	E.	1	26th	18th	8th	-
Cape Verde																			•	-		•	•	•	•	•	•	•	V	E.	•	12	2	9	1
Kenya			•	-	•	•	•	E.	•	•	•	•	•		•	E.	E.	E.	•	-	•	•	•	E.	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	28	5	21st	2
Comoros																											•	•		•	•	4th	-	4th	-
Lesotho									•	-		•	•	-		-			•	•		•	•	•	•	•	•		•	•	•	17th	-	14th	3
Liberia						•		•		•			•	-	•	•	•	-	•	E.	•	•	E.	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	22nd	2	18th	2
Libya						•			-	•	•	•	2	•	•	-	-		-			•	•	•	E.	•	•	E.	•	•	•	21st	3	14th	4th
Madagascar								•	•	-		•	•	•	•	•	-	•		•		•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	21st	-	19th	2
Malawi										•	•	•	•	E.	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	E.	•	•	•	•	22nd	2	20th	-
country	'57	'59	'62	'63	'65	'68	'70	'72	'74	'76	'78	'80	'82	'84	'86	'88	'90	'92	'94	'96	'98	'00	'02	'04	'06	'08	'10	'12	'13	'15	'17	Meld.	HE	Agony	Disqu.
Mali					-	•	•	2	•	•	-		•	•	•	-	•	•	4th	•	•	•	4th	4th	•	E.	E.	3	3	E.	E.	26th	10	13	3
Morocco			-	•			•	E.		1	E.	3	•	•	4th	4th	•	E.	•	•	V	E.	E.	2	E.	E.	•	E.	E.	d	V	26th	16	8th	2
Mauritania												•	•		•		-	•	-	•	•	-	•	•	•	•	•	-		•	•	17th	-	13	4th
Mauritius						•	•	•	E.	•	•	•	•	•	•	-	•	-	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•		•	•	25th	1	22nd	2
Mozambique													•	•	E.	•	•	•	•	E.	E.	•	•	•	•	•	E.	•	•	•	•	19th	4th	15th	-
Namibia																				•	E.	•	•	•	•	E.	•	•	•	•	•	12	2	10	-
Niger							•	•	-	•	-			•				•	•	•		•	•	•	•	•	•	E.	E.	•	•	19th	2	15th	2
Nigeria			•	E.		•	-	•	•	3	3	1	E.	2	•	2	2	3	1	••		2	3	3	3	V	3	•	1	•	•	27	17th	8th	2
Republic of the Congo PR of the Congo						E.		1	4th	•	E.	•	•	•	•	•		V	•	•	•	E.	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	V	•	24	7th	17th	-
Rwanda													•	•		-						•	•	E.	•	•	•	•	•	d	•	13	1	10	2
Zambia							•	•	2	•	E.	•	3	•	E.	-	3	V	2	3	E.	E.	E.	•	E.	E.	V	1	E.	E.	•	25th	17th	7th	1
Zanzibar			•																													1	-	1	-
Sao Tome and Principe																						•	•	-	•		-		•	•	•	8th	-	6th	2
Senegal					4th	E.	•	•	•	•	•		•	•	E.	•	4th	V	V	•	•	V	2	V	4th	E.	•	E.	•	E.	V	26th	14th	12	-
Seychelles																	•	-		-	•		•	•	•	•	•		•	•	•	12	-	10	2
Sierra Leone							-		•		•		•	•	•	•	-	•	E.	E.	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	22nd	2	18th	2
Zimbabwe													•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	E.	E.	•	•	•	•	•	E.	19th	3	16	-
Somalia							-		•	•		-		•	•	•									•		•					9	-	7th	2
Sudan	3	2		2	•	•	1	E.	•	E.	-	•		•	-	•	•	•	•	•	•		•	•	•	E.	•	V	•	•	•	28	8th	18th	2
South Africa	-																		•	1	2	3	V	E.	E.	E.	•	•	V	E.	•	14th	9	4th	1
South Sudan																														•	•	2	0	2	0
Swaziland														-	•		•	•		-		•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	15th	-	13	2
Tanzania						•	•	•	•	•	-	E.	-	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	26th	1	23	2
Togo						•	•	E.	-	•	•	•	•	E.	•	•	-	•	•	•	E.	E.	E.	•	E.	•	••	•	V	•	E.	26th	8th	15th	3
Chad																		•	•			•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	-	12	-	11	1
Tunisia			3	E.	2	•				•	4th	-	E.	•	•	•	•	•	E.	2	V	4th	E.	1	V	V	E.	V	E.	V	V	26th	18th	7th	1
Uganda			4th	-	•	E.	•	•	E.	E.	2	-	-	•	•	•	-	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	E.	29	6th	19th	4th
Central Africa. republic									•	-	-					•				-	•		•	•	-		-	•	•	•	•	14th	-	9	5
Finalists	3	3	4th	6th	6th	8th	8th	8th	8th	8th	8th	8th	8th	8th	8th	8th	8th	12	12	15th	16	16	16	16	16	16	15th	16	16	16	16
reported teams	4th	3	9	10	12	22nd	23	26th	29	32	27	28	35	36	34	36	35	37	39	44	36	47	51	51	51	48	53	47	47	52	52
Each record host

Explanation:

Participation in the finals (332)

1 2 3 4 = placement

V = out in the quarterfinals

E = out in the preliminary round

Q = Qualified for the finals

Qualification (639) since 1962

• = not qualified / withdrawal or disqualification during qualification

•• = no participation in the final round after successful qualification or as an automatically qualified defending champion

d = disqualified

Withdrawal (84)

- = Not started for qualification / excluded before the first game

Not participated

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Eternal final table

As of February 5, 2017

rank	team	partial measures	Games	Victories	Undecided eliminated 1	low lying	Goals 2	counter doors	Goal difference	Point 3	ø points
1	/ Egypt VA Republic	23	96	54	17th	25th	159	87	+72	179	62.2%
2	Ghana	21st	95	53	17th	25th	125	79	+46	176	61.8%
3	Nigeria	17th	86	46	21st	19th	123	82	+41	159	61.6%
4th	Cameroon	18th	80	40	25th	15th	119	73	+46	145	60.4%
5	Ivory Coast	22nd	90	39	24	27	131	97	+34	141	52.2%
6th	Zambia	17th	67	26th	20th	21st	81	69	+12	98	48.8%
7th	Tunisia	18th	68	22nd	24	22nd	87	87	± 0	90	44.1%
8th	Algeria	17th	67	22nd	20th	25th	80	83	−3	86	42.8%
9	Morocco	16	61	21st	22nd	18th	70	57	+13	85	46.4%
10	DR Congo Zaire	18th	69	19th	23	27	82	96	−14	80	38.6%
11	Senegal	14th	53	18th	14th	21st	61	52	+9	68	42.8%
12	Mali	10	46	15th	16	15th	55	61	−6	61	44.2%
13	South Africa	9	38	14th	13	11	45	41	+4	55	48.2%
14th	Guinea	11	39	11	15th	13	55	57	−2	48	41.0%
15th	Burkina Faso Upper Volta	11	41	7th	13	21st	38	62	−24	34	27.6%
16	Republic of the Congo PR of the Congo	7th	26th	7th	7th	12	27	40	−13	28	35.9%
17th	Sudan	8th	24	7th	6th	11	28	38	−10	27	37.5%
18th	Ethiopia	10	27	7th	3	17th	29	61	−32	24	29.6%
19th	Gabon	7th	21st	6th	7th	8th	19th	26th	−7	25th	39.7%
20th	Angola	7th	23	4th	10	9	29	37	−8	22nd	31.9%
21st	Togo	8th	25th	3	8th	14th	19th	42	−23	17th	22.7%
22nd	Equatorial Guinea	2	10	4th	3	3	8th	10	−2	15th	50.0%
23	Libya	3	11	3	5	3	12	13	−1	14th	42.4%
24	Uganda	6th	19th	3	2	14th	18th	34	−16	11	19.3%
25th	Cape Verde	2	7th	1	5	1	4th	5	−1	8th	38.1%
26th	Zimbabwe	3	9	2	1	6th	12	21st	−9	7th	25.9%
27	Kenya	5	14th	1	4th	9	8th	24	−16	7th	16.7%
28	Liberia	2	5	1	2	2	5	7th	−2	5	33.3%
29	Rwanda	1	3	1	1	1	3	3	0	4th	44.4%
30th	Malawi	2	6th	1	1	4th	6th	11	−5	4th	22.2%
31	Sierra Leone	2	5	1	1	3	2	11	−9	4th	26.7%
32	Namibia	2	6th	0	2	4th	9	18th	−9	2	11.1%
33	Mozambique	4th	12	0	2	10	4th	26th	−22	2	5.6%
34	Tanzania	1	3	0	1	2	3	6th	−3	1	11.1%
35	Guinea-Bissau	1	3	0	1	2	2	5	−3	1	11.1%
36	Niger	2	6th	0	1	5	1	9	−8	1	5.6%
37	Benin	3	9	0	1	8th	4th	20th	−16	1	3.7%
38	Mauritius	1	3	0	0	3	2	8th	−6	0	0.0%
39	Botswana	1	3	0	0	3	2	9	−7	0	0.0%

¹ incl. games decided on penalties

² goals scored in extra time are recorded in the statistics. Goals on penalties are not taken into account.

³ The points were calculated according to the three-point rule.

Records

• Most frequent host:
  •  Egypt (5): 1959, 1974, 1986, 2006, 2019
  •  Ghana (4): 1963, 1978, 2000 (together with Nigeria), 2008

• Most of the finals:
  •  Ghana (9): 1963, 1965, 1968, 1970, 1978, 1982, 1992, 2010, 2015
  •  Egypt (9): 1957, 1959, 1962, 1986, 1998, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2017

• Most Third Places: Nigeria (7)  
  • 1976, 1978, 1992, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2010

• Most final rounds: Egypt (23) 
• Most failures in qualification: Tanzania (23) 
• Most games: Egypt (96) 
• Most wins: Egypt (54 and 4 wins on penalties), Ghana (53 and 1 win on penalties)  
• Most goals: Egypt (159, no goals on penalties) 
• Biggest victories: Ivory Coast - Ethiopia (1970) and Guinea - Botswana (2012) each 6-1
• Longest winning streak: Egypt (10 wins, 2008 to 2010) 
• Longest series without defeat: Egypt (24 games, 2004 to 2017, last defeat before the series: January 29, 2004 1: 2 against Algeria, first defeat after the series 1: 2 against Cameroon on February 5, 2017 in the final; but in 2012 , 2013 and 2015 not qualified) 
• Most clean sheets: Egypt (40 games) 
• Most draws: Ivory Coast and Tunisia 24th each  
• Most penalties: Ivory Coast (8, 5 won), Nigeria (7, 5 won)  

• Most participations by a player:

Rigobert Song ( Cameroon ) (8): 1996, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2010 

• Most games by one player:
  • Rigobert Song ( Cameroon ): (36 games in 8 tournaments) 

• Most finals of a player:

Ahmed Hassan ( Egypt ): 1998, 2006, 2008, 2010 

Essam El-Hadary ( Egypt ): 2006, 2008, 2010, 2017 

• Most goals by a player:
  • Samuel Eto'o ( Cameroon ): 18 goals in 6 tournaments (2000-2010) 

• Most goals by a player in a tournament:
  • Mulumba Ndaye ( Zaire ): 9 goals (1974) 

• Most goals by a player in a game:
  • Laurent Pokou ( Ivory Coast ): 5 goals in the game against Ethiopia (final score 6: 1) (1970) 

• Fastest goal:
  • Ayman Mansour ( Egypt ): After 23 seconds in 1994 in the group game against Gabon (final score 4: 0) 

• Most goals in a game:
  • 9: United Arab Republic - Nigeria 6: 3 (1963)

• African champions as players and coaches:
  • Mahmoud El-Gohary ( Egypt ): 1959, 1998 
  • Stephen Keshi ( Nigeria ): 1994, 2013 

• Youngest player:
  • Chiva Star Nzighou ( Gabon ): 16 years, 2 months and 30 days (2000) 

• Oldest player:
  • Essam El-Hadary ( Egypt ): 44 years and 21 days (final 2017) 

• Most wins as a coach:
  • Charles Gyamfi ( Ghana ): 1963, 1965 and 1982 
  • Hassan Shehata ( Egypt ): 2006, 2008 and 2010 

• First coach to win with two teams: Hervé Renard ( France ) with Zambia ( 2012 ) and Ivory Coast ( 2015 ) - both on penalties, 2012 against Ivory Coast. 

• Of all the continental championships, the Africa Cup was decided most often on penalties . Eight out of 31 tournaments (25.8%) had a final with a penalty shoot-out, half of them with Ivory Coast. If only the tournaments since the introduction of penalty shootouts are taken into account, the figure is eight out of 23 (34.8%). Of the last ten tournaments, five have been decided by penalty shootouts.

The trophies

In the history of the competition, three different trophies have been presented to the respective winners. The victorious association was allowed to take permanent possession of the first two trophies after winning the third title. After that, counting began all over again for all associations.

The first trophy was the "Abdel Aziz Abdallah Salem Trophy" , named after the first president of the CAF, the Egyptian Abdel Aziz Abdallah Salem . Ghana received this silver trophy after winning its third title in 1978.

The also silver “Trophy of African Unity” or “African Unity Cup” was awarded from 1980 and went to Cameroon in 2000 after winning the third title. The trophy was presented to the CAF by the Supreme Council for Sports in Africa before the 1980 tournament and featured a long silver cylinder with the contours of the African continent and the Olympic rings and long triangular handles.

A third, now gold, trophy ( "African Cup of Nations" ), which was designed and manufactured in Italy, has been awarded since 2001 . According to the rules of the Africa Cup, this third trophy will not become the permanent property of a three-time winner as it has been before. It is owned by the CAF and will be awarded as the winner's trophy in upcoming tournaments. The winners of the Africa Cup will receive a replica. As a special honor, Egypt received a full-size copy for winning this cup for the third time in 2010 .

Varia

competition	places	Stages	messages 1	Teams	Games		/Game	spectator	Z / game		/Game		/Game		/Game
1957	1	1	4th	3	2	7th	3.50	60,000	30,000
1959	1	1	3	3	3	8th	2.67	150,000	50,000
1962	1	1	9	4th	4th	18th	4.50	?	?
1963	2	2	10	6th	8th	33	4.13	?	?
1965	4th	4th	12	6th	8th	31	3.88	?	?
1968	2	2	22nd	8th	16	52	3.52	?	?
1970	2	2	23	8th	16	51	3.19	?	?
1972	2	2	26th	8th	16	53	3.31	?	?
1974	4th	4th	29	8th	17th	54	3.18	?	?
1976	2	2	32	8th	18th	54	3.00	?	?
1978	2	2	27	8th	16	38	2.38	?	?
1980	2	2	28	8th	16	33	2.06	?	?
1982	2	2	35	8th	16	32	2.00	?	?
1984	2	2	36	8th	16	39	2.44	391,500	24,437
1986	2	2	34	8th	16	31	1.94	?	?
1988	2	2	36	8th	16	23	1.44	647,000	40,437
1990	2	2	35	8th	16	30th	1.88	594,000	37,168
1992	2	2	37	12	20th	34	1.70	472,000	23,600
1994	2	3	39	12	20th	44	2.20	273,000	13,650
1996	4th	4th	44	15th	29	78	2.69	473.730	16,336	79	2.72	1	0.03	3	0.10
1998	2	3	36	16	32	93	2.91	412,800	12,900	113	3.53	2	0.06	5	0.16
2000	4th	4th	47	16	32	73	2.28	677,500	21,156	114	3.56	2	0.06	3	0.09
2002	5	6th	51	16	32	48	1.50	570,000	17,813	106	3.31	2	0.06	2	0.06
2004	6th	6th	51	16	32	88	2.75	553,500	17,297	116	3.63	3	0.09	2	0.06
2006	4th	6th	51	16	32	73	2.28	773,600	24.173	101	3.16	3	0.09	4th	0.13
2008	4th	4th	48	16	32	99	3.09	634,000	19,813	102	3.19	0	0.00	3	0.09
2010	4th	4th	53	15th	29	71	2.45	538,500	18,569	111	3.38	4th	0.14	4th	0.14
2012	4th	4th	47	16	32	76	2.38	456.332	14,260	114	3.56	5	0.16	3	0.09
2013	5	5	47	16	32	69	2.16	734,000	22,938	149	4.66	3	0.09	2	0.06
2015	4th	4th	52	16	32	68	2.13	616.576	19,268	87	2.72	1	0.03	1	0.03
2017	4th	4th	52	16	32	66	2.06			80	2.50	1	0.03	0	0.00
2019	4th	6th	51	24	52	102	1.96	943.053	18,136	175	3.37	3	0.06	2	0.04
Respective record

¹The reports submitted on time are counted regardless of whether they were withdrawn or not started before the start of the qualification; including defending champions and hosts.

See also

• List of top scorer of the Africa Cup

literature

• Literature on football in Africa on the internet library sub-saharan Africa (engl.)

Web links

Commons : Africa Cup  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Official website of the African Football Federation (Engl.)
• FIFA.com: Facts and Figures from Africa
• FIFA.com: The CAF African Nations Cup in numbers

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Decisions of CAF Executive Committee - July 20, 2017 . In: CAFOnline.com . July 20, 2017. Retrieved July 28, 2017. (Eng.)
2. ↑ Morocco loses the Africa Cup. In: sport1.de. Sport1 , November 11, 2014, accessed November 11, 2014 . 
3. ^ Sports information service : Africa Cups until 2023 in Cameroon, Ivory Coast and Guinea. In: fifa.com. FIFA , September 20, 2014, accessed November 15, 2014 . 
4. ↑ Rumblings of discontent as CAF grapple with AFCON hosting. Sport24, January 8, 2019.
5. ↑ Ethiopia hopes to host AFCON 2025. Capital, November 28, 2016. (Eng.)
6. ↑ Fufa Boss Magogo Wants Uganda to Host 2025 Afcon. The Monitor, February 1, 2017. (Eng.)
7. ↑ Zambia to bid for AFCON 2025 edition. Kenyan Star, March 18, 2017. ( Memento from August 22, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
8. ↑ A rare defeat and a tireless Pharaoh
9. ↑ www.cafonline.com (Engl.)
10. ↑ Regulations of the Orange Africa Cup of Nations (PDF; 455 kB; Engl.)