Football West African Championship
The West African Football Championship ( English WAFU Cup of Nations ) is the official football championship of West Africa and is organized by the WAFU .
The teams mainly consist of players who play in their respective national leagues. Five players per team are eligible to play for the selection teams that do not meet these criteria.
history
The competition was seen as the successor to the "CSSA Nations Cup" , which was held between 1982 and 1987. Ghana won all tournaments under this name without losing a game . There was no tournament from 1988 to 2000. The 2001 tournament was not completed due to political unrest. 2002 to 2004 again no tournament was held. In 2005, four countries invited to play a tournament called the "WAFU Laurent Gbagbo West African Unity Cup" . From 2007 to 2009 the tournament was then held under the name "Tournoi de l'UEMOA" . However, only the member countries of the West African Economic Community were eligible to participate . From 2010, the West African soccer champions were determined every year. After the WAFU association was dissolved in 2011, the tournament was discontinued after 2013, but has been held every two years since 2017.
First participations
There were first-time participants in five of eight events. The following are the eleven national teams that have taken part in this tournament so far, as well as a country that competed under a new name.
- Teams in bold became West African champions when they first played.
- 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 | |||
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1982 | Benin | Ivory Coast | Ghana | Liberia |
Niger | Upper Volta | Togo | ||
1983 | no first-time participants | |||
1984 | ( Burkina Faso ) | |||
1987 | Nigeria | |||
2005 | Mali | Senegal | ||
2010 | Guinea | |||
2013 | Sierra Leone | |||
2017–19 | no first-time participants |
The tournaments at a glance
1 Only states of the West African Economic and Monetary Union (UEMOA) were eligible to play.
Ranking list of winners
rank | country | title | Year (s) |
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1 | Ghana | 7th | 1982, 1983, 1984, 1986, 1987, 2013, 2017 |
2 | Senegal | 2 | 2009, 2019 |
Ivory Coast | 2 | 2007, 2008 | |
4th | Mali | 1 | 2005 |
Nigeria | 1 | 2010 | |
Togo | 1 | 2011 |
Web links
- Official tournament website (English)
- Details about the tournaments on rsssf.com (English)
- News of the CAF (English)