Football West African Championship

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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
1982 BeninBenin Benin Ivory CoastIvory Coast Ivory Coast GhanaGhana Ghana LiberiaLiberia Liberia
NigerNiger Niger Upper VoltaUpper Volta Upper Volta TogoTogo Togo
1983 no first-time participants
1984 ( Burkina Faso ) Burkina FasoBurkina Faso 
1987 NigeriaNigeria Nigeria
2005 MaliMali Mali SenegalSenegal Senegal
2010 Guinea-aGuinea Guinea
2013 Sierra LeoneSierra Leone Sierra Leone
2017–19 no first-time participants

The tournaments at a glance

year host final Game for third place
winner Result 2nd place 3rd place Result 4th Place
CSSA Nations Cup
1982
details
Benin GhanaGhana
Ghana
2: 1 TogoTogo
Togo
Upper VoltaUpper Volta
Upper Volta
1: 1
?:? i. E.
Ivory CoastIvory Coast
Ivory Coast
1983
details
Ivory Coast GhanaGhana
Ghana
3: 1 TogoTogo
Togo
Ivory CoastIvory Coast
Ivory Coast
2: 1 LiberiaLiberia
Liberia
1984
details
Burkina Faso GhanaGhana
Ghana
1: 1
4: 3 i. E.
TogoTogo
Togo
Ivory CoastIvory Coast
Ivory Coast
2-0 Burkina FasoBurkina Faso
Burkina Faso
1986
details
Ghana GhanaGhana
Ghana
1-0 TogoTogo
Togo
NigerNiger
Niger
2: 1 Burkina FasoBurkina Faso
Burkina Faso
1987
details
Liberia GhanaGhana
Ghana
2: 1 LiberiaLiberia
Liberia
NigeriaNigeria
Nigeria
3: 1 TogoTogo
Togo
WAFU Cup of Nations
2001
details
Senegal Tournament canceled; Relocation tournament 2002 in Ivory Coast also canceled
WAFU Laurent Gbagbo West African Unity Cup
2005
details
Mali MaliMali
Mali
3-0 NigeriaNigeria
Nigeria
SenegalSenegal
Senegal
1-0 Ivory CoastIvory Coast
Ivory Coast
Tournoi de l'UEMOA 1
2007
details
Burkina Faso Ivory CoastIvory Coast
Ivory Coast
2-0 NigerNiger
Niger
- - -
2008
details
Mali Ivory CoastIvory Coast
Ivory Coast
1: 1
6: 5 i. E.
MaliMali
Mali
- - -
2009
details
Benin SenegalSenegal
Senegal
1-0 NigerNiger
Niger
- - -
WAFU Cup of Nations
2010
details
Nigeria NigeriaNigeria
Nigeria
2-0 SenegalSenegal
Senegal
GhanaGhana
Ghana
1-0 Burkina FasoBurkina Faso
Burkina Faso
2011
details
Nigeria TogoTogo
Togo
3: 2 NigeriaNigeria
Nigeria
LiberiaLiberia
Liberia
3: 1 GhanaGhana
Ghana
2013
details
Ghana GhanaGhana
Ghana
3: 1 SenegalSenegal
Senegal
TogoTogo
Togo
2: 1 BeninBenin
Benin
FOX Sports WAFU Cup of Nations
2017
details
Ghana GhanaGhana
Ghana
4: 1 NigeriaNigeria
Nigeria
NigerNiger
Niger
2: 1 BeninBenin
Benin
2019
details
Senegal SenegalSenegal
Senegal
1: 1
3: 1 i. E.
GhanaGhana
Ghana
2021
details
Nigeria -: - -: -

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)
1 GhanaGhana Ghana 7th 1982, 1983, 1984, 1986, 1987, 2013, 2017
2 SenegalSenegal Senegal 2 2009, 2019
Ivory CoastIvory Coast Ivory Coast 2 2007, 2008
4th MaliMali Mali 1 2005
NigeriaNigeria Nigeria 1 2010
TogoTogo Togo 1 2011

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. BBC Sports
  2. a b c WAFU Cup of Nations: Senegal to host 2019 tournament; Nigeria gets nod for 2021. Ghana Soccernet, July 17, 2018.