Football at the Africa Games

At the Africa Games, football is one of the sports that has been part of the program of the Games since 1965. Participants are the national footballteams of the CAF associations organizedwithin FIFA . The tournament is held every four years. A women's football tournament has also been held since 2003. Since the tournament of the Games in 1991, an age limit of 23 years has been ineffect for the men's teams, analogous to the rules for the Olympic football tournament , whereby three older players may be used.

The men's tournaments at a glance

year	host	final			Bronze game
		gold	Result	silver	bronze	Result	4th Place
1965 details	Brazzaville ( Republic of the Congo )	Republic of the Congo	0: 0 n.v. 7: 2 corner ratio	Mali	Ivory Coast	1-0	Algeria
1969 details	Bamako ( Mali )	Canceled due to a military coup.
1973 details	Lagos ( Nigeria )	Nigeria	2-0	Guinea	Egypt	2: 1	Ghana
1978 details	Algiers ( Algeria )	Algeria	1-0	Nigeria	Ghana	1-0	Malawi
1987 details	Nairobi ( Kenya )	Egypt	1-0	Kenya	Malawi	3: 1	Cameroon
1991 details	Cairo ( Egypt )	Cameroon	1-0	Tunisia	Nigeria	3-0	Zimbabwe
1995 details	Harare ( Zimbabwe )	Egypt	3: 1	Zimbabwe	Nigeria	1: 1 4: 1 i. E.	Guinea
1999 details	Johannesburg ( South Africa )	Cameroon	0: 0 4: 3 i. E.	Zambia	South Africa	2-0	Uganda
2003 details	Abuja ( Nigeria )	Cameroon	2-0	Nigeria	Ghana	2: 2 4: 1 i. E.	Zambia
2007 details	Algiers ( Algeria )	Cameroon	1-0	Guinea	Tunisia	1-0	Zambia
2011 details	Maputo ( Mozambique )	Ghana	1: 1 4: 2 i. E.	South Africa	Cameroon	1: 1 5: 4 i. E.	Senegal
2015 details	Brazzaville ( Republic of the Congo )	Senegal	1-0	Burkina Faso	Nigeria	0: 0 5: 3 i. E.	Republic of the Congo

Medal table

after 11 tournaments

rank	country				total
1	Cameroon	4th	0	1	5
2	Egypt	2	0	1	3
3	Nigeria	1	2	3	6th
4th	Ghana	1	0	2	3
5	Senegal	1	0	0	1
	Algeria	1	0	0	1
	Republic of the Congo	1	0	0	1
8th	Guinea	0	2	0	2
9	Tunisia	0	1	1	2
	South Africa	0	1	1	2
11	Burkina Faso	0	1	0	1
	Kenya	0	1	0	1
	Mali	0	1	0	1
	Zambia	0	1	0	1
	Zimbabwe	0	1	0	1
16	Ivory Coast	0	0	1	1
	Malawi	0	0	1	1

An overview of the women's tournaments

year	host	final			Bronze game
		gold	Result	silver	bronze	Result	4th Place
2003 details	Abuja ( Nigeria )	Nigeria	1-0	South Africa	Cameroon	1-0	Mali
2007 details	Algiers ( Algeria )	Nigeria	4-0	South Africa	Ghana	3: 1	Algeria
2011 details	Maputo ( Mozambique )	Cameroon	1-0	Ghana	Algeria	3-0	South Africa
2015 details	Brazzaville ( Republic of the Congo )	Ghana	1-0	Cameroon	Ivory Coast	2: 1	Nigeria

Medal table

after 4 tournaments

rank	country				total
1	Nigeria	2	0	0	2
2	Ghana	1	1	1	3
	Cameroon	1	1	1	3
4th	South Africa	0	2	0	2
5	Algeria	0	0	1	1
	Ivory Coast	0	0	1	1

Web links

• Details about the tournaments on rsssf.com