Africa Cup of Nations records and statistics

This is a list of records and statistics of the Africa Cup of Nations.

Team	Winners	Runners-up	Third place	Fourth place	Total
Egypt	7 (1957, 1959*1, 1986*, 1998, 2006*, 2008, 2010)	3 (19621, 2017, 2021)	3 (19631, 19701, 1974*)	3 (1976, 1980, 1984)	16
Cameroon	5 (1984, 1988, 2000, 2002, 2017)	2 (1986, 2008)	2 (1972*, 2021*)	1 (1992)	10
Ghana	4 (1963*, 1965, 1978*, 1982)	5 (1968, 1970, 1992, 2010, 2015)	1 (2008*)	4 (1996, 2012, 2013, 2017)	14
Nigeria	3 (1980*, 1994, 2013)	5 (1984, 1988, 1990, 2000*, 2023)	8 (1976, 1978, 1992, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2010, 2019)	—	16
Ivory Coast	3 (1992, 2015, 2023*)	2 (2006, 2012)	4 (1965, 1968, 1986, 1994)	2 (1970, 2008)	11
Algeria	2 (1990*, 2019)	1 (1980)	2 (1984, 1988)	2 (1982, 2010)	7
DR Congo	2 (19682, 19743)	—	2 (1998, 2015)	2 (19723, 2023)	6
Zambia	1 (2012)	2 (1974, 1994)	3 (1982, 1990, 1996)	—	6
Tunisia	1 (2004*)	2 (1965*, 1996)	1 (1962)	3 (1978, 2000, 2019)	7
Sudan	1 (1970*)	2 (1959, 1963)	1 (1957*)	—	4
Senegal	1 (2021)	2 (2002, 2019)	—	3 (1965, 1990, 2006)	6
South Africa	1 (1996*)	1 (1998)	2 (2000, 2023)	—	4
Ethiopia	1 (1962*)	1 (1957)	1 (1959)	2 (1963, 1968*)	5
Morocco	1 (1976)	1 (2004)	1 (1980)	2 (1986, 1988*)	5
Congo	1 (1972)	—	—	1 (1974)	2
Mali	—	1 (1972)	2 (2012, 2013)	3 (1994, 2002*, 2004)	6
Burkina Faso	—	1 (2013)	1 (2017)	2 (1998*, 2021)	4
Uganda	—	1 (1978)	—	1 (1962)	2
Guinea	—	1 (1976)	—	—	1
Libya	—	1 (1982*)	—	—	1
Equatorial Guinea	—	—	—	1 (2015*)	1

* hosts

¹ as United Arab Republic

² as Congo-Kinshasa

³ as Zaire

Year	Debuting teams
	Teams	No.	Cum.
1957	Egypt,  Ethiopia,  Sudan	3	3
1962	Tunisia,  Uganda	2	5
1963	Ghana,  Nigeria	2	7
1965	Congo-Léopoldville,  Ivory Coast,  Senegal	3	10
1968	Algeria, Congo-Brazzaville	2	12
1970	Cameroon,  Guinea	2	14
1972	Kenya,  Mali,  Morocco,  Togo	4	18
1974	Mauritius,  Zambia	2	20
1978	Upper Volta	1	21
1980	Tanzania	1	22
1982	Libya	1	23
1984	Malawi	1	24
1986	Mozambique	1	25
1994	Gabon,  Sierra Leone	2	27
1996	Angola,  Liberia,  South Africa	3	30
1998	Namibia	1	31
2004	Benin,  Rwanda,  Zimbabwe	3	34
2012	Botswana,  Equatorial Guinea,  Niger	3	37
2013	Cape Verde	1	38
2017	Guinea-Bissau	1	39
2019	Burundi,  Madagascar,  Mauritania	3	42
2021	Comoros,  Gambia	2	44

Teams yet to qualify:  Central African Republic,  Chad,  Djibouti,  Eritrea,  Eswatini,  Lesotho,  São Tomé and Príncipe,  Seychelles,  Somalia,  South Sudan

In this ranking 3 points are awarded for a win, 1 for a draw and 0 for a loss. As per statistical convention in football, matches decided in extra time are counted as wins and losses, while matches decided by penalty shoot-outs are counted as draws. Teams are ranked by total points, then by goal difference, then by goals scored.^[1]

As of 2023 Africa Cup of Nations

Rank	Team	Part	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Points
1	Egypt[n 1]	26	111	60	24	27	175	97	+78	204
2	Nigeria	20	104	57	24	23	146	95	+50	195
3	Ghana	24	105	54	23	28	138	93	+45	185
4	Ivory Coast	25	106	48	30	28	152	111	+41	174
5	Cameroon	21	95	46	31	18	142	90	+52	169
6	Morocco	19	74	29	25	20	87	65	+22	112
7	Senegal	17	71	30	18	23	87	58	+29	108
8	Algeria	20	80	28	24	28	97	93	+4	108
9	Tunisia	21	83	25	30	27	99	97	+2	105
10	Zambia	18	69	27	19	23	83	70	+13	100
11	DR Congo[n 2]	20	80	21	29	30	94	107	−13	92
12	Mali	13	59	21	21	17	71	69	+2	84
13	South Africa	11	50	18	16	16	55	48	+7	70
14	Guinea	14	52	15	18	19	65	72	−7	63
15	Burkina Faso[n 3]	13	52	10	17	25	51	78	−27	47
16	Angola	9	31	7	13	11	39	43	−4	34
17	Gabon	8	25	7	10	8	24	27	−3	31
18	Equatorial Guinea	4	19	8	5	6	20	18	+2	29
19	Congo	7	26	7	7	12	27	37	−10	28
20	Sudan	9	27	7	7	13	29	42	−13	28
21	Ethiopia	11	30	7	4	19	31	67	−36	25
22	Cape Verde	4	16	5	8	3	14	12	+2	21
23	Togo	8	25	3	8	14	19	42	−23	17
24	Uganda	7	23	4	3	16	21	38	−17	15
25	Libya	3	11	3	5	3	12	13	−1	14
26	Zimbabwe	5	15	3	2	10	16	31	−15	11
27	Gambia	2	8	3	1	4	6	10	-4	10
28	Kenya	6	17	2	4	11	11	31	−20	10
29	Madagascar	1	5	2	2	1	7	7	0	8
30	Malawi	3	10	2	2	6	9	15	−6	8
31	Sierra Leone	3	8	1	3	4	4	14	−10	6
32	Namibia	4	13	1	3	9	11	31	−20	6
33	Liberia	2	5	1	2	2	5	7	−2	5
34	Mauritania	3	10	1	2	7	4	16	−12	5
35	Benin	4	14	0	5	9	7	24	−17	5
36	Rwanda	1	3	1	1	1	3	3	0	4
37	Mozambique	5	15	0	4	11	8	33	−25	4
38	Comoros	1	4	1	0	3	4	7	−3	3
39	Tanzania	3	9	0	3	6	6	18	−12	3
40	Guinea-Bissau	4	12	0	3	9	4	19	−15	3
41	Niger	2	6	0	1	5	1	9	−8	1
42	Burundi	1	3	0	0	3	0	4	−4	0
43	Mauritius	1	3	0	0	3	2	8	−6	0
44	Botswana	1	3	0	0	3	2	9	−7	0

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Egypt	7	3	3	13
2	Cameroon	5	2	2	9
3	Ghana	4	5	1	10
4	Nigeria	3	5	8	16
5	Ivory Coast	3	2	4	9
6	Algeria	2	1	2	5
7	DR Congo	2	0	2	4
8	Zambia	1	2	3	6
9	Sudan	1	2	1	4
	Tunisia	1	2	1	4
11	Senegal	1	2	0	3
12	South Africa	1	1	2	4
13	Ethiopia	1	1	1	3
	Morocco	1	1	1	3
15	Congo	1	0	0	1
16	Mali	0	1	2	3
17	Burkina Faso	0	1	1	2
18	Guinea	0	1	0	1
	Libya	0	1	0	1
	Uganda	0	1	0	1
Totals (20 entries)		34	34	34	102

For each tournament, the number of teams in each finals tournament (in brackets) are shown.

Legend

Year	Host nation	Result
1957	Sudan	Third place
1959	United Arab Republic	Champions
1962	Ethiopia	Champions
1963	Ghana	Champions
1965	Tunisia	Runners-up
1968	Ethiopia	Fourth place
1970	Sudan	Champions
1972	Cameroon	Third place
1974	Egypt	Third place
1976	Ethiopia	Group stage
1978	Ghana	Champions
1980	Nigeria	Champions
1982	Libya	Runners-up
1984	Ivory Coast	Group stage
1986	Egypt	Champions
1988	Morocco	Fourth place
1990	Algeria	Champions
1992	Senegal	Quarter-finals
1994	Tunisia	Group stage
1996	South Africa	Champions
1998	Burkina Faso	Fourth place
2000	Ghana	Quarter-finals
	Nigeria	Runners-up
2002	Mali	Fourth place
2004	Tunisia	Champions
2006	Egypt	Champions
2008	Ghana	Third place
2010	Angola	Quarter-finals
2012	Equatorial Guinea	Quarter-finals
	Gabon	Quarter-finals
2013	South Africa	Quarter-finals
2015	Equatorial Guinea	Fourth place
2017	Gabon	Group stage
2019	Egypt	Round of 16
2021	Cameroon	Third place
2023	Ivory Coast	Champions
2025	Morocco	To be determined
2027	Kenya	To be determined
	Tanzania
	Uganda

Year	Defending champions	Result
1959	United Arab Republic	Champions
1962	United Arab Republic	Runners-up
1963	Ethiopia	Fourth place
1965	Ghana	Champions
1968	Ghana	Runners-up
1970	Congo-Kinshasa	Group stage
1972	Sudan	Group stage
1974	Congo	Fourth place
1976	Zaire	Group stage
1978	Morocco	Group stage
1980	Ghana	Group stage
1982	Nigeria	Group stage
1984	Ghana	Group stage
1986	Cameroon	Runners-up
1988	Egypt	Group stage
1990	Cameroon	Group stage
1992	Algeria	Group stage
1994	Ivory Coast	Third place
1996	Nigeria	Withdrew
1998	South Africa	Runners-up
2000	Egypt	Quarter-finals
2002	Cameroon	Champions
2004	Cameroon	Quarter-finals
2006	Tunisia	Quarter-finals
2008	Egypt	Champions
2010	Egypt	Champions
2012	Egypt	Did not qualify
2013	Zambia	Group stage
2015	Nigeria	Did not qualify
2017	Ivory Coast	Group stage
2019	Cameroon	Round of 16
2021	Algeria	Group stage
2023	Senegal	Round of 16
2025	Ivory Coast	To be determined

Year	Hosts	Champions (titles)	Winning coach[2]	Top scorer(s) (goals)[citation needed]	Most valuable player[citation needed]
1957	Sudan	Egypt (1)	Mourad Fahmy	Ad-Diba (5)	Ad-Diba
1959	United Arab Republic	United Arab Republic (2)	Pál Titkos	Mahmoud El-Gohary (3)	Mahmoud El-Gohary
1962	Ethiopia	Ethiopia (1)	Ydnekatchew Tessema	Mengistu Worku (3) Badawi Abdel Fattah (3)	Mengistu Worku
1963	Ghana	Ghana (1)	Charles Gyamfi	Hassan El-Shazly (6)	Hassan El-Shazly
1965	Tunisia	Ghana (2)	Charles Gyamfi	Ben Acheampong (3) Osei Kofi (3) Eustache Manglé (3)	Osei Kofi
1968	Ethiopia	Congo-Kinshasa (1)	Ferenc Csanádi	Laurent Pokou (6)	Kazadi Mwamba
1970	Sudan	Sudan (1)	Jiří Starosta	Laurent Pokou (8)	Laurent Pokou
1972	Cameroon	Congo (1)	Adolphe Bibanzoulou	Salif Keïta (5)	François M'Pelé
1974	Egypt	Zaire (2)	Blagoje Vidinić	Ndaye Mulamba (9)	Ndaye Mulamba
1976	Ethiopia	Morocco (1)	Virgil Mărdărescu	Mamadou Aliou Keïta (4)	Ahmed Faras
1978	Ghana	Ghana (3)	Fred Osam-Duodu	Phillip Omondi (3) Opoku Afriyie (3) Segun Odegbami (3)	Karim Abdul Razak
1980	Nigeria	Nigeria (1)	Otto Glória	Khalid Labied (3) Segun Odegbami (3)	Christian Chukwu
1982	Libya	Ghana (4)	Charles Gyamfi	George Alhassan (4)	Fawzi Al-Issawi
1984	Ivory Coast	Cameroon (1)	Radivoje Ognjanović	Taher Abouzaid (4)	Théophile Abega
1986	Egypt	Egypt (3)	Mike Smith	Roger Milla (4)	Roger Milla
1988	Morocco	Cameroon (2)	Claude Le Roy	Lakhdar Belloumi (2) Roger Milla (2) Abdoulaye Traoré (2) Gamal Abdelhamid (2)	Aziz Bouderbala
1990	Algeria	Algeria (1)	Abdelhamid Kermali	Djamel Menad (4)	Rabah Madjer
1992	Senegal	Ivory Coast (1)	Yeo Martial	Rashidi Yekini (4)	Abedi Pele
1994	Tunisia	Nigeria (2)	Clemens Westerhof	Rashidi Yekini (5)	Rashidi Yekini
1996	South Africa	South Africa (1)	Clive Barker	Kalusha Bwalya (5)	Kalusha Bwalya
1998	Burkina Faso	Egypt (4)	Mahmoud El-Gohary	Hossam Hassan (7) Benni McCarthy (7)	Benni McCarthy
2000	Ghana  Nigeria	Cameroon (3)	Pierre Lechantre	Shaun Bartlett (5)	Lauren
2002	Mali	Cameroon (4)	Winfried Schäfer	Patrick Mboma (3) Salomon Olembé (3) Julius Aghahowa (3)	Rigobert Song
2004	Tunisia	Tunisia (1)	Roger Lemerre	Patrick Mboma (4) Frédéric Kanouté (4) Youssef Mokhtari (4) Jay-Jay Okocha (4) Francileudo Santos (4)	Jay-Jay Okocha
2006	Egypt	Egypt (5)	Hassan Shehata	Samuel Eto'o (5)	Ahmed Hassan
2008	Ghana	Egypt (6)	Hassan Shehata	Samuel Eto'o (5)	Hosny Abd Rabo
2010	Angola	Egypt (7)	Hassan Shehata	Mohamed Nagy (5)	Ahmed Hassan
2012	Gabon  Equatorial Guinea	Zambia (1)	Hervé Renard	Manucho (3) Didier Drogba (3) Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (3) Cheick Diabaté (3) Houssine Kharja (3) Christopher Katongo (3) Emmanuel Mayuka (3)	Christopher Katongo
2013	South Africa	Nigeria (3)	Stephen Keshi	Mubarak Wakaso (4) Emmanuel Emenike (4)	Jonathan Pitroipa
2015	Equatorial Guinea	Ivory Coast (2)	Hervé Renard	Thievy Bifouma (3) Dieumerci Mbokani (3) Javier Balboa (3) André Ayew (3) Ahmed Akaïchi (3)	Christian Atsu
2017	Gabon	Cameroon (5)	Hugo Broos	Junior Kabananga (3)	Christian Bassogog
2019	Egypt	Algeria (2)	Djamel Belmadi	Odion Ighalo (5)	Ismaël Bennacer
2021	Cameroon	Senegal (1)	Aliou Cissé	Vincent Aboubakar (8)	Sadio Mané
2023	Ivory Coast	Ivory Coast (3)	Emerse Faé	Emilio Nsue (5)	William Troost-Ekong

Most titles: 7

•  Egypt

Teams winning on debut: 3

•  Egypt (1957)
•  Ghana (1963)
•  South Africa (1996)

Consecutive title wins: 3

•  Egypt (2006, 2008, 2010)

Most appearances: 26

•  Egypt

Most consecutive appearances: 17

•  Tunisia (1994–2025)^[3]

Players in bold are still active at international level.

Rank	Player	Team	Goals scored	Matches played	Goals per match	Tournament(s)
1	Samuel Eto'o	Cameroon	18	29	0.62	6 (2000, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2010)
2	Laurent Pokou	Ivory Coast	14	12	1.17	4 (1968, 1970, 1974, 1980)
3	Rashidi Yekini	Nigeria	13	20	0.65	4 (1988, 1990, 1992, 1994)
4	Hassan El-Shazly	Egypt	12	8	1.50	3 (1963, 1970, 1974)
5	Patrick Mboma	Cameroon	11	17	0.65	4 (1998, 2000, 2002, 2004)
	Hossam Hassan	Egypt	11	21	0.52	7 (1986, 1988, 1992, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2006)
	Didier Drogba	Ivory Coast	11	24	0.45	5 (2006, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2013)
8	Ndaye Mulamba	DR Congo	10	10	1.00	2 (1974, 1976)
	Francileudo Santos	Tunisia	10	12	0.83	3 (2004, 2006, 2008)
	Joel Tiéhi	Ivory Coast	10	15	0.67	4 (1992, 1994, 1996, 1998)
	Mengistu Worku	Ethiopia	10	17	0.59	6 (1959, 1962, 1963, 1965, 1968, 1970)
	Kalusha Bwalya	Zambia	10	23	0.43	6 (1986, 1992, 1994, 1996, 1998, 2000)
	André Ayew	Ghana	10	36	0.28	8 (2008, 2010, 2012, 2015, 2017, 2019, 2021, 2023)
14	Manucho	Angola	9	14	0.64	4 (2008, 2010, 2012, 2013)
	Vincent Aboubakar	Cameroon	9	16	0.56	4 (2015, 2017, 2021, 2023)
	Sadio Mané	Senegal	9	22	0.41	5 (2015, 2017, 2019, 2021, 2023)
	Abdoulaye Traoré	Ivory Coast	9	22	0.41	6 (1986, 1988, 1990, 1992, 1994, 1996)
18	Pascal Feindouno	Guinea	8	13	0.61	4 (2004, 2006, 2008, 2012)
	Ahmed Hassan	Egypt	8	31	0.26	8 (1996, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2010)
	Seydou Keita	Mali	8	31	0.26	7 (2002, 2004, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2015)
	Asamoah Gyan	Ghana	8	31	0.26	7 (2008, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2015, 2017, 2019)
22	Osei Kofi	Ghana	7	8	0.87	3 (1963, 1965, 1968)
	Ali Abo Gresha	Egypt	7	9	0.78	2 (1970, 1974)
	Taher Abouzeid	Egypt	7	10	0.70	2 (1984, 1986)
	Frédéric Kanouté	Mali	7	11	0.64	3 (2004, 2008, 2010)
	Flávio	Angola	7	12	0.58	4 (2006, 2008, 2010, 2012)
	Benni McCarthy	South Africa	7	12	0.58	3 (1998, 2002, 2006)
	Christopher Katongo	Zambia	7	17	0.41	5 (2006, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2013)
	Roger Milla	Cameroon	7	18	0.39	4 (1982, 1984, 1986, 1988)
	Abedi Pele	Ghana	7	18	0.39	5 (1982, 1992, 1994, 1996, 1998)
	Mohamed Salah	Egypt	7	19	0.37	4 (2017, 2019, 2021, 2023)
	Jay-Jay Okocha	Nigeria	7	22	0.32	5 (1994, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006)
	Youssef Msakni	Tunisia	7	29	0.24	8 (2010, 2012, 2013, 2015, 2017, 2019, 2021, 2023)
34	George Alhassan	Ghana	6	7	0.86	3 (1978, 1982, 1984)
	Wilberforce Mfum	Ghana	6	8	0.75	2 (1963, 1968)
	Ahmed Faras	Morocco	6	9	0.67	3 (1972, 1976, 1978)
	Mayanga Maku	DR Congo	6	10	0.60	3 (1970, 1972, 1974)
	Segun Odegbami	Nigeria	6	10	0.60	2 (1978, 1980)
	Mohamed Aboutrika	Egypt	6	11	0.54	2 (2006, 2008)
	Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang	Gabon	6	13	0.46	4 (2010, 2012, 2015, 2017)
	Shaun Bartlett	South Africa	6	14	0.43	4 (1996, 2000, 2002, 2004)
	Emilio Nsue	Equatorial Guinea	6	14	0.43	3 (2015, 2021, 2023)
	Julius Aghahowa	Nigeria	6	15	0.40	4 (2000, 2002, 2004, 2006)
	Gervinho	Ivory Coast	6	17	0.35	5 (2008, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2015)
	Lakhdar Belloumi	Algeria	6	18	0.33	4 (1980, 1982, 1984, 1988)
	Karl Toko Ekambi	Cameroon	6	18	0.33	4 (2017, 2019, 2021, 2023)
	Riyad Mahrez	Algeria	6	20	0.30	5 (2015, 2017, 2019, 2021, 2023)
	Jordan Ayew	Ghana	6	25	0.24	6 (2012, 2015, 2017, 2019, 2021, 2023)
	Yaya Touré	Ivory Coast	6	29	0.20	6 (2006, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2015)

Raafat Attia scored the first ever goal at the Africa Cup of Nations; in the first match of the inaugural tournament on 10 February 1957, he got the opening goal for  Egypt against hosts  Sudan in a 2–1 victory.^[4]

Ad-Diba was the first ever player to score a hat-trick in an Africa Cup of Nations match; he scored four for  Egypt in a 4–0 victory against  Ethiopia on 16 February 1957, the final match of the inaugural tournament.^[4][5]

Ad-Diba was also the first ever top goalscorer for an Africa Cup of Nations tournament, scoring 5 goals for  Egypt in 1957.^[6]

Hossam Hassan was 39 years and 174 days old when he scored for  Egypt against  DR Congo in a 4–1 victory on 3 February 2006.

• 1st minute, Hassan El-Shazly for  Egypt against  Ivory Coast in 1974 (2–0 victory).
• 1st minute, Chérif Fetoui for  Morocco against  Congo in 1976 (2–2 draw).
• 1st minute, Phillip Omondi for  Uganda against  Congo in 1978 (3–1 victory).
• 1st minute, Tueba Menayame for  Zaire against  Cameroon in 1992 (1–1 draw).
• 1st minute, Ayman Mansour for  Egypt against  Gabon in 1994 (4–0 victory).
• 1st minute, Tijani Babangida for  Nigeria against  South Africa in 2000 (2–0 victory).
• 1st minute, Soufiane Alloudi for  Morocco against  Namibia in 2008 (5–1 victory).

90+10th minute, Bruno Zita Mbanangoyé for  Gabon against  Morocco in 2012 (3–2 victory).

• 120th minute, Brighton Sinyangwe for  Zambia against  Zaire in 1974 (2–2 draw).
• 120th minute, Jaouad Zairi for  Morocco against  Algeria in 2004 (3–1 victory).
• 120th minute, Oumar Diakité for  Ivory Coast against  Mali in 2023 (2–1 victory).

Laurent Pokou scored 5 goals for  Ivory Coast in a 6–1 victory against  Ethiopia in 1970.

Ndaye Mulamba scored 9 goals for  Zaire in the 1974 tournament.

Kennedy Mweene is the first and only goalkeeper to score a goal (for  Zambia) in an Africa Cup of Nations, in 2013.

Hassan El-Shazly scored 2 tournament hat-tricks for the  United Arab Republic: one in 1963 and one in 1970.

Kalusha Bwalya (for  Zambia), Samuel Eto'o (for  Cameroon), Asamoah Gyan and André Ayew (both for  Ghana) each scored at least one goal in a record six different tournaments.

No. of tournaments	Player	Country	Years (No. of goals scored)	Total goals
6	Samuel Eto'o	Cameroon	2000 (4), 2002 (1), 2004 (1), 2006 (5), 2008 (5), 2010 (2)	18
	André Ayew	Ghana	2010 (1), 2012 (2), 2015 (3), 2017 (2), 2019 (1), 2021 (1)	10
	Kalusha Bwalya	Zambia	1986 (1), 1992 (1), 1994 (1), 1996 (5), 1998 (1), 2000 (1)	10
	Asamoah Gyan	Ghana	2008 (1), 2010 (3), 2012 (1), 2013 (1), 2015 (1), 2017 (1)	8
5	Didier Drogba	Ivory Coast	2006 (3), 2008 (3), 2010 (1), 2012 (3), 2013 (1)	11
	Abdoulaye Traoré	Ivory Coast	1986 (3), 1988 (2), 1990 (2), 1992 (1), 1994 (1)	9
	Youssef Msakni	Tunisia	2012 (2), 2013 (1), 2017 (1), 2019 (2), 2021 (1)	7
	Yaya Touré	Ivory Coast	2006 (1), 2008 (1), 2012 (1), 2013 (2), 2015 (1)	6
4	Rashidi Yekini	Nigeria	1988 (1), 1990 (3), 1992 (4), 1994 (5)	13
	Mengistu Worku	Ethiopia	1962 (3), 1963 (2), 1968 (2), 1970 (3)	10
	Joel Tiéhi	Ivory Coast	1992 (1), 1994 (4), 1996 (1), 1998 (4)	10
	Sadio Mané	Senegal	2017 (2), 2019 (3), 2021 (3), 2023 (1)	9
	Seydou Keita	Mali	2002 (1), 2010 (3), 2012 (1), 2013 (3)	8
	Mohamed Salah	Egypt	2017 (2), 2019 (2), 2021 (2), 2023 (1)	7
	Christopher Katongo	Zambia	2006 (1), 2008 (2), 2010 (1), 2012 (3)	7
	Jordan Ayew	Ghana	2015 (1), 2017 (1), 2019 (2), 2023 (2)	6
	Gervinho	Ivory Coast	2006 (1), 2008 (1), 2010 (1), 2012 (3)	6
	Wilfried Bony	Ivory Coast	2012 (1), 2013 (1), 2015 (2), 2017 (1)	5

The following are all the former international players who scored at least once in all of their tournament appearances (at least three appearances).

No. of tournaments	Player	Country	Years (No. of goals scored)	Total goals
6	Samuel Eto'o	Cameroon	2000 (4), 2002 (1), 2004 (1), 2006 (5), 2008 (5), 2010 (2)	18
	Kalusha Bwalya	Zambia	1986 (1), 1992 (1), 1994 (1), 1996 (5), 1998 (1), 2000 (1)	10
5	Didier Drogba	Ivory Coast	2006 (3), 2008 (3), 2010 (1), 2012 (3), 2013 (1)	11
4	Rashidi Yekini	Nigeria	1988 (1), 1990 (3), 1992 (4), 1994 (5)	13
	Joel Tiéhi	Ivory Coast	1992 (1), 1994 (4), 1996 (1), 1998 (4)	10
3	Francileudo Santos	Tunisia	2004 (4), 2006 (4), 2008 (2)	10
	Frédéric Kanouté	Mali	2004 (4), 2008 (1), 2010 (2)	7

The following players finished as top goalscorer with five or more goals in a single tournament.

Goals	Player	Country	Year
9	Ndaye Mulamba	Zaire	1974
8	Laurent Pokou	Ivory Coast	1970
	Vincent Aboubakar	Cameroon	2021
7	Hossam Hassan	Egypt	1998
	Benni McCarthy	South Africa
6	Hassan El-Shazly	Egypt	1963
	Laurent Pokou	Ivory Coast	1968
5	Ad-Diba	Egypt	1957
	Salif Keïta	Mali	1972
	Rashidi Yekini	Nigeria	1994
	Kalusha Bwalya	Zambia	1996
	Shaun Bartlett	South Africa	2000
	Samuel Eto'o	Cameroon	2006
			2008
	Mohamed Nagy	Egypt	2010
	Odion Ighalo	Nigeria	2019
	Emilio Nsue	Equatorial Guinea	2023

The following players finished as the top goalscorer in at least two different tournaments.

Indicates the top goalscorer was shared with other players.

Player	Country	Years	Goals
Laurent Pokou	Ivory Coast	1968	6
		1970	8
Segun Odegbami	Nigeria	1978	3
		1980
Roger Milla	Cameroon	1986	4
		1988	2
Rashidi Yekini	Nigeria	1992	4
		1994	5
Patrick M'Boma	Cameroon	2002	3
		2004	4
Samuel Eto'o		2006	5
		2008

The following players appeared in at least six different AFCON tournaments:^[7]

No. of tournaments	Player	Country	Years
8	Rigobert Song	Cameroon	1996, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2010
	Ahmed Hassan	Egypt	1996, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2010
	André Ayew	Ghana	2008, 2010, 2012, 2015, 2017, 2019, 2021, 2023
	Youssef Msakni	Tunisia	2010, 2012, 2013, 2015, 2017, 2019, 2021, 2023
7	Geremi Njitap	Cameroon	1998, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2010
	Boubacar Barry	Ivory Coast	2002, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2015
	Max Gradel		2012, 2013, 2015, 2017, 2019, 2021, 2023
	Siaka Tiéné		2002, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2015
	Kolo Touré		2002, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2015
	Essam El Hadary	Egypt	1998, 2000, 2002, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2017
	Hossam Hassan		1986, 1988, 1992, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2006
	Asamoah Gyan	Ghana	2008, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2015, 2017, 2019
	Seidou Keita	Mali	2002, 2004, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2015
6	Rabah Madjer	Algeria	1980, 1982, 1984, 1986, 1990, 1992
	Mahieddine Meftah		1990, 1992, 1996, 1998, 2000, 2002
	Islam Slimani		2013, 2015, 2017, 2019, 2021, 2023
	Samuel Eto'o	Cameroon	2000, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2010
	Salomon Kalou	Ivory Coast	2008, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2015, 2017
	Yaya Touré		2006, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2015
	Didier Zokora		2002, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2013
	Abdel-Zaher El-Saqqa	Egypt	1998, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2010
	Hany Ramzy		1992, 1994, 1996, 1998, 2000, 2002
	Jordan Ayew	Ghana	2012, 2015, 2017, 2019, 2021, 2023
	Soumbeïla Diakité	Mali	2008, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2015, 2017
	Noureddine Naybet	Morocco	1992, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006
	Nwankwo Kanu	Nigeria	2000, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2010
	Riadh Bouazizi	Tunisia	1996, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006
	Kaies Ghodhbane		1996, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006
	Aymen Mathlouthi		2008, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2015, 2017
	Kalusha Bwalya	Zambia	1986, 1992, 1994, 1996, 1998, 2000

Essam El Hadary was 44 years and 21 days old when he played for  Egypt in the final against  Cameroon on 5 February 2017.

Rigobert Song (for  Cameroon, between 1998 and 2010) and André Ayew (for  Ghana, between 2008 and 2023) each played in a record 36 matches at the tournament.^[8]

No. of titles	Player	Country	Years
4	Essam El Hadary	Egypt	1998, 2006, 2008, 2010
	Ahmed Hassan

• 3, Charles Gyamfi (as manager of  Ghana in 1963, 1965 and 1982)
• 3, Hassan Shehata (as manager of  Egypt in 2006, 2008 and 2010)

• 3, Hassan Shehata (as manager of  Egypt in 2006, 2008 and 2010)

• 2 times, Hassan Shehata (as manager of  Egypt in 2008 and 2010)
• 1 time, Charles Gyamfi (as manager of  Ghana in 1965)

• Hervé Renard (as manager of  Zambia in 2012 and  Ivory Coast in 2015)

• Mahmoud El-Gohary (in 1959 as a player and 1998 as a manager, both with  Egypt)
• Stephen Keshi (in 1994 as a player and in 2013 as a manager, both with  Nigeria)

• Emerse Faé (lost 2006 final as a player, won 2023 final as a manager, both with  Ivory Coast)
• Aliou Cissé (lost 2002 final as a player, lost 2019 final and won 2021 final as a manager, all with  Senegal)
• Mahmoud El-Gohary (won 1959 final as a player and won 1998 final as a manager, both with  Egypt)
• Stephen Keshi (lost both 1984 final and 1988 final and won 1994 final as a player; and won 2013 final as a manager, all with  Nigeria)

• 6, Claude Le Roy (managed  Cameroon in 1986 and 1988,  Senegal in 1990 and 1992,  Ghana in 2008,  DR Congo in 2006 and 2013,  Congo in 2015 and  Togo in 2017)

• 9, Claude Le Roy (as manager of  Cameroon in 1986 and 1988,  Senegal in 1990 and 1992,  Ghana in 2008,  DR Congo in 2006 and 2013,  Congo in 2015 and  Togo in 2017)

• Pál Titkos (as manager of  Egypt in 1959)

• 2, Hervé Renard (as manager of  Zambia in 2012 and  Ivory Coast in 2015)

• Roger Lemerre (won 2004 AFCON as manager of  Tunisia, and won Euro 2000 and 2001 Confederations Cup as manager of  France)

• 5 managers,  France

No. of times hosted	Country	Year(s)	Wins as host
5	Egypt	1959, 1974, 1986, 2006, 2019	3/5
4	Ghana	1963, 1978, 2000*, 2008	2/4
3	Ethiopia	1962, 1968, 1976	1/3
	Tunisia	1965, 1994, 2004	1/3
2	Sudan	1957, 1970	1/2
	Cameroon	1972, 2021	0/2
	Nigeria	1980, 2000*	1/2
	Ivory Coast	1984, 2023	1/2
	South Africa	1996, 2013	1/2
	Equatorial Guinea	2012*, 2015	0/2
	Gabon	2012*, 2017	0/2
	Morocco	1988, 2025**	0/1
1
	Libya	1982	0/1
	Algeria	1990	1/1
	Senegal	1992	0/1
	Burkina Faso	1998	0/1
	Mali	2002	0/1
	Angola	2010	0/1
	Kenya	2027*	0/1
	Tanzania	2027*	0/1
	Uganda	2027*	0/1

* Co-hosts

** Upcoming tournament

• Nine nations have won the tournament as hosts:
  •  Egypt (1959, 1986 and 2006)
  •  Ghana (1963 and 1978)
  •  Ethiopia (1962)
  •  Sudan (1970)
  •  Nigeria (1980)
  •  Algeria (1990)
  •  South Africa (1996)
  •  Tunisia (2004)
  •  Ivory Coast (2023)
•  Egypt (in 1957),  Ghana (in 1963) and  South Africa (in 1996) are the only teams to have won the tournament in their debut appearance.
•  Sudan (in 1957),  Ghana (in 1963),  Libya (in 1982),  South Africa (in 1996) and  Equatorial Guinea (in 2012) are the five teams to have hosted the tournament in their debut appearance.
•  Ghana (in 1963) and  South Africa (in 1996) are the only teams to have hosted and won the tournament in their debut appearance.
•  Egypt became the first ever team to win the Africa Cup of Nations finals in 1957, and also the first team to retain the title in 1959.
•  Egypt has played the most matches in the tournament finals, with 111.
•  Egypt has participated in the most tournaments, with 26.
•  Egypt has the most points from matches played at the tournament finals, with 204.
•  Egypt is the only team to win three consecutive Africa Cup of Nations finals (in 2006, 2008 and 2010).
•  Egypt has appeared in the most final matches of the tournament, with ten appearances and seven wins.
•  Egypt had a penalty shoot-out winning streak of six, winning every shoot-out since their 5–4 win to  Cameroon in the 1986 final. This streak ended on 6 February 2022, when Egypt lost 4–2 on penalties 35 years later to  Senegal.
•  Tunisia is the team with the most consecutive appearances at the Africa Cup of Nations, with sixteen from 1994 to 2023.
•  Cameroon (in 2002) and  Ivory Coast (in 2012) share the record for most clean sheets in a single tournament, with six each; they are also the only sides to reach the final of the tournament and not concede a single goal.
•  Nigeria has placed on the podium a record sixteen times at the tournament (three gold medals, five silver medals and eight bronze medals).
• In 2017,  Egypt set a new record of 24 consecutive Africa Cup of Nations matches played without defeat, dating back to their last tournament appearance in 2010. During this run, Egypt also reached a record nine consecutive wins in AFCON matches after beating  Ghana in the 2010 final, while becoming the first team to win three consecutive AFCON titles. The unbeaten run came to an end on 5 February 2017, after Egypt lost 1–2 to  Cameroon in the 2017 final.

No.	Date	Opponent	Score	Result
1.	3 February 2004	Cameroon	0–0	Draw
2.	20 January 2006	Libya	3–0	Win
3.	24 January 2006	Morocco	0–0	Draw
4.	28 January 2006	Ivory Coast	3–1	Win
5.	3 February 2006	DR Congo	4–1	Win
6.	7 February 2006	Senegal	2–1	Win
7.	10 February 2006	Ivory Coast	0–0 (4–2 p)	Draw
8.	22 January 2008	Cameroon	4–2	Win
9.	26 January 2008	Sudan	3–0	Win
10.	30 January 2008	Zambia	1–1	Draw
11.	4 February 2008	Angola	2–1	Win
12.	7 February 2008	Ivory Coast	4–1	Win
13.	10 February 2008	Cameroon	1–0	Win
14.	12 January 2010	Nigeria	3–1	Win
15.	16 January 2010	Mozambique	2–0	Win
16.	20 January 2010	Benin	2–0	Win
17.	25 January 2010	Cameroon	3–1	Win
18.	28 January 2010	Algeria	4–0	Win
19.	31 January 2010	Ghana	1–0	Win
20.	17 January 2017	Mali	0–0	Draw
21.	21 January 2017	Uganda	1–0	Win
22.	25 January 2017	Ghana	1–0	Win
23.	29 January 2017	Morocco	1–0	Win
24.	1 February 2017	Burkina Faso	1–1 (4–3 p)	Draw

Teams that have won the Africa Cup of Nations consecutively and have become two-time champions (two consecutive titles) or three-time champions (three consecutive titles).

Team	Two championships	Three championships
Egypt	1: (1957, 1959*)	1: (2006*, 2008, 2010)
Ghana	1: (1963*, 1965)	—
Cameroon	1: (2000, 2002)	—

* indicate tournament hosts

Year	Debutants in qualification	Total
1957	No qualification round	0
1959	No qualification round	0
1962	Ethiopia  Ghana  Morocco  Nigeria  Kenya  Tunisia  Uganda  Zanzibar	8
1963	Egypt (as United Arab Republic)  Guinea  Sudan	3
1965	DR Congo (as Congo-Léopoldville)  Ivory Coast  Mali  Senegal	4
1968	Algeria Burkina Faso (as Upper Volta)  Cameroon  Congo (as Congo-Brazzaville)  Liberia  Libya  Mauritius  Tanzania  Togo	9
1970	Niger  Sierra Leone  Somalia  Zambia	4
1972	Benin (as Dahomey)  Gabon  Madagascar	3
1974	Central African Republic  Lesotho	2
1976	Burundi  Gambia  Malawi	3
1978	None	0
1980	Mauritania	1
1982	Angola  Equatorial Guinea  Mozambique  Rwanda  Zimbabwe	5
1984	Swaziland	1
1986	None	0
1988	None	0
1990	Seychelles	1
1992	Chad	1
1994	Botswana  Cape Verde  Guinea-Bissau  South Africa	4
1996	Namibia	1
1998	None	0
2000	Djibouti  Eritrea  São Tomé and Príncipe	3
2002	None	0
2004	None	0
2006	None	0
2008	None	0
2010	Comoros	1
2012	None	0
2013	None	0
2015	South Sudan	1
2017	None	0
2019	None	0
2021	None	0
2023	None	0
2025	None	0

Ten teams are yet to qualify for AFCON finals:

•  Central African Republic
•  Chad
•  Djibouti
•  Eritrea
•  Eswatini
•  Lesotho
•  São Tomé and Príncipe
•  Seychelles
•  Somalia
•  South Sudan