Africa Cup of Nations records and statistics

This is a list of records and statistics of clubs and players who have taken part in the Africa Cup of Nations football tournament.

General statistics by tournament

Year	Host	Champion	Winning coach	Top scorer(s)^{[citation needed]}	Most valuable player^{[citation needed]}
1957	Sudan	Egypt	Mourad Fahmy	Ad-Diba (5)	Ad-Diba
1959	United Arab Republic	United Arab Republic	Pál Titkos	Mahmoud Al-Gohari (3)	Mahmoud El-Gohary
1962	Ethiopia	Ethiopia	Ydnekatchew Tessema Slavko Milošević	Mengistu Worku (3) Badawi Abdel Fattah (3)	Mengistu Worku
1963	Ghana	Ghana	Charles Gyamfi	Hassan El-Shazly (6)	Hassan El-Shazly
1965	Tunisia	23x15px Ghana	23x15px Charles Gyamfi	23x15px Ben Acheampong (3) 23x15px Osei Kofi (3) Eustache Manglé (3)	23x15px Osei Kofi
1968	Ethiopia	Congo-Kinshasa	Ferenc Csanádi	Laurent Pokou (6)	Kazadi Mwamba
1970	Sudan	Sudan	Jiří Starosta	Laurent Pokou (8)	Laurent Pokou
1972	Cameroon	Congo	Adolphe Bibanzoulou	Salif Keita (5)	François M'Pelé
1974	Egypt	Zaire	Blagoje Vidinić	Ndaye Mulamba (9)	Ndaye Mulamba
1976	Ethiopia	Morocco	Gheorghe Mărdărescu	Aliou Mamadou Keita (4)	Ahmed Faras
1978	Ghana	Ghana	Fred Osam-Duodu	Phillip Omondi (3) Opoku Afriyie (3) Segun Odegbami (3)	Karim Abdul Razak
1980	Nigeria	Nigeria	23x15px Otto Glória	Khaled Labied (3) Segun Odegbami (3)	Christian Chukwu
1982	Libya	Ghana	Charles Gyamfi	George Alhassan (4)	Fawzi Al-Issawi
1984	Ivory Coast	Cameroon	Radivoje Ognjanović	Taher Abouzaid (4)	Théophile Abega
1986	Egypt	Egypt	Mike Smith	Roger Milla (4)	Roger Milla
1988	Morocco	Cameroon	Claude Le Roy	Lakhdar Belloumi (2) Roger Milla (2) Abdoulaye Traoré (2) Gamal Abdelhamid (2)	Aziz Bouderbala
1990	Algeria	Algeria	Abdelhamid Kermali	Djamel Menad (4)	Rabah Madjer
1992	Senegal	Ivory Coast	Yeo Martial	Rashidi Yekini (4)	Abedi Pele
1994	Tunisia	Nigeria	Clemens Westerhof	Rashidi Yekini (5)	Rashidi Yekini
1996	South Africa	South Africa	Clive Barker	Kalusha Bwalya (5)	Kalusha Bwalya
1998	Burkina Faso	Egypt	Mahmoud El-Gohary	Hossam Hassan (7) Benni McCarthy (7)	Benni McCarthy
2000	Ghana Nigeria	Cameroon	Pierre Lechantre	Shaun Bartlett (5)	Lauren Etame
2002	Mali	Cameroon	Winfried Schäfer	Patrick Mboma (3) René Salomon Olembé (3) Julius Aghahowa (3)	Rigobert Song
2004	Tunisia	Tunisia	Roger Lemerre	Patrick Mboma (4) Frédéric Kanouté (4) Youssef Mokhtari (4) Jay-Jay Okocha (4) Francileudo dos Santos (4)	Jay-Jay Okocha
2006	Egypt	Egypt	Hassan Shehata	Samuel Eto'o (5)	Ahmed Hassan
2008	Ghana	Egypt	Hassan Shehata	Samuel Eto'o (5)	Hosny Abd Rabo
2010	Angola	Egypt	Hassan Shehata	Mohamed Nagy (5)	Ahmed Hassan
2012	Gabon Equatorial Guinea	Zambia	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	Stephen Keshi	Mubarak Wakaso (4) Emmanuel Emenike (4)	Jonathan Pitroipa
2015	Equatorial Guinea	Ivory Coast	Hervé Renard	Thievy Bifouma (3) Dieumerci Mbokani (3) Javier Balboa (3) André Ayew (3) Ahmed Akaïchi (3)	Christian Atsu

Overall top goalscorers

^{[citation needed]}

As of February 5th, 2015

Goals	Scorers
18	Samuel Eto'o
14	Laurent Pokou
13	Rashidi Yekini
12	Hassan El-Shazly
11	Patrick Mboma Hossam Hassan Didier Drogba
10	Ndaye Mulamba Joel Tiéhi Mengistu Worku Francileudo Santos Kalusha Bwalya
9	Manucho Abdoulaye Traoré
8	Ahmed Hassan Pascal Feindouno
7	Flávio Roger Milla Taher Abouzaid Ali Abo Greisha Asamoah Gyan Osei Kofi Frédéric Kanouté Seydou Keita Jay-Jay Okocha Benni McCarthy Christopher Katongo
6	Lakhdar Belloumi Mayanga Maku Gervinho Yaya Touré Mohamed Aboutrika George Alhassan André Ayew Wilberforce Mfum Abedi Pele Ahmed Faras Julius Aghahowa Segun Odegbami Shaun Bartlett
5	Rabah Madjer Djamel Menad Jean-Michel M'Bono Dieumerci Mbokani Salomon Kalou Hosny Abd Rabo Ad-Diba Mohamed Nagy "Gedo" Amr Zaki Emad Moteab Wakaso Mubarak Fantamady Keita Muda Lawal Peter Odemwingie Henri Camara Siyabonga Nomvethe

African Dream Team Ever

Team of All Tournaments

Below the team of the All Afcon tournaments.

Goalkeeper	Defenders	Midfielders	Forwards
Essam El-Hadary	Geremi Njitap Kolo Touré Samuel Kuffour Taye Taiwo	Mohamed Aboutrika Yaya Touré Michael Essien Jay-Jay Okocha	Samuel Eto'o Didier Drogba

Hat-tricks

A hat-trick is achieved when the same player scores three or more goals in one match. Listed in chronological order.

Sequence	Player	No. of goals	Time of goals	Representing	Final score	Opponent	Tournament	Round
1.	Ad-Diba	4	2', 7', 68', 89'	Egypt	4–0	Ethiopia	1957	Final
2.	Mahmoud El-Gohary	3	29', 42', 73'	United Arab Republic	4–0	Ethiopia	1959	Final tournament
3.	Hassan El-Shazly	4	42', 44', 81', 87'	United Arab Republic	6–3	Nigeria	1963	Group stage
4.	Hacène Lalmas	3	15', 25', 70'	Algeria	4–0	Uganda	1968	Group stage
5.	Laurent Pokou	5	21', 60', 71', 80', 87'	Ivory Coast	6–1	Ethiopia	1970	Group stage
6.	Hassan El-Shazly	3	3', 14', 50'	United Arab Rep.	3–1	Ivory Coast	1970	Third place
7.	Bernard Chanda	3		Congo	2–4	Zambia	1974	Semifinal
8.	Joël Tiéhi	3	19', 63', 70'	Ivory Coast	4–0	Sierra Leone	1994	Group stage
9.	Kalusha Bwalya	3	2', 9', 87'	Zambia	4–0	Sierra Leone	1996	Group stage
10.	Benedict McCarthy	4	8', 11', 19', 21'	South Africa	4–1	Namibia	1998	Group stage
11.	Hossam Hassan	3	34', 57', 71'	Egypt	4–0	Zambia	1998	Group stage
12.	Patrick Mboma	3	31', 44', 65'	Cameroon	5–3	Zimbabwe	2004	Group stage
13.	Samuel Eto'o	3	20', 39', 78'	Cameroon	3–1	Angola	2006	Group stage
14.	Francileudo dos Santos	3	35', 82', 90+3'	Tunisia	4–1	Zambia	2006	Group stage
15.	Soufiane Alloudi	3	1', 5', 28'	Morocco	5–1	Namibia	2008	Group stage

Most tournaments appeared

The tabulated below is the players who had appeared more than three times in the history of tournament:

Played	Name	Tournaments
8	Rigobert Song	1996, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2010
8	Ahmed Hassan	1996, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2010
7	Hossam Hassan	1986, 1988, 1992, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2006
7	Siaka Tiéné	2002, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2015
7	Kolo Touré	2002, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2015
7	Boubacar Barry	2002, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2015
7	Geremi Njitap	1998, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2010
6	Kalusha Bwalya	1986, 1992, 1994, 1996, 1998, 2000
6	Samuel Eto'o	2000, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2010
6	Rabah Madjer	1980, 1982, 1984, 1986, 1990, 1992
6	Essam El-Hadary	1998, 2000, 2002, 2006, 2008, 2010
6	Asamoah Gyan	2006, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2015
6	Nwankwo Kanu	2000, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2010
6	Yaya Touré	2006, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2015
6	Didier Zokora	2002, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2013
6	Hany Ramzy	1992, 1994, 1996, 1998, 2000, 2002
6	Abdel-Zaher El-Saqqa	1998, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2010
6	Noureddine Naybet	1992, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006

Most tournaments hosted

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

* Co-hosts

** Not held yet

Participating nations

Team	1957	1959	1962	1963	1965	1968	1970	1972	1974	1976	1978	1980	1982	1984	1986	1988	1990	1992	1994	1996	1998	2000	2002	2004	2006	2008	2010	2012	2013	2015	2017	Years
Algeria						GS						2nd	4th	3rd	GS	3rd	1st	GS		QF	GS	QF	GS	QF			4th		GS	QF		16
Angola																				GS	GS				GS	QF	QF	GS	GS			7
Benin																								GS		GS	GS					3
Botswana																												GS				1
Burkina Faso											GS									GS	4th	GS	GS	GS			GS	GS	2nd	GS		10
Cameroon							GS	3rd					GS	1st	2nd	1st	GS	4th		GS	QF	1st	1st	QF	QF	2nd	QF			GS		17
Cape Verde																													QF	GS		2
Congo						GS		1st	4th		GS							QF				GS								QF		7
DR Congo					GS	1st	GS	4th	1st	GS						GS		QF	QF	QF	3rd	GS	QF	GS	QF				GS	3rd		17
Ivory Coast					3rd	3rd	4th		GS			GS		GS	3rd	GS	GS	1st	3rd	GS	QF	GS	GS		2nd	4th	QF	2nd	QF	1st		21
Egypt	1st	1st	2nd	3rd			3rd		3rd	4th		4th		4th	1st	GS	GS	GS	QF	QF	1st	QF	QF	GS	1st	1st	1st					22
Equatorial Guinea																												QF		4th		2
Ethiopia	2nd	3rd	1st	4th	GS	4th	GS			GS			GS																GS			10
Gabon																			GS	QF		GS					GS	QF		GS	q	6
Ghana				1st	1st	2nd	2nd				1st	GS	1st	GS				2nd	QF	4th	GS	QF	QF		GS	3rd	2nd	4th	4th	2nd		20
Guinea							GS		GS	2nd		GS							GS		GS			QF	QF	QF		GS		QF		11
Kenya								GS								GS	GS	GS						GS								5
Liberia																				GS			GS									2
Libya													2nd												GS			GS				3
Team	1957	1959	1962	1963	1965	1968	1970	1972	1974	1976	1978	1980	1982	1984	1986	1988	1990	1992	1994	1996	1998	2000	2002	2004	2006	2008	2010	2012	2013	2015	2017	Years
Malawi														GS													GS					2
Mali								2nd											4th				4th	4th		GS	GS	3rd	3rd	GS		9
Mauritius									GS																							1
Morocco								GS		1st	GS	3rd			4th	4th		GS			QF	GS	GS	2nd	GS	GS		GS	GS			15
Mozambique															GS					GS	GS						GS					4
Namibia																					GS					GS						2
Niger																												GS	GS			2
Nigeria				GS						3rd	3rd	1st	GS	2nd		2nd	2nd	3rd	1st			2nd	3rd	3rd	3rd	QF	3rd		1st			17
Rwanda																								GS								1
Senegal					4th	GS									GS		4th	QF	QF			QF	2nd	QF	4th	GS		GS		GS		13
Sierra Leone																			GS	GS												2
South Africa																				1st	2nd	3rd	QF	GS	GS	GS			QF	GS		9
Sudan	3rd	2nd		2nd			1st	GS		GS																GS		QF				8
Tanzania												GS																				1
Togo								GS						GS							GS	GS	GS		GS				QF			7
Tunisia			3rd	GS	2nd						4th		GS						GS	2nd	QF	4th	GS	1st	QF	QF	GS	QF	GS	QF		17
Uganda			4th			GS			GS	GS	2nd																					5
Zambia									2nd		GS		3rd		GS		3rd	QF	2nd	3rd	GS	GS	GS		GS	GS	QF	1st	GS	GS		17
Zimbabwe																								GS	GS							2

Legend

1st – Champions
2nd – Runners-up
3rd – Third place
4th – Fourth place
QF – Quarter Finals

GS – Group stage
q – Qualified
— Hosts
— Withdrew after qualification
— Disqualified after qualification

All-time table

Up to and including the 2015 tournament:

Team	Part	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	Dif	Pts	Pts%
Egypt^{[n 1]}	22	90	51	15	24	154	84	+70	168	62.2
Ghana	20	89	50	17	22	121	74	+47	167	62.5
Nigeria	17	86	46	21	19	123	82	+41	159	61.6
Ivory Coast	21	87	39	22	26	129	94	+35	139	53.3
Cameroon	17	74	37	22	15	112	70	+42	133	59.9
Zambia	17	67	26	20	21	81	69	+12	98	48.8
Tunisia	17	64	20	24	20	81	80	+1	84	43.7
Algeria	16	64	22	18	24	75	77	−2	84	43.7
Morocco	15	57	19	22	16	66	54	+12	79	46.2
DR Congo^{[n 2]}	17	65	17	22	26	75	91	−16	73	37.4
Senegal	13	49	16	12	21	55	50	+5	60	40.8
Mali	9	43	15	14	14	54	59	−5	59	45.7
South Africa	9	38	14	13	11	45	41	+4	55	48.2
Guinea	11	39	11	15	13	55	57	−2	48	41.0
Congo	7	26	7	7	12	27	40	−13	28	35.9
Sudan	8	24	7	6	11	28	38	−10	27	37.5
Ethiopia	10	27	7	3	17	29	61	−32	24	29.6
Gabon	6	18	6	4	8	17	24	−7	22	40.7
Angola	7	23	4	10	9	29	37	−8	22	31.9
Burkina Faso^{[n 3]}	10	35	4	10	21	30	59	−29	22	21.0
Togo	7	22	3	7	12	17	36	−19	16	24.2
Equatorial Guinea	2	10	4	3	3	8	10	−2	15	50.0
Libya	3	11	3	5	3	12	13	−1	14	42.4
Uganda	5	16	3	1	12	17	31	−14	10	20.8
Cape Verde	2	7	1	5	1	4	5	−1	8	38.1
Kenya	5	14	1	4	9	8	24	−16	7	16.7
Zimbabwe	2	6	2	0	4	8	13	−5	6	33.3
Liberia	2	5	1	2	2	5	7	−2	5	33.3
Rwanda	1	3	1	1	1	3	3	0	4	44.4
Malawi	2	6	1	1	4	6	11	−5	4	22.2
Sierra Leone	2	5	1	1	3	2	11	−9	4	26.7
Namibia	2	6	0	2	4	9	18	−9	2	11.1
Mozambique	4	12	0	2	10	4	26	−22	2	5.6
Tanzania	1	3	0	1	2	3	6	−3	1	11.1
Niger	2	6	0	1	5	1	9	−8	1	5.6
Benin	3	9	0	1	8	4	20	−16	1	3.7
Mauritius	1	3	0	0	3	2	8	−6	0	0.0
Botswana	1	3	0	0	3	2	9	−7	0	0.0

↑ Including one appearance as "United Arab Republic" representing a political union between Egypt and Syria, and another three appearances representing just Egypt but still under the name "United Arab Republic".
↑ Including seven appearances as Zaire.
↑ Including one appearance as Upper Volta.

Debut of teams in qualification

Year	Debutants in qualifications	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	1
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

Debut of teams in final tournament

Year	Debutants	Total
1957	Egypt Ethiopia ~~South Africa~~ Sudan	3
1959	None	0
1962	Tunisia Uganda	2
1963	Ghana Nigeria	2
1965	DR Congo (as Congo-Léopoldville) Ivory Coast Senegal	3
1968	Algeria Congo (as Congo-Brazzaville)	2
1970	Cameroon Guinea	2
1972	Kenya Mali Morocco Togo	4
1974	Mauritius Zambia	2
1976	None	0
1978	Burkina Faso (as Upper Volta)	1
1980	Tanzania	1
1982	Libya	1
1984	Malawi	1
1986	Mozambique	1
1988	None	0
1990	None	0
1992	None	0
1994	Gabon Sierra Leone	2
1996	Angola Liberia South Africa	3
1998	Namibia	1
2000	None	0
2002	None	0
2004	Benin Rwanda Zimbabwe	3
2006	None	0
2008	None	0
2010	None	0
2012	Botswana Equatorial Guinea Niger	3
2013	Cape Verde	1
2015	None	0
Total		38

Teams never qualified

References

[1] Including one appearance as "United Arab Republic" representing a political union between Egypt and Syria, and another three appearances representing just Egypt but still under the name "United Arab Republic".

[2] Including seven appearances as Zaire.

[3] Including one appearance as Upper Volta.

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Tournaments	Sudan 1957 United Arab Republic 1959 Ethiopia 1962 Ghana 1963 Tunisia 1965 Ethiopia 1968 Sudan 1970 Cameroon 1972 Egypt 1974 Ethiopia 1976 Ghana 1978 Nigeria 1980 Libya 1982 Ivory Coast 1984 Egypt 1986 Morocco 1988 Algeria 1990 Senegal 1992 Tunisia 1994 South Africa 1996 Burkina Faso 1998 Ghana/Nigeria 2000 Mali 2002 Tunisia 2004 Egypt 2006 Ghana 2008 Angola 2010 Gabon/Equatorial Guinea 2012 South Africa 2013 Equatorial Guinea 2015 Gabon 2017 Cameroon 2019 Ivory Coast 2021 Guinea 2023
Qualification	1957 1959 1962 1963 1965 1968 1970 1972 1974 1976 1978 1980 1982 1984 1986 1988 1990 1992 1994 1996 1998 2000 2002 2004 2006 2008 2010 2012 2013 2015 2017
Finals	1957 1959 1962 1963 1965 1968 1970 1972 1974 1976 1978 1980 1982 1984 1986 1988 1990 1992 1994 1996 1998 2000 2002 2004 2006 2008 2010 2012 2013 2015
Squads	1957 1959 1962 1963 1965 1968 1970 1972 1974 1976 1978 1980 1982 1984 1986 1988 1990 1992 1994 1996 1998 2000 2002 2004 2006 2008 2010 2012 2013 2015
Statistics	Appearances Records and statistics
No qualification took place in 1957 and 1959 as places were given by invitation only. In 1959 and 1976, there was no final; the article is about the decisive match of the final group stage.

Africa Cup of Nations records and statistics

Contents

General statistics by tournament

Overall top goalscorers

African Dream Team Ever

Hat-tricks

Most tournaments appeared

Most tournaments hosted

Participating nations

All-time table

Debut of teams in qualification

Debut of teams in final tournament

Teams never qualified

References

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