Africa_Cup_of_Nations_records_and_statistics

Africa Cup of Nations records and statistics

Africa Cup of Nations records and statistics

Records of football tournament


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

Summary

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* hosts
1 as United Arab Republic
2 as Congo-Kinshasa
3 as Zaire

Debut of national teams

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

Overall team records

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
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  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.

Medal table

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Comprehensive team results by tournament

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

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Legend

Results of host nations

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Results of defending champions

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General statistics by tournament

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Records

Most titles: 7

Teams winning on debut: 3

Consecutive title wins: 3

Most appearances: 26

Most consecutive appearances: 16

Goalscorers

Overall top goalscorers

Players in bold are still active at international level.

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Goalscoring records

Landmark goalscorers

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]

Oldest goalscorer

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.

Youngest goalscorer

Shiva N'Zigou was 16 years and 93 days old when he scored for  Gabon against  South Africa in a 1–3 defeat on 23 January 2000.

Fastest goals

Latest goal (regulation time)

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

Latest goals (including extra time)

Most goals in a single match

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

Most goals in a single tournament

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

Goalscoring goalkeeper in the tournament

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

Most hat-tricks

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

Most tournaments with a goal

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.

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Goalscorers in all tournament appearances

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

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Highest goalscorers in a single tournament

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

Top goalscorers in multiple tournaments

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

Indicates the top goalscorer was shared with other players.

Hat-tricks

Appearances

Most tournament appearances

The following players appeared in at least six different AFCON tournaments:

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Player records

Oldest player

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

Youngest player

Shiva N'Zigou was 16 years and 93 days old when he played for  Gabon in a group stage match against  South Africa on 23 January 2000.

Most matches played

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.[7]

Most titles won

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Coaching

Titles won

Most titles won as coach

Most consecutive titles won as coach

Coaches who retained title

Coaches who won titles with multiple teams

Won title as both player and coach

Appearance in final as both player and coach

Most nations coached in tournament

Most tournament appearances as coach

Titles won by foreign coaches

First foreign coach to win tournament

Most titles won as foreign coach

Foreign coaches who also won other major tournaments

Most titles by coaches from a foreign country

Most tournaments hosted

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* Co-hosts
** Upcoming tournament

Other team records

  • Nine nations have won the tournament as hosts:
  •  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.

Egypt's run

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Consecutive championships

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).

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* indicate tournament hosts

Debut of teams in qualification

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Teams yet to qualify for finals

Ten teams are yet to qualify for AFCON finals:


References

  1. "African Cup of Nations 1957-2015 - All-Time Tables". RSSSF. Retrieved 9 September 2021.
  2. @CAF_Online. "Tunisia hasn't missed a single #TotalEnergiesAFCON since 1994!". Twitter. Retrieved 22 April 2022.
  3. (Polish) - Onet sport : Puchar Narodów Afryki, czyli piłkarska fantazja w środku ligowego sezonu, by PAWEŁ BANACZYK (14 January 2017) Archived 26 January 2019 at the Wayback Machine
  4. FIFA : The day it all started for Ad-Diba and the Pharaohs (16 February 2017) Archived 26 January 2019 at the Wayback Machine
  5. "African Nations Cup 1957". RSSSF. Retrieved 6 September 2017.
  6. "Top 5 players with most appearances at the TotalEnergies CAF AFCON". CAF Online. 13 January 2024. Retrieved 29 January 2024.

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