Africa Cup of Nations 2023 – Côte d’Ivoire

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Senegal aim to defend their title with influential attacking threat Sadio Mané, while Mohamed Salah of Egypt and Morocco’s Achraf Hakimi both target silverware

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WINNERS AND FINALISTS
Egypt are seven-time African champions, most successful of 15 nations to have lifted trophy at least once

WINNERS: Since 1957 

Egypt 7 wins 10 finals 

Cameroon 5 7

Appearances in Final

Ghana 4  9 

Nigeria 3 7 

Côte d’Ivoire 2 4 

Algeria 2 3

DR Congo 2 2

Senegal: 1 3

Zambia: 1 3
 
Tunisia: 1 3 

Sudan: 1 3 

South Africa: 1 2

Morocco: 1 2 

Ethiopia: 1 2

Congo: 1 1 

Five teams with one final berth
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RECENT FINALS
Winner  Runner-up
2012 Zambia  0-0 (Penalties 8-7) Côte d’Ivoire
2013 Nigeria 1-0  Burkina Faso
2015 Côte d’Ivoire 0-0 (Pens 9-8) Ghana
2017 Cameroon 2-1  Egypt
2019 Algeria 1-0  Senegal
2021 Senegal 0-0 (Pens 4-2) Egypt

Mohamed Salah Liverpool forward aiming to hoist trophy for first time with Egypt

Top African goalscorers in Premier League
Mohamed Salah  EGY Matches: 251  153
Sadio Mané     SEN 263 111
Didier Drogba  CIV 254 104 
Emmanuel Adebayor TOG 241 97
Yakubu Aiyegbeni  NGR 252 95

TEAM RECORDS
2023 teams only  Win-Draw-Loss

1 Egypt (rank 33*) 59 21 27
2 Nigeria (42)     54 21 22
3 Ghana (61)       54 21 27
4 Cameroon (46)    46 30 15
5 Côte d’Ivoire (49) 44 27 28
6 Algeria (30) 28 22 27
7 Morocco (13) 27 24 19
8 Senegal (20) 27 17 23
9 Zambia (84) 26 20 21
10 Tunisia (28) 25 28 27
11 Mali (51) 19 19 16
12 South Africa (66) 16 13 15
13 Guinea (80) 13 17 17
14 DR Congo (67) 13 15 19 
15 Burkina Faso (57) 9 15 24
16 Eq. Guinea (88) 6 4 5
17 Angola (117) 4 12 10
18 Gambia (126) 3 1 1
19 Cape Verde (73) 2 6 3
20 G-Bissau (103) 0 3 6
21 Mauritania (105) 0 2 4
22 Namibia (115) 0 2 7
23 Mozambique (111) 0 2 10 
24 Tanzania (121) 0 1 5



Sources: AFCON, Transfermarkt, FIFA Picture: Getty Images
*FIFA ranking Dec 2023 © GRAPHIC NEWS