Every Africa Cup of Nations
29 editions, 1957 to 2023. Cameroon won the most of them: 5.
| Year | Hosts | Winner | Final | Runner-up | Top scorer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1957 | Sudan | Egypt | 4–0 | Ethiopia | Ad-Diba (5 goals) |
| 1963 | Ghana | Ghana | 3–0 | Sudan | Hassan El-Shazly (6 goals) |
| 1965 | Tunisia | Ghana | 3–2 aet | Tunisia | Ben Acheampong, Osei Kofi and Eustache Manglé (3 goals each) |
| 1968 | Ethiopia | Congo-Kinshasa | 1–0 | Ghana | Laurent Pokou (6 goals) |
| 1970 | Sudan | Sudan | 1–0 | Ghana | Laurent Pokou (8 goals) |
| 1972 | Cameroon | Congo | 3–2 | Mali | Fantamady Keita (5 goals) |
| 1974 | Egypt | Zaire | 2–0 | Zambia | Ndaye Mulamba (9 goals) |
| 1978 | Ghana | Ghana | 2–0 | Uganda | Opoku Afriyie, Segun Odegbami and Phillip Omondi (3 goals each) |
| 1980 | Nigeria | Nigeria | 3–0 | Algeria | Khaled Labied and Segun Odegbami (3 goals each) |
| 1982 | Libya | Ghana | 1–1 aet, 7–6 pens | Libya | George Alhassan (4 goals) |
| 1984 | Ivory Coast | Cameroon | 3–1 | Nigeria | Taher Abouzaid (4 goals) |
| 1986 | Egypt | Egypt | 0–0 aet, 5–4 pens | Cameroon | Roger Milla (4 goals) |
| 1988 | Morocco | Cameroon | 1–0 | Nigeria | Gamal Abdelhamid, Lakhdar Belloumi, Roger Milla and Abdoulaye Traoré (2 goals each) |
| 1990 | Algeria | Algeria | 1–0 | Nigeria | Djamel Menad (4 goals) |
| 1992 | Senegal | Ivory Coast | 0–0 aet, 11–10 pens | Ghana | Rashidi Yekini (4 goals) |
| 1994 | Tunisia | Nigeria | 2–1 | Zambia | Rashidi Yekini (5 goals) |
| 1996 | South Africa | South Africa | 2–0 | Tunisia | Kalusha Bwalya (5 goals) |
| 1998 | Burkina Faso | Egypt | 2–0 | South Africa | Hossam Hassan and Benedict McCarthy (7 goals each) |
| 2000 | Ghana and Nigeria | Cameroon | 2–2 aet, 4–3 pens | Nigeria | Shaun Bartlett (5 goals) |
| 2002 | Mali | Cameroon | 0–0 aet, 3–2 pens | Senegal | Julius Aghahowa, Patrick Mboma and Salomon Olembé (3 goals each) |
| 2004 | Tunisia | Tunisia | 2–1 | Morocco | Patrick Mboma, Frédéric Kanouté, Jay-Jay Okocha, Francileudo dos Santos and Youssef Mokhtari (4 goals each) |
| 2010 | Angola | Egypt | 1–0 | Ghana | Gedo (5 goals) |
| 2012 | Gabon and Equatorial Guinea | Zambia | 0–0 aet, 8–7 pens | Côte d’Ivoire | Manucho, Didier Drogba, Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, Cheick Diabaté, Houssine Kharja, Christopher Katongo and Emmanuel Mayuka (3 goals each) |
| 2013 | South Africa | Nigeria | 1–0 | Burkina Faso | Emmanuel Emenike and Mubarak Wakaso (4 goals each) |
| 2015 | Equatorial Guinea | Côte d’Ivoire | 0–0 aet, 9–8 pens | Ghana | Ahmed Akaichi, André Ayew, Javier Balboa, Thievy Bifouma and Dieumerci Mbokani (3 goals each) |
| 2017 | Gabon | Cameroon | 2–1 | Egypt | Junior Kabananga (3 goals) |
| 2019 | Egypt | Algeria | 1–0 | Senegal | Odion Ighalo (5 goals) |
| 2021 | Cameroon | Senegal | 0–0 aet, 4–2 pens | Egypt | Vincent Aboubakar (8 goals) |
| 2023 | Côte d’Ivoire | Côte d’Ivoire | 2–1 | Nigeria | Emilio Nsue (5 goals) |
Scores are the winner’s first; “aet” means after extra time. A year missing from the table is not in the almanac yet.