Goals and Highlights: Nigeria 6-0 Sao Tome and Principe in African Cup of Nations Qualifiers | 09/10/2023

The Africa Cup of Nations will be hosted by the African Cup of Nations. It will be held in Côte d’Ivoire between the 5th and 28th of January of the next year. There will be six stadiums to host the tournament: Ebimpé Olympic Stadium, with capacity for 60,000 and the venue for the final. Félix Houphouët-Boigny Stadium, Bouaké Peace Stadium, Korhogo Stadium, San Pé dro and Iamussucro Stadium. The first two are in the same city of Abidjan.

It’ at 34º edition of the competition, which has already been published. It has a very heavy name in the football calendar, where several athletes from the main leagues in the world play. The first edition took place in Sudan, in 1957, where Egypt thrashed Ethiopia 4-0 and became the tournament’s inaugural champions.

Egypt é is the greatest champion of the competition with seven titles, being the last in 2010. The team led by star Mohamed Salah faces a long drought of 23 years without winning the title competition, where he was runner-up in 2021 to Senegal, which won the first trophy of the competition.

Cameroon with five, Ghana with four, Nigeria with three,  nbsp;Cote d’Ivoire, Algeria and DR Congo, both with two, are the biggest champions of the competition ;the African. Zambia, Tunisia, Sudan, Senegal, Ethiopia, Morocco, South Africa and Congo complete the list with a title each. Mali, Burkina Faso, Uganda, Guinea; and Libya reached the final, but never won the competition, while Guinea-Bissau and Guinea. Equatorial reached the quarterfinals.

By federation, the UNAF, where the northern countries are located, are the biggest winners. Egypt, Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia with 11 titles. WAFU, West Africa, with 10, joining Ghana, Nigeria, Ivory Coast and Senegal. Then, UNIFFAC, in Central Africa, with eight, joining Cameroon, DR Congo and Congo. Finally, CECAF, East Africa with Ethiopia and Sudan with two and COSAFA, South Africa with South Africa and Zambia, also with two.