THE HISTORY OF THE AFRICAN NATIONS CUP AFCON Trophy 🏆 🏆

The African Nations Cup also known as AFCON
Is a prestigious football competition to show case the tallents of Africa.

The competition started in the 1950s due to the attacking and the entertaining styl of play it actracted alot of medias, journalists and football scouts all around the world. That was under the leadership of the first CAF president Ydnekachew Tessema.
Alot of proffesionalism came in 1980 with coporate sponsoship allowed in 1986.

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Samuel E'too of Cameroon 🇨🇲 is the highest goal scorer in the history of the Afcon with 18 goals .
Lauren Pooko from Ivory coast follows with 14 goals.
Rashidi Yekini from Nigerian 3rd with 13 goals .

Below are the winners and runners up of the competition since the beginning .

Year	Winner	Runner-up
1957	Egypt	Ethiopia
1959	Egypt	Sundan
1962	Ethiopia	Egypt
1963	Ghana	Sudan
1965	Ghana	Tunisia
1968	Congo Kinshasa	Ghana
1970	sundan	Ghana
1972	Cong Brazzaville	Mali
1974	Zaire	Zambia
1976	Morocco	Guinea
1978	Ghana	Uganda
1980	Nigeria	Algeria
1982	Ghana	Lybia
1984	Cameroon	Nigeria
1986	Egypt	Cameroon
1988	Cameroon	Nigeria
1990	Algeria	Nigeria
1992	Ivorycoast	Ghana
1994	Nigeria	Zambia
1996	South Africa	Tunisia
1998	Egypt	South Africa
2000	Cameroon	Nigeria
2002	Cameroon	Senegal
2004	Tunisia	Morocco
2006	Egypt	Ivorycoast
2008	Egypt	Cameroon
2010	Egypt	Ghana
2012	Zambia	Ivory coast
2013	Nigeria	Burkinafaso
2015	Ivory coast	Ghana
2017	Cameroon	Egypt
2019	Algeria	Senegal
2021	Senegal	Egypt

Samuel Eto'o from Cameroon is the king of African football and the current highest goal scorer. Bellow is the list of top 12 highes goal scores in the history of African cup of nations.

Ranking	player	country	Goals
1	Samuel Eto'o	Cameroon 🇨🇲	18
2	Lauren Pouko	Cote D'ivoir	14
3	Rashidi Yekini	Nigeria Nigeria 🇳🇬	13
4	Hassan-el Shazly	Egypt	12
5	Patrick Mboma	Cameroon	11
6	Hossam Hassan	Egypt	11
7	Didier Drogba	Cote D'ivoir	11
8	Ndaye Molamba	Drc Congo 🇨🇩	10
9	Joel Tlehi	Cote D'ivoir	10
10	kalusha Bwalaya	Zambia	10
11	Mengistu Worku	Ethiopia	10
12	Francisleudu Santos	Tunisia	10

The just ended Afcon in Cameroon was won by Senegal beating Egypt on penalties shoot-out after a 120 minutes goalless match to lift their first ever nations cup title after been runners up in 2019.

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