Ivory Coast has won the 2023 edition of the AFCON by defeating Nigeria 2-1 at the continent’s premier football competition. Ivory Coast won AFCON the hard way:
𝐆𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐩 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐠𝐞:
One win and two losses
Humiliating 4-0 loss to Equatorial Guinea
Qualified to knockouts as the fourth-best third place team
Sacked head coach after group stage
𝐑𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝 𝐨𝐟 𝟏𝟔:
86th-minute equalizer to force ET
Eliminated title holders Senegal on PKs
𝐐𝐮𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐟𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐬:
Played with 10 men from the 43rd minute on
90th-minute equalizer
Goal in second minute of ET stoppage time to beat Mali
𝐒𝐞𝐦𝐢𝐟𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐬:
65th-minute goal to beat DR Congo
𝐅𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐥:
62nd-minute equalizer
81st-minute winner to defeat Nigeria
They never quit 😤
Ivory Coast lift the African Cup of Nations
Didier Drogba brought the AFCON trophy out ahead of the final
Ivory Coast made sure it stayed home.
William Troost-Ekong 🇳🇬 has been named as the Best Player at AFCON 2023.
Ronwen Williams 🇿🇦 has been named as the Best Goalkeeper with 5 clean sheets at AFCON 2023.
Emilio Nsue 🇬🇶 won the Golden Boot with 5 goals.
🇿🇦 South Africa’s Bafana Bafana won the Fair Play Team Award.
Heartbreak for Nigeria
As much as I was rooting for Nigeria, no team that sets up to defend for 90 minutes deserves to win a final. No team that can’t even string together two passes when the pressure is on the line deserves to win. This was their biggest match in a decade and they blew it.
AFCON Final Results from beginning
2023: Cote d’Ivoire 🇨🇮 2-1 Nigeria 🇳🇬
2021: Senegal 🇸🇳 0-0 Egypt 🇪🇬 (4-2 on penalties)
2019: Algeria 🇩🇿 1-0 Senegal 🇸🇳
2017: Cameroon 🇨🇲 2-1 Egypt 🇪🇬
2015: Cote d’Ivoire 🇨🇮 0-0 Ghana 🇬🇭 (9-8 on penalties)
2013: Nigeria 🇳🇬 1-0 Burkina Faso 🇧🇫
2012: Zambia 🇿🇲 0-0 Cote d’Ivoire 🇨🇮 (8-7 on penalties)
2010: Egypt 🇪🇬 1-0 Ghana 🇬🇭
2008: Egypt 🇪🇬 1-0 Cameroon 🇨🇲
2006: Egypt 🇪🇬 0-0 Cote d’Ivoire 🇨🇮 (4-2 on penalties)
2004: Tunisia 🇹🇳 2-1 Morocco 🇲🇦
2002: Cameroon 🇨🇲 0-0 Senegal 🇸🇳 (3-2 on penalties)
2000: Cameroon 🇨🇲 2-2 🇳🇬 (4-3 on penalties)
1998: Egypt 🇪🇬 2-0 South Africa 🇿🇦
1996: South Africa 🇿🇦 2-0 Tunisia 🇹🇳
1994: Nigeria 🇳🇬 2-1 Zambia 🇿🇲
1992: Cote d’Ivoire 🇨🇮 0-0 Ghana 🇬🇭 (11-10 on penalties)
1990: Algeria 🇩🇿 1-0 Nigeria 🇳🇬
1988: Cameroon 🇨🇲 1-0 Nigeria 🇳🇬
1986: Egypt 🇪🇬 0-0 Cameroon 🇨🇲 (5-4 on penalties)
1984: Cameroon 🇨🇲 3-1 Nigeria 🇳🇬
1982: Ghana 🇬🇭 1-1 Libya 🇱🇾 (7-6 on penalties)
1980: Nigeria 🇳🇬 3-0 Algeria 🇩🇿
1978: Ghana 🇬🇭 2-0 Uganda 🇺🇬
1976: Morocco 🇲🇦 (first on the table), Guinea 🇬🇳 (second)
1974: DR Congo 🇨🇩 2-0 Zambia 🇿🇲
1972: Congo 🇨🇬 3-2 Mali 🇲🇱
1970: Sudan 🇸🇩 1-0 Ghana 🇬🇭
1968: DR Congo 🇨🇩 1-0 Ghana 🇬🇭
1965: Ghana 🇬🇭 3-2 Tunisia 🇹🇳
1963: Ghana 🇬🇭 3-0 Sudan 🇸🇩
1962: Ethiopia 🇪🇹 4-2 Egypt 🇪🇬
1959: Egypt 🇪🇬 (first on the table), Sudan 🇸🇩 (second)
1957: Egypt 🇪🇬 4-0 Ethiopia 🇪🇹
Most Successful Countries at AFCON
1. Egypt 🇪🇬 – 7 trophies
2. Cameroon 🇨🇲 – 5 trophies
3. Ghana 🇬🇭 – 4 trophies
4. Cote d’Ivoire 🇮🇪, Nigeria 🇳🇬 – 3 trophies each
6. Algeria 🇩🇿, DR Congo 🇨🇩 – 2 trophies each
8. Congo 🇨🇬, Ethiopia 🇪🇹, Morocco 🇲🇦, Senegal 🇸🇳, South Africa 🇿🇦, Sudan 🇸🇩, Tunisia 🇹🇳 and Zambia 🇿🇲 – 1 trophy each
