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African Cup of Nations

1957

Best player: Ad-Diba (Egypt/Al Ittihad Alexandria Club)

Highest goal scorer: Ad-Diba (Egypt/Al Ittihad Alexandria Club) 5 goals

1959

Best player: Ad-Diba (Egypt)

Highest goal scorer: Mahmoud Al Gohari (Egypt) – 3 goals

1962

Best player: Mengistu Worku (Ethiopia)

Highest goal scorer: Mohamed Al Badawi (Egypt), Worku Mengistu (Ethiopia) – 3 goals


1963

Best player: Hassan El-Shazly (Egypt)

Highest goal scorer: Hassan El-Shazly (Egypt) – 6 goals


1965

Best player: Osei Kofi (Ghana)

Highest goal scorer: Abbrey Osei Kofi (Ghana), Ben Acheampong (Ghana), Eustace Mangli (Ivory Coast) – 3 goals


1968

Best player: Kazadi Mwamba (Zaire)

Highest goal scorer: Laurent Pokou (Ivory Coast) – 6 goals

1970

Best player: Laurent Pokou (Ivory Coast)

Highest goal scorer: Laurent Pokou (Ivory Coast) – 8 goals

1972

Best player: François M'Pelé (Congo)

Highest goal scorer: Fantamady Keita (Mali) – 5 goals

1974

Best player: Ndaye Mulamba (Zaire)

Highest goal scorer: Pierre Ndaye Mulamba – 9 goals

1976

Best player: Ahmed Faras (Morocco)

Highest goal scorer: Mamadou Aliou “Njo Lea” Keita (Guinea) – 4 goals


1978

Best player: Karim Abdul Razak (Ghana)

Highest goal scorer: Opoku Afriye (Ghana), Segun Odegbami (Nigeria), Phillip Omondi (Uganda) – 4 goals

1980

Best player: Christian Chukwu (Nigeria)

Highest goal scorer: Segun Odegbami (Nigeria), Khalid Labied (Morocco) - 3 goals

1982

Best player: Fawzi Al-Issawi (Libya)

Highest goal scorer: George Al Hassan (Ghana) – 4 goals


1984

Best player: Théophile Abega (Cameroon)

Highest goal scorer: Taher Abouzaid (Egypt) – 4 goals

Best goalkeeper: Joseph-Antoine Bell (Cameroon)

1986

Best player: Roger Milla (Cameroon)

Highest goal scorers: Roger Milla (Cameroon) – 4 goals


1988

Best player: Abdelaziz Bouderbala (Morocco)

Highest goal scorer: Lakhdar Belloumi (Algeria), Roger Milla (Cameroon), Gamal Abdelhamid (Egypt), Abdoulaye Traore (Ivory Coast) – 4 goals

1990

Best player: Rabah Madjer (Algeria)

Highest goal scorer: Djamel Menad (Algeria) – 4 goals

1992

Best player: Abedi Pele (Ghana)

Highest goal scorer: Rashidi Yekini (Nigeria) – 4 goals

Best goalkeeper: Alain Gouamene (Ivory Coast)

1994

Best player: Rashidi Yekini (Nigeria)

Highest goal scorer: Rashidi Yekini (Nigeria) – 5 goals

1996

Best player: Kalusha Bwalya (Zambia)

Highest goal scorer: Kalusha Bwalya (Zambia) – 5 goals

1998

Best player: Benni McCarthy (South Africa)

Highest goal scorer: Hossam Hassan (Egypt), Benni McCarthy (South Africa) – 7 goals

2000

Best player: Lauren (Cameroon)

Highest goal scorer: Shaun Bartlett (South Africa) – 5 goals

2002

Best player: Rigobert Song (Cameroon)

Highest goal scorer: Patrick Mboma (Cameroon), Salomon Olembe (Cameroon), Julius Aghahowa (Nigeria) – 3 goals

2004

Best player: Jay-Jay Okocha (Nigeria)

Highest goal scorer: Patrick Mboma (Cameroon), Frederic Kanoute (Mali), Austin Okocha (Nigeria), Youssef Mokhtari (Morocco), Francileudo dos Santos (Tunisia) – 4 goals

2006

Best player: Ahmed Hassan (Egypt)

Highest goal scorer: Samuel Eto’o (Cameroon) – 5 goals


2008

Best player: Hosny Abd Rabo (Egypt)

Highest goal scorer: Samuel Eto’o (Cameroon) – 5 goals

Best goalkeeper: Essam El-Hadary (Egypt)


2010

Best player: Ahmed Hassan (Egypt)

Highest goal scorer: Mohamed Nagy “Gedo” (Egypt) – 5 goals

Best goalkeeper: Essam El-Hadary (Egypt)


2012

Best player: Christopher Katongo (Zambia)

Highest goal scorer: Manucho (Angola), Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (Gabon), Didier Drogba (Ivory Coast), Cheick Tidiane Diabate (Mali), Houcine Kharja (Morocco) Chris Katongo (Zambia), Emmanuel Mayuka (Zambia) – 3 goals


2013

Best player: Jonathan Pitroipa (Burkina Faso).

Highest goal scorer: Emmanuel Emenike (Nigeria), Mubarak Wakaso (Ghana) – 4 goals


2015

Best player: Christian Atsu (Ghana)

Highest goal scorer: Ahmed Akaichi (Tunisia), Andre Ayew (Ghana), Dieumerci Mbokani (DR Congo), Javier Balboa (Equatorial Guinea), Thievy Biffouma (Congo) – 3 goals

Best goalkeeper: Sylvain Gbohouo (Ivory Coast)


2017

Best player: Christian Bassogog (Cameroon)

Highest goal scorer: Junior Kabananga (DR Congo) – 3 goals


2019

Best player: Ismaël Bennacer (Algeria)

Highest goal scorer: Odion Ighalo (Nigeria) – 5 goals

Best goalkeeper: Raai M’Bolhi (Algeria)


2021

Best player: Sadio Mané (Senegal)

Highest goal scorer: Vincent Aboubakar (Cameroon) – 8 goals

Best goalkeeper: Edouard Mendy (Senegal)


2023

Best player: William Troost-Ekong (Nigeria)

Highest goal scorer: Emilio Nsue (Equatorial Guinea) – 5 goals

Best goalkeeper: Ronwen Williams (South Africa)

African Women's Cup of Nations

1998

Highest goal scorer: Nkiru Okosieme (Nigeria) – 3 goals

2000

Highest goal scorer: Mercy Akide (Nigeria) – 7 goals

2002

Highest goal scorer: Alberta Sackey (Ghana), Perpetua Nkwocha (Nigeria), Veronica Phewa (South Africa) – 4 goals

2004

Highest goal scorer: Perpetua Nkwocha (Nigeria) – 9 goals

2006

Highest goal scorer: Perpetua Nkwocha (Nigeria) – 7 goals

Best player: Portia Modise (South Africa)

2008

Highest goal scorer: Genoveva Anonman Nze (Equatorial Guinea) – 6 goals

2010

Highest goal scorer: Perpetua Nkwocha (Nigeria) – 11 goals

2012

Highest goal scorer: Genoveva Anonman Nze (Equatorial Guinea) – 6 goals

2014

Highest goal scorer: Desire Oparanozie (Nigeria) – 5 goals

Best player: Asisat Oshoala (Nigeria)

Best goalkeeper: Annette Ngo Ndom (Cameroon)

2016

Highest goal scorer: Asisat Oshoala (Nigeria) – 6 goals

Best player: Gabrielle Aboudi Onguene (Cameroon)

2018

Highest goal scorer: Thembi Kgatlana (South Africa) - 5 goals

Best player: Thembi Kgatlana (South Africa)

2022

Highest goal scorer: Ghizlane Chebbak (Morocco), Rasheedat Ajibade (Nigeria), Hildah Magaia (South Africa) – 3 goals

Best player: Ghizlane Chebbak (Morocco)

Best goalkeeper: Andile Dlamini (South Africa)

End

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1994

Best player: Rashidi Yekini (Nigeria)

Highest goal scorer: Rashidi Yekini (Nigeria) – 5 goals






2013

Best player: Jonathan Pitroipa (Burkina Faso).

Highest goal scorer: Emmanuel Emenike (Nigeria), Mubarak Wakaso (Ghana) – 4 goals





1994 & 2013--- Proud moments 👏 ❤️

Nigeria to the world ,best in all things, I choose to see the better part of the country

Bleepp

See as the numbers dey very small
Africa lacks clinical strikers

...Nice update.

Samuel Eto'o was operating on a different level then. That chap got the prestigious highest goal scorers in two different AFCON competition.

I am impressed.

Rashidi Yekini our 1994 star boy

Nna mehnn


We ought to have clinged that cup

E pain me sha

Imagine me going to bed angry whilst refusing to eat the Owo soup, starch with tiko meat that was prepared for me

Nigeria should have had the second trophy for keeps in 2000, but we lost it right here in surulere

Nice Thread from Naptu. 👍

If only we went to the tournament with a competent midfielder Osimhen or lookman would have been highest scorer. I prayed before the next edition we would have discover a better one than that man who messed up our midfield

Indeed

Noted.

All these years and Nigeria has not found a suitable replacement for Rashidi Yekini.

cunny88:
Nigeria should have had the second trophy for keeps in 2000, but we lost it right here in surulere

I stopped watching Live Super Eagles matches since then! I was sick for a week following that finals.

Rashidi Yekini,our best striker ever.

Where's Nwankwo Kanu and Mohammed Abu Treka and Mustapha Hadji?

Blackestjunior:
Bleepp

See as the numbers dey very small
Africa lacks clinical strikers

If the number is big, what will you say? Africa lacks good goalkeeper.

In life, just know that somebody will complain when the right thing happens, because he thinks it's wrong and vice versa.

Interesting compilation

So Perpetual remains the only African with 11 goals at a single CAF competition (male and female)?

Looks like we've not had a player to score above 5goals at Afcon since forever. Always 4 or 5. Will Osimhen or Boniface reach the Poukou/Aboubakar levels one day?

Osimeh no dy?

[quote author=Jokerman post=128504443]Where's Nwankwo Kanu and Mohammed Abu Treka and Mustapha Hadji?


I was about asking Abou Treka also.... Very good local talent from Egypt. Ended Rigobeth Song int'l football career in that AFCON final.

Does it mean the likes of George Wear, KANU Nwankwo Michael Essien, Emmanuel Lualua, Emmanuel Adebayo etc do not registered their names in African football history?

May the soul of Samuel Okparaji continue to RIP..!

I left..!

You forgot Stephen okechukwu keshi, first player to win afcon as a player and coach legend!

Nigerias domination of female football in Africa is far gone,the last WAFCON that we won was luck,we where totally outplayed by southafrica in the two games that we played against them and could only defeat them on penalties in the final,then the last WAFCON was when our luck finally ran out and we where exposed by Morocco,south africa and Zambia,we deserve what we get.

Ò maka

Rashidi Yekini did not have to play in the biggest clubs in Europe for Nigerians to believe in him. He would don the green/white and millions of faces would be beaming with smiles after a match.He scored only 37 goals but over 50% of them were CRUCIAL goals!!! Just like Fela is to our music, Yekini continues to be the greatest 9 we have ever had.