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The team that wins the penalty shootout is then declared the champion. The 34 finals to-date have produced twelve drawn matches, the eventual winners of which have been determined variously by replay ( 1974 ), extra time ( 1962 , 1965 ), or penalty shoot-out ( 1982 , 1986 , 1992 , 2000 , 2002 , 2006 , 2012 , 2015 , 2021 ).
At the finals, the 24 teams were drawn into six groups of four teams each. The teams in each group played a single round robin. After the group stage, the top two teams and the four best third-placed teams advanced to the round of 16. The winners advanced to the quarter-finals. The winners of the quarter-finals advanced to the semi-finals.
Egypt is the only team to win three consecutive Africa Cup of Nations finals (in 2006, 2008 and 2010). Egypt has appeared in the most final matches of the tournament, with ten appearances and seven wins. Egypt had a penalty shoot-out winning streak of six, winning every shoot-out since their 5–4 win to Cameroon in the 1986 final.
Emerse Faé has become the first manager to win the Africa Cup of Nations without starting the tournament as head coach of his team. FT Nigeria 1-2 Ivory Coast 22:21 , Mike Jones
And there, on home soil, they found AFCON magic. "At the beginning, we had a team that didn’t look like a team," interim coach Emerse Fae, a 40-year-old who stumbled into his first head-coaching ...
The 2021 Africa Cup of Nations (also referred to as AFCON 2021 or CAN 2021), known as the TotalEnergies 2021 Africa Cup of Nations for sponsorship reasons, [4] was the 33rd edition of the Africa Cup of Nations, the biennial international men's football championship of Africa organised by the Confederation of African Football (CAF).
The team entered the 2023 tournament as the winners of Group A during the qualification round. They had five wins and one loss during qualification and amassed a goal differential of 18. [8] Nigeria was drawn into Group A for the tournament proper along with hosts Ivory Coast, Equatorial Guinea, and Guinea-Bissau. [9]
President Sall also awarded the members of the national team with cash prizes and plots of land, and some of them were awarded the National Order of the Lion. [ 49 ] The two teams would play each other in a 2022 FIFA World Cup qualification tie which decided which team would qualify for the World Cup ; on 29 March, Senegal once again beat Egypt ...