The Nigerian national team is at the top of the market value of the teams participating in the 2023 African Nations Football Championship, scheduled for Ivory Coast from January 13 to February 11.
According to the international website “Transfer Market”, which specializes in numbers and statistics, the rise in the value of the “Green Eagles” team is due to the high value of its stars, such as Victor Osimhen, the most expensive African player (110 million euros), Victor Boniface (40 million euros), Alex Iwobi (28 million euros) and Samuel Chukwueze. (23 million euros).
The value of the 25 players who will represent Nigeria in the “CAN” is estimated at 349.9 million euros, which puts them at the top of the list of the most valuable in the tournament, while the Moroccan team came in second most expensive and first in the Arab world, ahead of Algeria sixth, Egypt ninth, and Tunisia in 13th place.
This is the list of the 24 teams with the most expensive market value in 2023:
- Nigeria (25 players): 349.9 million euros.
- Morocco (27 players): 347.4 million euros.
- Ivory Coast (27 players): 334.58 million euros.
- Senegal national team (27 players): 274.4 million euros.
Teams with a market value of less than 200 million euros:
- Ghana (27 players): 195.98 million euros.
- Algeria (25 players): 189.40 million euros.
- Mali (27 players): 140.30 million euros.
- Cameroon (27 players): 137.85 million euros.
- Egypt (27 players): 135.80 million euros.
- Democratic Republic of the Congo (24 players): 110.05 million euros.
Teams with a market value of less than 100 million euros
- Burkina Faso (26 players): 99 million euros.
- Guinea (25 players): 89.53 million euros.
- Tunisia (27 players): 63.20 million euros.
Teams with a market value of less than 50 million euros
- Gambia (23 players): 39.60 million euros.
- Zambia (27 players): 34.05 million euros.
- Cape Verde (26 players): 27.20 million euros.
- Guinea Bissau (25 players): 25.85 million euros.
- Mozambique (23 players): 25.05 million euros.
Teams with a market value of less than 20 million euros
- South Africa (23 players): 19.58 million euros.
- Angola (22 players): 18.73 million euros.
- Mauritania (27 players): 12.18 million euros.
Teams with a market value of less than 10 million euros
- Equatorial Guinea (26 players): 9.95 million euros.
- Tanzania (25 players): 7.05 million euros.
- Namibia (24 players): 6.43 million euros.