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Ivory Coast will host the 34th edition of the African Cup of Nations in football, starting next Saturday until the tenth of next February, for the first time in 40 years.
24 teams will participate in Cannes 2023 for the second time in a row, after the previous edition, which was held in Cameroon in 2021.
The teams were divided into 6 groups, each group containing 4 teams. At the end of the first round, the teams that ranked first and second from each group would qualify, and the best 4 teams that obtained third place would join them.
During the previous 33 editions, records were set in the most important football tournament in the history of the continent.
The most prominent records are:
- The teams that have won the most titles: Egypt 7 times (1957, 1959, 1986, 1998, 2006, 2008 and 2010).
- Most teams reaching the final: Egypt 10 times (1957, 1959, 1962, 1986, 1998, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2017, and 2021).
- Most participating teams in the finals: Egypt 26 times (1957, 1959, 1962, 1963, 1970, 1974, 1976, 1980, 1984, 1986, 1988, 1990, 1992, 1994, 1996, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2017, 2011). 9, 2021 and 2023).
- The teams that played the most matches in the tournament: Egypt (107 times).
- The teams that won the most matches in the tournament: Egypt (60 times).
- The teams that scored the most goals in the tournament: Egypt (168 goals).
- The teams with the most consecutive participation in the tournament: Tunisia 16 times (1994-2023).
- Most participating players in the tournament: Cameroonian Rigobert Song, Egyptian Ahmed Ahsan, Ghanaian Didi Ayew, and Tunisian Youssef Msakni (8 times).
- Players with the most participation in tournament matches: Cameroonian Rigobert Song (36 times).
- Players who participated most in the tournament final: Egyptian Ahmed Hassan, 4 times (1998, 2006, 2008 and 2010).
- The tournament’s all-time top scorer: Cameroonian Samuel Eto’o (17 goals in 5 copies).
- Player who scored most goals in one tournament: Zairian Mulumba Ndiaye (9 goals in the 1974 edition).
- Most goals in one match: Ivory Coast’s Laurent Boko (5 goals in his country’s 6-1 victory over Ethiopia in the 1970 edition).
- Fastest goal in the tournament: Egyptian Ayman Mansour’s goal, which was scored after only 23 seconds, in the “Pharaohs”‘s 4-0 victory over Gabon (1994).
- Most goals in one match: 9 goals (Egypt’s victory over Nigeria 6-3 in 1963).
- Biggest goal difference in one match: 5 goals.
- Winner of the title as a player and coach: Egyptian Mahmoud El Gohary (1957 and 1998), and Nigerian Stephen Keshi (1994 and 2013).
- The coach with the most titles: Ghanaian Charles Gyamfi (1963, 1965 and 1982), and Egyptian Hassan Shehata (2006, 2008 and 2010).
- The most participating coach in the tournament: Cameroonian Claude Leroy (9 times).
- The country that hosted the tournament the most: Egypt, 4 times (1959, 1974, 1986, 2006 and 2019).
