African cup of nations - winners

Year	Host	Winner	Score	2nd place	3rd place Sudan Ethiopia
1957	Sudan	Egypt	4-0	Ethiopia
1959	UA Republic	UA Republic	2-1	Sudan
Year	Host	Winner	Score	2nd place	3rd place	Score	4th place
1962	Ethiopia	Ethiopia	4-2 aet	UA Republic	Tunisia	3-0	Uganda
1963	Ghana	Ghana	3-0	Sudan	UA Republic	3-0	Ethiopia
1965	Tunisia	Ghana	3-2 aet	Tunisia	Cote D’Ivoire	1-0	Senegal
1968	Ethiopia	Congo DR	1-0	Ghana	Cote D’Ivoire	1-0	Ethiopia
1970	Sudan	Sudan	3-2	Ghana	UA Republic	3-1	Cote D’Ivoire
1972	Came roon	Congo	3-2	Mali	Cameroon	5-2	Zaire
1974	Egypt	Zaire	2-2 aet 2-0rem	Zambia	Egypt	4-0	Congo
1976	Ethiopia	Morocco	n/a	Guinea	Nigeria	n/a	Egypt
1978	Ghana	Ghana	2-0	Uganda	Nigeria	2-0	Tunisia
1980	Nigeria	Nigeria	3-0	Algeria	Morocco	2-0	Egypt
1982	Libya	Ghana	1-1 (7-6) pen	Libya	Zambia	2-0	Algeria
1984	Cote D’Ivoire	Came roon	3-1	Nigeria	Algeria	3-1	Egypt
1986	Egypt	Egypt	0-0 5-4pen	Cameroon	Cote D’Ivoire	3-2	Morocco
1988	Morocco	Came roon	1-0	Nigeria	Algeria	1-1 4-3 pen	Morocco
1990	Algeria	Algeria	1-0	Nigeria	Zambia	1-0	Senegal
1992	Senegal	Cote D’Ivoire	0-0 11-10 pen	Ghana	Nigeria	2-1	Cameroon
1994	Tunisia	Nigeria	2-1	Zambia	Cote D’Ivoire	3-1	Mali
1996	South Africa	South Africa	2-0	Tunisia	Zambia	1-0	Ghana
1998	Burkina Faso	Egypt	2-0	South Africa	Congo DR	4-4 4-1 pen	Burkina Faso
2000	Ghana Nigeria	Came roon	2-2 4-3pen	Nigeria	South Africa	2-2 4-3 pen	Tunisia
2002	Mali	Came roon	0-0 3-2pen	Senegal	Nigeria	1-0	Mali
2004	Tunisia	Tunisia	2-1	Morocco	Nigeria	2-1	Mali
2006	Egypt	Egypt	0-0 4-2pen	Cote D’Ivoire	Nigeria	1-0	Senegal
2008	Ghana	Egypt	1-0	Cameroon	Ghana	4-2	Cote D’Ivoire
2010	Angola	Egypt	1-0	Ghana	Nigeria	1-0	Algeria
2012	Gabon Equatorial Guinea	Zambia	0-0 8-7pen	Cote D’Ivoire	Mali	2-0	Ghana

aet – after extra time

pen – penalty shootout

rem – rematch

1. South Africa were disqualified from the tournament due to the country's apartheid policies in 1957 .
2. Only three teams participated in 1959.
3. There was no final match; the three teams played each other once, with the winner on points receiving the Cup. It finished: UAR 4pts, Sudan 2, Ethiopia 0(year 1959).
4. There was no final match; the tournament was decided in a final group contested by the last four teams. It finished: Morocco 5pts, Guinea 4, Nigeria 3, Egypt 0(year 1974).
5. The third-place match was tied 1–1 when the Tunisian team withdrew from the field in the 42nd minute in protest at the officiating. Nigeria were awarded a 2–0 walkover. This happened in 1978, third place match.
6. No extra time was played in 1998 third place match.