About this chart race
Egypt won the first two Africa Cup of Nations, in 1957 and 1959, and stayed top of the count for most of the first two decades. Ghana caught up in 1965 and went clear in 1978, winning a fourth in 1982 — and held the lead alone for twenty years, until Egypt drew level again in 1998.
Egypt settled it between 2006 and 2010. Three tournaments in a row, all won, taking the total from four to seven. No country has won three consecutive editions before or since, and no one has come closer than two behind ever since.
Underneath that, this is the most widely shared trophy in the chart family. Thirty-five tournaments have produced fifteen different champions, and seven of them have won exactly once: Ethiopia in 1962, Sudan 1970, Congo 1972, South Africa 1996, Tunisia 2004, Zambia 2012 and Senegal in 2021. Morocco's two titles are 49 years apart, 1976 and 2025.
Two countries appear under names they no longer use. Egypt competed as the United Arab Republic when it won in 1959, and DR Congo won in 1968 as Congo-Kinshasa and again in 1974 as Zaire. The titles belong to the same countries, so they are counted together here, and the bars carry the name each country was using at the time.
This animated ranking shows how cumulative africa cup of nations titles changed across 15 series between 1957 and 2025. The bars re-order themselves as the years advance, so overtakes are visible as they happen rather than hidden inside a table. Use the list on the left to choose exactly who competes, drag the slider to jump to any year, or open the table view to read the underlying numbers.
As of 2025, Egypt leads with 7.
Included in this race
Egypt, Cameroon, Ghana, Nigeria, Ivory Coast, Morocco, DR Congo, Algeria, Zambia, Tunisia, Sudan, South Africa, Senegal, Ethiopia, Congo.
Source
Data from List of Africa Cup of Nations finals. Every figure shown comes from this source — nothing is estimated or generated.
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