Burundi participated once in the Africa Cup of Nations in 2019 in Egypt. The team qualified on 23 March 2019 as the Group C runners-up of the qualification. In the finals, the team was eliminated from the group stage and ranked 22nd out of 24 participants, after finishing bottom of Group B and suffering three defeats while not scoring any goals and conceding four goals.
| Africa Cup of Nations record | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Round | Position | Pld | W | D* | L | GF | GA |
 1957 to  1962 | Part of  Belgium | |||||||
 1963 to  1972 | Not affiliated to CAF | |||||||
 1974 | Did not enter | |||||||
 1976 | Did not qualify | |||||||
| 1978 | Did not enter | |||||||
 1980 | Withdrew | |||||||
 1982 to  1992 | Did not enter | |||||||
 1994 | Did not qualify | |||||||
 1996 | Did not enter | |||||||
 1998 | Withdrew | |||||||
2000 to  2017 | Did not qualify | |||||||
 2019 | Group stage | 22nd | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 4 |
 2021 | Did not qualify | |||||||
 2023 | ||||||||
 2025 | To be determined | |||||||
   2027 | ||||||||
 2029 | ||||||||
| Total | Group stage | 1/34 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 4 |
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Madagascar | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 2 | +3 | 7 | Advance to knockout stage |
| 2 | Nigeria | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 6 | |
| 3 |  Guinea | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 3 | +1 | 4 | |
| 4 |  Burundi | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 4 | −4 | 0 |
| 2019 Africa Cup of Nations | |
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