| Organising body | ANOCA |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1965 |
| Region | Africa |
| Number of teams | 8 (from 1 confederation) |
| Current champions | M: Ghana (2nd title)W: Ghana (2nd title) |
| Most successful team(s) | M: Cameroon (4 titles)W:  Nigeria (3 titles) |
 Football at the 2023 African Games | |
| Football tournaments |
|---|
The men's association football tournament has been held at every edition of the African Games since 1965. Women's competition was added in 2003.
The first tournament started in 1965 in Brazzaville, Congo and was won by the hosts Congo. The first women's tournament started in 2003 in Abuja, Nigeria and was won by Nigeria.
Between 1991 and 2015, age limit for men teams was under-23, same as the age limit in football competitions at the Summer Olympics but since 2019, age limit for men teams was under-20.
| Ed. | Year | Host | Final | Third Place Match | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gold Medal | Score | Silver Medal | Bronze Medal | Score | Fourth Place | |||||
| Senior teams | ||||||||||
| 1 | 1965 | Brazzaville, Congo |  Congo | 0–0( a.e.t. ) (7–2 c) [n 1] |  Mali |  Ivory Coast | 1–0 |  Algeria | ||
| – | 1969 | Bamako, Mali | (Disrupted by military coup) | |||||||
| 2 | 1973 | Lagos, Nigeria |  Nigeria | 2–0 |  Guinea |  Egypt | 2–1 |  Ghana | ||
| 3 | 1978 | Algiers, Algeria | Algeria | 1–0 | Nigeria | Ghana | 1–0 |  Malawi | ||
| 4 | 1987 | Nairobi, Kenya |  Egypt | 1–0 |  Kenya | Malawi | 3–1 |  Cameroon | ||
| U-23 teams | ||||||||||
| 5 | 1991 | Cairo, Egypt | Cameroon | 1–0 |  Tunisia | Nigeria | 3–0 |  Zimbabwe | ||
| 6 | 1995 | Harare, Zimbabwe | Egypt | 3–1 | Zimbabwe | Nigeria | 1–1 (4–1 p) | Guinea | ||
| 7 | 1999 | Johannesburg, South Africa | Cameroon | 0–0( a.e.t. ) (4–3 p) |  Zambia |  South Africa | 2–0 |  Uganda | ||
| 8 | 2003 | Abuja, Nigeria | Cameroon | 2–0 | Nigeria | Ghana | 2–2 (4–1 p) | Zambia | ||
| 9 | 2007 | Algiers, Algeria | Cameroon | 1–0 | Guinea | Tunisia | 1–0 | Zambia | ||
| 10 | 2011 | Maputo, Mozambique | Ghana | 1–1( a.e.t. ) (4–2 p) | South Africa | Cameroon | 1–1 ( a.e.t. ) (5–4 p) |  Senegal | ||
| 11 | 2015 | Brazzaville, Congo | Senegal | 1–0 |  Burkina Faso | Nigeria | 0–0 ( a.e.t. ) (5–3 p) | Congo | ||
| U-20 teams | ||||||||||
| 12 | 2019 | Rabat, Morocco | Burkina Faso | 2–0 | Nigeria | Senegal | 0–0 ( a.e.t. ) (4–3 p) | Mali | ||
| 13 | 2023 | Accra, Ghana | Ghana | 1–0 | Uganda | Senegal | 2–0 | Congo | ||
| Team | Gold medals | Silver medals | Bronze medals | Fourth place |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cameroon | 4 (1991, 1999, 2003, 2007) | 1 (2011) | 1 (1987) | |
| Ghana | 2 (2011, 2023) | 2 (1978, 2003) | 1 (1973) | |
 Egypt | 2 (1987, 1995) | 1 (1973) | ||
| Nigeria | 1 (1973) | 3 (1978, 2003, 2019) | 3 (1991, 1995, 2015) | |
 Burkina Faso | 1 (2019) | 1 (2015) | ||
 Senegal | 1 (2015) | 2 (2019, 2023) | 1 (2011) | |
 Congo | 1 (1965) | 2 (2015, 2023) | ||
 Algeria | 1 (1978) | 1 (1965) | ||
 Guinea | 2 (1973, 2007) | 1 (1995) | ||
 Tunisia | 1 (1991) | 1 (2007) | ||
 South Africa | 1 (2011) | 1 (1999) | ||
 Zambia | 1 (1999) | 2 (2003, 2007) | ||
 Uganda | 1 (2023) | 1 (1999) | ||
 Mali | 1 (1965) | 1 (2019) | ||
 Zimbabwe | 1 (1995) | 1 (1991) | ||
 Kenya | 1 (1987) | |||
 Malawi | 1 (1987) | 1 (1978) | ||
 Ivory Coast | 1 (1965) |
Numbers refer to the final placing of each team at the respective Games.
| Nation | 65 | 73 | 78 | 87 | 91 | 95 | 99 | 03 | 07 | 11 | 15 | 19 | 23 | Years | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Algeria | 4 | Y | 1 | Y | Y | Y | Y | 7 | ||||||||
 Benin | Y | 1 | ||||||||||||||
| Burkina Faso | Y | 2 | 1 | 3 | ||||||||||||
 Burundi | Y | 1 | ||||||||||||||
| Cameroon | Y | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 7 | ||||||||
| Congo | 1 | Y | Y | 4 | Y | 5 | ||||||||||
 DR Congo | Y | 1 | ||||||||||||||
| Ivory Coast | 3 | Y | Y | 3 | ||||||||||||
| Egypt | 3 | w/o | 1 | Y | 1 | Y | Y | 7 | ||||||||
 Gambia | Y | 1 | ||||||||||||||
| Ghana | 4 | 3 | 3 | Y | 1 | Y | Y | Y | 8 | |||||||
| Guinea | 2 | 4 | 2 | 3 | ||||||||||||
| Kenya | 2 | 1 | ||||||||||||||
 Libya | dq | 1 | ||||||||||||||
 Madagascar | Y | Y | 2 | |||||||||||||
| Malawi | 4 | 3 | 2 | |||||||||||||
| Mali | 2 | Y | Y | Y | 4 | 5 | ||||||||||
 Mauritius | Y | Y | Y | 3 | ||||||||||||
 Morocco | Y | 1 | ||||||||||||||
 Mozambique | Y | 1 | ||||||||||||||
| Nigeria | 1 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 2 | Y | 8 | |||||||
| Senegal | Y | Y | 4 | 1 | 3 | Y | 6 | |||||||||
| South Africa | banned | b | 3 | Y | Y | 2 | Y | 5 | ||||||||
 South Sudan | Y | 1 | ||||||||||||||
 Sudan | Y | 1 | ||||||||||||||
 Tanzania | Y | 1 | ||||||||||||||
 Togo | Y | 1 | ||||||||||||||
| Tunisia | Y | 2 | 3 | Y | 4 | |||||||||||
| Uganda | Y | Y | 4 | Y | Y | 5 | ||||||||||
| Zambia | Y | 2 | 4 | 4 | 4 | |||||||||||
| Zimbabwe | 4 | 2 | Y | 3 | ||||||||||||
| Total nations (31) | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | |||
| Ed. | Year | Host | Final | Third Place Match | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gold Medal | Score | Silver Medal | Bronze Medal | Score | Fourth Place | |||||
| Senior Teams | ||||||||||
| 1 | 2003 | Abuja, Nigeria | Nigeria | 1–0 | South Africa | Cameroon | 1–0 | Mali | ||
| 2 | 2007 | Algiers, Algeria | Nigeria | 4–0 | South Africa | Ghana | 3–1 | Algeria | ||
| 3 | 2011 | Maputo, Mozambique | Cameroon | 1–0 | Ghana | Algeria | 3–0 | South Africa | ||
| 4 | 2015 | Brazzaville, Congo | Ghana | 1–0 | Cameroon | Ivory Coast | 2–1 | Nigeria | ||
| U20 Teams | ||||||||||
| 5 | 2019 | Rabat, Morocco | Nigeria | 0–0 (3–2 p) | Cameroon |  Morocco | 2–1 | Algeria | ||
| 6 | 2023 | Accra, Ghana | Ghana | 2–1 | Nigeria | Uganda | 0–0 (6–5 p) | Senegal | ||
| Team | Gold medals | Silver medals | Bronze medals | Fourth place |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 3 (2003, 2007, 2019) | 1 (2023) | 1 (2015) | |
| Ghana | 2 (2015, 2023) | 1 (2011) | 1 (2007) | |
| Cameroon | 1 (2011) | 2 (2015, 2019) | 1 (2003) | |
| South Africa | 2 (2003, 2007) | 1 (2011) | ||
| Algeria | 1 (2011) | 2 (2007, 2019) | ||
| Uganda | 1 (2023) | |||
| Ivory Coast | 1 (2015) | |||
| Morocco | 1 (2019) | |||
| Senegal | 1 (2023) | |||
| Mali | 1 (2003) |
Numbers refer to the final placing of each team at the respective Games.
| Nation | 03 | 07 | 11 | 15 | 19 | 23 | Years | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Algeria | Y | 4 | 3 | 4 | 4 | |||
| Cameroon | 3 | 1 | 2 | 2 | Y | 5 | ||
| Congo | Y | 1 | ||||||
| DR Congo | Y | 1 | ||||||
 Equatorial Guinea | Y | 1 | ||||||
 Ethiopia | Y | Y | Y | 3 | ||||
| Ghana | 3 | 2 | 1 | Y | 4 | |||
| Guinea | Y | 1 | ||||||
| Ivory Coast | 3 | 1 | ||||||
| Mali | 4 | Y | 2 | |||||
| Morocco | 3 | Y | 2 | |||||
| Mozambique | Y | 1 | ||||||
| Nigeria | 1 | 1 | 4 | 1 | Y | 5 | ||
| Senegal | Y | Y | 2 | |||||
| South Africa | 2 | 2 | 4 | Y | Y | 5 | ||
| Tanzania | Y | Y | Y | 3 | ||||
| Uganda | Y | 1 | ||||||
| Zambia | Y | 1 | ||||||
| Zimbabwe | Y | Y | 2 | |||||
| Total nations (19) | 8 | 6 | 8 | 7 | 8 | 8 |
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Cameroon (CMR) | 5 | 2 | 2 | 9 |
| 2 |  Nigeria (NGR) | 4 | 3 | 3 | 10 |
| 3 |  Ghana (GHA) | 4 | 1 | 3 | 8 |
| 4 |  Egypt (EGY) | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 5 |  Burkina Faso (BUR) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 6 |  Algeria (ALG) | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
 Senegal (SEN) | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | |
| 8 |  Republic of the Congo (CGO) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 9 |  South Africa (RSA) | 0 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
| 10 |  Guinea (GUI) | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 11 |  Tunisia (TUN) | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 12 |  Kenya (KEN) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
 Mali (MLI) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
 Zambia (ZAM) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
 Zimbabwe (ZIM) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| 16 |  Ivory Coast (CIV) | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 17 |  Malawi (MAW) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
 Morocco (MAR) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Totals (18 entries) | 19 | 17 | 17 | 53 | |
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cameroon | 4 | 0 | 1 | 5 |
| 2 | Ghana | 2 | 0 | 2 | 4 |
| 3 | Egypt | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 4 | Nigeria | 1 | 4 | 3 | 8 |
| 5 | Burkina Faso | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 6 | Senegal | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 7 | Algeria | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Congo | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
| 9 | Guinea | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 10 | South Africa | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Tunisia | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
| 12 | Kenya | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Mali | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| Zambia | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| Zimbabwe | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| 16 | Ivory Coast | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Malawi | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Totals (17 entries) | 13 | 13 | 12 | 38 | |
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nigeria | 3 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| 2 | Ghana | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| 3 | Cameroon | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 |
| 4 | South Africa | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 5 | Algeria | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Ivory Coast | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Morocco | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Totals (7 entries) | 6 | 5 | 6 | 17 | |
| General |  | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tournaments |
| ||||
| Qualifications |
| ||||
| Squads |
| ||||
CAF competitions | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| National competitions |
| |||||||||||
| Youth competitions |
| |||||||||||
| Club competitions |
| |||||||||||
| Sub-regions |
| |||||||||||
| Related competitions |
| |||||||||||
International association football | ||
|---|---|---|
| World (FIFA) |  | |
| Asia (AFC) | ||
| Africa (CAF) | ||
| North America (CONCACAF) | ||
| South America (CONMEBOL) | ||
| Oceania (OFC) | ||
| Europe (UEFA) | ||
| Inter-Continental |
| |
| Non-FIFA | ||
International women's association football | ||
|---|---|---|
| Worldwide |  | |
| Asia | ||
| Africa | ||
| North America, Central America and the Caribbean | ||
| South America | ||
| Oceania | ||
| Europe | ||
| Non-FIFA | ||
| Games | ||
| Invitationals |
| |
The FIFA Women's World Cup is an international association football competition contested by the senior women's national teams of the members of Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), the sport's international governing body. The competition has been held every four years and one year after the men's FIFA World Cup since 1991, when the inaugural tournament, then called the FIFA Women's World Championship, was held in China. Under the tournament's current format, national teams vie for the remaining 31 slots in a three-year qualification phase. The host nation's team is automatically entered as the first slot. The tournament, called the World Cup Finals, is contested at venues within the host nation(s) over about one month.
The Africa Cup of Nations, commonly abbreviated as AFCON and officially known as the TotalEnergies Africa Cup of Nations for sponsorship reasons, is the main biennial international men's association football competition in Africa. It is sanctioned by the Confederation of African Football (CAF) and was first held in 1957. Since 1968, it has been held every two years, switching to odd-numbered years in 2013.
The Confederation of African Football (CAF) (in French Confédération Africaine de Football) is the administrative and controlling body for association football, beach soccer, and futsal in Africa. It was established on 8 February 1957 at the Grand Hotel in Khartoum, Sudan by the national football associations of: Algeria, Egypt, Ethiopia, Nigeria, and South Africa. following formal discussions between the aforementioned associations at the FIFA Congress held on 7 June 1956 at Avenida Hotel in Lisbon, Portugal.
Association football has been included in every Summer Olympic Games as a men's competition sport, except 1896 and 1932. Women's football was added to the official program at the Atlanta 1996 Games.
The DR Congo national football team, recognised by FIFA as Congo DR, represents the Democratic Republic of the Congo in men's international football and it is controlled by the Congolese Association Football Federation. They are nicknamed Les Léopards, meaning The Leopards. The team is a member of FIFA and the Confederation of African Football (CAF).
The Ivory Coast national football team represents Ivory Coast in men's international football. Nicknamed the Elephants, the team is managed by the Ivorian Football Federation (FIF). The team has won the Africa Cup of Nations three times, in 1992, 2015 and 2024, and has qualified for the FIFA World Cup three times, in 2006, 2010, and 2014.
The FIFA U-20 World Cup is the biennial football world championship tournament for FIFA members’ men's national teams with players under the age of 20. The competition has been staged every two years since the inaugural tournament in 1977 when it was hosted by Tunisia under the tournament name of FIFA World Youth Championship until 2005. In 2007 the name was changed to its present form. FIFA bills the men's Under-20 World Cup as "the tournament of tomorrow's superstars." Diego Maradona, Lionel Messi and Paul Pogba are previous winners of the official player of the tournament award, and Erling Haaland was the top scorer at the 2019 edition. The current title holder is Uruguay, which won its first title at the 2023 tournament in Argentina.
The FIFA U-17 World Cup, founded as the FIFA U-16 World Championship, later changed to U-17 in 1991 and to its current name in 2007, is the annual world championship of association football for male players under the age of 17 organized by Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA). The current champion is Germany, which won its first title at the 2023 tournament.
The 1998 African Women's Championship was the 3rd edition of the biennial African Women's Championship tournament organised by the Confederation of African Football (CAF). Since this edition, the tournament has been organized biennially and was hosted by a country unlike the previous two editions.
Association football has been regularly included in the Pacific Games, the multi-sports event for Pacific nations, territories and dependencies, since 1963. Until 2011 the competition was known as the South Pacific Games.
The African Nations Championship, known for sponsorship purposes as the TotalEnergies African Nations Championship and commonly abbreviated as CHAN, is a biennial African association football tournament organized by the Confederation of African Football (CAF) since 2009 and first announced in September 2007. The participating nations must consist of players playing in their national league competitions.
The African U-17 Women's World Cup qualification is a biennial youth women's association football qualification competition for the FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup organized by the Confederation of African Football for its nations.
The African U-20 Women's World Cup qualification is a biennial youth women's association football qualification competition for the FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup organized by the Confederation of African Football for its nations.
The U-20 Africa Cup of Nations, known for short as the U-20 AFCON and for sponsorship purposes as TotalEnergies U-20 Africa Cup of Nations, previously known as the African Youth Championship and the African U-20 Championship, is the biennial international youth football tournament organized by the Confederation of African Football (CAF) for its nations consisting of players under the age of 20. It serves as the African qualification tournament for the FIFA U-20 World Cup.
The 2015 African Games women's football tournament qualification decided the participating teams of the 2015 African Games women's football tournament. A total of eight teams qualified to play in the women's football tournament, including Congo who qualified automatically as hosts. Both the qualifying rounds and the final tournament were open to full women's national teams.
The 2015 African Games men's football tournament was the 11th edition of the African Games men's football tournament. The men's football tournament was held in Brazzaville, the Republic of the Congo between 6–18 September 2015 as part of the 2015 African Games. The tournament was age-restricted and open to men's under-23 national teams only.
The 2015 African Games women's football tournament was the 4th edition of the African Games women's football tournament. The women's football tournament was held in Brazzaville, the Republic of the Congo between 6–18 September 2015 as part of the 2015 African Games. The tournament was open to full women's national teams.
The Women's Africa Cup of Nations (WAFCON), known for sponsorship purposes as the TotalEnergies Women's Africa Cup of Nations and formerly the African Women's Championship, is a biennial international women's football tournament organized by the Confederation of African Football (CAF) since 1998 as the qualification for the FIFA Women's World Cup for African nations. Initially started as a home-and-away qualification competition, it got rechristened as a biennial tournament in 1998 and took on its current name as of the 2016 edition.
The 2020 Women's Africa Cup of Nations, officially known as the 2020 Total Women's Africa Cup Of Nations for sponsorship purposes, was supposed to be the 14th edition of the biennial African women's association football tournament organized by the Confederation of African Football (CAF). This would have been the first edition to feature 12 teams at the group stages of the tournament as opposed to 8 from previous editions.
The 2019 African Games women's football tournament was the 5th edition of the African Games women's football tournament. The women's football tournament was held as part of the 2019 African Games between 17–29 August 2019. Under-20 national teams took part in the tournament. Nigeria defeated Cameroon in the final on penalties to win the tournament. Morocco defeated Algeria to win the bronze medal.
