| Organising body | WAFU |
|---|---|
| Founded | 2002 |
| Region | West Africa |
| Number of teams | 16 |
| Current champions |  Senegal |
| Most successful team(s) |  Ghana (2 titles) |
| Television broadcasters | ESPN Africa |
| Website | https://wafucup.com |
 2021 WAFU Cup of Nations | |
The WAFU Nations Cup (also known as the WAFU Cup of Nations or simply the WAFU Cup) is an association football competition that is contested by representative teams of the West African Football Union.
A trophy was commissioned by President Gnassingbé Eyadéma of Togo in 1974 with a view to establishing a regional competition similar to the Africa Cup of Nations tournament. [1] The maiden event was hosted in Abidjan and the hosts Ivory Coast won the tournament.
The West African Nations Cup (Zone 3) commenced in 1982 on an annual basis (not in 1985), and was played until 1987. Meanwhile, in 1983 ECOWAS (French:CEDEAO) create another tournament, the CEDEAO Cup (Zone 3) and it was played on a bi-annual basis until 1991.
Zone 2 also had their own tournament created, the Amílcar Cabral Cup, named after the liberator of Guinea-Bissau, Amílcar Cabral.
The West African Nations Cup returned in 2002 as the WAFU Nations Cup, however, officially it was not considered simply as a continuation of the old tournament, and therefore it is a new tournament. The 2002 edition was short-lived after violence broke out in Ivory Coast. [2] Two games of the tournament had been played when it was cancelled. Finally, after an eight-year wait, the tournament returned in April 2010 which Nigeria's Ogun State hosted and the host nation won.
The 2019 edition was held in Senegal, and the 2021 tournament was supposed to be hosted by Nigeria but the tournament didn't come to fruition. [3]
| Year | Host | Final | Third place match | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Winner | Score | Runner-up | Third place | Score | Fourth place | ||||
| 2002 Details |  Ivory Coast | Abandoned one day into tournament due to the First Ivorian Civil War. | |||||||
| 2010 Details |  Nigeria |  Nigeria | 2–0 |  Senegal |  Ghana | 1–0 |  Burkina Faso | ||
| 2011 Details | Nigeria |  Togo | 3–2 | Nigeria |  Liberia | 3–1 | Ghana | ||
| 2013 Details | Ghana | Ghana | 3–1 | Senegal | Togo | 2–1 |  Benin | ||
| 2015 Details | Senegal | ||||||||
| 2017 Details | Ghana | Ghana | 4–1 | Nigeria |  Niger | 2–1 | Benin | ||
| 2019 Details | Senegal | Senegal | 1–1 (3–1 P) | Ghana | No third place match played | ||||
| 2021 Details | Nigeria | ||||||||
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