TIPS TO KNOW FOR THE 2019 AFCON

As the African Cup Of Nation (AFCON) starts today, everyone will obviously be glued to their screens. And in the past years there’s been a lot of fantastic winners over the years; let’s a take a quick recap of the winners over the years.

Year Winner

2019

2017 Cameroon

2015 Ivory Coast

2013 Nigeria

2012 Zambia

2010 Egypt             

2008 Egypt             

2006 Egypt            

2004 Tunisia                  

2002 Cameroon     

2000 Cameroon

Most Africa Cup of Nations winner since 2000? Egypt has won three times which is the most times since 2000. Cameroon has won twice.

African Cup of Nations winners list 1957-1998

AFCON winners list 1957-1998? African Cup of Nations Champions list 1957-1998? Here is the list with all Africa Cup of Nations Winners during 1957-1998:

Year Winner

1998 Egypt

1996 South Africa

1994 Nigeria

1992 Ivory Coast

1990 Algeria

1988 Cameroon

1986 Egypt

1984 Cameroon

1982 Ghana

1980 Nigeria

1978 Ghana

1976 Morocco

1974 Congo DR

1972 Congo

1970 Sudan

1968 Congo DR

1965 Ghana

1963 Ghana

1962 Ethiopia

1959 Egypt

1957 Egypt

With that being said, this years AFCON promises to be an interesting one. 24 teams will participate in the competition with three sides making their debut at an Africa Cup of Nations tournament: Mauritania, Burundi and Madagascar.

Group A: Egypt, Zimbabwe, DR Congo and Uganda. Egypt and Zimbabwe to qualify. 

Group B: Nigeria, Guinea, Burundi and Madagascar. Nigeria and Guinea to qualify. 

Group C: Senegal, Algeria, Tanzania and Kenya. Senegal and Kenya to qualify. 

Group D: Morocco, Ivory Coast, Namibia and South Africa. Ivory Coast and Morocco to qualify. 

Group E: Tunisia, Angola, Mauritania and Mali. Tunisia and Angola to qualify. 

Group F: Ghana, Cameroon, Guinea Bissau and Benin. Ghana and Cameroon to qualify. 

16 sides will progress to the next stage with with the top two sides from each group being joined by four of the best third placed sides. With South Africa, Algeria, Mali and Uganda to qualify as best third.

Though we’re not 100 percent sure if this’ll be the out come but based on the strength of the teams we and the difficulty of the groups is how we came up with this prediction. But it can go either ways as all the teams are good in their own way.