IFFHS STATISTICS AFRICAN CUP OF NATIONS
The 1800th goal
The Equatorial Guinea team achieved its biggest victory in 17 matches played in the final stages by recently beating the Guinea-Bissau team, who suffered their heaviest defeat in 11 matches played in the African Cup of Nations. Nations.
The result (4-2) occurred for the 16th time in the history of the competition.
Emilio NSUE scored in the 21st minute with his right foot in the right camp, and his compatriot Esteban OROZCO equalized the score with his right foot by mistake C.S.C.
Then, Equatorial Guinea regained the lead in the first minute of the second half thanks to a goal scored by Josete MIRANDA with a shot from outside the penalty area, before NSUE came back and scored the third goal for his country and the second for him in the match, in the 51st. minute in the left camp.
Emilio added his name to the list of century-old goals by scoring the 1800th goal in the history of the final phase.
Then NSUE scored a third time after 10 minutes, and with his left foot he scored his first hat-trick in the national team jersey, bringing his tally to 20 international goals and also scoring the first hat-trick of the edition in progress, who has been absent from the final stages for 16 years (the Moroccan Sofiane ALLOUDI in January 2008).
Then Zé Turbo scored with his left foot in the 90+3 minute for the Guinea-Bissau team who scored two goals for the first time in a single match in a total of 11 matches without a victory in the final stages.
Emilio became the oldest Equatorial Guinea player to score a goal in the finals and ranks 13th among the oldest scorers at the Africa Cup of Nations.
At the age of 34 years and 110 days, Emilio NSUE surpasses a 20-year-old record, established by Cameroonian Patrick MBOMA in January 2004 in Tunisia, then aged 33 years and 76 days.
As the oldest player to score a hat-trick in a match in the competition
Result (3-0) for the 50th time
During the fifth match of the current final phase,
The Senegalese team beat the Gambian team in the first match between the two teams in the African Cup of Nations.
This is the 28th victory and the fourth with a score of (3-0) out of a total of 68 matches played by the Senegalese team in 17 editions.
Unlike the second and first defeat with the same result in 6 matches played by the Gambia national team for the Africa Cup of Nations in its second consecutive participation.
The result (3-0) is recorded for the 50th time in the results of matches of the African Cup of Nations.
The first time in a match which took place 62 years ago, in January 1962, when the Tunisian team beat its Ugandan counterpart in the classification match of the third edition.
Mamadou Lamine CAMARA scored in the fourth minute with his left foot in the right camp, thus scoring his sixth goal for his country.
Pape Alassane GUEYE doubled the lead in the 52nd minute with his right foot in the left camp, thus scoring his first goal in the national jersey.
In the 86th minute, the same player scored the third goal, with his right foot from outside the penalty area.
Lydon Gueye, who will celebrate his 25th birthday in 9 days, is the holder of the first double of the current edition and the fifth Senegalese player to score a double in the African Cup of Nations.
The Senegal national team continued its winning streak in the first finals match since the 2015 edition.
Today's meeting, led by referee Redouane JIYED, brought his total to 8 matches in 4 editions, as the Moroccan referee who has officiated the most matches in the Africa Cup of Nations, witnessed the first expulsion in the current edition, that of the Gambian Ebrima ADAMS at the 45+8 minute.
The fifth match of the current final phase saw the participation of 32 players equally between the two teams (Senegal with an average age of 27 years and 6 months and Gambia with an average age of 26 years and 2 month).
Among them, 13 players participated in the first match of a CAN, while Sadio Mané played his 19th match in 5 editions.
This is the 104th meeting of Senegalese Aliou CISSE as coach of his country's team, during which he won the 64th victory.
Aliou overtakes Egyptian coach Hassan Shehata in number of matches for the CAN and rises to seventh place, shared equally with the late Frenchman Henri Michel.
CISSE has become the African coach with the most presence during African Cup of Nations matches, with 19 appearances.
Second oldest player
In the third match of the current African Cup of Nations
The Egyptian team began its 26th participation by drawing against the Mozambican team with a score of (2-2) after three previous victories over its competitor in the final stages.
This is the 21st draw out of a total of 108 matches played by the Egyptian team in the competition, including 4 matches which ended in a draw with the same result, the third dating back to the 1984 edition ago at 40 years old.
Unlike the third and second draws with the same result, the first occurred in the 2010 edition out of a total of 13 winless matches in the finals for the Mozambique national team.
Mustafa Mohamed scored in the second minute with his right foot in the right camp, scoring his ninth goal for his country and the fastest goal in the current edition and for Egypt since the 1996 edition.
WITI equalized in the 55th minute, scoring with a header, thus scoring his fourth goal with his country.
Then his compatriot CLESIO added the second goal in the 58th minute with his right foot, bringing his score to 9 goals in the jersey of his country's national team.
But the Egyptian team came from behind and equalized in the 90th+7 minute from the penalty spot, with which Mohamed Salah brought his score to 54 goals in FIFA-approved matches and 7 goals in 18 matches in the competition.
He became the second Arab player to be able to score in 4 editions of the African Cup of Nations.
This third match of the current edition saw the participation of 31 players (16 from Mozambique, with an average age of 28 years and 11 months, and 15 from Egypt, with an average age of 29 years and two month).
Among them, 17 players participated in the first match of a CAN.
Elias Gaspar Pelembe participated in his fourth match for the African Cup of Nations, and with a difference of 14 years and two days between his first match and today's match, January 14, he came closer to the record of his compatriot Tico Tico, who recorded a difference of 14 years and 5 days between his first and last competitive match (between 1996 and 2010) and this can be circumvented in the current version.
DOMINGUES became the 13th player to mark a period of more than 14 years between the first and last match in the history of the competition.
But the Mozambican's highlight in today's match was his pass past Tunisian goalkeeper Ali Boumnigel.
At the age of 40 years and 62 days,
(Born in November 1983), DOMINGUES is the second oldest player (the oldest field player) in the history of the final phase, behind Egyptian goalkeeper Essam El Hadary.
The son surpasses the father
The Cape Verde national team achieved its first victory against the Ghana national team in the second match between the two teams for the Africa Cup of Nations.
This is the third victory and the second with a score of (2-1) in a total of 12 matches played by the Cape Verde national team in 4 editions.
Unlike defeat No. 28 and the sixth with the same score in 103 matches played by the Ghana national team for the Africa Cup of Nations in 24 editions.
Jamiro Monteiro opened the scoring in the 17th minute with his left foot in the left camp, scoring his fourth goal with the Cape Verde national team.
Alexander DJIKU equalized in the 56th minute with a header in the same half, scoring his second goal with the Ghana national team.
The winning goal was scored in the 90+2 minutes from the right foot of Cape Verde national team striker Garry Rodrigues, who brought his tally to 8 goals in the national team jersey of his country.
The Cape Verde national team continued its streak in the first match of the final phase without defeat (two wins and two draws).
While the Ghana national team's problems also continue for the first match of the finals, without a win (one draw and two defeats) in three consecutive editions.
The fourth match of the current final phase saw the participation of 32 players equally between the two teams (Cape Verde, with an average age of 28 years and 7 months, and Ghana, with an average of age 27 years and 4 months).
Among them, 19 players participated in the first match of an AFCON, while Jordan AYEW participated in his 23rd match in 6 editions, as the fifth Ghanaian player to exceed 22 matches in the history of the African Cup of Nations.
As for his brother, André AYEW, who dominates the ranking of Ghanaian players in participation, he surpassed the record of his father, Abedi AYEW, known as Abedi Pelé, by becoming the fourth player in the history of the competition in the ranking of the longest period between the first and last match of the final, 15 years and 359 days for the son, compared to 15 years and 348 days.
André also joins Cameroonian Rigobert SONG as the second player to actually participate in matches of the 8 editions of the Africa Cup of Nations.
Note that the Egyptian Ahmed Hassan participated in the matches of 7 editions after having been a reserve and did not play the 20th edition in South Africa 1996.
The oldest scorer of the 34th edition
The matches of the second day of the current African Cup of Nations ended with the victory of the South Africa team over the Namibia team with the largest victory of the 34th edition of the competition .
The result (4-0) was recorded for the 19th time in the history of the final phase.
This is the 17th and biggest victory for the South African team in 45 matches played in the competition.
In exchange, this is the eighth defeat for the Namibian team in 11 CAN matches.
The goal tally stood at 65 goals in 24 matches, the highest number of goals since the 2008 finals in Ghana (70 goals in the same number of matches).
Themba ZWANE scored twice in the 25th minute (the 50th goal for his country in the final) and in the 40th with the same right foot, bringing his total to 9 international goals.
He became the oldest player from his country to score a goal in the history of the final tournament.
At the age of 34 years and 171 days, Themba, also became the third oldest player to score a double in the Africa Cup of Nations.
ZWANE also entered the rankings as the third oldest player wearing number 11 to score a goal in the history of the competition.
He secured his place among the 13 oldest players to score in the African Cup of Nations since 1957.