National Teams with the Most Finals Won in the Africa Cup of Nations
Full list of national soccer teams that played finals in the Africa Cup of Nations, ordered from those who won the most to those who didn't won any finals.
* Note: in 1976 the champion was not defined with a final match. That year is not included in the statistics shown on this page.
Which national team has won the most finals?
Egypt is the national team with the most finals won in the history of the Africa Cup of Nations, having been the winner 7 times in definitions with final game format. That means that it has been the team that won in the 21.2% of a total of 33 finals.
Other than its 7 finals won, Egypt has 3 finals lost.
Most Finals Won
7 finals
Egypt
A total of 20 national teams at least once played the final of of the Africa Cup of Nations in one of the 33 editions that were decided with this format. Of them, 14 national teams won at least one trophy, 7 won 2 or more and only 2 won 5 or more titles in this type of definition. Here you can see the full list of these national teams ordered by finals won.
National Teams with the Most Finals Won - Full List
| National Team | Finals Won | Years | % of Total Finals | Finals Played | Finals Lost | % of Finals Won | ||
| 1. | | Egypt | 7 | 1957, 1959, 1986, 1998, 2006, 2008, 2010 | 21.2% | 10 | 3 | 70.0% |
| 2. |  | Cameroon | 5 | 1984, 1988, 2000, 2002, 2017 | 15.2% | 7 | 2 | 71.4% |
| 3. |  | Ghana | 4 | 1963, 1965, 1978, 1982 | 12.1% | 9 | 5 | 44.4% |
| 4. |  | Nigeria | 3 | 1980, 1994, 2013 | 9.1% | 8 | 5 | 37.5% |
 | Ivory Coast | 3 | 1992, 2015, 2023 | 9.1% | 5 | 2 | 60.0% | |
| 6. |  | Algeria | 2 | 1990, 2019 | 6.1% | 3 | 1 | 66.7% |
 | RD Congo | 2 | 1968, 1974 | 6.1% | 2 | - | 100.0% | |
| 8. |  | Senegal | 1 | 2021 | 3.0% | 3 | 2 | 33.3% |
 | Sudan | 1 | 1970 | 3.0% | 3 | 2 | 33.3% | |
 | Zambia | 1 | 2012 | 3.0% | 3 | 2 | 33.3% | |
 | Ethiopia | 1 | 1962 | 3.0% | 2 | 1 | 50.0% | |
 | South Africa | 1 | 1996 | 3.0% | 2 | 1 | 50.0% | |
 | Tunisia | 1 | 2004 | 3.0% | 2 | 1 | 50.0% | |
 | Congo | 1 | 1972 | 3.0% | 1 | - | 100.0% | |
