African Nations Cup - Topscorers


Totals given only refer to final tournaments and do not include
qualifying matches.

 YEAR   PLAYER                                 COUNTRY          GOALS

 1957   Diab Mohammed Diab El-Attar "AD-DIBA"  Egypt                5  [*]
 1959   Mahmoud AL-GOHARI                      Egypt                3  [*]
 1962   Abdelfatah BADAWI                      Egypt                3
        MENGUISTOU Worku                       Ethiopia             3  [*]
 1963   Hassan Ahmed EL SHAZLY                 Egypt                6
 1965   Ben ACHEAMPONG                         Ghana                3  [*]
        Abbrei Osei KOFI                       Ghana                3  [*]
        Eustache MANGLÉ                        Ivory Coast          3
 1968   Laurent POKOU                          Ivory Coast          6
 1970   Laurent POKOU                          Ivory Coast          8
 1972   Fantamady ‘Salif’ KEITA                Mali                 5
 1974   Mulamba ‘Mutumbula’ NDAYE              Zaire                9  [*]
 1976   Keita Aliou Mamadou ‘N’JO LÉA’         Guinea               4  [*]
 1978   Philip OMONDI                          Uganda               3
        Opoku AFRIYE                           Ghana                3  [*]
        Segun ODEGBAMI                         Nigeria              3
 1980   Khaled Al Abyad LABIED                 Morocco              3
        Segun ODEGBAMI                         Nigeria              3  [*]
 1982   Georges ALHASSAN                       Ghana                4  [*]
 1984   Tahar ABOU ZEID                        Egypt                4
 1986   Albert Roger Mooh Miller ‘MILLA’       Cameroon             4
 1988   Gamal ABDELHAMID                       Egypt                2
        Lakhdar BELLOUMI                       Algeria              2
        Albert Roger Mooh Miller ‘MILLA’       Cameroon             2  [*]
        Abdoulaye TRAORÉ                       Ivory Coast          2
 1990   Djamel MENAD                           Algeria              4  [*]
 1992   Rashidi YEKINI                         Nigeria              4
 1994   Rashidi YEKINI                         Nigeria              5  [*]
 1996   Kalusha BWALYA                         Zambia               5
 1998   Hossam HASSAN                          Egypt                7  [*]
        Benedict McCARTHY                      South Africa         7
 2000   Shaun Thurston BARTLETT                South Africa         5
 2002   Patrick Henri M’BOMA Dem               Cameroon             3  [*]
        René Salomon OLEMBE                    Cameroon             3  [*]
        Julius AGHAHOWA                        Nigeria              3
 2004   Patrick Henri M’BOMA Dem               Cameroon             4
        Frédéric KANOUTÉ                       Mali                 4
        Youssef MOKHTARI                       Morocco              4
        Augustine Azuka ‘Jay Jay’ OKOCHA       Nigeria              4
        Francileudo dos SANTOS                 Tunisia              4  [*]  
 2006   Samuel ETO'O                           Cameroon             5
 2008   Samuel ETO'O                           Cameroon             5
 2010   Mohamed NAGY ‘Gedo’                    Egypt                5
 2012   Mateus Alberto Contreiras ‘MANUCHO’    Angola               3
        Pierre Emerick AUBAMEYANG              Gabon                3
        Didier DROGBA                          Ivory Coast          3
        Cheick DIABATÉ                         Mali                 3
        Houssine KHARJA                        Morocco              3
        Christopher KATONGO                    Zambia               3
        Emmanuel MAYUKA                        Zambira              3 
 2013   Wakaso MUBARAK                         Ghana                4
        Emmanuel EMENIKE                       Nigeria              4
 2015   Thievy BIFOUMA                         Congo                3
        Dieumerci MBOKANI                      DR Congo             3
        Javier BALBOA                          Equatorial Guinea    3
        André AYEW                             Ghana                3
        Ahmed AKAICHI                          Tunisia              3
 2017   Junior KABANANGA Kalonji               DR Congo             3 
 2019   Odion Jude IGHALO                      Nigeria              5

[*] denotes players who won the Cup with their team in the tournament.


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