Five things you need to know about AFCON
- AFCON (African Cup of Nations) is the main men’s international football competition in Africa. It began in 1957 and was first hosted by Sudan.
- In the first tournament, only four countries participated (Egypt, Sudan, Ethiopia and South Africa) eventually South Africa was dropped bringing the number of participants down to three.
- In 1998, Nigeria withdrew from the AFCON but later rejoined in the following tournament and from then the number of countries participating in the AFCON games continued to increase and currently 24 countries participate in the AFCON games.
- AFCON 2021 was delayed due to the pandemic and was moved to 2022, it is scheduled to hold from January 9th to February 6th. The 2021 game is being hosted by Cameroon.
- In the history of the tournament, Egypt has won the most times. The last tournament was played in 2019 and was won by the Algerian national team who received the sum of $4.5 million.
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