Most titles won: 7 by Egypt in 1957, 1959, 1986, 1998, 2006, 2008, 2010
Most tournament appearances: 25 by Egypt
1957, 1959, 1962, 1963, 1970, 1974, 1976, 1980, 1984, 1986, 1988, 1990, 1992, 1994, 1996, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2017.
Most appearances in a final: 10 times
Egypt: 1957, 1959, 1962, 1986, 1998, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2017, 2021
Most goals in a single tournament:
54 in Egypt 1974, under the eight-team system
99 in Ghana 2008, under the 16-team system
119 in Cote d'Ivoire 2023, under the 24-team system
Longest penalty session: Ivory Coast v Cameroon 12-11 (1-1) in 2006
Highest attendance during a game: 120 000 spectators were in Cairo stadium to watch Egypt v Cameroon in 1986
Highest attendance in a tournament: 735000 spectators in 1980 (avg. 46000 spectators per game)
Most matches played in the finals: 107 by Egypt
Most wins: 62 by Egypt
Most goals scored: 168 by Egypt
Most goals scored in one match: Egypt 6-3 Nigeria in 1963
Highest winning margin: Ivory Coast 6-1 Ethiopia in 1970
Longest unbeaten run: 25 matches for Egypt since their 2-1 defeat against Algeria in 2004 until their final defeat against Cameroon 2-1 in 2017.
Most played extra-times: 4 by Egypt in 2021
INDIVIDUAL RECORDS
All time scorer: Samuel Eto’o (Cameroon) 18 goals
Most goals scored in a final game: 4 by Mohamed Attar “El-Diba” (Egypt) against Ethiopia in 1957
Most goals scored in a single tournament: 9 by Mulumba N’Daye (Zaire) in 1974
Most goals scored in one match: 5 by Laurent Pokou in Ivory Coast win against Ethiopia 6-1 in 1970.
Fastest goal: Ayman Mansour (Egypt) after 23 seconds against Mozambique in 1994
Oldest player to score a hat trick: Emilio Nsue (Equatorial Guinea) against Guinea Bissau 4-2 in 2023 at the age of 34 years and 110 days.
Most Tournament Appearances: 8 by Ahmed Hassan (Egypt), Andre Ayew (Ghana) and Rigobert Song (Cameroon)
Most matches Played by a player: 36 by Andre Ayew (Ghana) and Rigobert Song (Cameroon)
Most appearances in the final: 4 by Ahmed Hassan (Egypt) in 1998, 2006, 2008 and 2010 and Essam El-Hadary (Egypt) in 2006, 2008, 2010 and 2017.
Youngest ever player: Chiva Star Nzighou (Gabon), 16 years, 2 months, 30 days in 2000.
Oldest scorer in African Cup History: Hossam Hassan (Egypt), 39 years, 5 months, 24 days against DR Congo in 2006.
Oldest player in African Cup History: Essam El-Hadary (Egypt), 44 years, 21 days against Cameroun in 2017.
Longest run without conceding a goal: Essam El-Hadary (Egypt), 675 minutes.
Clean sheets: Cote d'Ivoire's Alain Guamene and Cameroon's Alioum Boukar are the only keepers who won the titles in 1992 and 2002 without conceding a goal.
Most penalties saves: Ronwen Williams (South Africa) saved four penalty kicks in the quarter-final game against Cape-Verde in 2023.
Title winner as player and coach: Mahmoud El-Gohary of Egypt in 1959 and 1998. Stephen Keshi of Nigeria in 1994 and 2013.
Most titles won by a player: 4 titles for Ahmed Hassan and Essam El-Hadary (Egypt)
Only Player to participate in 2 Tournaments 20 years apart: Hossam Hassan (Egypt) in 1986 and 2006
Only Player to win 2 Titles 20 years apart: Hossam Hassan (Egypt) in 1986 and 2006
Only Coach to win 2 titles with 2 different teams: Frenchman Herve Renard in 2012 with Zambia and 2015 with Ivory Coast.
Most Titles won by a coach: 3 by Hassan Shehata (Egypt) in 2006, 2008 and 2010 and Charles Gyamfi (Ghana) in 1963, 1965 and 1982
Most appearances by a coach: 9 by Claude Le Roy (Cameroon in 1986 and 1988), (Senegal in 1990 and 1992), (Ghana 2008), (DR Congo 2006 and 2013), (Congo 2015) and (Togo 2017)
Most performances by a referee in the finals: 6 by Tesfaye Gebreyesus (Ethiopia/Eritrea) in 1970, 1974, 1978, 1980, 1984, 1986
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