1957 Ad-Diba (Egypt)
1959 Mahmoud El-Gohary (Egypt)
1962 Mengistu Worku (Ethiopia)
1963 Hassan El-Shazly (Egypt)
1965 Osei Kof (Ghana)
1968 Kazadi Mwamba (DR Congo)
1970 Laurent Pokou (Côte d’Ivoire)
1972 Jean-Pierre Tokoto (Cameroon)
1974 Ndaye Mulamba (DR Congo)
1976 Ahmed Faras (Morocco)
1978 Karim Abdul Razak (Ghana)
1980 Christian Chukwu (Nigeria)
1982 Fawzi Al-Issawi (Libya)
1984 Théophile Abega (Cameroon)
1986 Roger Milla (Cameroon)
1988 Roger Milla (Cameroon)
1990 Rabah Madjer (Algeria)
1992 Abedi Pele (Ghana)
1994 Rashidi Yekini (Nigeria)
1996 Kalusha Bwalya (Zambia)
1998 Benni McCarthy (South Africa)
2000 Lauren (Cameroon)
2002 Rigobert Song (Cameroon)
2004 Jay-Jay Okocha (Nigeria)
2006 Ahmed Hassan (Egypt)
2008 Hosny Abd Rabo (Egypt)
2010 Ahmed Hassan (Egypt)
2012 Christopher Katongo (Zambia)
2013 Jonathan Pitroipa (Burkina Faso)
2015 Christian Atsu (Ghana)
2017 Christian Bassogog (Cameroon)
2019 Ismaël Bennacer (Algeria)
2021 Sadio Mane (Senegal)
2023 William Troost-Ekong (Nigeria)
2025 Sadio Mane (Senegal)
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