The Super Eagles of Nigeria become the the third team to play the finals of the AFCON the most with 8 appearances, Egypt and Ghana occupy the first and second position respectively.
Egypt have won the AFCON titles a record seven times, Cameroon comes second with five titles, Ghana are third with four titles whilst Super Eagles have won it three times in their history.
Ivory Coast has become the first host nation since Egypt in 2006 to reach the AFCON final. Egypt won the tournament that year on penalties against Ivory Coast after a goalless draw In the last six AFCON tournaments, five host nations that reached the final have won the tournament, with Nigeria in 2000 being the exception.
Nigeria drew 2-2 with Cameroon in the final and lost 4-3 on penalties Nigeria is competing in its eighth AFCON final, trailing only Egypt and Ghana, who have played in nine such games each in the competition (excluding final groups)
All four of Ivory Coast’s past AFCON finals have resulted in goalless draws, leading to penalty shootouts. They emerged victorious in two of these shootouts against Ghana in 1992 and 2015, while they were defeated in the other two against Egypt in 2006 and Zambia in 2012
The most frequent scorelines in AFCON finals are 1-0 (eight occurrences) and 0-0 (seven occurrences). Since 2002, nine out of 11 finals have concluded with one of these scorelines, except for two instances of 2-1 wins for Tunisia in 2004 and Cameroon in 2017 Read