A list of the previous winners of the African Nations Cup, with host countries in parenthesis:

1957 - Egypt (Sudan)

1959 - Egypt (Egypt)

1962 - Ethiopia (Ethiopia) 1963 - Ghana (Ghana)

1965 - Ghana (Tunisia) 1968 - Congo-Kinshasa (Ethiopia)

1970 - Sudan (Sudan)

1972 - Congo (Cameroon)

1974 - Zaire (Egypt)

1976 - Morocco (Ethiopia) 1978 - Ghana (Ghana) 1980 - Nigeria (Nigeria) 1982 - Ghana (Libya) 1984 - Cameroon (Ivory Coast)

1986 - Egypt (Egypt)

1988 - Cameroon (Morocco)

1990 - Algeria (Algeria)

1992 - Ivory Coast (Senegal)

1994 - Nigeria (Tunisia)

1996 - South Africa (South Africa)

1998 - Egypt (Burkina Faso)

2000 - Cameroon (Ghana and Nigeria co-hosts)

2002 - Cameroon (Mali)

2004 - Tunisia (Tunisia)

Note: Congo-Kinshasa and Zaire now known as the Democratic Republic of Congo.