List of leading scorers at African Nations Cup finals tournaments:
1957 (Sudan) - Ad El Diba (Egypt) 5
1959 (Egypt) - Mahmoud Al Gohari (Egypt) 3
1962 (Ethiopia) - Mohamed Al Badawi (Egypt) and Worku Mengistu (Ethiopia) 3
1963 (Ghana) - Ahmed Al Chazli (Egypt) 6
1965 (Tunisia) - Abbrey Osei Kofi (Ghana) and Eustace Mangli (Ivory Coast) 3
1968 (Ethiopia) - Laurent Pokou (Ivory Coast) 6
1970 (Sudan) - Laurent Pokou (Ivory Coast) 8
1972 (Cameroon) - Salif Keita (Mali), 5
1974 (Egypt) - Mulamba Ndaye (Zaire) 9
1976 (Ethiopia) - William Njo Lea (Guinea) 4
1978 (Ghana) - Phillip Omondi (Uganda) 4
1980 (Nigeria) - Segun Odegbami (Nigeria) 3
1982 (Libya) - George Al Hassan (Ghana) 4
1984 (Ivory Coast) - Taher Abou Zeid (Egypt) 4
1986 (Egypt) - Roger Milla (Cameroon), Abdoulaye Traore (Ivory Coast) 4
1988 (Morocco) - Lakhdar Belloumi (Algeria), Roger Milla (Cameroon), Gamal Abdelhamid(Egypt) and Abdoulaye Traore(Ivory Coast) 4
1990 (Algeria) - Djamel Menad (Algeria) 4
1992 (Senegal) - Rachidi Yekini (Nigeria) 4
1994 (Tunisia) - Rachidi Yekini (Nigeria) 5
1996 (South Africa) - Kalusha Bwalya (Zambia) 5
1998 (Burkina Faso) - Hossam Hassan (Egypt) and Benni McCarthy (South Africa) 7
2000 (Ghana and Nigeria) - Shaun Bartlett (South Africa) 5
2002 (Mali) - Patrick Mboma, Salomon Olembe(both Cameroon) and Julius Aghahowa (Nigeria) 3
2004 (Tunisia) - Patrick Mboma (Cameroon), Frederic Kanoute (Mali), Austin Okocha(Nigeria), Youssef Mokhtari(Morocco) and Francileudo dos Santos(Tunisia) 4
2006 (Egypt) - Samuel Eto'o (Cameroon), Ahmed Hassan(Egypt) and Francileudo dos Santos (Tunisia) 4
2008 (Ghana) - Samuel Eto'o (Cameroon) 5
2010 (Angola) - Mohamed Nagui (Egypt) 5
2012 (Equatorial Guinea and Gabon) - Manucho (Angola),Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (Gabon), Didier Drogba (Ivory Coast), Cheick Tidiane Diabate (Mali), Houcine Kharja (Morocco) Chris Katongo, Emmanuel Mayuka (both Zambia) 3.