Africa Cup of Nations

• Africa

Debut of national teams

Year	Debuting teams	No.	Cum.
1957	Egypt Ethiopia Sudan	3	3
1959	None	0	3
1962	Tunisia Uganda	2	5
1963	Ghana Nigeria	2	7
1965	DR Congo Ivory Coast Senegal	3	10
1968	Algeria Congo	2	12
1970	Cameroon Guinea	2	14
1972	Kenya Mali Morocco Togo	4	18
1974	Mauritius Zambia	2	20
1976	None	0	20
1978	Burkina Faso	1	21
1980	Tanzania	1	22
1982	Libya	1	23
1984	Malawi	1	24
1986	Mozambique	1	25
1988	None	0	25
1990	None	0	25
1992	None	0	25
1994	Gabon Sierra Leone	2	27
1996	Angola Liberia South Africa	3	30
1998	Namibia	1	31
2000	None	0	31
2002	None	0	31
2004	Benin Rwanda Zimbabwe	3	34
2006	None	0	34
2008	None	0	34
2010	None	0	34
2012	Botswana Equatorial Guinea Niger	3	37
2013	Cape Verde	1	38
2015	None	0	38
2017	Guinea-Bissau	1	39
2019	Burundi Madagascar Mauritania	3	42
2021	Comoros Gambia	2	44
2023	None	0	44
2025	None	0	44

Droughts

Team	Last	Missed
Mauritius	1974	26
Liberia	2002	12
Rwanda	2004	11
Libya	2012	7
Niger	2013	6
Congo	2015	5
Togo	2017	4
Burundi	2019	3
Kenya	2019	3
Madagascar	2019	3
Ethiopia	2021	2
Malawi	2021	2
Sierra Leone	2021	2
Cape Verde	2023	1
Gambia	2023	1
Ghana	2023	1
Guinea	2023	1
Guinea-Bissau	2023	1
Mauritania	2023	1
Namibia	2023	1

Yet to qualify for the finals

• Central African Republic
• Chad
• Djibouti
• Eritrea
• Eswatini
• Lesotho
• São Tomé and Príncipe
• Seychelles
• Somalia
• South Sudan

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