African Cup Of Nations Betting Guide (Odds, Contenders, History)

Total Africa Cup Of Nations Headlines

• Senegal win AFCON defeating Egypt on penalties. 

• Senegal were 1/2 to lift the trophy with Egypt the outsiders at around 13/8.

• After 51 matches at the African Cup Of Nations, 25 favourites have won, there have been 16 draws, and 10 wins went to the outsider in the betting.

• AFCON 2023 will be held in the Ivory Coast, with the 2025 tournament planned for Guinea. 

African Cup Of Nations History Of Winners - 2000 Onwards

African Cup Of Nations History Of Winners 1957 -1998

Year	Hosts	Winners	Runners Up	Result
1998	Burkina Faso	Egypt	South Africa	2-0
1996	South Africa	South Africa	Tunisia	2-1
1994	Tunisia	Nigeria	Zambia	2-1
1992	Senegal	Ivory Coast	Ghana	0-0 AET: (11-10 Penalties)
1990	Algeria	Algeria	Nigeria	1-0
1988	Morocco	Cameroon	Nigeria	1-0
1986	Egypt	Egypt	Cameroon	0-0 AET: (5-4 Penalties)
1984	Ivory Coast	Cameroon	Nigeria	3-1
1982	Libya	Ghana	Libya	1-1 AET: (7-6 Penalties)
1980	Nigeria	Nigeria	Algeria	3-0
1978	Ghana	Ghana	Uganda	2-0
1976	Ethiopia	Morocco	Guinea	1-1
1974	Egypt	Zaire	Zambia	2-2 (Replay Won 2-0 By Zaire)
1972	Cameroon	PR Congo	Mali	3-2
1970	Sudan	Sudan	Ghana	1-0
1968	Ethiopia	DR Congo	Ghana	1-0
1965	Tunisia	Ghana	Tunisia	3-2 AET
1963	Ghana	Ghana	Sudan	3-0
1962	Ethiopia	Ethiopia	United Arab Republic	4-2 AET
1959	United Arab Republic	United Arab Republic	Sudan	2-1
1957	Sudan	Egypt	Ethiopia	4-0

AFCON Semi Finals

Here is the betting for the African Cup Of Nations Odds outright. 

You can check the best odds, and place a tip or bet from the following African Cup Of Nations Football Page.

AFCON 2022 Betting Odds Timeline

Below are the original prices for each team in the African Cup Of Nations. We will follow the prices right up until the final. 

The advent of betting exchanges enables us to back selections and then lay them (bet against) as or if they progress in the tournament, thus giving you a completely free bet. 

E.G Cameroon the hosts were 9.0 (8/1) on the 1st of January, as you can see by the odds at the top of the page they are now 4.0 (3/1).

A £10 pre-tournament bet on Cameroon at 9.0 returns a profit of 80.00, a  £10 Lay bet gives you liability of £20, so if Cameroon wins the tournament you win £60 and if Cameroon do not win you lose nothing. 

To read more about all the options you have with a Betfair, Smarkets or Matchbook betting exchange account please visit the comprehensive betting exchange guide. 

2021 AFCON Tournament

Online bookmakers were originally split on which country to make favourite before plumping for Senegal, it will be interesting to see after group stages whether Algeria, Egypt and Senegal top the African Cup Of Nations market.

 You can see by the bookmaker AFCON odds that there looks to be lots of deadwood in the competition, with a hardcore of 8 or 9 countries with a genuine chance of winning AFCON.

The African Cup Of Nations tournament starts on the 9th January 2022 with the final on the 6th February. 

Six Groups of 4 (A-F) will play each other at this stage before the top 2 from each group and the four highest-ranked third-placed teams advance to the knockout round of 16. 

African Cup Of Nations Last 8 Betting & TIps

African Cup Of Nations Last 16 Betting & TIps

• Four favourites and four outsiders went through to the last 8. 
• Three matches were decided on penalties, with only one fav winning the penalty shootout. 
• Only 12 goals were scored in 90 minutes, indicating that there is no real stand out team going into the last eight.

Sunday, January 23

Burkina Faso 1 v Gabon 1 (Burkina Faso Go Through After Penalties)

Nigeria 0 v Tunisia 1

Monday, January 24

Guinea 0 v Gambia 1

Cameroon 2 v Comoros 1 

Tuesday, January 25

Senegal 2 v Cape Verde 0

Morocco 2 v Malawi 1 

Wednesday, January 26

Ivory Coast 0 v Egypt 0 (Egypt Go Through After Penalties)

Mali 0 v Equatorial Guinea 0 (Equatorial Guinea Go Through After Penalties)

You can check the best odds, and place a tip or bet from the following African Cup Of Nations Football Page.

African Cup Of Nations Groups A -F

African Cup Of Nations Top Scorer

Mohamed Salah of Liverpool headed the AFCON Top Scorer betting but Egypt has performed poorly so far. 

Aboubakar of Cameroon leads the way with 5 goals in 3 games, followed by Kone of Mali with 3. 

Naturally, all players have a better chance of winning the AFCON Golden Boot the longer their country stays in the tournament.

2019 AFCON

Algeria are the current AFCON champions having won the tournament in 2019 when it was held in Egypt.

In the final, they defeated Senegal 1-0 having scored very early in the game. 

Both finalists came from the same group (C) with Algeria already having beaten Senegal in the group match by the same scoreline. 

Nigeria took on Tunisia in the third-place game, with the score ending 1-0 to the Nigerians.