# 2022 African Nations Championship final

The 2022 African Nations Championship final was a football match played between Senegal and Algeria at the Nelson Mandela Stadium in Algiers, Algeria on 4 February 2023 to determine the winners of the 7th edition of the biennial African international football tournament reserved for players playing in their local leagues.
Senegal defeated Algeria 5-4 on penalties to win the Championship.

## Venue

The local CHAN organizing committee in Algeria chose the newly-built and newly-inaugurated Nelson Mandela Stadium in the nation's capital city Algiers as the venue for both the opening match and the final. Inaugurated a week before the start of this edition of the tournament, this 40,784-seater stadium primarily hosts football matches and is named after anti-apartheid hero and former South African president, Nelson Mandela.

## Background

The African Nations Championship or the Championship of African Nations, abbreviated as CHAN, is the biennial African international football tournament reserved for players playing in the league of their birth nations. The 2022 edition or 7th edition of this tournament, colloquially referred to for short as the 2023 CHAN, was staged in Algeria with this concluding match of this edition.

## Route to the final

| Algeria | Algeria | Round | Senegal | Senegal |
| Opponents | Result | Group stage | Opponents | Result |
| Libya | 1–0 | Match 1 | Ivory Coast | 0–1 |
| Ethiopia | 1–0 | Match 2 | Uganda | 0–1 |
| Mozambique | 0–1 | Match 3 | DR Congo | 3–0 |
| Group A winner Pos Team Pld Pts 1  Algeria (H) 3 9 2  Mozambique 3 4 3  Libya 3 3 4  Ethiopia 3 1 Source: CAF (H) Hosts | Group A winner Pos Team Pld Pts 1  Algeria (H) 3 9 2  Mozambique 3 4 3  Libya 3 3 4  Ethiopia 3 1 Source: CAF (H) Hosts | Final standings | Group B winner Pos Team Pld Pts 1  Senegal 3 6 2  Ivory Coast 3 4 3  Uganda 3 4 4  DR Congo 3 2 Source: CAF | Group B winner Pos Team Pld Pts 1  Senegal 3 6 2  Ivory Coast 3 4 3  Uganda 3 4 4  DR Congo 3 2 Source: CAF |
| Opponents | Result | Knockout stage | Opponents | Result |
| Ivory Coast | 1–0 | Quarter-finals | Mauritania | 1–0 |
| Niger | 5–0 | Semi-finals | Madagascar | 1–0 |

## Match
### Details

| Algeria | Senegal |
Formation: 4–3–3 :
| GK | 16 | Alexis Guendouz |
| DF | 22 | Mokhtar Belkhiter |
| DF | 5 | Ayoub Abdellaoui (c) |
| DF | 2 | Chouaib Keddad |
| DF | 15 | Zineddine Belaïd |
| MF | 8 | Zakaria Draoui |
| MF | 12 | Mohamed Islam Bakir | | 68' |
| MF | 14 | Houssem Eddine Mrezigue | 111' | 120+2' |
| FW | 21 | Youcef Laouafi |
| FW | 7 | Abderrahmane Meziane | 23' | 114' |
| FW | 18 | Aymen Mahious | 108' |
| Substitutions: |||
| GK | 1 | Farid Chaâl |
| MF | 11 | Oussama Chita |
| FW | 10 | Féth-Allah Tahar |
| DF | 3 | Hocine Dehiri |
| MF | 4 | Akram Djahnit | | 120+2' |
| MF | 27 | Mohamed Ait El Hadj |
| DF | 24 | Saâdi Radouani |
| FW | 20 | Sofiane Bayazid | | 114' |
| MF | 6 | Ahmed Kendouci | 75' | 68' |
| FW | 9 | Karim Aribi |
| DF | 19 | Ayoub Ghezala |
| DF | 28 | Houari Baouche |
| Coach: |||
| Madjid Bougherra |||
Formation: 4–3–3 :
| GK | 23 | Pape Mamadou Sy |
| DF | 4 | Mamadou Sané | 31' |
| DF | 3 | Ousmane Diouf |
| DF | 22 | Cheikhou Ndiaye (c) |
| DF | 12 | Cheikh Sidibé | 15' |
| MF | 14 | Moussa Ndiaye |
| MF | 6 | Ousmane Kané |
| MF | 5 | Lamine Camara | 23' |
| FW | 11 | Malick Mbaye | | 113' |
| FW | 17 | Serigne Koïté | | 83' |
| FW | 10 | Pape Diallo | | 113' |
| Substitutions: |||
| DF | 18 | El Hadji Baldé | | 113' |
| MF | 13 | Libasse Ngom | 120' | 83' |
| GK | 16 | Alioune Badara Faty |
| FW | 7 | Cheikh Diouf |
| MF | 20 | Elimane Oumar Cissé |
| DF | 2 | Abdoulaye Diedhiou |
| GK | 1 | Pape Abdoulaye Dieng |
| FW | 9 | Raymond Ndour |
| MF | 21 | Moussa Kanté | | 113' |
| DF | 15 | Melo Ndiaye |
| DF | 8 | Moussa Sogue |
| MF | 19 | Djibril Diarra |
| Coach: |||
| Pape Thiaw |||
| Man of the Match: L. Camara (Senegal) Assistant referees: Hensley Petrousse (Seychelles)Adou Hermann Desire N'Goh (Ivory Coast) Fourth official: Mahmood Ali Ismail (Sudan) Video assistant referee: Haythem Guirat (Tunisia) Assistant video assistant referee: Daniel Laryea (Ghana)Mohammed Abdallah Ibrahim (Sudan) | Match rules 90 minutes. 30 minutes of extra time if necessary. Penalty shoot-out if scores still level. Maximum of twelve named substitutes. Maximum of five substitutions, with a sixth allowed in extra time. |

### Statistics

First half :
| Statistic | Algeria | Senegal |
| Goals scored | 0 | 0 |
| Total shots | 3 | 3 |
| Shots on target | 1 | 0 |
| Saves | 0 | 1 |
| Ball possession | 46.2% | 53.8% |
| Corner kicks | 3 | 4 |
| Fouls committed | 10 | 5 |
| Offsides | 0 | 0 |
| Yellow cards | 1 | 3 |
| Red cards | 0 | 0 |
Second half :
| Statistic | Algeria | Senegal |
| Goals scored | 0 | 0 |
| Total shots | 2 | 4 |
| Shots on target | 0 | 1 |
| Saves | 1 | 0 |
| Ball possession | 54.5% | 45.5% |
| Corner kicks | 9 | 3 |
| Fouls committed | 4 | 9 |
| Offsides | 0 | 0 |
| Yellow cards | 1 | 0 |
| Red cards | 0 | 0 |
Extra time :
| Statistic | Algeria | Senegal |
| Goals scored | 0 | 0 |
| Total shots | 5 | 2 |
| Shots on target | 2 | 0 |
| Saves | 0 | 0 |
| Ball possession | 0% | 0% |
| Corner kicks | 3 | 0 |
| Fouls committed | 5 | 5 |
| Offsides | 0 | 0 |
| Yellow cards | 2 | 1 |
| Red cards | 0 | 0 |
Overall :
| Statistic | Algeria | Senegal |
| Goals scored | 0 | 0 |
| Total shots | 23 | 19 |
| Shots on target | 8 | 6 |
| Saves | 6 | 3 |
| Ball possession | 52.9% | 47.1% |
| Corner kicks | 15 | 7 |
| Fouls committed | 19 | 17 |
| Offsides | 0 | 0 |
| Yellow cards | 4 | 4 |
| Red cards | 0 | 0 |