2019 Africa Cup of Nations

The **2019 Africa Cup of Nations** (also called **AFCON 2019** and **CAN 2019**) was the 32nd edition of the Africa Cup of Nations tournament. The tournament to be hosted by Cameroon, but on January 9th CAF changed the host. Egypt was the host of this tournament. It was held from 21 June to 19 July 2019.

## Teams

Because they withdrew from the 2017 Africa Cup of Nations qualification, Chad is banned from the tournament.

### Qualified teams

The following teams qualified for the tournament:

|Team|Method of qualification|Date of qualification|data-sort-type="number"|Finals appearance|Last appearance|Previous best performance|FIFA ranking at start of event|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
||||24th|2017|(1957, 1959, 1986, 1998, 2006, 2008, 2010)|58||
||||1st|None||108||
||||19th|2017|(2004)|25||
||||15th|2017|(2002)|22||
||||17th|2017|(1976)|47||
||||18th|2013|(1980, 1994, 2013)|45||
||||7th|2017|(1978)|80||
||||11th|2017|(1972)|62||
||||12th|2015|(1976)|71||
||||18th|2017|(1990)|68||
||||1st|None||103||
||||23rd|2017|(1992, 2015)|62||
||||6th|2004|(1972, 1988, 1990, 1992, 2004)|105||
||||22nd|2017|(1963, 1965, 1978, 1982)|50||
||||8th|2013|(2008, 2010)|123||
||||1st|None||134||
||||19th|2017|(1984, 1988, 2000, 2002, 2017)|51||
||||2nd|2017|(2017)|118||
||||3rd|2008|(1998, 2008)|113||
||||4th|2017|(2004, 2006, 2017)|109||
||||19th|2017|(1968, 1974)|49||
||||4th|2010|(2004, 2008, 2010)|88||
||||2nd|1980|(1980)|131||
||||10th|2015|(1996)|72||

## Group stage

The draw took place on the 19th of October 2016 in Libreville.

### Group A

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| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1|align=left||3|3|0|0|5|0|+5|**9**||||||||||
|2|align=left||3|1|1|1|3|3|0|**4**||||||||||
|3|align=left||3|1|0|2|4|4|0|**3**||||||||||
|4|align=left||3|0|1|2|1|6|–5|**1**||||||||||

### Group B

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| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1|align=left||3|2|1|0|5|2|+3|**7**||||||||||
|2|align=left||3|2|0|1|2|2|0|**6**||||||||||
|3|align=left||3|1|1|1|4|3|+1|**4**||||||||||
|4|align=left||3|0|0|3|0|4|–4|**0**||||||||||

### Group C

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| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1|align=left||3|3|0|0|6|0|+6|**9**||||||||||
|2|align=left||3|2|0|1|5|1|+4|**6**||||||||||
|3|align=left||3|1|0|2|3|7|–4|**3**||||||||||
|4|align=left||3|0|0|3|2|8|–6|**0**||||||||||

### Group D

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| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1|align=left||3|3|0|0|3|0|+3|**9**||||||||||
|2|align=left||3|2|0|1|5|2|+3|**6**||||||||||
|3|align=left||3|1|0|2|1|2|–1|**3**||||||||||
|4|align=left||3|0|0|3|1|6|–5|**0**||||||||||

### Group E

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| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1|align=left||3|2|1|0|6|2|+4|**7**||||||||||
|2|align=left||3|0|3|0|2|2|0|**3**||||||||||
|3|align=left||3|0|2|1|1|2|–1|**2**||||||||||
|4|align=left||3|0|2|1|1|4|–3|**2**||||||||||

### Group F

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| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1|align=left||3|1|2|0|4|2|+2|**5**||||||||||
|2|align=left||3|1|2|0|2|0|+2|**5**||||||||||
|3|align=left||3|0|3|0|2|2|0|**3**||||||||||
|4|align=left||3|0|1|2|0|4|–4|**1**||||||||||

## Infobox (international football competition)

- **tourney name**: 2019 FIFA Confederations Cup
- **other titles**: كأس الأمم الأفريقية 2019 __
- **country**: Egypt
- **dates**: 21 June – 19 July 2019
- **caption**: The Algerian team with the trophy.
- **num teams**: 24
- **confederations**: 1
- **venues**: 6
- **cities**: 4
- **champion**: Algeria
- **count**: 2
- **second**: Senegal
- **third**: Nigeria
- **fourth**: Tunisia
- **matches**: 52
- **goals**: 102
- **top scorer**: Odion Ighalo
(5 goals)
- **player**: Ismaël Bennacer
- **young player**: Krépin Diatta
- **attendance**: 943053
- **prevseason**: 2017 Africa Cup of Nations, 2017
- **nextseason**: _2021 Africa Cup of Nations, 2021_