Ethiopia at the Africa Cup of Nations

Ethiopia used to be a very good team in the African Cup of Nations. They played in every Africa Cup of Nations until the end of 1960s. Ethiopia also won the 1962 tournament when they were hosts. The team would be less successful after the 1960s, however. After 1982, Ethiopia did not qualify for a tournament for 31 years, until 2013.

## Overall record

|colspan=10|Africa Cup of Nations record|||||||||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1957|**Runners-up**|**2nd**|**1**|**0**|**0**|**1**|**0**|**4**||
|1959|**Third place**|**3rd**|**2**|**0**|**0**|**2**|**0**|**5**||
|style="border:3px solid red;"|1962|**Champions**|**1st**|**2**|**2**|**0**|**0**|**8**|**4**|
|1963|**First place**|**4th**|**3**|**1**|**0**|**2**|**4**|**7**||
|1965|Group stage|5th|2|0|0|2|1|9||
|style="border:3px solid red;"|1968|**Fourth place**|**4th**|**5**|**3**|**0**|**2**|**8**|**6**|
|1970|Group stage|6th|3|0|0|3|3|12||
|1972|Rowspan=2 Colspan=8|_Did not qualify_||||||||
|1974||||||||||
|style="border:3px solid red;"|1976|Group stage|5th|3|1|1|1|4|3|
|1978|colspan=8 rowspan=2|_Did not qualify_||||||||
|1980||||||||||
|1982|Group stage|8th|3|0|1|2|0|4||
|1984|colspan=8|_Did not qualify_||||||||
|1986|colspan=8|_Withdrew_||||||||
|1988|colspan=8|_Withdrew during qualifying_||||||||
|1990|colspan=8|_Did not qualify_||||||||
|1992|colspan=8|_Withdrew during qualifying_||||||||
|1994|colspan=8 rowspan=3|_Did not qualify_||||||||
|1996||||||||||
|1998||||||||||
|2000|colspan=8|_Withdrew_||||||||
|2002|colspan=8 rowspan=4|_Did not qualify_||||||||
|2004||||||||||
|2006||||||||||
|2008||||||||||
|2010|colspan=8|_Disqualified_||||||||
|2012|colspan=8|_Did not qualify_||||||||
|2013|Group stage|14th|3|0|1|2|1|7||
|2015|colspan=8 rowspan=3|_Did not qualify_||||||||
|2017||||||||||
|2019||||||||||
|2021|Group stage|23rd|3|0|1|2|2|6||
|2023|colspan=8 rowspan=2|_Did not qualify_||||||||
|2025||||||||||
|2027|colspan=8|_To be determined_||||||||

### Sudan 1957

- Semifinals

- Final

### Ethiopia 1962

- Semifinals

- Final

### Ghana 1963

- Group stage

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|align=left||2|1|0|1|4|4|0|**2**|||||||||
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- Third place

### Tunisia 1965

- Group stage

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|align=left||2|0|0|2|1|9|−8|**0**|||||||||

### Ethiopia 1968

- Group stage

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|align=left||3|3|0|0|6|2|+4|**6**|||||||||
|align=left||3|2|0|1|5|2|+3|**4**|||||||||
|align=left||3|1|0|2|5|6|−1|**2**|||||||||
|align=left||3|0|0|3|2|8|−6|**0**|||||||||

- Semi-finals

- Third place

### Sudan 1970

- Group stage

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|align=left||3|0|0|3|3|12|−9|**0**|||||||||

### Ethiopia 1976

- Group stage

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|align=left||3|1|2|0|4|3|+1|**4**|||||||||
|align=left||3|1|1|1|4|3|+1|**3**|||||||||
|align=left||3|0|0|3|2|6|−4|**0**|||||||||

### Libya 1982

- Group stage

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

### South Africa 2013

- Group stage

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### Cameroon 2021

- Group stage

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## Other websites

- Africa Cup of Nations – Archives competitions – _cafonline.com_