1996 African Cup of Nations final

The **1996 African Cup of Nations Final** was a football match. It took place on 3 February 1996 at the FNB Stadium in Johannesburg, South Africa.

## Route to the final

|colspan=2 style="width:1*"|South Africa|Round|colspan=2 style="width:1*"|Tunisia|||||||||||
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|Opponent|Result||Group stage|Opponent|Result||||||||||
|align=left||3–0|style="background:#c1e0ff;"|Match 1|align=left||1–1||||||||
|align=left||1–0|style="background:#c1e0ff;"|Match 2|align=left||1–2||||||||
|align=left||0–1|style="background:#c1e0ff;"|Match 3|align=left||3–1||||||||
|colspan="2" style="text-align:center;"|{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"||||||||||||||
|align=left|****|3|2|0|1|4|1|+3|**6**||||||
|align=left||3|2|0|1|4|3|+1|**6**||||||
|align=left||3|1|1|1|5|7|−2|**4**||||||
|align=left||3|0|1|2|4|6|−2|**1**|}|style="background:#c1e0ff;"|Final standings|colspan="2" style="text-align:center;"|{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"|
|align=left||3|3|0|0|6|1|+5|**9**||||||
|align=left|****|3|1|1|1|5|4|+1|**4**||||||
|align=left||3|1|0|2|2|5|−3|**3**||||||
|align=left||3|0|1|2|1|4|−3|**1**|}|||||
|Opponent|Result||Knockout stage|Opponent|Result||||||||||
|align=left||2–1|style="background:#c1e0ff;"|Quarterfinals|align=left||1–1 (aet) (1–4 pen.)||||||||
|align=left||3–0|style="background:#c1e0ff;"|Semifinals|align=left||4–2||||||||

### Details

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|valign="top" width="50%"|{| style="font-size: 90%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"||||||
|GK|**1**|Andre Arendse|||||
|RB|**2**|Sizwe Motaung|||||
|CB|**4**|Lucas Radebe|||||
|CB|**5**|Mark Fish|||||
|LB|**9**|Neil Tovey (c)|||||
|RM|**21**|Eric Tinkler|||||
|CM|**8**|Linda Buthelezi|||||
|CM|**15**|Doctor Khumalo|||||
|LM|**10**|John Moshoeu|||||
|CF|**6**|Phil Masinga|||||
|CF|**17**|Shaun Bartlett|||||
|colspan=3|**Substitutions:**||||||
|MF|**19**|Helman Mkhalele|||||
|FW|**11**|Mark Williams|||||
|colspan=3|**Manager:**||||||
|colspan=3|Clive Barker|}|valign="top"||valign="top" width="50%"|{| style="font-size: 90%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"  align="center"|
|GK|**1**|Chokri El Ouaer (c)|||||
|RB|**14**|Sabri Jaballah|||||
|CB|**6**|Ferid Chouchane|||||
|CB|**4**|Mounir Boukadida|||||
|LB|**5**|Hédi Berkhissa|||||
|RM|**20**|Riadh Bouazizi|||||
|CM|**10**|Kaies Ghodhbane|||||
|CM|**12**|Sofiane Fekhi|||||
|LM|**8**|Zoubeir Baya|||||
|CF|**11**|Adel Sellimi|||||
|CF|**18**|Mehdi Ben Slimane|||||
|colspan=3|**Substitutions:**||||||
|DF|**21**|Lassad Hanini|||||
|FW|**9**|Abdelkader Belhassen|||||
|colspan=3|**Manager:**||||||
|colspan=3|Henryk Kasperczak|}|||||

## Other websites

- Final match details - _worldfootball.net_
 _11v11.com_
- Qualifications details - _rsssf_

## Infobox (football match)

- **title**: 1996 African Cup of Nations Final
- **image size**: 200
- **caption**: FNB Stadium in Johannesburg hosted the final
- **event**: 1996 African Cup of Nations
- **team1**: South Africa national football team, South Africa
- **team1score**: 2
- **team2**: Tunisia national football team, Tunisia
- **team2score**: 0
- **date**: 3 February 1996
- **stadium**: FNB Stadium
- **city**: Johannesburg
- **referee**: Charles Massembe (Federation of Uganda Football Associations, Uganda)
- **attendance**: 80,000
- **previous**: 1994 African Cup of Nations Final, 1994
- **next**: 1998 African Cup of Nations Final, 1998