A list of the previous winners of the African Nations Cup, with host countries in parenthesis:
1957 - Egypt (Sudan)
1959 - Egypt (Egypt)
1962 - Ethiopia (Ethiopia) 1963 - Ghana (Ghana)
1965 - Ghana (Tunisia) 1968 - Congo-Kinshasa (Ethiopia)
1970 - Sudan (Sudan)
1972 - Congo (Cameroon)
1974 - Zaire (Egypt)
1976 - Morocco (Ethiopia) 1978 - Ghana (Ghana) 1980 - Nigeria (Nigeria) 1982 - Ghana (Libya) 1984 - Cameroon (Ivory Coast)
1986 - Egypt (Egypt)
1988 - Cameroon (Morocco)
1990 - Algeria (Algeria)
1992 - Ivory Coast (Senegal)
1994 - Nigeria (Tunisia)
1996 - South Africa (South Africa)
1998 - Egypt (Burkina Faso)
2000 - Cameroon (Ghana and Nigeria co-hosts)
2002 - Cameroon (Mali)
2004 - Tunisia (Tunisia)
Note: Congo-Kinshasa and Zaire now known as the Democratic Republic of Congo.