CAN 2025: All the third-place playoffs in the tournament’s history

All the play-offs for third place in the history of CAN 2025

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Egypt and Nigeria will face each other this Saturday January 17, 2026 at 4:00 p.m. GMT in the qualifiers for third place in CAN 2025.

Nigeria holds the record for the most third-place finishes: eight times in 1976, 1978, 1992, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2010 and 2019. The Super Eagles have never lost a third-place match.

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Here is the complete list of all third-place playoffs in tournament history:

1962: Tunisia 3-0 Uganda

1963: United Arab Republic 3-0 Ethiopia

1965: Ivory Coast 1-0 Senegal

1968: Ivory Coast 1-0 Ethiopia

1970: United Arab Republic 3-1 Ivory Coast

1972: Cameroon 5–2 Zaire

1974: Egypt 4-0 Congo

1976: Nigeria 3–2 Egypt

1978: Nigeria 2-0 Tunisia

1980: Morocco 2-0 Egypt

1982: Zambia 2-0 Algeria

1984: Algeria 3-1 Egypt

1986: Ivory Coast 3-2 Morocco

1988: Algeria 1–1 Morocco (4–3 pens)

1990: Zambia 1-0 Senegal

1992: Nigeria 2-1 Cameroon

1994: Ivory Coast 3-1 Mali

1996: Zambia 1-0 Ghana

1998: DR Congo 4–4 Burkina Faso (4–1 pens)

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2000: South Africa 2–2 Tunisia (4–3 pens)

2002: Nigeria 1-0 Mali

2004: Nigeria 2-1 Mali

2006: Nigeria 1-0 Senegal

2008: Ghana 4–2 Ivory Coast

2010: Nigeria 1-0 Algeria

2012: Mali 2-0 Ghana

2013: Mali 3-1 Ghana

2015: DR Congo 0-0 Equatorial Guinea (4-2 pens)

2017: Burkina Faso 1-0 Ghana

2019: Nigeria 1-0 Tunisia

2021: Cameroon 3-3 Burkina Faso (5-3 pens)

2023: South Africa 0-0 DR Congo (6-5 pens)

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