| Hockey Africa Cup of Nations | |
| Last Season: | 2022 Men's Hockey Africa Cup of Nations |
| Upcoming Season: | 2025 Men's Hockey Africa Cup of Nations |
| Formerly: | Hockey African Cup for Nations |
| Sport: | Field hockey |
| Inaugural: | 1974 |
| Teams: | 8 |
| Confed: | AfHF (Africa) |
| Champion: | (8th title) |
| Champ Season: | 2022 |
| Most Champs: | (8 titles) |
The Men's Hockey Africa Cup of Nations is an international men's field hockey tournament governed by African Hockey Federation. The winning team becomes the champions of Africa and qualified for the FIH Hockey World Cup.
The first edition was held in 1974.[1]
The top two highest-ranked teams in the FIH World Rankings qualify directly for the tournament while the other teams have to play in the regional qualifiers. The top two teams from each of the regional qualifiers qualify for the tournament. The three regions are Northeast Africa, Northwest Africa, and Central south Africa.[2]
| Year | Host | width=1% rowspan=14 | Final | width=1% rowspan=14 | Third place match | width=1% rowspan=14 | width=6% rowspan=2 | Number of teams | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| width=14% | Winner | width=10% | Score | width=14% | Runner-up | width=14% | Third place | width=10% | Score | width=14% | Fourth place | ||||
| 1974 Details | Cairo, Egypt | Round-robin | Round-robin | 5 | |||||||||||
| 1983 Details | Cairo, Egypt | Round-robin | Round-robin | 6 | |||||||||||
| 1989 Details | Blantyre, Malawi | Round-robin | Round-robin | 5 | |||||||||||
| 1993 Details | Nairobi, Kenya | Round-robin | Round-robin | 5 | |||||||||||
| 1996 Details | Pretoria, South Africa | Round-robin | Round-robin | 6 | |||||||||||
| 2000 Details | Bulawayo, Zimbabwe | 3–2 | 1–1 | 7 | |||||||||||
| 2005 Details | Pretoria, South Africa | 0–0 (a.e.t.) (3–2 p.s.) | 2–0 | 5 | |||||||||||
| 2009 Details | Accra, Ghana | 3–1 | 3–2 (a.e.t.) | 4 | |||||||||||
| 2013 Details | Nairobi, Kenya | 2–0 | 4–1 | 4 | |||||||||||
| 2017 Details | Ismailia, Egypt | 2–1 | 5–3 | 5 | |||||||||||
| 2022 Details | Accra, Ghana | 1–1 (3–1 s.o.) | 4–2 | 7 | |||||||||||
| 2025 Details | TBA | 8 | |||||||||||||
| Team | Titles | Runners-up | Third-place | Fourth-place | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 (1993, 1996*, 2000, 2005*, 2009, 2013, 2017, 2022) | |||||
| 2 (1983*, 1989) | 7 (1993, 2000, 2005, 2009, 2013, 2017*, 2022) | 1 (1996) | |||
| 1 (1974) | 4 (1983, 2005, 2009*, 2017) | 3 (2000, 2013) | |||
| 3 (1983, 1989, 1996) | 3 (1993*, 2013*, 1974) | 2 (2017, 2022) | |||
| 1 (1974) | |||||
| 1 (2022) | 4 (1974, 1983, 2005, 2009) | ||||
| 1 (2000*) | 3 (1989, 1993, 1996) | ||||
| 1 (1989*) |
| Nation |  1974 | 1983 | 1989 |  1993 | 1996 | 2000 | 2005 |  2009 | 2013 | 2017 | 2022 | 2025 | Total | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| – | – | – | – | 6th | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | ||||||||||
| 5th | bgcolor=gold | 1st | bgcolor=gold | 1st | bgcolor=silver | 2nd | 3rd | bgcolor=silver | 2nd | bgcolor=silver | 2nd | bgcolor=silver | 2nd | bgcolor=silver | 2nd | bgcolor=silver | 2nd | bgcolor=silver | 2nd | Q | 12 | |
| bgcolor=gold | 1st | 3rd | – | – | – | 4th | 3rd | 3rd | 4th | bgcolor=cc996 | 3rd | 5th | Q | 9 | ||||||||
| bgcolor=silver | 2nd | bgcolor=silver | 2nd | bgcolor=silver | 2nd | 3rd | bgcolor=silver | 2nd | – | – | – | 3rd | 4th | 4th | Q | 9 | ||||||
| – | – | 3rd | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | ||||||||||
| – | – | – | – | 5th | 6th | 5th | – | – | – | 7th | Q | 5 | ||||||||||
| 4th | 4th | – | – | – | 5th | 4th | 4th | – | 5th | 3rd | Q | 8 | ||||||||||
| – | – | – | 5th | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | ||||||||||
| – | – | – | bgcolor=gold | 1st | bgcolor=gold | 1st | bgcolor=gold | 1st | bgcolor=gold | 1st | bgcolor=gold | 1st | bgcolor=gold | 1st | bgcolor=gold | 1st | bgcolor=gold | 1st | Q | 9 | ||
| – | 6th | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | ||||||||||
| 3rd | – | – | – | – | 7th | – | – | – | – | 6th | Q | 4 | ||||||||||
| – | – | 5th | – | – | – | – | – | – | WD | – | Q | 2 | ||||||||||
| – | 5th | 4th | 4th | 4th | 3rd | – | – | – | – | WD | – | 5 | ||||||||||
| Total | 5 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 7 | 8 |