Women's Africa Cup of Nations records and statistics explained

This article concerns the records and statistics of the association football tournament known as the African Women's Championship until 2016 and the Women's Africa Cup of Nations thereafter.

Teams reaching the semi-finals/top four

Winners	Runners-up	Third-place	Fourth-place	Total top four
11 (1991, 1995, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2010, 2014, 2016, 2018)	–	1 (2008)	2 (2012, 2022)	14
2 (2008, 2012)	1 (2010)	–	–	3
1 (2022)	5 (1995, 2000, 2008, 2012, 2018)	2 (2006, 2010)	3 (2002, 2014, 2016)	11
–	4 (1991, 2004, 2014, 2016)	3 (2002, 2012, 2018)	4 (1998, 2006, 2008, 2010)	11
–	3 (1998, 2002, 2006)	4 (1995, 2000, 2004, 2016)	–	7
–	1 (2022)	–	–	1
–	–	1 (1991)	–	1
–	–	1 (1995)	–	1
–	–	1 (1998)	–	1
–	–	1 (2014)	–	1
–	–	1 (2022)	–	1
–	–	–	1 (2000)	1
–	–	–	1 (2004)	1
–	–	–	1 (2018)	1

* hosts

** losing semi-finals

Summary (1991–2022)

width=5%	Rank	width=20%	Team	width=5%	Part	width=5%	M	width=5%	W	width=5%	D	width=5%	L	width=5%	GF	width=5%	GA	width=5%	GD	width=5%	Points
1	style=text-align:left		14	73	57	9	7	223	32	+191	180
2		13	62	31	8	23	102	83	+19	101
3	style=text-align:left		13	58	24	14	20	73	83	-10	86
4	style=text-align:left		12	45	22	8	15	72	49	+23	74
5	style=text-align:left		5	21	13	2	6	46	39	+7	41
6	style=text-align:left		3	12	5	2	5	14	27	-13	17
7	style=text-align:left		7	23	5	2	16	25	59	-34	17
8	style=text-align:left		4	14	4	4	6	19	28	-9	16
9	style=text-align:left		4	14	2	5	7	13	28	-15	11
10	style=text-align:left		2	8	3	1	4	15	15	0	10
11	style=text-align:left		3	11	2	3	6	14	31	-17	9
12	style=text-align:left		2	7	2	1	4	4	9	-5	7
13	style=text-align:left		3	11	1	4	6	6	24	-18	7
14	style=text-align:left		5	15	2	1	12	13	39	-26	7
15	style=text-align:left		2	6	1	2	3	7	13	-6	5
16	style=text-align:left		2	7	1	1	5	7	10	-3	4
17	style=text-align:left		1	4	1	0	3	5	7	-2	3
18	style=text-align:left		1	3	1	0	2	3	5	-2	3
19	style=text-align:left		2	5	0	3	2	6	9	-3	3
20	style=text-align:left		1	3	1	0	2	3	6	-3	3
21	style=text-align:left		2	6	1	0	5	3	21	-18	3
22	style=text-align:left		1	3	0	1	2	2	4	-2	1
23	style=text-align:left		1	3	0	1	2	3	9	-6	1
24	style=text-align:left		1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
25	style=text-align:left		1	3	0	0	3	3	8	-5	0
26	style=text-align:left		1	3	0	0	3	2	7	-5	0
27	style=text-align:left		1	2	0	0	2	0	7	-7	0
28	style=text-align:left		1	3	0	0	3	3	11	-8	0
29	style=text-align:left		1	3	0	0	3	2	10	-8	0
30	style=text-align:left		1	2	0	0	2	0	11	-11	0

Top scorers (Golden boot) by year

Player	Tournament edition	Number of goals	Ref
Nkiru Okosieme	1998	3 goals
Mercy Akide	2000	7 goals
Perpetua Nkwocha	2002	4 goals
	2004	9 goals
	2006	7 goals
	2008	6 goals	^[1]
Perpetua Nkwocha	2010	11 goals
Genoveva Añonman	2012	6 goals
Desire Oparanozie	2014	5 goals	^[2]
Asisat Oshoala	2016	6 goals
Thembi Kgatlana	2018	5 goals	^[3]
	2022	3 goals

Best player (Golden ball) by year

Player	Edition	Ref
	1998
	2000
	2002
Perpetua Nkwocha	2004	^[4]
Portia Modise	2006	^[5]
Alice Noko Matlou	2008
Stella Mbachu	2010
Genoveva Añonman	2012
Asisat Oshoala	2014	^[6]
Gabrielle Onguéné	2016	^[7]
Thembi Kgatlana	2018
Ghizlane Chebbak	2022

Hat-tricks

Veronica Phewa from South Africa scored the first-ever hat-trick in the tournament's history in her side's group-stage win over Zimbabwe at the 2002 edition.
Nigeria's Perpetua Nkwocha]] (in the final of the 2004 edition) and Asisat Oshoala (in 2016) are the only players to score 4 goals in match at an edition of the tournament.
Nigeria (6) is the leading hat-trick scoring team at the tournament, with Perpetua Nkwocha (4) accounting for 80% of them.
Cameroon has conceded the most hat-tricks (4) in the tournament as of the 2022 edition.

No.	Player	No. of goals	Time of goals	Final score	Edition	Round	Date
.	Veronica Phewa	3	27', 33', 61'	3–1	2002	Group stage	14 December 2002
.	Perpetua Nkwocha	4	15', 35', 42', 60'	5–0	2004	Final	3 October 2004
.	Perpetua Nkwocha (2)	3	45', 46', 54'	5–0	2006	Semi-finals	7 November 2006
.		3	28', 47', 80'	3–0	2008	Semi-finals	25 November 2008
.	Perpetua Nkwocha (3)	3	15', 16', 42'	5–0	2010	Group stage	1 November 2010
.		3	32', 76', 90'	4–0	2010	Group stage	7 November 2010
.	Perpetua Nkwocha (4)	3	54', 74', 81'	5–1	2010	Semi-finals	11 November 2010
.		3	1', 9', 68'	5–0	2012	Group stage	29 October 2012
.	Genoveva Añonman	3	25', 66', 73'	6–0	2012	Group stage	31 October 2012
.		3	10', 48', 57'	4–1	2012	Group stage	3 November 2012
.	Asisat Oshoala	4	40', 64', 69', 78'	6–0	2016	Group stage	20 November 2016
.	Asisat Oshoala (2)	3	13', 22', 44'	6–0	2018	Group stage	24 November 2018

External links

- Women's Africa Cup of Nations records and statistics at RSSSF

Notes and References

Web site: 11 February 2009. Banyana striker crowned Woman Footballer of the Year. Mail & Guardian. 26 October 2014.
Web site: 26 October 2014. Oshoala, Oparanozie claim individual honours. CAFOnline.com. 26 October 2022. With five goals, Oparanozie received the ‘Scorpion Zinc’ [Top Scorer] award for scoring the most goals at the two-week championship....
Web site: 2 December 2022. Kgatlana named TOTAL Woman of the Competition. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20230207191008/https://www.cafonline.com/news-center/news/kgatlana-named-total-woman-of-the-competition. 7 February 2023. CAFOnline.com. 26 October 2022.
Web site: Molinaro. John F.. 15 June 2011. Star bio: Nigeria's Perpetua Nkwocha. CBC Sports. 15 June 2011.
Web site: 20 October 2014. Portia Modise: Centurion in numbers. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20141022232102/http://www.supersport.com/football/south-africa/news/141020/Portia_Modise_Centurion_in_numbers. 22 October 2014. SuperSport. 20 October 2014.
Web site: 8 January 2015. Double delight for Oshoala. CAFOnline.com. 30 March 2022.
Web site: Anchunda. Benly. 2016 Women AFCON: Gabrielle Aboudi Onguene voted best player of the competition. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20161230001456/http://crtv.cm/fr/latest-news/special-report-12/2016-women-afcon-gabrielle-aboudi-onguene-voted-best-player-of-the-competition-18361.htm. 30 December 2016. CRTV. 29 December 2016.