After 90 minutes of play ended goalless (0–0), Egypt were beaten in the penalty shootout (4–2) by Nigeria on Saturday, January 17, in the third-place playoff of AFCON 2025.
The Super Eagles have finished in third place more times than any other team, doing so on eight occasions: 1976, 1978, 1992, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2010 and 2019. Nigeria are also the only team never to have lost a third-place match.
Egypt finished third in the 1963, 1970 and 1974 editions, and lost three third-place playoffs in 1976, 1980 and 1984.
Below is the complete list of all third-place matches in the tournament’s history:
1962: Tunisia 3–0 Uganda
1963: United Arab Republic 3–0 Ethiopia
1965: Côte d’Ivoire 1–0 Senegal
1968: Côte d’Ivoire 1–0 Ethiopia
1970: United Arab Republic 3–1 Côte d’Ivoire
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: Côte d’Ivoire 3–2 Morocco
1988: Algeria 1–1 Morocco (4–3 on penalties)
1990: Zambia 1–0 Senegal
1992: Nigeria 2–1 Cameroon
1994: Côte d’Ivoire 3–1 Mali
1996: Zambia 1–0 Ghana
1998: DR Congo 4–4 Burkina Faso (4–1 on penalties)
2000: South Africa 2–2 Tunisia (4–3 on penalties)
2002: Nigeria 1–0 Mali
2004: Nigeria 2–1 Mali
2006: Nigeria 1–0 Senegal
2008: Ghana 4–2 Côte d’Ivoire
2010: Nigeria 1–0 Algeria
2012: Mali 2–0 Ghana
2013: Mali 3–1 Ghana
2015: DR Congo 0–0 Equatorial Guinea (4–2 on penalties)
2017: Burkina Faso 1–0 Ghana
2019: Nigeria 1–0 Tunisia
2021: Cameroon 3–3 Burkina Faso (5–3 on penalties)
2023: South Africa 0–0 DR Congo (6–5 on penalties)
2025: Nigeria 0–0 Egypt (4–2 on penalties)
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