AFCON 2023: updated stats after the Ivory Coast-Nigeria final
AFCON: fresh figures after Ivory Coast's victory and Nigeria's defeat
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- With Ivory Coast's win, it is the 12th time in 34 editions that the host nation has won the AFCON.
- With their defeat by Ivory Coast in the final, the Super Eagles equal Ghana for the number of finals lost (5), (1984, 1988, 1990 and 2000, 2023).
- Emerse Faé is the first coach ever to win a CAF Africa Cup of Nations without starting the tournament as his team's head coach.
- Nigeria attempted only five shots in the final, their lowest total in a CAF Africa Cup of Nations match since Opta began collecting this data (2010).
- Nigeria's William Troost-Ekong is the first defender to score three goals in a single edition of the CAF Africa Cup of Nations since Opta began collecting this data (2010).
- William Troost-Ekong (Nigeria) and Sébastien Haller (Ivory Coast) are the first players to score in both the semi-final and the final of the same CAF Africa Cup of Nations since Gedo for Egypt in 2010.
- Ivory Coast's Simon Adingra is the first player to provide two assists in a CAF Africa Cup of Nations final in the 21st century.
- At 36 years and 73 days old, Ivory Coast's Max-Alain Gradel became the oldest outfield player to feature in a CAF Africa Cup of Nations final since Opta began collecting this data (2008), and the second oldest overall behind Egyptian goalkeeper Essam El Hadary (37 in 2010 and 44 in 2017).
- Ivory Coast also became the first team to win the tournament after losing 2 games in the group stage.
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