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·3 December 2025

AFCON 2025: Coaches who have won the Africa Cup of Nations

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Coaches who have won the Africa Cup of Nations

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Émerse Faé/@CAF


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Several coaches have etched their names into the history books of the Africa Cup of Nations. Discover all the winning coaches since 1957.

Two coaches stand out for having lifted the trophy three times. Charles Kumi Gyamfi delivered three titles to Ghana in 1963, 1965, and 1982, just as Hassan Shehata claimed three consecutive trophies with the Pharaohs (2006, 2008, and 2010).

Hervé Renard also lifted the trophy twice with two different national teams: Zambia in 2012 and Ivory Coast in 2015.

Here are the winning coaches by edition:

1957: Mourad Fahmy (Egypt)

1959: Pál Titkos (Egypt)

1962: Slavko Milošević / Ydnekatchew Tessema (Ethiopia)

1963: Charles Kumi Gyamfi (Ghana)

1965: Charles Kumi Gyamfi (Ghana)

1968: Ferenc Csanádi (DR Congo)

1970: Jiří Starosta (Sudan)

1972: Adolphe Bibanzoulou (Congo)

1974: Blagoje Vidinić (DR Congo)

1976: Gheorghe Mărdărescu (Morocco)

1978: Fred Osam-Duodu (Ghana)

1980: Otto Glória (Nigeria)

1982: Charles Kumi Gyamfi (Ghana)

1984: Radivoje Ognjanović (Cameroon)

1986: Mike Smith (Egypt)

1988: Claude Le Roy (Cameroon)

1990: Abdelhamid Kermali (Algeria)

1992: Yéo Martial (Ivory Coast)

1994: Clemens Westerhof (Nigeria)

1996: Clive William Barker (South Africa)

1998: Mahmoud Al-Gohary (Egypt)

2000: Pierre Lechantre (Cameroon)

2002: Winfried Schäfer (Cameroon)

2004: Roger Lemerre (Tunisia)

2006: Hassan Shehata (Egypt)

2008: Hassan Shehata (Egypt)

2010: Hassan Shehata (Egypt)

2012: Hervé Renard (Zambia)

2013: Stephen Keshi (Nigeria)

2015: Hervé Renard (Ivory Coast)

2017: Hugo Broos (Cameroon)

2019: Djamel Belmadi (Algeria)

2021: Aliou Cissé (Senegal)

2023: Émerse Faé (Ivory Coast)

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