Updated

World · 2025/26 season

Africa Cup of Nations Football Predictions

Nigeria leads the Africa Cup of Nations with 17 points after 51 matches played this season, averaging 2.35 goals per match. With 45% of matches going over 2.5 goals and 47% seeing both teams score, results could vary if teams perform differently than expected.

Teams 24 in the 2025/26 season
Matches played 51 of 52 scheduled this season
Prediction pages 0 fixtures in our publication window
Fixtures predicted 0 so far this season

Africa Cup of Nations fixtures

No Africa Cup of Nations fixtures are currently inside our publication window. So far this season 51 of 52 matches have been played across 24 clubs.

Africa Cup of Nations table

2025/26 season · computed from played results — ranked by points, then goal difference, then goals scored. Form: last five, newest first.

Africa Cup of Nations table from played results
#TeamPWDLGFGAGDPtsForm
1 Nigeria 7 520 144 +10 17
2 Senegal 6 510 122 +10 16
3 Morocco 6 420 91 +8 14
4 Egypt 7 421 95 +4 14
5 Algeria 5 401 83 +5 12
6 Ivory Coast 5 311 106 +4 10
7 Cameroon 5 311 65 +1 10
8 Congo DR 4 211 52 +3 7
9 South Africa 4 202 66 0 6
10 Burkina Faso 4 202 45 -1 6
11 Tunisia 4 121 76 +1 5
12 Mali 5 041 34 -1 4
13 Mozambique 4 103 49 -5 3
14 Benin 4 103 27 -5 3
15 Sudan 4 103 28 -6 3
16 Angola 3 021 23 -1 2
17 Tanzania 4 022 35 -2 2
18 Comoros 3 021 02 -2 2
19 Zambia 3 021 14 -3 2
20 Zimbabwe 3 012 46 -2 1
21 Uganda 3 012 37 -4 1
22 Gabon 3 003 47 -3 0
23 Equatorial Guinea 3 003 26 -4 0
24 Botswana 3 003 07 -7 0

P = played, GD = goal difference, Pts = points. Not an imported table: it is rebuilt from the results in our database, so it may lag the official one by a match.

Africa Cup of Nations trends

How Africa Cup of Nations matches actually ended in the 2025/26: 51 played matches. A record of results, not a forecast.

Home wins 45% 23 of 51 matches
Away wins 29% 15 of 51 matches
Over 2.5 goals 45% 23 of 51 matches
Both teams scored 47% 24 of 51 matches

No season-on-season change shown: the previous season’s results are not in our database.

Top Africa Cup of Nations teams by model rating

The attack and defence rates our model feeds into every prediction, as of the last update. Net = attack − defence, in goals per match.

Net rating
+0.87
Attack
1.71
Defence
0.84
Form
#2
Net rating
+0.84
Attack
1.53
Defence
0.69
Form
#3
Net rating
+0.81
Attack
1.89
Defence
1.08
Form

Rates are decay-weighted over each team’s last 15 completed matches — xG where the window is xG-backed, goals otherwise — and shrunk towards the league average; a higher attack and a lower defence rate are better. Form: last five results, newest first.

Top scorers in Africa Cup of Nations

From the Africa Cup of Nations scoring charts this season — goals first, then assists. Not a full squad list.

  • S. RahimiMorocco 5 G 0 A
  • Brahim DíazMorocco 5 G 0 A
  • V. OsimhenNigeria 4 G 2 A
  • Mohamed SalahEgypt 4 G 1 A
  • A. LookmanNigeria 3 G 4 A
  • A. DialloIvory Coast 3 G 1 A
  • A. El KaabiMorocco 3 G 1 A
  • R. MahrezAlgeria 3 G 0 A

Recent Africa Cup of Nations results

Last 6 played — what we predicted and what happened.

Recent Africa Cup of Nations results with our pre-match pick
DateMatchOur pickOur probScorePick
Egypt vs Nigeria — — 0–0 no pick
Nigeria vs Morocco — — 0–0 no pick
Senegal vs Egypt — — 1–0 no pick
Egypt vs Ivory Coast — — 3–2 no pick
Algeria vs Nigeria — — 0–2 no pick
Cameroon vs Morocco — — 0–2 no pick

Our pick = the 1X2 selection we published before kick-off, with the probability we gave it; Correct/Missed compares that pick with the final result.