The 1994 African Cup of Nations was the 19th edition of the
Africa Cup of Nations
The Africa Cup of Nations referred to as AFCON (french: Coupe d'Afrique des Nations, sometimes referred to as CAN, or TotalEnergies Africa Cup of Nations for sponsorship reasons), and sometimes as African Cup of Nations, is the main internati ...
, the
association football
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championship of Africa ( CAF). It was hosted by Tunisia, who replaced original hosts Zaire. Just as in
1992
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, the field of twelve teams was split into four groups of three.
Nigeria
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won its second championship, beating
Zambia
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Bashir Abdel Samad
Beshir Abdel Samad ar, بشير عبد الصمد is a former Egyptian footballer. He played club football for Ismaily.
Abdel Samad played for the Egypt national football team at the 1994 African Cup of Nations
The 1994 African Cup of Natio ...
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Charles Akonnor
Charles Kwabla Akonnor (born 12 March 1974 in Accra) is a former Ghanaian international footballer who is the former manager of the Ghana national team. He played as a versatile midfielder, mostly in Germany.
He started his career in Ghana wit ...
Emmanuel Amuneke
Emmanuel Amunike (born 25 December 1970) is a Nigerian professional football manager and former professional Association Football, football player who played as a Midfielder#Winger, winger. and is currently the assistant coach of Nigeria natio ...
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Elijah Litana
Elijah Litana (born 5 December 1970) is a Zambian former professional association football, footballer who played as a defender (association football), defender. He was part of the Zambia national football team, Zambia national team that reached ...
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Kenneth Malitoli
Kenneth Malitoli (born 20 August 1966) is a Zambian coach and former association football, footballer. Nicknamed 'Bubble', Malitoli is one of Zambia's most decorated players and was Zambian league top scorer in three consecutive seasons, as wel ...
Ayman Mansour
Ayman Mansour أيمن منصور (born 9 September 1963) is an Egyptian former footballer who played as a forward, most notably for Zamalek. Mansour played for the Egypt national team, including at the 1994 African Cup of Nations.
Club caree ...
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Prince Polley
Prince Opoku Bismark Polley Sampene (born 4 May 1969), known as Prince Polley, is a Ghanaian retired professional footballer who played as a striker.
Career
He used to play for the Dutch club FC Twente.
International
Polley participated for ...
Fernand Coulibaly
Fernand Coulibaly (born 1 August 1971) is a retired Malian professional football striker who played for several clubs in Europe and the Mali national football team. He has Turkish citizenship with the name Muhammed DoÄŸan.
Coulibaly was bor ...
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Amadou Diallo
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Mutiu Adepoju
Mutiu Adepoju (born 22 December 1970) is a Nigerian former professional footballer who played mostly as an attacking midfielder.
He spent most of his career in Spain, amassing La Liga totals of 175 games and 22 goals over the course of seven se ...
Momath Gueye
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Faouzi Rouissi
Faouzi Rouissi (born 20 March 1971 in Tunis) is a Tunisian former professional footballer who played as a striker.
Rouissi's career started at the age of 10, when he joined local club Club Africain. He spent seven successful years in their you ...
Nsumbu Ngoy
Ngoy Nsumbu (born 30 December 1972) is a retired Congolese football midfielder. He was a squad member at the 1994 Africa Cup of Nations.
Honours
Genk
*Belgian First Division: 1998–99
*Belgian Cup
The Belgian Cup (french: link=no, Coupe de ...
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Kalusha Bwalya
Kalusha Bwalya (born 16 August 1963) is a Zambian former international footballer. He is Zambia's eighth-most capped player and third on the list of all-time top goalscorers behind Godfrey Chitalu and Alex Chola. Kalusha was named African Fo ...
Ahmed Shobair
Ahmed Abdelaziz Shobeir ( ar, Ø£Øمد عبد العزيز شوبير; born 28 September 1960) is former Egyptian goalkeeper who played for Al Ahly club & Egypt national football team. He is a former vice-president of the Egyptian Football Assoc ...
Harrison Chongo
Harrison "Wawa" Chongo (5 June 1969 – 12 May 2011) was a Zambia national football team, Zambia international association football, football player who played in central defence or as a defensive midfielder.
Career
Born in Lusaka, Chongo began ...
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Elijah Litana
Elijah Litana (born 5 December 1970) is a Zambian former professional association football, footballer who played as a defender (association football), defender. He was part of the Zambia national football team, Zambia national team that reached ...
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Benedict Iroha
Benedict "Ben" Iroha (born 29 November 1969) is a Nigerian former professional association football player who played as a left-back or left midfielder.
Career
Iroha started his career in Nigeria, scoring the first ever goal in the newly profe ...
Daniel Amokachi
Daniel Owefin Amokachi (born 30 December 1972) is a Nigerian football manager and former professional footballer and a member of the dubious goals panel for the Premier League.
As a player he was a forward who notably played in the Premier L ...
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Abedi Pele
Abedi Ayew ( ; born 5 November 1964), known professionally as Abedi Pele, is a Ghanaian former professional footballer who played as an attacking midfielder and who served as captain of the Ghana national team. He is regarded as one of the g ...
Nations
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