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AFCON MOST GOALS IN ONE EDITION
Picture : Zaire's Ndaye Mulamba has always the record with 9 goals in 1974 !
Aboubacar misses one goal to match Mulamba’s AFCON record
Making a brace in the game for 3rd place vs Burkina Faso (3-3), Vincent Aboubacar (Cameroon) finished Africa Cup of Nations 2021 with a tally of 8 goals. This is best individual achievement in a single edition of the competition since 1974!
Aboubacar missed just one goal to equate the AFCON record established in 1974 by Ndaye Mulamba (Zaire, current DR Congo).
| AFRICA CUP OF NATIONS | ||||
| PLAYERS WITH MOST GOALS | IN ONE EDITION (FINAL | STAGES) | ||
| Player | Country | Goals | Edition | |
| 1 | Ndaye Mulamba | Zaire | 9 | 1974 |
| 2 | Laurent Pokou | Ivory Coast | 8 | 1970 |
| Vincent Aboubakar | Cameroon | 8 | 2022 | |
| 4 | Hossam Hassan | Egypt | 7 | 1998 |
| Benni McCarthy | South Africa | 7 | 1998 | |
| 6 | Hassan El-Shazly | Egypt | 6 | 1963 |
| Laurent Pokou | Ivory Coast | 6 | 1968 | |
| 8 | Ad-Diba | Egypt | 5 | 1957 |
| Salif Keïta | Mali | 5 | 1972 | |
| Rashidi Yekini | Nigeria | 5 | 1994 | |
| Kalusha Bwalya | Zambia | 5 | 1996 | |
| Shaun Bartlett | South Africa | 5 | 2000 | |
| Samuel Eto'o | Cameroon | 5 | 2006 | |
| Samuel Eto'o | Cameroon | 5 | 2008 | |
| Mohamed Nagy | Egypt | 5 | 2010 | |
| Odion Ighalo | Nigeria | 5 | 2019 | |
| Karl Toko Ekambi | Cameroon | 5 | 2022 |