CONTINENTAL RECORDS
Picture: Antonin Panenka in the UEFA European Championship final1976 , scoring against Germany. It was the first time that the penalty shootout was used !
AFCON increases record on final shootouts
The AFCON 2021 final was the 20th time in the history of football when a continental championship was decided by a penalty shootout in the final game. Almost half of these cases (9) apply just to Africa Cup of Nations.
The rest are distributed as follows:
CONMEBOL Copa América – 4,
European Nations' Cup/UEFA European Championship – 2,
CONCACAF Gold Cup – 2,
AFC Asian Cup – 2,
OFC Nations Cup – 1.
For the first time, this method of determining the winner of the tournament was used at the 1976 European Championship.
ALL | CONFEDERATION | CHAMPIONSHIPS | ||||
DECIDED | BY SHOOTOUTS | |||||
Year | Conferedation | Winner | Runner-up | Score | Pen. | |
1 | 1976 | UEFA | Czechoslovakia | Germany | 2-2 | 5–3 |
2 | 1982 | CAF | Ghana | Libya | 1–1 | 7–6 |
3 | 1986 | CAF | Egypt | Cameroon | 0–0 | 5–4 |
4 | 1988 | AFC | Saudi Arabia | South Korea | 0–0 | 4–3 |
5 | 1991 | CONCACAF | USA | Honduras | 0-0 | 4-3 |
6 | 1992 | CAF | Ivory Coast | Ghana | 0–0 | 11–10 |
7 | 1995 | CONMEBOL | Uruguay | Brazil | 1–1 | 5–3 |
8 | 1996 | AFC | Saudi Arabia | UAE | 0–0 | 4–2 |
9 | 2000 | CAF | Cameroon | Nigeria | 2–2 | 4–3 |
10 | 2002 | CAF | Cameroon | Senegal | 0–0 | 3–2 |
11 | 2004 | CONMEBOL | Brazil | Argentina | 2–2 | 4–2 |
12 | 2005 | CONCACAF | USA | Panama | 0-0 | 3-1 |
13 | 2006 | CAF | Egypt | Ivory Coast | 0–0 | 4–2 |
14 | 2012 | CAF | Zambia | Ivory Coast | 0–0 | 8–7 |
15 | 2015 | CAF | Ivory Coast | Ghana | 0–0 | 9–8 |
16 | 2015 | CONMEBOL | Chile | Argentina | 0–0 | 4–1 |
17 | 2016 | CONMEBOL | Chile | Argentina | 0–0 | 4–2 |
18 | 2016 | OFC | New Zealand | Papua New Guinea | 0–0 | 4–2 |
19 | 2021 | UEFA | Italy | England | 1–1 | 3–2 |
20 | 2022 | CAF | Senegal | Egypt | 0–0 | 4–2 |