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Twenty-seven of the remaining 41 newcomers withdrew after the first round, including Burundi and Mauritania last month, failed to win in their three group matches. Only three beginners – Egypt, Ghana and South Africa – raised the trophy it symbolizes the supremacy of the African national team on the first try.
Here, the AFP Sport lists how countries behaved when they debuted in a competition first staged 62 years ago in Sudan.
Champions
Egypt (1957), Ghana, hosts (1963), South Africa, hosts (1996)
finalists
Ethiopia (1957), Mali (1972), Zambia (1974), Libya, host (1982)
Semifinalists
Sudan, host countries (1957), Tunisia, Uganda (both 1962), Côte d 'Ivoire, Senegal (both 1965)
Quarter finalists
Equatorial Guinea, co-hosts (2012), Cape Verde (2013)
First round
Nigeria (1963), Democratic Republic of Congo (1965), Algeria, Congo Brazzaville (1968), Cameroon, Guinea (1970), Kenya, Morocco, Togo (all 1972), Mauritius (1974), Burkina Faso (1978). , Tanzania (1980), Malawi (1984), Mozambique (1986), Gabon, Sierra Leone (1994), Angola, Liberia (1996), Namibia (1998), Benin, Rwanda, Zimbabwe (all 2004), Botswana, Niger ( both 2012), Guinea-Bissau (2017), Burundi and Mauritania (both 2019)
To be decided
Madagascar (2019)
Not qualifying
Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Djibouti, Eritrea, eSwatini (formerly Swaziland), Gambia, Lesotho, Sao Tome and Principe, Seychelles, Somalia, South Sudan
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