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2000 African Cup of Nations

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Host countries
  
Ghana Nigeria

Champions
  
Cameroon (3rd title)

Fourth place
  
Tunisia

Dates
  
22 Jan 2000 – 13 Feb 2000

Best player
  
Lauren

Venue(s)
  
4 (in 4 host cities)

Runners-up
  
Nigeria

Matches played
  
32

Top scorer
  
Shaun Bartlett

Teams
  
16

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Champion
  
Cameroon national football team

Third place
  
South Africa national football team

Similar
  
2002 African Cup of N, 1998 African Cup of N, 1996 African Cup of N, 1994 African Cup of N, 2004 African Cup of N

Nigeria vs cameroon 2000 african cup of nations final


The 2000 African Cup of Nations was the 22nd edition of the Africa Cup of Nations, the association football championship of Africa (CAF). It was co-hosted by Ghana and Nigeria, who jointly replaced Zimbabwe as host. Just like in 1998, the field of sixteen teams was split into four groups of four. Cameroon won the championship, beating Nigeria in the final 4−3 on penalty kicks.

Contents

First round

Teams highlighted in green progress to the Quarter Finals.

All times local: GMT (UTC) and WAT (UTC +1)

Scorers

5 goals
  • Shaun Bartlett
  • 4 goals
    3 goals
    2 goals
    1 goal

    CAF Team of the Tournament

    Goalkeeper

  • Nader El-Sayed
  • Defenders

  • Papa Malick Diop
  • Khaled Badra
  • Rigobert Song
  • Mohamed Emara
  • Midfielders

  • Billel Dziri
  • Lauren
  • Jay-Jay Okocha
  • Khalilou Fadiga
  • Forwards

  • Patrick Mboma
  • Shaun Bartlett
  • References

    2000 African Cup of Nations Wikipedia


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