Ruto assures Kenya will be ready for AFCON 2027
President William Ruto has reaffirmed the government’s commitment to upgrade various sporting facilities ahead of the 2027 Africa cup of nations to be co-hosted by Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda.
Walid Regragui, Kaba Diawara, Eric Chelle... which African coach will win the 2023 AFCON? The two previous winners, Aliou Cissé (2021) and Djamel Belmadi (2019), are indeed Africans. In fact, they seem to have inspired several other African federations. Because 14 African coaches will be on the starting grid in Côte d'Ivoire. If a son of the continent wins this 34th edition, it would be the 17th won by an African coach. A perfect tie between them and the "White Wizards".
Twelve local coaches have won 16 trophies. Ghana's Charles Gyamfi and Egypt's Hassan Shehata have each won three. They hold the competition record. Gyamfi gave the Black Stars their first star in 1963. He then successfully defended his title in 1965 in Tunis, before returning to triumph for the 3rd time in 1982. Shehata, meanwhile, has won three consecutive stars with his country Egypt (2006, 2008, 2010).
List of AFCON-winning African coaches
1957 Mourad Fahmy (Egypt, 1957), Charles Gyamfi (Ghana, 1963, 1965, 1982), Amoyan Bibanzulu (Congo-Kinshasa, 1972), Fred Osam Doudou (Ghana, 1978), Abdelhamid Kermali (Algeria, 1990), Martial Yeo (Ivory Coast,1992), Clive Barker (South Africa, 1996), Mahmoud Al Gohari (Egypt, 1998), Hassan Shehata (Egypt, 2006, 2008, 2010), Stephen Keshi (Nigeria, 2013), Djamel Belmadi (Algeria, 2019), Aliou Cissé (Senegal, 2021).
List of non-African AFCON-winning coaches
Josef Titkos (Hungary, 1959), Milosevic (Yugoslavia, 1962), Ferenc Csandai (Hungary, 1968), Jiri Starosta (Czechoslovakia, 1970), Blagoje Vidinic (Yugoslavia, 1974), Gheorghe Mardarescu (Romania, 1976), 1980 Otto Gloria (Brazil), Rade Ognanovic (Yugoslavia,1984), Mike Smith (Wales, 1986), 1988 Claude LeRoy (France), Clemens Westerhof (Netherlands, 1994), Pierre Lechantre (France, 2000), Winfried Schafer (Germany, 2002), Roger Lemerre (France, 2004), Hervé Renard (France, 2012, 2015), Hugo Broos (Belgium, 2017).
The 24 AFCON 2023 coaches
Algeria: Djamel Belmadi (Algeria)
Angola: Pedro Gonçalves (Portugal)
Burkina Faso: Hubert Velud (France)
Cameroon: Rigobert Song (Cameroon)
Cape Verde: Bubista (Cape Verde)
DR Congo: Sébastien Desabre (France)
Ivory Coast: Jean Louis Gasset (France)
Egypt : Rui Vitoria (Portugal)
Equatorial Guinea: Juan Micha (Equatorial Guinea)
Gambia: Tom Sainfiet (Belgium)
Ghana: Chris Hughton (Ireland)
Guinea Bissau: Baciro Candé (Guinea Bissau)
Morocco: Walid Regragui (Morocco)
Mali: Eric Chelle (Mali)
Mauritania: Amir Abdou (Comoros)
Mozambique: Chiquinho Conde (Mozambique)
Namibia: Benjamin Collin (Namibia)
Nigeria: Jose Pereiro (Portugal)
Senegal: Aliou Cissé (Senegal)
South Africa: Hugo Broos (Belgium)
Tanzania: Adel Amrouche (Algeria)
Tunisia: Jalel Kadri (Tunisia)
Zambia: Avram Grant (Israel)
