African Cup of Nations

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African Cup of Nations

Founded	1957
Region	Africa
Number of Teams	16 (Finals)
Current Champions	Egypt
Most Successful Country	Egypt 6

The African Championships is a competition of Africa's best teams such as Ghana and the Ivory Coast. In order to qualify, like the they must be placed second or higher in their qualifying group or host the tournament.

When teams reach the final they are drawn into 4 groups of 4 and then the top two from each group play in knock out rounds against each other.

In PES unlike the European Championships and the International Cup the qualifying phase does not appear and the PES format is completely different as there are no groups just a striaght knock out phase because of the shortage of african teams in the game.

Ironically the most successful and current holders of the cup, Egypt, do not appear in the game as a playable team only as a team in the World cup qualifiers.

In PES winning the African Cup of Nations will Unlock players that were before not available in the game.