MATCH STATS: Senegal vs Morocco – TotalEnergies CAF Africa Cup of Nations Morocco 2025 Final
The TotalEnergies CAF Africa Cup of Nations Morocco 2025 final will be contested between Senegal and hosts Morocco on Sunday, 18 January at the Prince Moulay Abdellah Stadium in Rabat. Kick-off is at 20h00 local time (19h00 GMT).
Senegal have played all their matches in Tangier up to now, while Morocco will be playing their seventh game in Rabat.
Senegal will play in their fourth AFCON final and first since 2021, while Morocco will contest their second AFCON final and first since 2004. When Morocco lifted the trophy in 1976, the final stage was played in a round-robin format with no final.
This is their first meeting at an AFCON, but their 32nd overall. Senegal have six wins to Morocco’s 18, with seven draws.
They have met in qualifying for the FIFA World Cup and AFCON finals in the past. Most recently, they met at the 2024 edition of CHAN on 26 August 2025.
Morocco deposed defending champions Senegal in the semi-finals of the 2024 CHAN. The game ended 1-1 before Morocco triumphed 5-3 on penalties en route to reclaiming the title they lost to Senegal at the 2022 CHAN.
Morocco have won four of the last six games between the sides, with Senegal’s only victory in this period coming in the form of a 1-0 win on 25 May 2012 in a friendly match.
Prior to their CHAN meeting, their previous clash on 9 October 2020 saw Morocco win a friendly international 3-1.
Morocco made their inaugural appearance at the FIFA World Cup in 1970, defeating Senegal in the qualifiers. A play-off match in Las Palmas was required after the aggregate score of the first two games ended 2-2, with Morocco winning the decider 2-0.
Morocco also got the better of Senegal as they qualified for the 1994 FIFA World Cup.
Senegal reached their first FIFA World Cup finals in 2002. In the qualifying rounds, they faced Morocco, drawing away from home and winning at home. Both teams finished level on 15 points, with Senegal progressing on superior goal difference.
Morocco’s only AFCON title came in 1976. In the qualifiers, they faced Senegal in the first round, defeating them 5-2 on aggregate. Morocco won the first leg 4-0 in Fez, while Senegal won the second leg 2-1.
Morocco become the 15th host nation to reach the AFCON final.
The last three host nations to reach the final have won the tournament: Tunisia in 2004, Egypt in 2006 and Côte d’Ivoire in 2023.
The host nation has reached the final in successive editions for the first time since 2004 and 2006, when Tunisia and Egypt both reached the final and won the tournament.
The last host nation to lose in the final was Nigeria in 2000, losing on penalties to Cameroon after a 2-2 draw.
Victory for Morocco would see host nations win back-to-back AFCON titles for the first time since 2004 and 2006, when Tunisia and Egypt were champions.
Host nations have won back-to-back AFCON finals three times previously: Ethiopia and Ghana in 1962 and 1963, Ghana and Nigeria in 1978 and 1980, and Tunisia and Egypt in 2004 and 2006.
Host nations have been crowned AFCON champions 12 times previously. In 1959, when Egypt were champions, there was no direct final.
Hosts have won the final 11 times previously: Ethiopia (1962), Ghana (1963), Sudan (1970), Ghana (1978), Nigeria (1980), Egypt (1986), Algeria (1990), South Africa (1996), Tunisia (2004), Egypt (2006) and Côte d’Ivoire (2023).
Hosts have lost in the final three times. Two of those defeats—Nigeria against Cameroon in 2000 and Libya against Ghana in 1982—were on penalties, while Tunisia lost to Ghana in 1965.
Hosts have been involved in a penalty shoot-out in the final four times. Egypt won two finals on penalties in 1986 and 2006 against Cameroon and Côte d’Ivoire respectively, with both matches ending 0-0. Hosts have lost twice on penalties: Libya against Ghana in 1982 after a 1-1 draw, and Nigeria against Cameroon in 2000 after a 2-2 draw.
The only host nation to lose an AFCON final in open play was Tunisia in 1965, losing 3-2 after extra time to Ghana.
All three defeats by host nations in AFCON finals have gone to extra time.
Ten of the 12 AFCON final victories by host nations have been achieved in open play, with two decided on penalties.
Ghana and Nigeria’s 3-0 wins over Sudan and Algeria in the 1963 and 1980 finals are the biggest victories by a host nation in an AFCON final.
The AFCON final involving a host nation with the most goals was Ethiopia’s 4-2 win over Egypt in 1962. The match produced six goals and required extra time.
This is the ninth AFCON final between teams from West and North Africa. In the previous eight meetings, West African teams have triumphed four times and North African teams four times.
In past finals between teams from West and North Africa, West African teams triumphed in 1965 with Ghana defeating Tunisia, Nigeria over Algeria in 1980, Ghana against Libya on penalties in 1982, and Senegal against Egypt on penalties in 2021.
North African teams have triumphed over West African teams in AFCON finals in 1990 when Algeria defeated Nigeria, in 2006 when Egypt defeated Côte d’Ivoire on penalties, in 2010 when Egypt beat Ghana, and in 2019 when Algeria defeated Senegal.
When West and North African teams have met in AFCON finals, five matches have been decided in open play and three on penalties—Ghana and Senegal defeating Libya and Egypt in 1982 and 2021 respectively, and Egypt defeating Côte d’Ivoire on penalties in 2006.
This is the fifth time a West African team has faced a North African host in the final. On two occasions, the West African team won—Ghana over Tunisia in 1965 and Ghana over Libya in 1982. The other two finals saw the North African hosts triumph: Algeria over Nigeria in 1990 and Egypt over Côte d’Ivoire on penalties in 2006.
Senegal, featuring in their fourth final, will face a North African team in the final for the third time, having played Algeria in 2019 and Egypt in 2021. They lost in 2019 and won in 2021.
Senegal will face the host nation in an AFCON final for the first time.
The two most common scorelines in AFCON finals are 1-0 (eight times) and 0-0 (seven times). Since 2002, nine of the 12 finals have ended with one of those scorelines, with the other three being 2-1 victories for Tunisia in 2004, Cameroon in 2017 and Côte d’Ivoire in 2023.
Of the 32 previous AFCON finals, 12 have gone to extra time. Two—Ethiopia’s win over Egypt in 1962 and Ghana’s win over Tunisia in 1965—were decided in open play. In 1974, DR Congo drew 2-2 with Zambia in the first final, which went to extra time, before winning the replay 2-0.
Nine AFCON finals have been decided on penalties, the first occurring in 1982 when Ghana defeated Libya 7-6 after a 1-1 draw.
Since Cameroon and Nigeria’s 2-2 draw in the 2000 final, the last five finals to be decided on penalties have all ended 0-0 after 120 minutes: Cameroon over Senegal in 2002, Egypt against Côte d’Ivoire in 2006, Zambia over Côte d’Ivoire in 2012, Côte d’Ivoire against Ghana in 2015, and Senegal over Egypt in 2021.
The biggest win in an AFCON final remains Egypt’s 4-0 victory over Ethiopia in 1957.
HEAD-TO-HEAD (OVERALL)
Senegal: P31 W6 D7 L18 GF18 GA41 GD23
Morocco: P31 W18 D7 L6 GF41 GA18 GD23
Senegal – Key Statistics
• Have reached this stage with five wins from their six games, winning their group matches against Botswana and Benin, and defeating Sudan, Mali and Egypt in the knockout rounds.• Have only failed to win once, drawing 1-1 against DR Congo in the group stages.
• Are featuring in their fourth AFCON final.
• Previous appearances in the final were in 2002, 2019 and 2021.
• This is their second final in North Africa, after Egypt 2019.
• Have featured in finals in Central, West and North Africa.
• Have had two finals finish 0-0 and be decided on penalties after extra time, losing to Cameroon in 2002 by 3-2 in the shoot-out.
• Their most recent final in 2021 against Egypt also ended 0-0 before they triumphed 4-2 on penalties.
• Their only final decided in 90 minutes saw them lose 1-0 to Algeria in 2019, with Baghdad Bounedjah scoring after two minutes.
• Only one goal has been scored in their previous three finals.
• Only one other team’s first three AFCON finals produced fewer goals: Côte d’Ivoire’s first three finals in 1992, 2006 and 2012 all ended 0-0 and were decided on penalties, as did the Elephants’ fourth final in 2015.
• They lost their first two finals in 2002 and 2019 before winning in 2021, and are one of three countries to have lost their first two finals and won their third, along with Sudan and Zambia.
• Pape Thiaw is the second Senegalese coach to lead his country to an AFCON final, following Bruno Metsu in 2002 and Aliou Cissé in 2019 and 2021.
• Victory would mean both of Senegal’s AFCON titles have come under Senegalese coaches.
• They have kept four clean sheets at the current edition and would equal their best run of five in a single tournament if they do so in this match, having achieved five in 2002, 2019 and 2021.
• Have won five games at the current edition, their joint-highest total alongside 2019 (five).
• Victory would see them win six games at a single AFCON edition for the first time.
• Have won four successive AFCON matches for the first time since 2019.
• They have won three successive knockout games for a third time at AFCON, also doing so when reaching the finals in 2019 and 2021.
• Victory would see them win four knockout games for the first time.
• Victory would also see them become the first team to win four successive knockout games at AFCON.
• They have scored in all six of their matches, the first time they have done so at an AFCON.
• The 12 goals they have scored at the current tournament is the most they have netted at a single edition.
• They have now scored in their last 10 AFCON matches, last failing to score in the 2021 final against Egypt.
• Are undefeated in their last 17 AFCON matches since losing the 2019 final (W12 D5).
• Are now eight knockout-stage matches unbeaten, with their last defeat coming against Algeria in the 2019 final (W6 D2).
• They have kept 11 clean sheets in their last 17 AFCON matches.
• Their loss to Algeria in the 2019 final is their only defeat in their last 22 AFCON matches (W16 D5).
• In their last 22 AFCON matches, they have kept 15 clean sheets.
• Have not conceded more than one goal in a match since a 2-2 draw against Algeria in their final group game in 2017.
• Edouard Mendy has kept four clean sheets at the current edition and recorded his 10th AFCON clean sheet against Egypt.
• Four clean sheets is the most Mendy has kept in a single edition, having kept three in 2021.
• Mendy is the first Senegalese goalkeeper since Alfred Gomis in 2019 to keep four clean sheets in a single edition.
• They have conceded just two goals at the current edition. In 2002, when reaching the final, they conceded one goal while playing five matches, and in 2019 they also conceded a single goal in six matches en route to the final.
• This is the fifth successive edition in which they have not conceded more than two goals, last conceding more in 2015, when they conceded four.
• Kalidou Koulibaly misses the match through suspension, his second suspension of the current tournament after a red card in the group stages.
• Koulibaly misses an AFCON final through suspension for the second time, having also missed the 2019 final.
• They will also be without Habib Diarra, who is suspended for the match.
• Sadio Mané scored Senegal’s only goal against Egypt, his 11th AFCON goal.
• Mané scored in an AFCON semi-final for the second time.
• Four of Mané’s AFCON goals have come in knockout matches.
• Mané has taken his total AFCON goal involvements to 20, with 11 goals and nine assists.
• Mané’s goal against Egypt was Senegal’s 99th AFCON goal.
• Mané is the ninth player in AFCON history to score 10 or more goals, after Samuel Eto’o (18), Laurent Pokou (14), Rashidi Yekini (13), Hassan El-Shazly (12), Patrick M’Boma (11), Mohamed Salah (11), Hossam Hassan (11) and Didier Drogba (11).
• Mané’s goal against Egypt was the first AFCON semi-final goal scored from outside the penalty area since Riyad Mahrez for Algeria against Nigeria in 2019.
• Senegal coach Pape Thiaw leads Senegal into his second CAF final, having been in charge when they defeated hosts Algeria in the final of the 2022 CHAN.
• Had 63.4% possession against Egypt.
• Completed 468 passes against Egypt from 534 attempted.
• Krépin Diatta had 104 touches against Egypt.
• Diatta completed 71 passes against Egypt, the most in the match.
• El Hadji Malick Diouf made a match-high 10 clearances against Egypt, more than the entire Egyptian team combined (seven).
• Mané has created 18 chances, the most in the tournament.
Morocco – Key Statistics
• Will be playing their seventh match, the most they have played at a single AFCON edition.
• When crowned champions in 1976 and finishing runners-up in 2004, they played six matches in each tournament.
• They have won four matches at the current edition, their joint-highest total alongside 1976 and 2004.
• Are featuring in their second AFCON final and first since 2004.
• In 1976, when they won the title, there was no final, with the tournament played over two group stages.
• In their only previous direct final in 2004, they faced hosts Tunisia and lost 2-1. Tunisia led after five minutes through Francileudo Dos Santos, Youssef Mokhtari equalised in the 38th minute, and Ziad Jaziri scored the winner in the 52nd minute.
• In 1976, their decisive match was the final game of the second group stage against Guinea. They trailed 1-0 after Cherif Souleymane scored in the 33rd minute, before Ahmed Makrouh equalised in the 86th minute to ensure Morocco finished top of the group with five points, one ahead of Guinea.
• Walid Regragui is the second Moroccan coach to lead the Atlas Lions to an AFCON final, following Ezzaki Badou, who finished runner-up in 2004.
• Victory would see Regragui join Romanian coach Virgil Mărdărescu, who led Morocco to the title in 1976, as the only coaches to guide them to AFCON glory.
• Morocco clinched their last AFCON title with a 1-1 draw against Guinea in the second group stage on 14 March 1976, 49 years, 10 months and five days ago.
• It has been 18,208 days since Morocco were last crowned AFCON champions.
• At the current finals, they have already played two West African teams and have failed to win in open play, drawing with Mali in the group stages and winning on penalties in the semi-finals.
• Have won just one of their last four matches against West African teams, a group-stage win over Ghana in 2021 (D3).
• Their last two AFCON knockout matches against West African teams—Nigeria at the current edition and Benin in the 2021 Round of 16—have been decided on penalties. They defeated Nigeria and lost to Benin.
• Their last knockout-stage win over a West African team came against Mali in the 2004 semi-finals, a 4-0 victory.
• In AFCON knockout matches against West African teams, Morocco’s record reads P5 W1 D2 L1.
• Two of their knockout matches against West African teams have gone to penalties: defeats to Benin in 2021 and victory over Nigeria at the current edition. They also lost the third-place play-off against Côte d’Ivoire 3-2 in 1986 and the 1980 final against Nigeria 1-0.
• Their only knockout-stage win over a West African team was the 4-0 semi-final victory over Mali in 2004.
• Their penalty shoot-out win over Nigeria in the semi-finals was Regragui’s second as coach in a major tournament, having also won on penalties against Spain in the Round of 16 at the 2022 FIFA World Cup.
• They have conceded one goal at the current edition, the fewest they have conceded after six matches at an AFCON.
• They have scored in five of their six matches, failing to score only in the semi-final win on penalties over Nigeria.
• Should they score in the final, it would be the third time they have netted in six matches at an AFCON, having also done so in 1976 and 2004.
• Have kept five clean sheets at the current AFCON, their most in a single edition.
• Have scored nine goals, having only previously scored more in 2004, when they netted 14.
• They have scored 96 AFCON goals and are four short of reaching 100.
• Yassine Bounou is the first Moroccan goalkeeper to keep five clean sheets at a single AFCON edition.
• Bounou has kept a total of 11 clean sheets at AFCON tournaments.
• Another clean sheet would see Bounou become the first goalkeeper to keep six clean sheets at a single AFCON.
• They have now gone 477 minutes without conceding a goal.
• Since the introduction of the Round of 16 in 2019, Morocco are the third team to reach an AFCON final after conceding just one goal in six matches, alongside Senegal in 2019 and Egypt in 2021.
• Brahim Díaz scored in each of Morocco’s first five matches but failed to score in their most recent game.
• A goal for Díaz would see him draw level with Ahmed Faras as Morocco’s joint top scorer at AFCON with six goals.
• A goal would also see Díaz become the second Moroccan, after Faras, to score in six matches at a single AFCON.
• Morocco have registered 87 shots at goal, the second most at the tournament, with only Senegal (94) recording more.
• They have had 32 shots on target, ranking third, with Senegal top on 47.
• Morocco have scored nine goals, with a shot conversion rate of 14%.
• Have attempted 2,937 passes, the third most at the tournament, with Senegal leading on 3,084.
• Díaz has recorded eight shots on target, the most of any Moroccan player.
• Achraf Hakimi has created 10 chances, the most by a Moroccan player.
• Nayef Aguerd has completed 395 passes, the most of any Moroccan player.
• They recorded five shots on target against Nigeria and faced just one shot.
• Neil El Aynaoui had three shots, the most by a Moroccan player against Nigeria.
• Noussair Mazraoui completed three successful dribbles and won 12 duels against Nigeria, the most by a Moroccan player in the match.
• Hakimi was fouled five times against Nigeria, more than any other player.
• Morocco are unbeaten in their last six AFCON matches, with their previous longest unbeaten run being eight matches across the 2019 and 2021 editions.
• Victory would see Morocco become the first team since Senegal to hold the CHAN and AFCON titles simultaneously. Senegal won AFCON 2021 and CHAN 2022.
• In total, Morocco have had three AFCON matches decided on penalties. They lost a third-place play-off against Algeria in 1988 and their Round of 16 match against Benin in 2019, both ending 1-1, before winning their first AFCON penalty shoot-out in the semi-final against Nigeria after a 0-0 draw.