West African Nations Cup

The West African Nations Cup, also known as CSSA Nations Cup or "Zone 3" Championship, was a football championship held from 1982 to 1987 (not in 1985), but discontinued. Ghana won all editions, and indeed never lost a single match among the 25 they played. The tournament was unsuccessfully revived in 2001 as WAFU Championship; in 2005 a "WAFU Laurent Gbagbo West African Unity Cup" was organised between four of the better teams of the region, apparently as an invitational tournament so not a proper successor of the tournament of the eighties.

The Supreme Council for Sports in Africa (SCSA) was established in July 1965 in Brazzaville as the Comite Permanent du Sport Africain (CPSA). Its present title was adopted in Bamako on 14 December 1966. Since 3 July 1977, the SCSA has been functioning as a specialised agency of the Organisation of African Unity. The SCSA has its headquarters in Yaoundé, Cameroon.^[1]

West African Nations Cup Record

Year	Host	Final			Third place match
Year	Host	Champion	Score	Second place	Third place	Score	Fourth place
1982 Details	Benin	Ghana	2–1	Togo	Burkina Faso	1–1	Ivory Coast
1983 Details	Ivory Coast	Ghana	3–1	Togo	Ivory Coast	2–1	Liberia
1984 Details	Burkina Faso	Ghana	1–1	Togo	Ivory Coast	2–0	Burkina Faso
1986 Details	Ghana	Ghana	1–0	Togo	Niger	2–1	Burkina Faso
1987 Details	Liberia	Ghana	2–1	Liberia	Nigeria	3–1	Togo

Most West African Nations Cup wins

Wins	Nation	Year(s)
5 times	Ghana	1982, 1983, 1984, 1986, 1987

Statistics

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
Ghana	28	18	7	0	56	19	+37
Togo	24	9	7	8	29	32	−3
Ivory Coast	17	5	8	4	24	23	+1
Nigeria	10	6	2	2	8	7	+1
Burkina Faso	18	4	5	9	15	26	−11
Liberia	15	4	2	9	13	17	−4
Niger	12	2	3	7	9	21	−12
Benin	10	1	3	6	11	20	−9

References

↑ "The Supreme Council for Sports in Africa (S.C.S.A.).". tessamas.net. 20 October 2007. Retrieved 20 October 2007.

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West African Nations Cup

Benin 1982 Ivory Coast 1983 Burkina Faso 1984 Ghana 1986 Liberia 1987

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