Three hours after Ivory Coast beat Nigeria 2-1 to win the Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) for the third time, hundreds of people were still inside the Alassane Ouattara Stadium. Volunteers wanted to ...

Five of the last six host nations to reach the final had won the AFCON title, but the Ivory Coast’s appearance in this edition at one point looked unlikely, their 4-0 group-stage defeat to ...

The AFCON Cup of Nations has not been short of high-level soccer drama. And look no further than the path that Nigeria and host nation Ivory Coast took to get to Sunday’s final. Nigeria reached ...

particularly Ivory Coast, which sacked its manager mid-tournament after a disastrous group stage and has earned a reputation as an agent of chaos. The host nation is seeking its third AFCON title ...

We examine why Ivory Coast’s defeat of Nigeria in the Africa Cup of Nations may have just marked the greatest AFCON yet. Ivory Coast's Sebastien Haller celebrates scoring the winning goal in the ...

The draw for the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations is made in Morocco where defending champions Ivory Coast will be in the same group as Cameroon ...

And so, for all the national fervour being stirred here on Africa’s west coast, this has become an AFCON for China as much as it is for Ivory Coast. In the south of Abidjan, the western fringes ...

Ivory Coast’s AFCON journey began on shaky ground. A humiliating 0-4 defeat against Equatorial Guinea in the group stage left the hosts reeling and on the brink of elimination. That loss proved ...