Gabon will annular off their TotalEnergies CAF Africa Cup of Nations Morocco 2025 attack with a final Accumulation F accoutrement adjoin arresting champions Côte d’Ivoire at the Grand Stade de Marrakech on 31 December. Kick-off is at 20h00 bounded time (19h00 GMT).
Gabon are already alone from the competition, while Côte d’Ivoire require at atomic a draw to defended progression to the knockout stages.
This will be the aboriginal affair amid the two abandon at the Africa Cup of Nations finals.
The two teams accept met 18 times ahead above all competitions. Côte d’Ivoire authority the bright bend with 10 wins, while Gabon accept four victories and there accept been four draws.
They accept met in AFCON condoning for the 1972 and 2008 tournaments. Above those four games, Gabon bootless to almanac a win, with Côte d’Ivoire claiming four victories forth with one draw.
Their best contempo affairs came in 2026 FIFA World Cup qualifying. Côte d’Ivoire won the aboriginal bout 1-0 in Korhogo on 7 June 2024, with Seko Fofana scoring the acceptable ambition in the 36th minute. The acknowledgment accoutrement concluded aimless on 9 September 2025 in Franceville. Côte d’Ivoire able for the 2026 FIFA World Cup, while Gabon avant-garde to a continental play-off tournament, area they ultimately bootless to qualify.
Côte d’Ivoire’s better achievement in the accoutrement was a 5-0 win in 2008 AFCON condoning on 7 October 2006 in Abidjan. Arouna Koné denticulate a hat-trick, with Kolo Touré and Aruna Dindane abacus the added goals.
All four of Gabon’s wins in the accoutrement accept been by a single-goal margin, while all four draws amid the abandon accept concluded 0-0.
PAST MEETINGS
OVERALL Gabon: P18 W4 D4 L10 GF10 GA29 GD-19 Côte d’Ivoire: P18 W10 D4 L4 GF29 GA10 GD 19
Gabon – Key Statistics
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Are alone afterwards defeats to Cameroon and Mozambique.
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This is their sixth group-stage abolishment in nine AFCON appearances.
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Have additionally exited at the accumulation date in 1994, 2000, 2010, 2015 and 2017.
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Have progressed above the accumulation date aloof already in their aftermost four AFCON appearances, in 2021.
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Conceded three goals adjoin Mozambique, the aboriginal time they accept conceded three in an AFCON bout back a 3-1 accident to Algeria in their additional accumulation bold in 2000.
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Have won aloof one of their aftermost 11 AFCON matches (D6 L4), accepting won four of the antecedent bristles (D1).
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Are now bristles amateur afterwards a win at AFCON, with their aftermost achievement advancing adjoin Comoros in their aperture bout in 2021 (D3 L2).
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Have amorphous an AFCON attack with alternating defeats for the aboriginal time back 2000, back they absent to South Africa and Algeria.
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Have never absent all three accumulation matches at a distinct AFCON edition; in 1994 they absent both accumulation games, with alone three teams per accumulation at that tournament.
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Should they lose, they will accomplishment an AFCON attack afterwards a point for alone the additional time, afterwards 1994.
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Should they abort to win, it will be the fourth time they accept exited afterwards a victory, forth with 1994, 2000 and 2017.
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Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang denticulate his seventh AFCON ambition adjoin Mozambique, the best by a Gabonese amateur at the tournament.
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Aubameyang became the 14th Marseille amateur to account at AFCON back 1992, with alone ES Tunis accepting produced added altered goalscorers (19).
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At 36 years and 193 days, Aubameyang became the second-oldest amateur to account at AFCON back Hossam Hassan (39 years, 177 days) for Egypt adjoin DR Congo in 2006.
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Gabon won the aboriginal four AFCON matches in which Aubameyang scored, but accept bootless to win the aftermost three (D2 L1).
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Defeat to Mozambique was the aboriginal time Aubameyang denticulate in an AFCON bout that Gabon went on to lose (previously W4 D2).
Côte d’Ivoire – Key Statistics
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Began the clash with a win adjoin Mozambique, followed by a 1-1 draw adjoin Cameroon.
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Failed already afresh to defeat Cameroon at AFCON, accepting won aloof one of nine affairs in accessible play. Their 11% win amount adjoin Cameroon is the additional everyman adjoin any adversary they accept faced at atomic twice, with alone Egypt lower at 9%.
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Victory over Mozambique was their 49th win at AFCON; addition win would accomplish them the fourth nation to ability 50, afterwards Egypt (61), Nigeria (60) and Ghana (54).
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Have denticulate in their aftermost six AFCON matches, aftermost declining to account in their final accumulation bold adjoin Equatorial Guinea in 2023.
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Emerse Faé charcoal best as Côte d’Ivoire drillmaster at AFCON (W3 D2).
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Côte d’Ivoire accept denticulate in all bristles AFCON matches beneath Faé.
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Progression would see them ability the knockout circuit for a third alternating tournament.
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Their aftermost group-stage avenue came in 2017.
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Reaching the abutting annular would mark a 17th all-embracing progression above the accumulation stage.
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Since 2006, they accept been alone at the accumulation date aloof already in 10 clash appearances, in 2017.
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Their almanac in final accumulation matches stands at P25 W11 D4 L9.
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Their aftermost 14 final accumulation amateur accept produced goals; they were aftermost complex in a 0-0 draw in a final accumulation bold in 1994 adjoin Congo.
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Have alert featured in seven-goal final accumulation matches: a 6-1 win over Ethiopia in 1970 and a 5-2 achievement over Angola in 1998.
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Lost their final accumulation bout in 2023, a 4-0 defeat to Equatorial Guinea, their heaviest accident at AFCON.
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Amad Diallo has denticulate in Côte d’Ivoire’s aperture two matches and is the additional Ivorian, above alternating tournaments, to account in alternating games, afterwards Sébastien Haller in the 2023 semi-final and final.
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Diallo is the aboriginal Ivorian to account in the aperture two accumulation matches at AFCON back Yaya Touré and Gervinho in 2013.
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A ambition would accomplish Diallo the aboriginal Ivorian to account in all three accumulation matches at a distinct AFCON edition.
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Côte d’Ivoire accept denticulate 11 goals from alfresco the box at AFCON back 2010, added than any added nation.
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They attempted 13 shots adjoin Cameroon, with alone two on target.