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Africa Cup of Nations Top Goalscorers 1957 – 2019
Africa Cup of Nations top goalscorers arranged by the individual tournaments from 1957 to 2019.
| Year | Player | Goals |
| 1957 | Diab Mohammed Diab El-Attar (Ad-Diba) | 5 |
| 1959 | Mahmoud Al-Gohari | 3 |
| 1962 | Abdelfatah Badawi | 3 |
| Menguistou Worku | ||
| 1963 | Hassan El-Shazly | 6 |
| 1965 | Ben Acheampong | 3 |
| Osei Kofi | ||
| Eustache Manglé | ||
| 1968 | Laurent Pokou | 6 |
| 1970 | Laurent Pokou | 8 |
| 1972 | Salif Keita | 5 |
| 1974 | Mulamba Ndaye | 9 |
| 1976 | Keita Aliou Mamadou ‘N’Jo Léa’ | 4 |
| 1978 | Philip Omondi | 3 |
| Opoku Afriyie | ||
| Segun Odegbami | ||
| 1980 | Khaled Al Abyad Labied | 3 |
| Segun Odegbami | ||
| 1982 | George Alhassan | 4 |
| 1984 | Taher Abouzaid | 4 |
| 1986 | Roger Milla | 4 |
| 1988 | Gamal Abdelhamid | 2 |
| Lakhdar Belloumi | ||
| Roger Milla | ||
| Abdoulaye Traoré | ||
| 1990 | Djamel Menad | 4 |
| 1992 | Rashidi Yekini | 4 |
| 1994 | Rashidi Yekini | 5 |
| 1996 | Kalusha Bwalya | 5 |
| 1998 | Hossam Hassan | 7 |
| Benedict McCarthy | ||
| 2000 | Shaun Bartlett | 5 |
| 2002 | Patrick Mboma | 3 |
| René Salomon Olembe | ||
| Julius Aghahowa | ||
| 2004 | Patrick Mboma | 4 |
| Frédéric Kanouté | ||
| Youssef Mokhtari | ||
| Jay-Jay Okocha | ||
| Francileudo dos Santos | ||
| 2006 | Samuel Eto'o | 5 |
| 2008 | Samuel Eto'o | 5 |
| 2010 | Mohamed 'Gedo' Nagy | 5 |
| 2012 | Cheick Tidiane Diabate | 3 |
| Christopher Katongo | ||
| Didier Drogba | ||
| Emmanuel Mayuka | ||
| Houssine Kharja | ||
| Manucho | ||
| Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang | ||
| 2013 | Wakaso Mubarak | 4 |
| Emmanuel Emenike | ||
| 2015 | Thievy Bifouma | 3 |
| Dieumerci Mbokani | ||
| Javier Balboa | ||
| André Ayew | ||
| Ahmed Akaïchi | ||
| 2017 | Junior Kabananga | 3 |
| 2019 | Odion Ighalo | 5 |
