Hosts Morocco play Comoros in the opening match of the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations on Sunday. Here is how other hosts fared in their first game (hosts first):

1957: Sudan 1 Egypt 2

1959: Egypt 4 Ethiopia 0

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1962: Ethiopia 4 Tunisia 2

1963: Ghana 1 Tunisia 1

1965: Tunisia 4 Ethiopia 0

1968: Ethiopia 2 Uganda 1

1970: Sudan 3 Ethiopia 0

1972: Cameroon 2 Kenya 1

1974: Egypt 2 Uganda 1

1976: Ethiopia 2 Uganda 0

1978: Ghana 2 Zambia 1

1980: Nigeria 3 Tanzania 1

1982: Libya 2 Ghana 2

1984: Ivory Coast 3 Togo 0

1986: Egypt 0 Senegal 1

1988: Morocco 1 Zaire 1

1990: Algeria 5 Nigeria 1

1992: Senegal 1 Nigeria 2

1994: Tunisia 0 Mali 2

1996: South Africa 3 Cameroon 0

1998: Burkina Faso 0 Cameroon 1

2000: Nigeria 4 Tunisia 2/Ghana 1 Cameroon 1

2002: Mali 1 Liberia 1

2004: Tunisia 2 Rwanda 1

2006: Egypt 3 Libya 0

2008: Ghana 2 Guinea 1

2010: Angola 4 Mali 4

2012: Equatorial Guinea 1 Libya 0/Gabon 2 Niger 0

2013: South Africa 0 Cape Verde 0

2015: Equatorial Guinea 1 Congo Brazzaville 1

2017: Gabon 1 Guinea-Bissau 1

2019: Egypt 1 Zimbabwe 0

2022: Cameroon 2 Burkina Faso 1

2024: Ivory Coast 2 Guinea-Bissau 0

Note: Zaire renamed Democratic Republic of Congo in 1997

— AFP

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