{"id":10865,"date":"2026-01-08T08:49:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T08:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/10865\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T08:49:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T08:49:07","slug":"algeria-and-the-africa-cup-of-nations-quarter-finals-what-do-the-numbers-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/10865\/","title":{"rendered":"Algeria and the Africa Cup of Nations quarter-finals: what do the numbers say?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Algeria&#8217;s record in the quarter-finals<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/c135cca1aa48cbe8692e6e86da604433.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Algeria\/@CAF<\/p>\n<p>Algeria will face Nigeria on Saturday, January 10, in the quarter-finals of<a href=\"https:\/\/foot-africa.com\/en\/news\/can\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:the Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON 2025).;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \"> the Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON 2025).<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;Fennecs&#8221; punched their ticket by edging out DR Congo (1-0 after extra time), while the Super Eagles cruised to a convincing victory over Mozambique (4-0).<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;Greens&#8221; are aiming for a third continental crown, following their triumphs in 1990 and 2019.<\/p>\n<p>In the past, the North African side has played in six quarter-finals, with two qualifications and four eliminations.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s a look back at Algeria&#8217;s quarter-final history in the Africa Cup of Nations:<\/p>\n<p>January 27, 1996: South Africa 2 \u2013 1 Algeria<\/p>\n<p>February 6, 2000: Cameroon 2 \u2013 1 Algeria<\/p>\n<p>February 8, 2004: Morocco 3 \u2013 1 a.e.t. Algeria<\/p>\n<p>January 24, 2010: Ivory Coast 2-3 a.e.t. Algeria<\/p>\n<p>February 1, 2015: Ivory Coast 3 \u2013 1 Algeria<\/p>\n<p>July 11, 2019: Ivory Coast 1 &#8211; 1 a.e.t. Algeria (3-4 pen.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Algeria&#8217;s record in the quarter-finals Algeria\/@CAF Algeria will face Nigeria on Saturday, January 10, in the quarter-finals of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10866,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[63,146,390,2896],"class_list":{"0":"post-10865","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-africa","8":"tag-africa","9":"tag-africa-cup-of-nations","10":"tag-algeria","11":"tag-quarter-finals"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10865\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}