{"id":11081,"date":"2026-01-08T11:31:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T11:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/11081\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T11:31:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T11:31:09","slug":"mali-and-africa-cup-of-nations-quarter-finals-what-do-the-numbers-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/11081\/","title":{"rendered":"Mali and Africa Cup of Nations quarter-finals: what do the numbers say?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mali&#8217;s record in the Africa Cup of Nations 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\/47fee0af50da60a2bd8ba1670809fda5.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Mali\/@CAF<\/p>\n<p>Mali will face Senegal on Friday, January 9, in a match counting for 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>Both teams reached this stage of the competition at the expense of Tunisia (3-2 on penalties) and Sudan (3-1), respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>The Eagles are aiming for their first ever title in Africa&#8217;s premier competition.<\/p>\n<p>In the past, the Malian national team has played six AFCON quarter-finals, boasting a record of five victories and just one defeat.<\/p>\n<p>Here is a look back at Mali&#8217;s history in the Africa Cup of Nations quarter-finals:<\/p>\n<p>April 2, 1994: Egypt 0\u20131 Mali<\/p>\n<p>February 3, 2002: South Africa 0 \u2013 2 Mali<\/p>\n<p>February 7, 2004: Mali 2 \u2013 1 Guinea<\/p>\n<p>February 5, 2012: Gabon 1 &#8211; 1 (4-5 pens) Mali<\/p>\n<p>February 2, 2013: South Africa 1 &#8211; 1 (1-3 pens) Mali<\/p>\n<p>February 3, 2024: Mali 1 &#8211; 2 Ivory Coast<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mali&#8217;s record in the Africa Cup of Nations quarter-finals Mali\/@CAF Mali will face Senegal on Friday, January 9,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11082,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[63,146,965,2896],"class_list":{"0":"post-11081","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-mali","11":"tag-quarter-finals"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11081","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=11081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11081\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}