{"id":17164,"date":"2026-01-11T14:18:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T14:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/17164\/"},"modified":"2026-01-11T14:18:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T14:18:10","slug":"africa-afcon-25-full-list-of-top-scorers-ahead-of-semi-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/17164\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa: Afcon 25 &#8211; Full List of Top Scorers Ahead of Semi Finals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">Morocco&#8217;s Brahim D\u00edaz currently leads the goalscoring chart at the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON), having netted five goals so far in the tournament.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">The Real Madrid forward has been a key figure in the host nation&#8217;s run to the semi-finals, delivering decisive performances across his appearances.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"47\">D\u00edaz is closely followed by two players still in contention for the title, with Nigeria&#8217;s Victor Osimhen and Egypt star Mohamed Salah both on four goals apiece. Their presence in the semi-finals underlines the fierce competition among Africa&#8217;s elite forwards as the tournament enters its decisive phase.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">With two matches remaining for the finalists, the race for the Golden Boot remains wide open ahead of the last-four clashes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"2\">Full list<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"2\">5 goals<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"2\">4 goals<\/p>\n<p> Victor Osimhen (Nigeria) Mohamed Salah (Egypt) <\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"2\">3 goals<\/p>\n<p> Ademola Lookman (Nigeria) Amad Diallo (C\u00f4te d&#8217;Ivoire) Ayoub El Kaabi (Morocco) Lassine Sinayoko (Mali) Riyad Mahrez (Algeria) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Morocco&#8217;s Brahim D\u00edaz currently leads the goalscoring chart at the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON), having netted&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17165,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[63,390,83,9882,265,262,1982,165,96,122,322,261,323,310,264,263,266,325],"class_list":{"0":"post-17164","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-africa","8":"tag-africa","9":"tag-algeria","10":"tag-business","11":"tag-cote-d","12":"tag-current-events","13":"tag-economy","14":"tag-egypt","15":"tag-morocco","16":"tag-news","17":"tag-nigeria","18":"tag-north-africa","19":"tag-politics","20":"tag-soccer","21":"tag-sport","22":"tag-sports","23":"tag-trade","24":"tag-travel","25":"tag-west-africa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17164","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=17164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17164\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}