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| Event | 2018 African Nations Championship | ||||||
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| Date | 4 February 2018 | ||||||
| Venue | Stade Mohammed V, Casablanca | ||||||
| Man of the Match | Zakaria Hadraf (Morocco) | ||||||
| Referee | Bakary Gassama | ||||||
| Attendance | 75,000 | ||||||
The 2018 African Nations Championship final was a football match to determine the winners of the CHAN 2018 tournament and took place on 4 February 2018 at the Stade Mohammed V in Casablanca, Morocco and it was contested by Morocco the host nation and Nigeria.[1][2] This was the first time since tournament was introduced in 2009 that a host nation reached the final. Before this match the two teams met in the 2014 CHAN tournament at the quarter-finals stage,[3] which Nigeria won 4–3 after extra time.[4]
Morocco won the match 4–0, winning the title for the first time and becoming the first and only team to win the tournament on home soil.
- ^ "Match Schedule". CAF Online. Confederation of African Football. 15 January 2018.
- ^ "Fixtures of the Final Tournament". CAF.
- ^ "Quarter-Final Fixtures and Predictions". bleacherreport.com. Retrieved 1 February 2018.
- ^ "CHAN 2014: Nigeria and Zimbabwe through to semi-finals". BBC Sport. Retrieved 1 February 2018.