AFCON 2021 top goal scorers: Updated golden boot rankings at Africa Cup of Nations. The 2021 Africa Cup of Nations is going to the quarterfinals, and with eight matches staying, one name actually stands apart over the lay on the goalscoring graph.
Captain Vincent Aboubakar of host country Cameroon is on a tear to begin the competition, scoring six objectives altogether, incorporating no less than one in every one of his country’s four matches to put himself on the rundown of players.
Aboubakar’s Cameroon partner, Karl Toko Ekambi of Lyon, is behind him on three objectives. He’s attached with Mali’s Ibrahima Kone (three extra shots) and Malawi’s Gabadinho Mhango however those players won’t play one more game in the competition after their sides experienced Round of 16 end. There is a gathering of nine pursuing players on two objectives, with six of them still in real life.
Liverpool star Sadio Mane packed away his second objective of the competition in the Round of 16, while club partner Mohamed Salah is as yet stuck on one objective. Both look like remote chances to challenge for the best position now. Man City aggressor Riyad Mahrez didn’t score a solitary objective (he really missed a punishment) as Algeria was dispensed with in the gathering stage.
Rank | Player | Country | Goals (PKs) | Assists | Matches | Mins |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1. | Vincent Aboubakar | Cameroon | 6 (2) | 1 | 4 | 334 |
2. | Gabadinho Mhango | Malawi | 3 (0) | 0 | 3 | 270 |
Karl Toko Ekambi | Cameroon | 3 (0) | 0 | 4 | 286 | |
Ibrahima Kone | Mali | 3 (3) | 0 | 4 | 322 | |
5. | Musa Barrow | Gambia | 2 (1) | 2 | 4 | 360 |
Wahbi Khazri | Tunisia | 2 (0) | 1 | 3 | 174 | |
Nicolas Pepe | Ivory Coast | 2 (0) | 1 | 4 | 314 | |
Ahmed Mogni | Comoros | 2 (0) | 0 | 4 | 156 | |
Jim Allevinah | Gabon | 2 (0) | 0 | 4 | 242 | |
Ablie Jallow | Gambia | 2 (0) | 0 | 4 | 256 | |
Sofiane Boufal | Morocco | 2 (0) | 0 | 4 | 279 | |
Sadio Mane | Senegal | 2 (1) | 0 | 4 | 340 | |
Achraf Hakimi | Morocco | 2 (0) | 0 | 4 | 360 | |
14. | Selim Amallah | Morocco | 1 (0) | 3 | 4 | 329 |
Bertrand Traore | Burkina Faso | 1 (0) | 1 | 3 | 257 | |
Kelechi Iheanacho | Nigeria | 1 (0) | 1 | 4 | 289 | |
Moses Simon | Nigeria | 1 (0) | 1 | 4 | 333 | |
Sebastien Haller | Ivory Coast | 1 (0) | 1 | 4 | 349 | |
Ibrahim Sangare | Ivory Coast | 1 (0) | 1 | 4 | 352 | |
El Fardou Ben | Comoros | 1 (0) | 1 | 4 | 360 | |
Richmond Boakye | Ghana | 1 (0) | 0 | 2 | 31 | |
Ahmadou Bamba Dieng | Senegal | 1 (0) | 0 | 2 | 50 | |
Kudakwashe Mahachi | Zimbabwe | 1 (0) | 0 | 2 | 94 | |
Umar Sadiq | Nigeria | 1 (0) | 0 | 4 | 98 | |
Zakaria Aboukhlal | Morocco | 1 (0) | 0 | 3 | 117 | |
Alhaji Kamara | Sierra Leone | 1 (0) | 0 | 3 | 128 | |
Youssef Msakni | Tunisia | 1 (0) | 0 | 3 | 129 | |
Dawa Hotessa | Ethiopia | 1 (0) | 0 | 2 | 134 | |
Getaneh Kebede | Ethiopia | 1 (1) | 0 | 3 | 158 | |
Ishmael Wadi | Zimbabwe | 1 (0) | 0 | 2 | 174 | |
Musa Kamara | Sierra Leone | 1 (0) | 0 | 2 | 180 | |
Sofiane Bendebka | Algeria | 1 (0) | 0 | 3 | 188 | |
Julio Tavares | Cape Verde | 1 (0) | 0 | 3 | 191 | |
Samuel Chukwueze | Nigeria | 1 (0) | 0 | 3 | 192 | |
Youssef En-Nesyri | Morocco | 1 (0) | 0 | 3 | 203 | |
Andre Ayew | Ghana | 1 (0) | 0 | 3 | 205 | |
Cyrille Bayala | Burkina Faso | 1 (0) | 0 | 3 | 212 | |
Knowledge Musona | Zimbabwe | 1 (0) | 0 | 3 | 212 | |
Taiwo Awoniyi | Nigeria | 1 (0) | 0 | 3 | 214 | |
Max Gradel | Ivory Coast | 1 (0) | 0 | 3 | 232 | |
Hamza Mathlouthi | Tunisia | 1 (0) | 0 | 3 | 237 | |
Hassane Bande | Burkina Faso | 1 (0) | 0 | 4 | 243 | |
Seifeddine Jaziri | Tunisia | 1 (0) | 0 | 4 | 256 | |
Garry Rodrigues | Cape Verde | 1 (0) | 0 | 4 | 263 | |
Issiaga Sylla | Guinea | 1 (0) | 0 | 3 | 268 | |
Alexander Djiku | Ghana | 1 (0) | 0 | 3 | 270 | |
Naby Keita | Guinea | 1 (0) | 0 | 3 | 270 | |
Walieldin Khidir | Sudan | 1 (1) | 0 | 3 | 270 | |
Franck Kessie | Ivory Coast | 1 (0) | 0 | 4 | 273 | |
Gustavo Sangare | Burkina Faso | 1 (0) | 0 | 4 | 304 | |
Mohamed Abdelmonem | Egypt | 1 (0) | 0 | 4 | 333 | |
Youssouf M’Changama | Comoros | 1 (0) | 0 | 4 | 360 | |
William Troost-Ekong | Nigeria | 1 (0) | 0 | 4 | 360 | |
Aaron Boupendza | Gabon | 1 (0) | 0 | 4 | 379 | |
Pablo Ganet | Eq. Guinea | 1 (0) | 0 | 4 | 390 | |
Massadio Haidara | Mali | 1 (0) | 0 | 4 | 390 | |
Esteban Orozco | Eq. Guinea | 1 (0) | 0 | 4 | 390 | |
Mohamed Salah | Egypt | 1 (0) | 0 | 4 | 390 |
AFCON 2021 Top Scorers
The following is the AFCON 2021 top scorer rankings including the 58 objective scorers in the competition who have contributed 78 of the 80 all out objectives seen up to this point (two of the 80 were own objectives by Morocco’s Nayef Aguerd and Burkina Faso’s Adama Guira). There have additionally been an aggregate of nine extra shots scored.
As for the situation with other worldwide competitions, players with similar number of absolute objectives scored are positioned underneath by all out helps and afterward by least minutes played. At the point when helps and minutes played are even, the names are organized in sequential request.
Africa Cup of Nations Top Scorers starting around 2000
The current year’s present top scorer, Vincent Aboubakar, would currently be the top scorer in every one of the last 11 AFCON competitions with his six objectives in four matches. He’ll be back in real life on Saturday in the quarterfinals as he tries to add to his aggregate.