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The West African Nations Cup, also known as CSSA Nations Cup or "Zone 3" Championship, was a football championship held from 1982 to 1987 (not in 1985), but discontinued. Ghana won all editions, and indeed never lost a single match among the 25 they played. The tournament was unsuccessfully revived in 2001 as WAFU Championship; in 2005 a "WAFU Laurent Gbagbo West African Unity Cup" was organised between four of the better teams of the region, apparently as an invitational tournament so not a proper successor of the tournament of the eighties.

The Conseil supérieur du sport en Afrique (CSSA) (English: Supreme Council for Sports in Africa (SCSA)) was established in July 1965 in Brazzaville as the Comité pérmanent du sport Africain (CPSA). Its present title was adopted in Bamako on 14 December 1966. Since 3 July 1977, the CSSA has been functioning as a specialised agency of the Organisation of African Unity and has its headquarters in Yaoundé, Cameroon.

West African Nations Cup Record

Year	Host	Final			Third place match
Year	Host	Champion	Score	Second place	Third place	Score	Fourth place
1982 Details	Benin	Ghana	2–1	Togo	Burkina Faso	1–1	Ivory Coast
1983 Details	Ivory Coast	Ghana	3–1	Togo	Ivory Coast	2–1	Liberia
1984 Details	Burkina Faso	Ghana	1–1	Togo	Ivory Coast	2–0	Burkina Faso
1986 Details	Ghana	Ghana	1–0	Togo	Niger	2–1	Burkina Faso
1987 Details	Liberia	Ghana	2–1	Liberia	Nigeria	3–1	Togo

Most West African Nations Cup wins

Wins	Nation	Year(s)
5 times	Ghana	1982, 1983, 1984, 1986, 1987

Statistics

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
Ghana	28	18	7	0	56	19	+37
Togo	24	9	7	8	29	32	−3
Ivory Coast	17	5	8	4	24	23	+1
Nigeria	10	6	2	2	8	7	+1
Burkina Faso	18	4	5	9	15	26	−11
Liberia	15	4	2	9	13	17	−4
Niger	12	2	3	7	9	21	−12
Benin	10	1	3	6	11	20	−9

References

"The Supreme Council for Sports in Africa (S.C.S.A.)". tessamas.net. 20 October 2007. Archived from the original on 21 November 2008. Retrieved 20 October 2007.

External links

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CAF competitions

National competitions

Men	Africa Cup of Nations African Nations Championship Futsal Africa Cup of Nations Beach Soccer Africa Cup of Nations
Women	Women's Africa Cup of Nations Women's Olympic Qualification African Games

Youth competitions

Men	U-23 Cup of Nations U-20 Cup of Nations U-17 Cup of Nations African Games
Women	U-20 World Cup qualification U-17 World Cup qualification

Club competitions

Current	Football League Champions League Confederation Cup Super Cup Women's Champions League
Defunct	Cup Winners' Cup CAF Cup Afro-Asian Club Championship

Sub-regions

Northern Africa (UNAF)	Men's U-23 T. U-20 T. U-18 T. U-17 T. U-15 T. Club Club CC (defunct) Club CWC (defunct) Club SC (defunct) Futsal Women's U-20 Club
Western Africa (WAFU)	Men's Nations Cup U-20 Club (defunct) Amílcar Cabral Cup (defunct) Women's Zone A Zone B
Central Africa (UNIFFAC)	UNIFAC Cup U-17 UDEAC Cup (defunct) CEMAC Cup (defunct) Club (defunct)
Eastern Africa (CECAFA)	Men's U-23 U-20 U-17 U-15 Club Nile Basin Cup Women's
Southern Africa (COSAFA)	Men's U-20 U-17 Women's U-20 U-17 COSAFA Women's Champions League COSAFA Schools Cup

Related competitions

National	UAFA Arab Cup U-20 U-17 W-Cup U-17 W-Cup Pan Arab Games Mediterranean Games Islamic Solidarity Games Jeux de la Francophonie UEFA–CAF Meridian Cup (defunct) Afro-Asian Cup (defunct)
Club	UAFA Champions Cup CWC (defunct) SC (defunct) Afro-Asian Club Championship (defunct)

Lists and awards

v t e West African Nations Cup
Benin 1982 Ivory Coast 1983 Burkina Faso 1984 Ghana 1986 Liberia 1987

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