{"id":36778,"date":"2026-06-11T12:03:29","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T10:03:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=36778"},"modified":"2026-06-11T14:35:49","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T12:35:49","slug":"african-participation-at-the-fifa-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/african-participation-at-the-fifa-world-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"African participation at the FIFA World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: var(--global--font-secondary); font-size: var(--global--font-size-base);\">A total of 15 African countries has participated in the FIFA World Cup throughout the tournament&#8217;s history.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: var(--global--font-secondary); font-size: var(--global--font-size-base);\">Cameroon holds the record for the most FIFA World Cup participations by any African country, having qualified for the tournament eight times. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: var(--global--font-secondary); font-size: var(--global--font-size-base);\">The &#8220;Indomitable Lions&#8221; represented the continent in 1982, 1990, 1994, 1998, 2002, 2010, 2014, and 2022.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The following is the list of African countries that participated at the world cup:<\/p>\n<p>1934: Egypt<\/p>\n<p>1970: Morocco<\/p>\n<p>1974: Democratic Republic of Congo then Zaire<\/p>\n<p>1978: Tunisia<\/p>\n<p>1982: Algeria, Cameroon<\/p>\n<p>1986: Algeria, Morocco<\/p>\n<p>1990: Cameroon, Egypt<\/p>\n<p>1994: Cameroon, Morocco, Nigeria<\/p>\n<p>1998: Cameroon, Morocco, Nigeria, South Africa, Tunisia<\/p>\n<p>2002: Cameroon, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa, Tunisia<\/p>\n<p>2006: Angola, C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire, Ghana, Togo, Tunisia<\/p>\n<p>2010: Algeria, Cameroon, C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire, Ghana, Nigeria, South Africa<\/p>\n<p>2014: Algeria, Cameroon, C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire, Ghana, Nigeria<\/p>\n<p>2018: Egypt, Morocco, Nigeria, Senegal, Tunisia<\/p>\n<p>2022: Cameroon, Ghana, Morocco, Senegal, Tunisia<\/p>\n<p>2026: Algeria, Cape Verde, C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire, DR Congo, Egypt, Ghana, Morocco, Senegal, South Africa, Tunisia<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;ChannelAfrica&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":36804,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[20],"class_list":["post-36778","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-sport","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"Cameroon holds the record for the most FIFA World Cup participations by any African country, having qualified for the tournament eight times.","published_date":"","news_description":"Cameroon holds the record for the most FIFA World Cup participations by any African country, having qualified for the tournament eight times.","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/36778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/36778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36779,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/36778\/revisions\/36779"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=36778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}