World Cup · Updated 2026-10-19
What is Africa's best ever World Cup performance?
Short answer
The furthest an African team has gone at the World Cup is the semi-finals: Morocco (2022). Morocco's run to fourth place in Qatar in 2022 was the first; earlier, Cameroon (1990), Senegal (2002) and Ghana (2010) had reached the quarter-finals.
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