Record of Ghana's opening matches in Africa Cup of Nations history

Ghana have won nine of their 20 opening matches in Africa Cup of Nations history and suffered four defeats and seven matches. Wilberforce Mfum scored the country's first goal in the 1-1 draw with Tunisia at the 1963 finals held in Accra. At the 1965 finals in Tunisia, Ghana recorded their first opening match against Congo Kinshasa, now DR Congo. All their past four defeats in their AFCON openers had come against Nigeria-1984, Nigeria-2006, Ivory Coast-2010, Senegal-2015. Full list of Ghana's opening games 24/11/1963 GHANA 1-1 TUNISIA 12/11/1965 GHANA 5-2 CONGO KINSHASA 12/01/1968 SENEGAL 2-2 GHANA 07/02/1970 GHANA 2-0 CONGO KINSHASA 05/03/1978 GHANA 2-1 ZAMBIA 09/03/1980 ALGERIA 0-0 Ghana 05/03/1982... Read Full Story