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The '''West African Nations Cup''', also known as '''CSSA Nations Cup''' or "Zone 3" Championship, was a [[Association football|football]] championship held from 1982 to 1987 (not in 1985), but discontinued. [[Ghana national football team|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]].<ref>{{cite news | date=20 October 2007 | url=http://www.tessemas.net/Reforming%20the%20SCSA.HTM | title=The Supreme Council for Sports in Africa (S.C.S.A.). | publisher=[[tessamas.net]] | accessdate=20 October 2007 | archive-date=21 November 2008 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081121075321/http://www.tessemas.net/Reforming%20the%20SCSA.HTM | url-status=dead }}</ref>
==West African Nations Cup Record==
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"
|-
!rowspan=2 width=5%|Year
!rowspan=2 width=10%|Host
!width=1% rowspan=7 bgcolor=ffffff|
!colspan=3|Final
!width=1% rowspan=7 bgcolor=ffffff|
!colspan=3|Third place match
|-
!width=15%|Champion
!width=10%|Score
!width=15%|Second place
!width=15%|Third place
!width=10%|Score
!width=15%|Fourth place
|-
|1982<br />''[[1982 West African Nations Cup|Details]]''
|[[Benin]]
|'''{{fb-big|GHA}}'''
|'''2–1'''
|{{fb-big|TOG}}
|{{fb-big|BFA}}
|'''1–1'''
|{{fb-big|CIV}}
|-
|1983<br />''[[1983 West African Nations Cup|Details]]''
|[[Ivory Coast]]
|'''{{fb-big|GHA}}'''
|'''3–1'''
|{{fb-big|TOG}}
|{{fb-big|CIV}}
|'''2–1'''
|{{fb-big|LBR}}
|-
|1984<br />''[[1984 West African Nations Cup|Details]]''
|[[Burkina Faso]]
|'''{{fb-big|GHA}}'''
|'''1–1'''
|{{fb-big|TOG}}
|{{fb-big|CIV}}
|'''2–0'''
|{{fb-big|BFA}}
|-
|1986<br />''[[1986 West African Nations Cup|Details]]''
|[[Ghana]]
|'''{{fb-big|GHA}}'''
|'''1–0'''
|{{fb-big|TOG}}
|{{fb-big|NIG}}
|'''2–1'''
|{{fb-big|BFA}}
|-
|1987<br />''[[1987 West African Nations Cup|Details]]''
|[[Liberia]]
|'''{{fb-big|GHA}}'''
|'''2–1'''
|{{fb-big|LBR}}
|{{fb-big|NGA}}
|'''3–1'''
|{{fb-big|TOG}}
|}

=== Most West African Nations Cup wins ===
{| class="wikitable"
|-
!Wins!!Nation!!Year(s)
|-
|align=center|5 times||{{fb|Ghana}}||[[1982 West African Nations Cup|1982]], [[1983 West African Nations Cup|1983]], [[1984 West African Nations Cup|1984]], [[1986 West African Nations Cup|1986]], [[1987 West African Nations Cup|1987]]
|}

=== Statistics ===
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"
|-
!width=175|Team
!width=20|Pld
!width=20|W
!width=20|D
!width=20|L
!width=20|GF
!width=20|GA
!width=20|GD
|- bgcolor="#ccffcc"
|align=left|{{fb|GHA}}
|28||18||7||0||56||19||+37
|-
|align=left|{{fb|TOG}}
|24||9||7||8||29||32||&minus;3
|-
|align=left|{{fb|CIV}}
|17||5||8||4||24||23||+1
|-
|align=left|{{fb|NGA}}
|10||6||2||2||8||7||+1
|-
|align=left|{{fb|BFA}}
||18||4||5||9||15||26||&minus;11
|-
|align=left|{{fb|LBR}}
|15||4||2||9||13||17||&minus;4
|-
|align=left|{{fb|NIG}}
|12||2||3||7||9||21||&minus;12
|-
|align=left|{{fb|BEN}}
|10||1||3||6||11||20||&minus;9
|}

== References ==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
*[http://rsssf.com/tablesc/cssa.html West African Nations Cup or "Zone 3" Championship]

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