“In the history of the tournament, 9 goals have already been scored by players from the championship of Ukraine”, — write: sport.ua
Striker of Shakhtar Donetsk and the national team of Burkina Faso Lassina Traore became the fifth representative in the history of the UPL to score at the African Cup of Nations.
It happened in the match between Burkina Faso and Sudan (2:0).
In total, UPL representatives have already scored 9 goals at the tournament in different years: 5 – Dynamo players (Diemersi Mbokani (3), Ismael Bangura and Brown Ideye), 4 – Shakhtar players (Julius Agakhova (3) and Lassina Traore).
Authors of scored goals in the history of the African Cup of Nations, who played in UPL clubs at the time of the tournament:
- 3 – Julius Agakhova (Nigeria, Shakhtar, 2002)
- 3 – Diemersi Mbokani (DR Congo, Dynamo, 2015)
- 1 – Ismael Bangura (Guinea, Dynamo, 2008)
- 1 – Brown Ideye (Nigeria, Dynamo, 2013)
- 1 – Lassina Traore (Burkina Faso, Shakhtar, 2025)