{"id":220031,"date":"2026-01-11T10:57:17","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T08:57:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ivory-coast\/africa-afcon-25-full-list-of-top-scorers-ahead-of-semi-finals\/"},"modified":"2026-01-11T10:57:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T08:57:17","slug":"africa-afcon-25-full-list-of-top-scorers-ahead-of-semi-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ivory-coast\/africa-afcon-25-full-list-of-top-scorers-ahead-of-semi-finals\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa: Afcon 25 &#8211; Full List of Top Scorers Ahead of Semi Finals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">Morocco&#8217;s Brahim D\u00edaz currently leads the goalscoring chart at the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON), having netted five goals so far in the tournament.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">The Real Madrid forward has been a key figure in the host nation&#8217;s run to the semi-finals, delivering decisive performances across his appearances.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"47\">D\u00edaz is closely followed by two players still in contention for the title, with Nigeria&#8217;s Victor Osimhen and Egypt star Mohamed Salah both on four goals apiece. Their presence in the semi-finals&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202601110121.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Ivory Coast\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/ivory-coast\/\">C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire (Ivory Coast)<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Morocco&#8217;s Brahim D\u00edaz currently leads the goalscoring chart at the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON), having netted five goals so far in the tournament. The Real Madrid forward has been a key figure in the host nation&#8217;s run to the semi-finals, delivering decisive performances across his appearances. D\u00edaz is closely followed by two players [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":220032,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00680438:a335e2458282c842ecdc1d43b4329d0e:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1087],"tags":[9488,258,256,7019,6183,6555,9777,10170,1218,8987,257,31979,18854,254,7319],"class_list":["post-220031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ivory-coast","tag-afcon","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-ahead","tag-cote-divoire","tag-cote-divoire-news","tag-finals","tag-full","tag-ivory-coast-news","tag-list","tag-news","tag-scorers","tag-semi","tag-south-africa-today","tag-top"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00680438:a335e2458282c842ecdc1d43b4329d0e:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220031\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}