| Year | Top Scorer | Gls |
| 1957 | Mohamed Diab El-Attar "diba" (Egypt) | 5 |
| 1959 | Mahmoud El-Gohary (Egypt) | 3 |
| 1962 | Badawy Abdel Fatah (Egypt) & Menguistou (Ethiopia) | 3 |
| 1963 | Hassan El-Shazly (Egypt) | 6 |
| 1965 | Osei Kofi (Ghana), Ben Acheampong (Ghana) & Mangle (Cote D'Ivoire) | 3 |
| 1968 | Laurent Pokou (Cote D'Ivoire) | 6 |
| 1970 | Laurent Pokou (Cote D'Ivoire) | 8 |
| 1972 | Fantamady Kita (Mali) | 5 |
| 1974 | Mulamba N'daye (RD Congo) | 9 |
| 1976 | N'jo Lea (Guinea) | 4 |
| 1978 | Philip Omondi (Uganda) | 4 |
| 1980 | Segun Odegbami (Nigeria) & Khaled Al-Abyad (Morrocco) | 3 |
| 1982 | George Al-Hassan (Ghana) | 4 |
| 1984 | Taher Abou Zaid (Egypt) | 4 |
| 1986 | Roger Milla (Cameroon) | 4 |
| 1988 | Roger Milla (Cameroon), Okwaraji (Nigeria), Lakhdar Belloumi (Algeria), Abdoulaye Traore (C.D'Ivoire) &Gamal Abdel Hamid (Egypt) | 2 |
| 1990 | Gamal Menad (Algeria) | 4 |
| 1992 | Rashidi Yakini (Nigeria) | 4 |
| 1994 | Rashidi Yakini (Nigeria) | 5 |
| 1996 | Kalusha Bwalea (Zambia) | 5 |
| 1998 | Hossam Hassan (Egypt) & Benedict McCarthy (South Africa) | 7 |
| 2000 | Shaun Bartlett (South Africa) | 5 |
| 2002 | Patrick Mboma (Cameroon), Salomon Olembe (Cameroon) & Julius Aghahowa (Nigeria) | 3 |
| 2004 | Patrick Mboma (Cameroon), Frederic Kanoute (Mali), Youssef Mokhtari (Morocco), Jay Jay Okocha (Nigeria) & Francileudo dos Santos (Tunisia) | 4 |
| 2006 | Samuel Eto'o Fils (Cameroon) | 5 |
| 2008 | Samuel Eto'o Fils (Cameroon) | 5 |
| 2010 | Mohamed Nagui "Geddo" (Egypt) | 5 |
| 2012 | C.Diabate (Mali), C.Katongo & E.Mayuka (Zambia), D.Drogba (Cote d"ivoire), H.Kharja (Morocco), Manucho (Angola) & P.Aubameyang (Gabon) | 3 |
| 2013 | Emmanuel Emenike (Nigeria) & Wakaso Mubarak (Ghana) | 4 |
| 2015 | Ahmed Akaïchi (Tunisia), André Ayew (Ghana), Dieumerci Mbokani (RD Congo), Javier Balboa (Equatorial Guinea) & Thievy Bifouma (Congo) | 3 |
| 2017 | Junior Kabananga (RD Congo) | 3 |
| 2019 | Odion Ighalo (Nigeria) | 5 |
