‘Humiliated’ Aubameyang quits Gabon team after AFCON 2025

Aubameyang has quit Gabon’s national team after the side finished fourth at AFCON 2025 with zero points from three matches. Gabon lost all three games, scoring four goals and conceding seven.

The forward described his departure from the national team as the result of feeling “humiliated”. His decision makes the player’s personal response the central issue after a tournament in which Gabon failed to take anything from its three fixtures.

Gabon’s fourth-place finish means the team ended the AFCON 2025 campaign without a win or a draw. The record also leaves the Panthers with a negative goal difference, having scored four times and allowed seven goals across the tournament.

The tournament record forms part of a wider difficult run for Gabon. The team’s recent results include a 2-2 draw away to Trinidad and Tobago, followed by defeats against Uzbekistan, Ivory Coast, Mozambique and Cameroon.

Those losses came by 3-1 against Uzbekistan, 3-2 against Ivory Coast, 3-2 against Mozambique and 1-0 away to Cameroon. Gabon therefore has one draw and four defeats across the listed recent results, with the AFCON campaign adding three more losses to that sequence.

Aubameyang’s exit removes a prominent name from Gabon’s national-team setup as the side looks back on a campaign that produced no points. His departure is tied to his stated feeling of humiliation, while the team’s results show three defeats at AFCON 2025 and five losses in its latest six matches.