1995 African Youth Championship

1995 African Youth Championship
Tournament details
Host countryNigeria
Dates28 January – 8 February
Teams8
Final positions
Champions Cameroon (1st title)
Runners-up Burundi
Third place Nigeria
Fourth place Mali
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International football competition

The African Youth Championship 1995 was a soccer tournament held in Nigeria. It also served as qualification for the 1995 FIFA World Youth Championship.

Qualification

Preliminary round

Benin, Botswana, Cape Verde, Congo, Liberia, Mauritania and Swaziland withdrew. As a result, Senegal, Lesotho, Guinea-Bissau, Togo, Burkina Faso, Sierra Leone and Madagascar advanced to the next round.

Team 1 Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
Malawi  1–3  Burundi 1–2 0–1
Angola  6–1  Niger 3–0 3–1

First round

Kenya, Madagascar, Sierra Leone, Uganda, Zaire and Zimbabwe withdrew. As a result, Cameroon, Mauritius, Morocco, Burundi, Zambia and Ethiopia advanced to the next round.

Team 1 Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
Egypt  3–2  Sudan 2–0 1–2
Togo  1–1(a)  Angola 1–1 0–0
South Africa  4–3  Lesotho 3–2 1–1
Ghana  7–1  Burkina Faso 5–1 2–0
Tunisia  1–1 (p: 4–5)  Mali 1–0 0–1
Ivory Coast  0–1  Senegal 0–1 0–0
Nigeria  5–1  Guinea-Bissau 3–0 2–1
Guinea  3–1  Algeria 2–0 1–1

Second round

Team 1 Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
Egypt  0–3  Burundi 0–2 0–1
Cameroon  5–4  Angola 4–1 1–3
Mauritius  3–2  South Africa 2–1 1–1
Ethiopia  0–0 (p: 3–4)  Zambia 0–0 0–0
Ghana  0–0 (p: 3–4)  Mali 0–0 0–0
Morocco  0–3  Senegal 0–2 0–1
Nigeria  both through  Guinea 2–0 1–0

Guinea also went through to the main tournament because Nigeria would qualify as host.

Teams

The following teams qualified for the tournament:

Group stage

Group A

Teams Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
 Mali 3 2 1 0 8 4 +4 7
 Nigeria 3 2 1 0 6 4 +2 7
 Zambia 3 0 1 2 4 6 –2 1
 Guinea 3 0 1 2 2 6 –4 1


28 January Nigeria  3–3  Mali
Guinea  2–2  Zambia
30 January Mali  2–1  Zambia
Nigeria  1–0  Guinea
1 February Mali  3–0  Guinea
Nigeria  2–1  Zambia

Group B

Teams Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
 Cameroon 3 2 1 0 4 1 +3 7
 Burundi 3 1 1 1 3 3 0 4
 Mauritius 3 1 0 2 4 6 –2 3
 Senegal 3 0 2 1 2 3 –1 2


31 January Cameroon  0–0  Senegal
Mauritius  1–2  Burundi
2 February Senegal  1–1  Burundi
Cameroon  3–1  Mauritius
4 February Senegal  1–2  Mauritius
Cameroon  1–0  Burundi

Semifinals

Cameroon 2 – 1 Nigeria
Mali 0 – 3 Burundi

Third place match

Nigeria 1 – 0 Mali

Final

Cameroon 4 – 0 Burundi


 1995 African Youth Championship 

Cameroon

First title

Qualification to World Youth Championship

The two best performing teams qualified for the 1995 FIFA World Youth Championship.

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