1995 African Youth Championship
Tournament details | |
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Host country | Nigeria |
Dates | 28 January - 8 February |
Teams | 8 |
Final positions | |
Champions |
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Runners-up |
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Third place |
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Fourth place |
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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. A bye was therefore given to respectively Senegal, Lesotho, Guinea Bissau, Togo, Burkina Faso, Sierra Leone and Madagascar.
Team 1 | Agg. | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
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Malawi |
1–3 | 1–2 | 0–1 | |
Angola |
6–1 | 3–0 | 3–1 |
First round
Kenya, Madagascar, Sierra Leone, Uganda, Zaire and Zimbabwe withdrew. A bye was therefore given to respectively Cameroon, Mauritius, Morocco, Burundi, Zambia and Ethiopia.
Team 1 | Agg. | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
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Egypt |
3–2 | 2–0 | 1–2 | |
Togo |
1–1(a) | 1–1 | 0–0 | |
South Africa |
4–3 | 3–2 | 1–1 | |
Ghana |
7–1 | 5–1 | 2–0 | |
Tunisia |
1–1 (p: 4–5) | 1–0 | 0–1 | |
Ivory Coast |
0–1 | 0–1 | 0–0 | |
Nigeria |
5–1 | 3–0 | 2–1 | |
Guinea |
3–1 | 2–0 | 1–1 |
Second round
Team 1 | Agg. | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
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Egypt |
0–3 | 0–2 | 0–1 | |
Cameroon |
5–4 | 4–1 | 1–3 | |
Mauritius |
3–2 | 2–1 | 1–1 | |
Ethiopia |
0–0 (p: 3–4) | 0–0 | 0–0 | |
Ghana |
0–0 (p: 3–4) | 0–0 | 0–0 | |
Morocco |
0–3 | 0–2 | 0–1 | |
Nigeria |
both through | 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 |
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3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 4 | +4 | 7 | |
3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 4 | +2 | 7 | |
3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 6 | –2 | 1 | |
3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 6 | –4 | 1 |
28 January | Nigeria |
3–3 | |
Guinea |
2–2 | ||
30 January | Mali |
2–1 | |
Nigeria |
1–0 | ||
1 February | Mali |
3–0 | |
Nigeria |
2–1 |
Group B
Teams | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
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3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 1 | +3 | 7 | |
3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 4 | |
3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 6 | –2 | 3 | |
3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | –1 | 2 |
31 January | Cameroon |
0–0 | |
Mauritius |
1–2 | ||
2 February | Senegal |
1–1 | |
Cameroon |
3–1 | ||
4 February | Senegal |
1–2 | |
Cameroon |
1–0 |
Semifinals
Third place match
Final
1995 African Youth Championship |
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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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