2005 African Youth Championship

2005 African Youth Championship

CAN Junior Coupe d'Afrique des nations juniors 2005
Tournament details
Host country	Benin
Dates	15 January - 29 January
Teams	8 (from 1 confederation)
Final positions
Champions	Nigeria (5th title)
Runners-up	Egypt
Third place	Benin
Fourth place	Morocco
Tournament statistics
Top scorer(s)	Mouhssine Iajour

The 2005 African Youth Championship was an international football competition that took place between 15 and 29 January 2005. The tournament was hosted by Benin and also served as qualification for the 2005 FIFA World Youth Championship.

Qualification

Preliminary round

Burundi and Mauritius withdrew. A bye was therefore given to respectively the Republic of Congo and Lesotho.

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Libya	2–2(a)	Niger	2–2	0–0
Sierra Leone	(a)1–1	Gambia	0–0	1–1
Sudan	3–1	Somalia	1–0	2–1
Eritrea	0–1	Rwanda	0–1	0–0
Namibia	0–5	Botswana	0–0	0–5

First round

Republic of Congo, Congo Kinshasa, Ethiopia, Gabon and Tanzania withdrew. A bye was therefore given to respectively Cameroon, Nigeria, Zambia, Ghana and Zimbabwe.

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Algeria	1–3	Niger	1–2	0–1
Morocco	3–1	Sierra Leone	3–0	0–1
Egypt	4–0	Sudan	4–0	0–0
South Africa	2–2(a)	Lesotho	2–1	0–1
Mozambique	1–4	Rwanda	1–0	0–4
Angola	5–2	Botswana	3–0	2–2
Ivory Coast	2–2 (p: 5–4)	Guinea	2–0	0–2
Tunisia	1–1 (p: 3–5)	Burkina Faso	1–0	0–1
Mali	3–1	Senegal	3–1	0–0

Second round

Niger were disqualified by the FIFA. Accusations were made to each other from Lesotho and Zimbabwe of using over-aged players, but no actions were taken.

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Morocco	DSQ	Niger	4–0	not played
Zambia	2–3	Egypt	2–0	0–3
Zimbabwe	0–3	Lesotho	0–0	0–3
Angola	1–0	Rwanda	1–0	0–0
Ghana	1–2	Ivory Coast	0–1	1–1
Nigeria	5–2	Burkina Faso	2–0	3–2
Mali	(a)2–2	Cameroon	1–0	1–2

Squads

The following teams qualified for the tournament:

•  Angola
•  Benin (host)
•  Ivory Coast
•  Egypt
•  Lesotho
•  Mali
•  Morocco
•  Nigeria

Group stage

Group A

Teams	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Nigeria	3	3	0	0	7	1	+6	9
Benin	3	1	1	1	7	7	0	4
Ivory Coast	3	1	0	2	2	5	–3	3
Mali	3	0	1	2	4	7	–3	1

15 January 2005

Ivory Coast	1-0	Mali
Abdramane Diaby  61'

15 January 2005

Benin	0-3	Nigeria
		Taye Taiwo  25' (pen) David Adwo  34' Victor Obinna  46'

18 January 2005

Nigeria	3-1	Mali
Kalifa Dembele  55'		David Abwo  45' Solomon Okoronkwo  81' Olubayo Adefemi  84'

18 January 2005

Ivory Coast	1-4	Benin
Yedi Zahiri  90'		Coffi Agbesi  37' Gariga Maiga  49'  80' (pen) Mathieu Adeniyi  52'

22 January 2005

Nigeria	1-0	Ivory Coast
Taye Taiwo  78'

22 January 2005

Benin	3-3	Mali
Romuald Boco  31' Bachirou Osseni  40' Razak Omotoyossi  44'		Kalifa Dembele  27' Boubacar Kebe  35' Koniba Ladji 65'

Group B

Teams	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Egypt	3	2	1	0	7	3	+4	7
Morocco	3	2	1	0	5	2	+3	7
Lesotho	3	1	0	2	3	7	–4	3
Angola	3	0	0	3	1	4	–3	0

16 January 2005

Egypt	1-0	Angola
Islam Adel 20' (pen)

16 January 2005

Morocco	2-0	Lesotho
Rachid Tiberkanine  63' Tarik Bendamou  80'

19 January 2005

Angola	1-2	Lesotho
Manuel Zando  27'		Dlomo Monaphathi  40' Bokang Mothoana  45'

19 January 2005

Morocco	2-2	Egypt
Mouhssine Iajour  49' Tarik Bendamou  76'		Mahmoud Alla  46' Islam Siam  84'

23 January 2005

Angola	0-1	Morocco
		Mouhssine Iajour  39'

23 January 2005

Egypt	4-1	Lesotho
Abdou Abdallah  7' Farag Ahmed  12' Mohamed Abdallah  75' Mahmoud Alla  82'		Lintho Korie  88' (pen)

Knock-out Stage

	Semi-finals				Final
	26 January -
	Nigeria	2(5)
					29 January -
	Morocco	2(3)
					Nigeria	2
	26 January -
					Egypt	0
	Egypt	1(3)
	Benin	1(1)
					Third place
					29 January -
					Morocco	1(3)
					Benin	1(5)

Semifinals

26 January 2005

Nigeria	2-2	Morocco
Solomon Okoronkwo  53' Victor Obinna  114'		Mouhssine Iajour  11'  101'
Penalties
	5-3

26 January 2005

Egypt	1-1	Benin
Islam Adel  83'		Abou Maiga  3'
Penalties
	3-1

Third place match

January 29, 2005

Morocco	1-1	Benin
Mouhssine Iajour  11'		Abdoulaye Ouzerou  45'
Penalties
	3-5

Final

January 29, 2005

Nigeria	2-0	Egypt
Isaac Promise  45'  55'

2005 African Youth Championship
Nigeria Fifth title

Qualification to World Youth Championship

The four best performing teams qualified for the 2005 FIFA World Youth Championship.

•  Benin
•  Egypt
•  Morocco
•  Nigeria

Goalscorers

Nationality	Player name	Goals scored
	Mouhssine Iajour	5
	David Adwo	2
	Farag Ahmed	2
	Kalifa Dembele	2
	Islam Adel	2
	Solomon Okoronkwo	2
	Tarik Bendamou	2
	Victor Obinna	2
	Taye Taiwo	2
	Abou Maiga	2
	Abdou Abdallah	1
	Abdoulaye Ouzerou	1
	Abdramane Diaby	1
	Bachirou Osseni	1
	Bokang Mothoana	1
	Boubacar Kebe	1
	Coffi Agbesi	1
	Dlomo Monaphathi	1
	Hossam Nasr	1
	Isaac Promise	1
	Islam Siam	1
	Koniba Ladji	1
	Lintho Korie	1
	Manuel Zando	1
	Mathieu Adeniyi	1
	Mohamed Abdallah	1
	Olubayo Adefemi	1
	Rachid Tiberkanine	1
	Razak Omotoyossi	1
	Romuald Boco	1
	Zahiri Yedi	1

^[1]

Murder of Samiou Yessoufou

Beninese goalkeeper Samiou Yessoufou was murdered by irate fans following Benin's 3-0 defeat at the hands of Nigeria.^[2]

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