2019 Africa U-20 Cup of Nations

2019 Africa U-20 Cup of Nations
Tournament details
Host country Niger
Dates 2–17 February 2019
Teams 8 (from 1 confederation)
Venue(s) 2 (in 2 host cities)

The 2019 Africa U-20 Cup of Nations will be the 15th edition of the Africa U-20 Cup of Nations (22nd edition if tournaments without hosts are included), the biennial international youth football tournament organized by the Confederation of African Football (CAF) for players aged 20 and below.

In May 2015, it was decided that the tournament would be hosted by Niger.[1]

The top four teams of the tournament will qualify for the 2019 FIFA U-20 World Cup in Poland as the CAF representatives.

Defending champions Zambia failed to qualify.

Qualification

The qualifiers were played between 30 March and 12 August 2018. At the end of the qualification phase, seven teams joined the hosts Niger.

Player eligibility

Players born 1 January 1999 or later are eligible to participate in the competition.

Qualified teams

The following eights teams qualified for the final tournament.[2]

Note: All appearance statistics count only those since the introduction of final tournament in 1991.

Team Appearance Previous best performance
 Niger (hosts)1stDebut
 Burkina Faso3rdFourth place (2003)
 Burundi2ndRunners-up (1995)
 Ghana11thChampions (1993, 1999, 2009)
 Mali12thThird place (2003)
 Nigeria11thChampions (2005, 2011, 2015)
 Senegal5thRunners-up (2015, 2017)
 South Africa8thRunners-up (1997)

Venues

The Matches Will be Played in Two Venues

Squads

Each squad can contain a maximum of 21 players.[3]

Draw

Procedure to be confirmed. The eight teams will be drawn into two groups of four teams. The hosts will be seeded in Group A, while the title holders (or the qualified team with the best result in the previous edition) will be seeded in Group B.[3]

Group stage

The top two teams of each group advance to the semi-finals and qualify for the 2019 FIFA U-20 World Cup.

Tiebreakers

Teams are ranked according to points (3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, 0 points for a loss), and if tied on points, the following tiebreaking criteria are applied, in the order given, to determine the rankings (Regulations Article 71):[3]

  1. Points in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
  2. Goal difference in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
  3. Goals scored in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
  4. If more than two teams are tied, and after applying all head-to-head criteria above, a subset of teams are still tied, all head-to-head criteria above are reapplied exclusively to this subset of teams;
  5. Goal difference in all group matches;
  6. Goals scored in all group matches;
  7. Drawing of lots.

All times are local, WAT (UTC+1).

Group A

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1  Niger (H) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Knockout stage and
2019 FIFA U-20 World Cup
2 A2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
3 A3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
4 A4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
First match(es) will be played on 2 February 2019. Source: CAF
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers
(H) Host.
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Group B

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1 B1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Knockout stage and
2019 FIFA U-20 World Cup
2 B2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
3 B3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
4 B4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
First match(es) will be played on 3 February 2019. Source: CAF
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers
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Knockout stage

In the knockout stage, extra time and penalty shoot-out are used to decide the winner if necessary, except for the third place match where penalty shoot-out (no extra time) is used to decide the winner if necessary (Regulations Article 72).[3]

Bracket

 
Semi-finalsFinal
 
      
 
February –
 
 
Winner Group A
 
17 February –
 
Runner-up Group B
 
Winner SF1
 
February –
 
Winner SF2
 
Winner Group B
 
 
Runner-up Group A
 
Third place
 
 
February –
 
 
Loser SF1
 
 
Loser SF2

Semi-finals

Winner Group A SF1 Runner-up Group B
Winner Group B SF2 Runner-up Group A

Third place match

Loser SF1 v Loser SF2

Final

Winner SF1 v Winner SF2

Qualified teams for FIFA U-20 World Cup

The following four teams from CAF qualified for the 2019 FIFA U-20 World Cup.

Team Qualified on Previous appearances in FIFA U-20 World Cup1
TBD8 February 2019 (or earlier)
TBD8 February 2019 (or earlier)
TBD9 February 2019 (or earlier)
TBD9 February 2019 (or earlier)
1 Bold indicates champions for that year. Italic indicates hosts for that year.

References

  1. ↑ "CAF EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE DECISIONS OF 26 MAY 2015". www.cafonline.com. 27 May 2015. Retrieved 25 February 2018.
  2. ↑ "Ghana completes roster for Niger". CAF. 13 August 2018.
  3. 1 2 3 4 "Regulations of the U-20 Africa Cup of Nations" (PDF). CAFonline.com. 3 October 2016. Retrieved 3 October 2016.
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