1995 African Youth Championship

1995 African Youth Championship
Tournament details
Host country Nigeria
Teams 8
Final positions
Champions  Cameroon (1st title)
Runners-up  Burundi
Third place  Nigeria
Fourth place  Mali

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
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. A bye was therefore given to respectively Cameroon, Mauritius, Morocco, Burundi, Zambia and Ethiopia.

Team 1 Agg. 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. 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 321084+47
 Nigeria 321064+27
 Zambia 301246–21
 Guinea 301226–41


Nigeria  3–3  Mali
Guinea  2–2  Zambia
Mali  2–1  Zambia
Nigeria  1–0  Guinea
Mali  3–0  Guinea
Nigeria  2–1  Zambia

Group B

Teams Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
 Cameroon 321041+37
 Burundi 31113304
 Mauritius 310246–23
 Senegal 302123–12


Cameroon  0–0  Senegal
Mauritius  1–2  Burundi
Senegal  1–1  Burundi
Cameroon  3–1  Mauritius
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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