1983 African Youth Championship

1983 African Youth Championship
Tournament details
Dates	25 July 1982 - 16 April 1983
Teams	18
Final positions
Champions	Nigeria (1st title)
Runners-up	Ivory Coast

The African Youth Championship 1983 was contested through home and away matches. It also served as qualification for the 1983 FIFA World Youth Championship.

Teams

The following teams entered the tournament (and played at least one match):

Algeria
Angola
Cameroon
Ivory Coast
Equatorial Guinea
Egypt
Gabon
Gambia
Guinea

Liberia
Morocco
Nigeria
Senegal
Sudan
Swaziland
Togo
Tunisia
Zimbabwe

Preliminary Round

Burkina Faso, Central Africa, Congo, Ethiopia, Ghana, Libya, Mauritius and Senegal (Senegal lost one match to Gambia 0-2) did not play in this round. This meant a bye was given to respectively Ivory Coast, Gabon, Angola, Sudan, Togo, Morocco, Swaziland and Gambia. Liberia won against Guinea (home 2-2 and away 2-1), but were disqualified due to using ineligible players. All in all, not a single teams actually qualified for the next round on its own results.

First Round

Swaziland withdrew after losing a match to Zimbabwe (1-5). Equatorial Guinea were disqualified after using ineligible players against Ivory Coast (they had already lost 4-1).

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Sudan	2–4	Egypt	1–1	1–3
Guinea	3–2	Togo	2–1	1–1
Gabon	0–3	Nigeria	0–1	0–2
Angola	1–3	Cameroon	0–1	1–2
Gambia	1–2	Algeria	0–0	1–2
Morocco	4–0	Tunisia	4–0	0–0

Quarterfinals

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Egypt	1–1 (p: 7–8)	Guinea	1–0	0–1
Nigeria	3–2	Zimbabwe	3–1	0–1
Cameroon	2–5	Ivory Coast	0–2	2–3
Algeria	(a)3–3	Morocco	2–0	1–3

Semifinals

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Guinea	2–3	Nigeria	2–1	0–2
Ivory Coast	(a)2–2	Algeria	1–0	1–2

Final

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Ivory Coast	3–4	Nigeria	2–2	1–2

1983 African Youth Championship
Nigeria First title

Qualification to World Youth Championship

The two best performing teams qualified for the 1983 FIFA World Youth Championship.

External links

Results by RSSSF

African U-21 Cup of Nations, U-21 and U-20 Championship and U-20 Africa Cup of Nations

African U-21 Cup of Nations

Without host	1979 1981 1983 1985 1987 1989

African U-21 Championship

Tournaments	Egypt 1991 Mauritius 1993 Nigeria 1995 Morocco 1997 Ghana 1999 Ethiopia 2001

Qualification	1991 1993 1995 1997 1999 2001

Squads	1991 1993 1995 1997 1999 2001

African U-20 Championship

Tournaments	Burkina Faso 2003 Benin 2005 RD Congo 2007 Rwanda 2009 South Africa 2011 Algeria 2013 Senegal 2015

Qualification	2003 2005 2007 2009 2011 2013 2015

Squads	2003 2005 2007 2009 2011 2013 2015

U-20 Africa Cup of Nations

Tournaments	Zambia 2017 Niger 2019

Qualification	2017 2019

Squads	2017 2019

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