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:

•  Burundi
•  Cameroon
•  Guinea
•  Mali
•  Mauritius
•  Nigeria (host)
•  Senegal
•  Zambia

Group Stage

Group A

Teams	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Mali	3	2	1	0	8	4	+4	7
Nigeria	3	2	1	0	6	4	+2	7
Zambia	3	0	1	2	4	6	–2	1
Guinea	3	0	1	2	2	6	–4	1

	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	3	2	1	0	4	1	+3	7
Burundi	3	1	1	1	3	3	0	4
Mauritius	3	1	0	2	4	6	–2	3
Senegal	3	0	2	1	2	3	–1	2

	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  v  Nigeria

Cameroon	2 – 1	Nigeria

Kaduna

Mali  v  Burundi

Mali	0 – 3	Burundi

Lagos

Third Place Match

Nigeria  v  Mali

Nigeria	1 – 0	Mali

Lagos

Final

Cameroon  v  Burundi

Cameroon	4 – 0	Burundi

Lagos

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.

•  Burundi
•  Cameroon

External links

• Results by RSSSF