2007 African Youth Championship

2007 African Youth Championship
Coupe d'Afrique des nations junior 2007

Tournament details
Host country	Republic of the Congo
Dates	20 January - 3 February
Teams	8
Final positions
Champions	Congo (1st title)
Runners-up	Nigeria
Third place	Gambia
Fourth place	Zambia

The African Youth Championship 2007 was held in the Republic of the Congo. It also served as qualification for the 2007 FIFA U-20 World Cup.

Qualification

Preliminary Round

Cape Verde, Swaziland and Uganda withdrew. A bye was therefore given to respectively Senegal, Mozambique and Zimbabwe.

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Madagascar	(a)3–3	Mauritius	1–1	2–2
Malawi	3–0	Botswana	2–0	1–0
Rwanda	2–1	Ethiopia	2–1	0–0
Sudan	1–6	Tunisia	1–3	0–3
Niger	(a)3–3	Togo	2–0	1–3
Equatorial Guinea	2–1	Gabon	0–0	2–1
Sierra Leone	1–5	Gambia	1–1	0–4
Mauritania	1–4	Guinea	0–0	1–4
DR Congo	4–1	Namibia	3–0	1–1
Libya	1–3	Algeria	0–2	1–1
Kenya	1–0	Djibouti	1–0	one leg

First Round

Benin and Congo-Kinshasa withdrew. A bye was therefore given to respectively Tunisia and Burkina Faso.

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Zambia	5–2	Madagascar	4–1	1–1
South Africa	4–3	Zimbabwe	1–0	3–3
Angola	2–3	Ivory Coast	0–0	2–3
Burundi	2–1	Mozambique	1–0	1–1
Ghana	4–1	Senegal	2–0	2–1
Morocco	2–4	Gambia	2–2	0–2
Nigeria	3–2	Equatorial Guinea	3–0	0–2
Lesotho	2–3	Malawi	2–1	0–2
Egypt	4–2	Algeria	4–0	0–2
Cameroon	(a)2–2	Niger	1–0	1–2
Rwanda	2–0	Kenya	1–0	1–0
Mali	2–0	Guinea	1–0	1–0

Second Round

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Nigeria	6–0	Rwanda	5–0	1–0
South Africa	2–3	Zambia	2–1	0–2
Tunisia	1–3	Ivory Coast	1–1	0–2
Mali	2–3	Gambia	1–1	1–2
Burkina Faso	1–1 (p: 4–3)	Ghana	1–0	0–1
Cameroon	4–0	Malawi	2–0	2–0
Burundi	0–3	Egypt	0–1	0–2

Squads

For more details on this topic, see 2007 African Youth Championship squads.

Teams

The following teams qualified for the tournament:

Burkina Faso
Cameroon
Congo (host)
Ivory Coast
Egypt
Gambia
Nigeria
Zambia

Group stage

Group A

Nation	Pts	Pld	W	L	GF	GA
Gambia	9	3	3	0	4	0
Congo	6	3	2	1	3	1
Burkina Faso	3	3	1	2	2	3
Ivory Coast	0	3	0	3	0	5

January 20, 2007

Congo	2 - 0	Ivory Coast

Burkina Faso	0 - 2	Gambia

January 23, 2007

Ivory Coast	0 - 2	Burkina Faso

Gambia	1 - 0	Congo

January 26, 2007

Ivory Coast	0 - 1	Gambia

Congo	1 - 0	Burkina Faso

Group B

Nation	Pts	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA
Zambia	6	3	2	0	1	8	6
Nigeria	4	3	1	1	1	5	5
Egypt	4	3	1	1	1	2	4
Cameroon	3	3	1	0	2	4	4

January 21, 2007

Nigeria	4 - 2	Zambia

Cameroon	0 - 1	Egypt

January 24, 2007

Zambia	3 - 2	Cameroon

Egypt	1 - 1	Nigeria

January 27, 2007

Zambia	3 - 0	Egypt

Nigeria	0 - 2	Cameroon

Knockout Stages

Semifinals

January 30, 2007

Gambia	0 - 1	Nigeria

Zambia	0 - 1	Congo

Third place play-off

February 2, 2007

Gambia	3 - 1	Zambia

Finals

February 3, 2007

Nigeria	0 - 1	Congo

Winner

2007 African Youth Championship Winners
Congo First title

Top scorers

1.	Fwayo Tembo	5
2.	Clifford Mulenga	3
2.	Ousman Jallow	3

Qualifiers for the 2007 FIFA U-20 World Cup

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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