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1995 African Youth Championship

Tournament details
Host country	Nigeria
Dates	28 January – 8 February
Teams	8
Final positions
Champions	Cameroon (1st title)
Runners-up	Burundi
Third place	Nigeria
Fourth place	Mali
← 1993 1997 →

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. As a result, Senegal, Lesotho, Guinea-Bissau, Togo, Burkina Faso, Sierra Leone and Madagascar advanced to the next round.

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	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. As a result, Cameroon, Mauritius, Morocco, Burundi, Zambia and Ethiopia advanced to the next round.

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	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.Tooltip Aggregate score	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

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Mali	3	2	1	0	8	4	+4	7	Advance to knockout stage
2	Nigeria (H)	3	2	1	0	6	4	+2	7
3	Zambia	3	0	1	2	4	6	−2	1
4	Guinea	3	0	1	2	2	6	−4	1

28 January	Nigeria	3–3	Mali
	Guinea	2–2	Zambia
30 January	Mali	2–1	Zambia
	Nigeria	1–0	Guinea
1 February	Mali	3–0	Guinea
	Nigeria	2–1	Zambia

Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Cameroon	3	2	1	0	4	1	+3	7	Advance to knockout stage
2	Burundi	3	1	1	1	3	3	0	4
3	Mauritius	3	1	0	2	4	6	−2	3
4	Senegal	3	0	2	1	2	3	−1	2

31 January	Cameroon	0–0	Senegal
	Mauritius	1–2	Burundi
2 February	Senegal	1–1	Burundi
	Cameroon	3–1	Mauritius
4 February	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.

•  Burundi
•  Cameroon

External links

• Results by RSSSF

• U-20 Africa Cup of Nations
• 1995 in African football
• International association football competitions hosted by Nigeria
• 1995 in youth association football