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2021 Arab Cup U-20

كأس العرب للمنتخبات تحت 20 سنة
Tournament details
Host country	Egypt
City	Cairo
Dates	20 June – 6 July
Teams	16 (from 2 confederations)
Venue(s)	5 (in 1 host city)
Final positions
Champions	Saudi Arabia (1st title)
Runners-up	Algeria
Tournament statistics
Matches played	31
Goals scored	107 (3.45 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Mohamed Radid (6 goals)
Best goalkeeper	Osama Al-Mermsh
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The 2021 Arab Cup U-20 (Arabic: كأس العرب للمنتخبات تحت 20 سنة) was the seventh edition of the Arab Cup U-20. It was hosted by Egypt from 20 June to 6 July 2021. The tournament included 12 UAFA-member teams and four invited teams. Senegal were the defending champions but were eliminated in the quarter-finals. Saudi Arabia beat Algeria 2–1 in the final to win their first title.

Teams

Draw

The draw took place on 29 May 2021. The 16 teams were drawn into four groups of four. The match schedule was unveiled on 6 June 2021.

The draw mechanism was in accordance with the seeding of the teams, as follows:

1. Uzbekistan was not yet invited at the time of the draw.

Venues

The 30 June Stadium was later included as a venue for the Group D matches due to the poor condition of Police Academy Stadium.

Match officials

The following 31 referees were chosen for the tournament.

Squads

Players born on or after 1 January 2001 were eligible to compete.

Group stage

The top two teams of each group advanced to the quarter-finals.

All times are local, CAT (UTC+2).

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Egypt (H)	3	3	0	0	7	1	+6	9	Advance to knockout phase
2	Algeria	3	1	1	1	3	3	0	4
3	Niger	3	0	2	1	2	4	−2	2
4	Mauritania	3	0	1	2	1	5	−4	1

Egypt	2–0	Niger
Smida 25' Hassan 90+3'	Report

Mauritania	0–1	Algeria
	Report	Bouaoune 90+5'

Algeria	0–1	Egypt
	Report	Rashdan 63'

Niger	0–0	Mauritania
	Report

Egypt	4–1	Mauritania
Hassan 17', 32' Abdelhamid 41' Abdeljawad 81'	Report	Mouloud 84'

Algeria	2–2	Niger
Mustapha 60' (o.g.) Dougui 90+3'	Report	Omar 22' Samila 37'

Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Morocco	3	3	0	0	15	1	+14	9	Advance to knockout phase
2	Tajikistan	3	2	0	1	9	8	+1	6
3	United Arab Emirates	3	1	0	2	10	8	+2	3
4	Djibouti	3	0	0	3	0	17	−17	0

Morocco	6–1	Tajikistan
Sadik 18' Radid 49', 59' El Khannous 61' Akboub 85' Boughafer 90+1'	Report	Tahirov 66'

United Arab Emirates	8–0	Djibouti
Saeed 16', 81' Al Yammahi 45' Khalfan 59' Adil 76' Al Wafi 78' Ahmed 90+4' Fahad 90+6'	Report

Djibouti	0–4	Morocco
	Report	Boughafer 18' Sadik 28' El Khannous 37' Radid 48'

Tajikistan	3–2	United Arab Emirates
Azizboyev 12', 66', 90'	Report	Khalfan 23', 74'

Morocco	5–0	United Arab Emirates
Sadik 8', 20' Radid 45', 88' Azrour 70'	Report

Djibouti	0–5	Tajikistan
	Report	Salimshoev 8' Hudojdodzoda 20', 89' Ashurmadov 84' Akhtamov 87'

Group C

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Senegal	3	2	1	0	11	3	+8	7	Advance to knockout phase
2	Comoros	3	2	0	1	8	9	−1	6
3	Iraq	3	1	1	1	6	5	+1	4
4	Lebanon	3	0	0	3	2	10	−8	0

Senegal	5–1	Lebanon
S. Faye 9' Diao 22' Cissoko 56' Ndoye 60' (pen.) M. Faye 79'	Report	Ismail 3'

Iraq	3–4	Comoros
Salam 5' Abdul Razzaq 39' (pen.) Ayoub 83'	Report	Idris 41' Mahmoud 45+4' (pen.), 70' Yassin 53'

Comoros	1–5	Senegal
Mahmoud 86' (pen.)	Report	S. Faye 4', 36' Cissoko 57' M. Faye 90+1' Gning 90+2'

Lebanon	0–2	Iraq
	Report	Hassan 16' Ayoub 83'

Senegal	1–1	Iraq
S. Faye 72'	Report	Abdul Razzaq 28'

Comoros	3–1	Lebanon
Mahmoud 25' Yassin 33' Abtah 69'	Report	Kassas 19'

Group D

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Tunisia	3	3	0	0	5	1	+4	9	Advance to knockout phase
2	Saudi Arabia	3	2	0	1	5	3	+2	6
3	Yemen	3	1	0	2	4	5	−1	3
4	Uzbekistan	3	0	0	3	1	6	−5	0

Tunisia	2–0	Yemen
Senana 24' Abid 57'	Report

Saudi Arabia	2–0	Uzbekistan
Al-Dawsari 4' Radif 36'	Report

Uzbekistan	0–1	Tunisia
	Report	Abid 24'

Yemen	1–2	Saudi Arabia
Hazazi 29' (o.g.)	Report	Radif 28' Al-Nemer 60'

Tunisia	2–1	Saudi Arabia
Jertila 14', 27'	Report	Al-Nemer 47'

Uzbekistan	1–3	Yemen
Abed Elakh Boldochiv	Report	Gacem Charafi Ammar Noman Imed Eljdaima (pen.)

Knockout phase

In the knockout stage, penalty shoot-out was used to decide the winner if necessary (no extra time was played).

Bracket

	Quarter-finals				Semi-finals				Final
	29 June
	Egypt	3
					3 July
	Tajikistan	0
					Egypt	2
	30 June
					Saudi Arabia	3
	Senegal	1 (2)
									6 July
	Saudi Arabia (p)	1 (3)
									Saudi Arabia	2
	29 June
									Algeria	1
	Morocco	1 (3)
					3 July
	Algeria (p)	1 (4)
					Algeria	2
	30 June
					Tunisia	0
	Tunisia	1
	Comoros	0

Quarter-finals

Egypt	3–0	Tajikistan
Sherif 29' Hawash 37' Hassan 48'	Report

Morocco	1–1	Algeria
Radid 29' (pen.)	Report	Mahour 90+3'
Penalties
Nanah Sadik El Hammami Chraibi Radid	3–4	Mohra Belmokthar Titraoui Namani Mahour

Senegal	1–1	Saudi Arabia
S. Faye 62'	Report	Radif 43'
Penalties
Diaw Gueye Cissoko Diouf S. Faye	2–3	Radif Almari Al Dawsari Al-Oyayari Al-Nemer

Tunisia	1–0	Comoros
Senana 4'	Report

Semi-finals

Egypt	2–3	Saudi Arabia
Sherif 45+2' A. Abdelhamid 51'	Report	Radif 26' Al Aliwa 28' Al Zaid 69'

Algeria	2–0	Tunisia
Omar 67', 77'	Report

Final

The final match was initially scheduled to be played at the Cairo International Stadium at 20:00. The UAFA decided to play the game at 17:00 at the 30 June Stadium, also in Cairo.

Saudi Arabia	2–1	Algeria
Al-Juwayr 3' Baker 77'	Report	Boulbina 54'

Statistics

Goalscorers

There were 107 goals scored in 31 matches, for an average of 3.45 goals per match.

6 goals

• Mohamed Radid

5 goals

• Souleymane Faye

4 goals

• Abdullah Radif
• Youssef Hassan
• Omar Sadik
• Mahmoud Adel

3 goals

• Muhammadali Azizboyev
• Eisa Khalfan

2 goals

• Mohamed Omar
• Abdul Qader Ayoub
• Kassem Abdul Razzaq
• Ilyas Boughafer
• Bilal El Khannous
• Meshari Al-Nemer
• Ibrahima Cissoko
• Mami Faye
• Aziz Abid
• Hedi Jertila
• Youssef Senana
• Mansoor Saeed
• Abdulfattoh Hudojdodzoda
• Fahad Yassin
• Ahmed Abdelhamid
• Ahmed Sherif

1 goal

• Issam Bouaoune
• Adil Boulbina
• Adam Dougui
• Samy Mahour
• Isman Idris
• Haider Abtah
• Abdellah Azrour
• Abdel Rahman Rashdan
• Abd Alrahman Smida
• Abdeljawad Abdeljawad
• Ahmed Hawash
• Blnd Hassan
• Nasr Salam
• Ali Reda Ismail
• Ali Kassas
• Hassan Akboub
• Abdulaziz Al-Elewai
• Mohammed Al Dawsari
• Musab Al-Juwayr
• Suhaib Al Zaid
• Mohammed Baker
• Mamadou Gning
• Ousmane Diao
• Malick Ndoye
• Fakhriddin Akhtamov
• Salam Ashurmadov
• Kabir Salimshoev
• Khosrow Tahirov
• Mohamad Al Yammahi
• Sultan Adil
• Mohamed Al Wafi
• Mubarak Ahmed
• Dhari Fahad

• Bilal Mouloud
• Adam Omar
• Salah Samila
• Abed Elakh Boldochiv
• Gacem Charafi
• Ammar Noman
• Imed Eljdaima

1 own goal

• Ahmed Mustapha (against Algeria)
• Sulaiman Hazazi (against Yemen)

See also

• 2021 Arab Cup U-17
• 2021 Arab Women's Cup

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