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The African Youth Championship 1997 was held in
Morocco Morocco (),, ) officially the Kingdom of Morocco, is the westernmost country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It overlooks the Mediterranean Sea to the north and the Atlantic Ocean to the west, and has land borders with Algeria ...
. It also served as qualification for the 1997 FIFA World Youth Championship.


Qualification

Morocco qualified automatically as hosts.


First round

28/29 Sep 1996: Algeria 0-2 Tunisia Mali 3-0 Mauritania Burkina Faso 0-0 Guinea Ghana 2-0 Senegal Nigeria 5-1 Chad Sudan 2-0 Kenya Benin 0-1 Ivory Coast Egypt 5-0 Ethiopia Reunion 0-2 Zimbabwe South Africa 2-0 Mauritius Angola 3-1 Botswana Tanzania w/o Burundi urundi suspended by CAF following a coup d'état Cameroon w/o Togo ogo withdrew Zambia w/o Malawi alawi withdrew 19/20 Oct 1996: Tunisia 1-3 Algeria gg. 3-3, Algeria on away goals Guinea 1-1 Burkina Faso gg. 1-1, Burkina Faso on away goals Senegal 2-3 Ghana gg. 2-5 Chad 2-1 Nigeria gg. 3-6 Kenya 1-0 Sudan gg. 1-2 Ethiopia 5-0 Egypt gg. 5-5, penalties 1-2 Zimbabwe 5-0 Reunion gg. 7-0 Mauritius 1-3 South Africa gg. 1-5 Botswana 1-2 Angola gg. 2-5


Second round

21/22 Dec 1996: Mali 3-2 Algeria Nigeria 2-1 Sudan Ivory Coast 5-3 Cameroon Burkina Faso 1-1 Ghana Egypt 2-1 Zimbabwe South Africa 3-0 Tanzania Zambia 1-0 Angola 3/5 Jan 1997: Algeria - Mali ali qualified Sudan - Nigeria udan qualified Cameroon - Ivory Coast vory Coast qualified Ghana - Burkina Faso hana qualified Zimbabwe - Egypt gypt qualified Tanzania 0-1 South Africa gg. 0-4 Angola 0-1 Zambia gg. 0-2


Teams

Last year's finalists Burundi were disqualified in the qualifying tournament. Eight teams entered the tournament: * * * * * (host) * * *


Group stage


Group A



Group B



Semifinals


Third place match


Final


Qualification to World Youth Championship

The four best performing teams qualified for the 1997 FIFA World Youth Championship. * * * *


References


External links


Results by RSSSF
{{African Youth Championship Africa U-20 Cup of Nations
Youth Youth is the time of life when one is young. The word, youth, can also mean the time between childhood and adulthood ( maturity), but it can also refer to one's peak, in terms of health or the period of life known as being a young adult. Y ...
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