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. 2-5Second 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. 0-2Teams
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
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