1985 African Youth Championship

1985 African Youth Championship
Tournament details
Dates	2 September 1984 - 4 May 1985
Teams	17
Final positions
Champions	Nigeria (2nd title)
Runners-up	Tunisia
	← 1983 1987 →

The African Youth Championship 1985 was contested through home and away matches. It also served as qualification for the 1985 FIFA World Youth Championship.

Teams[]

The following teams entered the tournament (and played at least one match):

Preliminary Round:

First Round:

Second Round:

Ivory Coast

Preliminary round[]

Burkina Faso, Libya and Togo withdrew, meaning Benin, Ethiopia and Senegal qualified for the First Round.

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Gambia	2–3	Ghana	1–0	1–3
	2–2	Angola	2–1	0–1
Sudan	1–0	Uganda	1–0	0–0
Mozambique	0–8	Zambia	0–3	0–5

First round[]

Benin and Senegal withdrew. As a result, Guinea and Ivory Coast advanced to the next round. Entrants in this round were Algeria, Cameroon, Egypt, Ethiopia, Morocco, Nigeria, Tunisia and Zimbabwe.

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Tunisia	0–0 (p: 3–2)	Algeria	0–0	0–0
Morocco	3–1	Egypt	2–0	1–1
Nigeria	2–1	Ghana	2–0	0–1
Cameroon	5–0	Angola	3–0	2–0
	4–3	Sudan	4–2	0–1
Ethiopia	5–3	Zambia	2–2	3–1

Quarterfinals[]

Ivory Coast entered the tournament.

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Guinea	1–3	Ivory Coast	0–0	1–3
Morocco	1–2	Tunisia	1–0	0–2
Cameroon	4–5	Nigeria	3–0	1–5
Ethiopia	3–1		1–1	2–0

Semifinals[]

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Ivory Coast	1–1(a)	Tunisia	1–1	0–0
Nigeria	4–1	Ethiopia	3–0	1–1

Final[]

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Tunisia	2–3	Nigeria	1–1	1–2

1985 African Youth Championship
Nigeria Second title

Qualification to World Youth Championship[]

The two best performing teams qualified for the 1985 FIFA World Youth Championship.

External links[]

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