1999 African Youth Championship

1999 African Youth Championship
Tournament details
Host country	Ghana
Dates	21 February – 7 March
Teams	8
Final positions
Champions	Ghana (2nd title)
Runners-up	Nigeria
Third place	Cameroon
Fourth place	Zambia
	← 1997 2001 →

The 1999 African Youth Championship was the tenth edition of the continental Under-20 football competition, held in Ghana. It also served as qualification for the 1999 FIFA World Youth Championship.

Qualification[]

Preliminary round[]

Gambia and Namibia withdrew before playing. As a result, Burkina Faso and Malawi advanced to the next round. Mauritania withdrew after one match and Libya went through.

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Mozambique	6–5		4–4	2–1
	6–5	Liberia	4–3	2–2
	3–2		2–1	1–1
Congo	3–2	Togo	2–1	1–1
Rwanda	2–1		1–1	1–0
Mauritania	w/o	Libya	2–2	w/o

First round[]

Burkina Faso withdrew before playing. As a result, Nigeria advanced to the next round.

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Libya	5–4	Tunisia	3–3	2–1
	2–4	Mali	1–3	1–1
Angola	5–2	Gabon	3–2	2–0
Congo	1–4	Ivory Coast	1–1	0–3
Uganda	2–4	Tanzania	1–1	1–3
Ethiopia	1–2	Egypt	0–0	1–2
	3–4	Zambia	2–2	1–2
Rwanda	2–3	Cameroon	2–0	0–3
Burundi	2–1	Sudan	1–1	1–0
Algeria	3–6	Guinea	3–2	0–4
Senegal	1–1	Morocco	1–1	0–0
	(a)2–2		1–0	1–2
Mozambique	2–2 (p: 3–4)	South Africa	1–1	1–1

Second round[]

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Ivory Coast	4–4 (p: 3–4)	Angola	4–0	0–4
Nigeria	4–2	Tanzania	3–1	1–1
Zambia	3–3 (p: 6–5)	Egypt	3–0	0–3
Burundi	1–2	Cameroon	1–2	0–0
Morocco	0–4	Guinea	0–4	0–0
South Africa	1–5		0–1	1–4
Mali	5–4	Libya	3–0	2–4

Teams[]

The following teams qualified for tournament:

Group stage[]

Group A[]

Teams	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Ghana	3	2	1	0	7	1	+6	7
Cameroon	3	1	2	0	3	2	+1	5
Mali	3	1	1	1	4	3	+1	4
Angola	3	0	0	3	1	9	–8	0

21 February

Ghana	1–0	Mali

21 February

Angola	0–1	Cameroon

24 February

Mali	1–1	Cameroon

24 February

Angola	0–5	Ghana

27 February

Mali	3–1	Angola

27 February

Cameroon	1–1	Ghana

Group B[]

Teams	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Nigeria	3	2	1	0	9	3	+6	7
Zambia	3	2	1	0	7	2	+5	7
Guinea	3	1	0	2	8	12	–4	3
	3	0	0	3	2	9	–7	0

22 February

Zambia	1–0

22 February

Guinea	3–4	Nigeria

25 February

	0–5	Nigeria

25 February

Guinea	2-6	Zambia

28 February

	2–3	Guinea

28 February

Nigeria	0–0	Zambia

Knock-out stage[]

Fifth-place Match[]

3 March

Mali	4–1	Guinea

Semi-finals[]

4 March

Ghana	3–1	Zambia

Accra

4 March

Nigeria	2–1	Cameroon

Accra

Third place match[]

7 March

Cameroon	2–1	Zambia

Accra

Final[]

7 March

Ghana	1–0	Nigeria
Laryea Kingston 40'

Accra

Referee:

Mohamed Guezaz

Further information

Assistant Referees:

Carlos Henriques
Tomusange Ali
Monteiro Duarte

Cautions:

43'
Aminu Sani 54'
59'
Sam Okoye 61'

Line-ups

Nigeria	Ghana
Sam Okoye Haruna Babangida (Joseph Yobo 82’) Hashimu Garba Aminu Sani (Julius Aghahowa 70’) Abubakar Musa Pius Ikedia Rabiu Afolabi	Sammy Adjei Baffour Gyan ( 38’) Hamza Mohammed ( 68’) Aziz Ansah Laryea Kingston ( 76’) George Blay Owusu Afriyie

1999 African Youth Championship
Ghana Second title

Qualification to World Youth Championship[]

The five best performing teams qualified for the 1999 FIFA World Youth Championship.

External links[]

Tournament details at Rsssf