| Founded | 1995 |
|---|---|
| Region | Africa (CAF) |
| Number of teams | 16 |
| Current champions | Burkina Faso |
| Most successful team | Ghana Nigeria Gambia (two titles each) |
| 2011 | |
The African Under 17 Championship is a bi-annual football competition organised by the sport's Africaan governing body, CAF. The competition has been held since 1995. Between 1985 and 1993 only qualifying competitions for the FIFA U-17 World Cup were played.
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| Year | Host | Qualifier teams | |||
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| Winner | Winner | Winner | |||
| 1985 details |
home & away | Congo |
Guinea |
Nigeria |
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| 1987 details |
home & away | Côte d'Ivoire |
Egypt |
Nigeria |
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| 1989 details |
home & away | Ghana |
Guinea |
Nigeria |
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| Year | Host | Qualifier teams | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Winner | Winner | Winner | |||
| 1991 details |
home & away | Congo |
Ghana |
Sudan |
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| 1993 details |
home & away | Ghana |
Nigeria |
Tunisia |
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| Year | Host | Final | Third Place Match | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Winner | Score | Runner-up | Third Place | Score | Fourth Place | ||||
| 1995 details |
Mali | Ghana |
3–1 aet |
Nigeria |
Guinea |
2–1 aet |
Mali |
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| 1997 details |
Botswana | Egypt |
1–0 | Mali |
Ghana |
1–0 | Ethiopia |
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| 1999 details |
Guinea | Ghana |
3–1 | Burkina Faso |
Mali |
1–0 | Cameroon |
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| 2001 details |
Seychelles | Nigeria |
3–0 | Burkina Faso |
Mali |
– | [1] | ||
| 2003 details |
Swaziland | Cameroon |
1–0 aet |
Sierra Leone |
Nigeria |
3–1 | Egypt |
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| 2005 details |
Gambia | Gambia |
1–0 | Ghana |
Côte d'Ivoire |
1–0 | South Africa |
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| 2007 details |
Togo | Nigeria |
1–0 aet |
Togo |
Ghana |
1–0 | Tunisia |
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| 2009 details |
Algeria | Gambia |
3–1 | Algeria |
Burkina Faso |
2–0 | Malawi |
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| 2011 details |
Rwanda | Burkina Faso |
2–1 | Rwanda |
Congo |
2–1 | Côte d'Ivoire |
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| 2013 details |
Morocco | – | – | ||||||
| 2015 details |
Niger | – | – | ||||||
| 2017 details |
Madagascar | – | – | ||||||
| Team | Champions | Runners-up | Third-place | Fourth-place |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ghana | 2 (1995, 1999) | 1 (2005) | 2 (1997, 2007) | – |
| Nigeria | 2 (2001, 2007) | 1 (1995) | 1 (2003) | – |
| Gambia | 2 (2005, 2009) | – | – | – |
| Burkina Faso | 1 (2011) | 2 (1999, 2001) | 1 (2009) | – |
| Cameroon | 1 (2003) | – | – | 1 (1999) |
| Egypt | 1 (1997) | – | – | 1 (2003) |
| Mali | – | 1 (1997) | 2 (1999, 2001) | 1 (1995) |
| Algeria | – | 1 (2009) | – | – |
| Rwanda | – | 1 (2011) | – | – |
| Sierra Leone | – | 1 (2003) | – | – |
| Togo | – | 1 (2007) | – | – |
| Côte d'Ivoire | – | – | 1 (2005) | 1 (2011) |
| Congo | – | – | 1 (2011) | – |
| Guinea | – | – | 1 (1995) | – |
| Ethiopia | – | – | – | 1 (1997) |
| Malawi | – | – | – | 1 (2009) |
| South Africa | – | – | – | 1 (2005) |
| Tunisia | – | – | – | 1 (2007) |
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