1981 African Youth Championship

1981 African Youth Championship

Tournament details
Dates	8 June 1980 – 24 April 1981
Teams	14
Final positions
Champions	Egypt (1st title)
Runners-up	Cameroon
Third place	Nigeria
Fourth place	Algeria

The African Youth Championship 1981 was contested through home and away matches. It also served as qualification for the 1981 FIFA World Youth Championship.

Teams

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

Preliminary round

The first leg was played on 8 June 1980. The second leg was held on 22 June 1980. The winners advanced to the First Round. Guinea, Cameroon, Togo, Tunisia, Morocco, Zimbabwe, Ethiopia, Mauritania, Algeria, Nigeria, Ivory Coast, Egypt, Uganda, Central Africa, Kenya all received byes to the First Round.

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Equatorial Guinea	4 - 3	Gabon	2 - 0	2 - 3
Togo	walkover	Benin	W/O	W/O
Zimbabwe	walkover	Malawi	W/O	W/O

First round

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Guinea	2 - 2	Equatorial Guinea	2 - 1	0 - 1
Cameroon	4 - 2	Togo	3 - 0	1 - 2
Tunisia	1 - 1	Morocco	0 - 1	1 - 0
Zimbabwe	2 - 1	Ethiopia	0 - 0	2 - 1
Mauritania	1 - 6	Algeria	1 - 3	0 - 3
Nigeria	walkover	Côte d'Ivoire	W/O	W/O
Egypt	walkover	Uganda	W/O	W/O
Central Africa	walkover	Kenya	W/O	W/O

Second round

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Cameroon	3 - 1	Equatorial Guinea	3 - 0	0 - 1
Nigeria	5 - 4	Tunisia	4 - 0	1 - 4
Zimbabwe	1 - 3	Egypt	1 - 1	0 - 2
Central Africa	walkover	Algeria	4 - 1	W/O

Semi Final

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Nigeria	2 - 4	Cameroon	2 - 3	0 - 1
Algeria	walkover	Egypt	W/O	W/O

Final

The first leg were played on 12 April 1981. The second leg were played on ton 26 April 1981.

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Cameroon	1 - 3	Egypt		1 - 1	0 - 2

1981 African Youth Championship Winners
Egypt First title

Qualification to World Youth Championship

The two best performing teams qualified for the 1981 FIFA World Youth Championship.

•  Cameroon
•  Egypt

External links

• Results by RSSSF