1993 African Youth Championship

1993 African Youth Championship
Tournament details
Host country	Mauritius
Dates	30 January - 10 February
Teams	8
Final positions
Champions	Ghana (1st title)
Runners-up	Cameroon
Third place	Egypt
Fourth place	Ethiopia

The 1993 African Youth Championship was a football tournament hosted on the island of Mauritius, off the east coast of Africa. The Championship was won by Ghana, who defeated Cameroon in the final, with both teams thus qualifying for the 1993 FIFA World Youth Championship.^[1]

Qualification

Preliminary Round

Gambia withdrew and therefore Senegal received a bye

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Kenya	0–4	Uganda	0–2	0–2
Mali	8–2	Mauritania	6–1	2–1
Togo	(a)1–1	Niger	0–0	1–1

Main Round

Algeria, Cameroon, Congo, Egypt, Ethiopia, Ghana, Morocco, Nigeria, Senegal, Tunisia and Zimbabwe entered the tournament here.

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Ethiopia	3–1	Togo	3–1	0–0
Algeria	1–4	Morocco	1–2	0–2
Ghana	3–0	Mali	2–0	1–0
Nigeria	DSQ	Congo	0–1	DSQ
Tunisia	3–5	Senegal	2–2	1–3
Cameroon	3–1	Uganda	1–0	2–1
Egypt	4–2	Zimbabwe	3–1	1–1

Teams

The following teams qualified for tournament:

Group Stage

Group A

Teams	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Cameroon	3	2	1	4	2	+2	4
Ghana	3	2	1	2	2	0	4
Nigeria	3	1	2	2	2	0	2
Mauritius	3	1	2	2	4	–2	2


30 January	Ghana	1–0	Mauritius
	Cameroon	1–0	Nigeria
1 February	Nigeria	2–0	Mauritius
	Cameroon	2–0	Ghana
3 February	Mauritius	2–1	Cameroon
	Ghana	1–0	Nigeria

Group B

Teams	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Egypt	3	2	1	0	5	1	+4	5
Ethiopia	3	2	0	1	5	3	+2	4
Morocco	3	1	0	2	4	6	–2	2
Senegal	3	0	1	2	1	5	–4	1


31 January	Egypt	0–0	Senegal
	Ethiopia	2–1	Morocco
2 February	Egypt	4–1	Morocco
	Ethiopia	3–1	Senegal
4 February	Egypt	1–0	Ethiopia
	Morocco	2–0	Senegal

Semifinals

Cameroon v Ethiopia

7 February 1993

Cameroon	5 – 0	Ethiopia

Egypt v Ghana

7 February 1993

Egypt	1 – 3 (aet)	Ghana

Third Place Match

Egypt v Ethiopia

9 February 1993

Egypt	3 – 0	Ethiopia

Final

Ghana v Cameroon

10 February 1993

Ghana	2 – 0	Cameroon

1993 African Youth Championship
Ghana First title

Qualification to World Youth Championship

The two best performing teams qualified for the 1993 FIFA World Youth Championship.

External links

Results by RSSSF

References

↑ "African U-21 Championship 1993". Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. Retrieved 28 September 2010.

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African U-21 Cup of Nations

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Qualification	1991 1993 1995 1997 1999 2001
Squads	1991 1993 1995 1997 1999 2001

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Qualification	2003 2005 2007 2009 2011 2013 2015 2017
Squads	2003 2005 2007 2009 2011 2013 2015 2017

U-20 Africa Cup of Nations

Tournaments	Zambia 2017 Niger 2019
Qualification	2017 2019
Squads	2017 2019

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