2017 Africa U-20 Cup of Nations

2017 Africa U-20 Cup of Nations
Tournament details

Host country	Zambia
Dates	26 February – 12 March 2017
Teams	8 (from 1 confederation)
Venue(s)	2 (in 2 host cities)
Final positions
Champions	Zambia (1st title)
Runners-up	Senegal
Third place	Guinea
Fourth place	South Africa
Tournament statistics
Matches played	16
Goals scored	50 (3.13 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Luther Singh Edward Chilufya Patson Daka (4 goals each)
Best player	Patson Daka
Fair play award	South Africa

The 2017 Africa U-20 Cup of Nations, officially known as the Total U-20 Africa Cup Of Nations, Zambia 2017,^[1] was the 14th edition of the Africa U-20 Cup of Nations (21st edition if tournaments without hosts are included), the biennial international youth football tournament organized by the Confederation of African Football (CAF) for players aged 20 and below. The tournament was set to take place in Zambia between 26 February – 12 March 2017.^[2]

The top four teams qualified for the 2017 FIFA U-20 World Cup in South Korea.

Qualification

The qualifiers were played between 1 April and 24 July 2016. At the end of the qualification phase, seven teams joined the hosts Zambia.

Player eligibility

Players born 1 January 1997 or later are eligible to participate in the competition.

Qualified teams

The following eight teams qualified for the final tournament. Defending champions Nigeria failed to qualify. Congo and Ghana also failed to qualify, thus the winners of five of the last six tournaments failed to qualify for this tournament.

Note: All appearance statistics count only those since the introduction of final tournament in 1991.^[3]

Team	Appearance	Previous best appearance
Cameroon	09 !9th	01 !Champions (1995)
Egypt	11 !11th	01 !Champions (1991, 2003, 2013)
Guinea	03 !3rd	09 !Group stage (1995, 1999)
Mali	11 !11th	03 !Third place (2003)
Senegal	04 !4th	02 !Runners-up (2015)
South Africa	07 !7th	02 !Runners-up (1997)
Sudan	02 !2nd	09 !Group stage (1997)
Zambia (hosts)	07 !7th	04 !Fourth place (1991, 1999, 2007)

Venues

Lusaka	Lusaka Ndola Location of venues in Zambia	Ndola
National Heroes Stadium		Levy Mwanawasa Stadium
Capacity: 60,000		Capacity: 50,000

Match officials

A total of 12 referees and 14 assistant referees were selected for the tournament.^[4]^[5]

Referees

Hélder Martins de Carvalho (Angola)
Juste Ephrem Zio (Burkina Faso)
Thierry Nkurunziza (Burundi)
Antoine Effa (Cameroon)
Victor Gomes (South Africa)
Ibrahim Nour El Din (Egypt)
Sékou Ahmed Touré (Guinea)
Sadok Selmi (Tunisia)
Jackson Pavaza (Namibia)
Louis Hakizimana (Rwanda)
Maguette Ndiaye (Senegal)
Chewe Wisdom (Zambia)

Assistant referees

Mokrani Gourari (Algeria)
Issa Yahya (Chad)
Steven Danilek M. Moyo (Congo)
Sosseh Sulayman (Gambia)
Sidiki Sidibe (Guinea)
Cheruiyot Gilbert (Kenya)
Mark Ssonko (Uganda)
Warr Adbelrahman (Mauritania)
Nabina Blaise Sebutu (DR Congo)
Toure Sengne Cheikh (Senegal)
Eldrick Adelaide (Seychelles)
Khumalo Steven (South Africa)
Diakite Moriba (Mali)
Kasengele Romeo (Zambia)

Draw

The draw for the tournament took place on 24 October 2016, 11:00 local time (UTC+2) at the CAF Headquarters in Cairo.^[6]^[7]^[8]

The teams were seeded based on the results of the last edition (final tournament and qualifiers).^[9]

Level 1	Level 2	Level 3	Level 4
Zambia (host, assigned to A1) Senegal (2015 runner-up, assigned to B1)	Mali South Africa	Cameroon Egypt	Sudan Guinea

Squads

Each squad can contain a maximum of 21 players.^[10]

Group stage

The group winners and runners-up advance to the semi-finals and qualify for the 2017 FIFA U-20 World Cup.

Tiebreakers

The teams are ranked according to points (3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, 0 points for a loss). If tied on points, tiebreakers are applied in the following order:^[10]

Number of points obtained in games between the teams concerned;
Goal difference in games between the teams concerned;
Goals scored in games between the teams concerned;
If, after applying criteria 1 to 3 to several teams, two teams still have an equal ranking, criteria 1 to 3 are reapplied exclusively to the matches between the two teams in question to determine their final rankings. If this procedure does not lead to a decision, criteria 5 to 7 apply;
Goal difference in all games;
Goals scored in all games;
Drawing of lots.

All times are local, CAT (UTC+2).

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Zambia (H)	3	3	0	0	10	2	+8	9	Knockout stage and 2017 FIFA U-20 World Cup
2	Guinea	3	1	1	1	4	4	0	4	Knockout stage and 2017 FIFA U-20 World Cup
3	Egypt	3	0	2	1	2	4	−2	2
4	Mali	3	0	1	2	3	9	−6	1

Source: CAF
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers
(H) Host.

Zambia v Guinea

26 February 2017
15:00

Zambia	1–0	Guinea
Daka 47'	Report

National Heroes Stadium, Lusaka
Referee: Juste Ephrem Zio (Burkina Faso)

Egypt v Mali

26 February 2017
18:00

Egypt	0–0	Mali
	Report

National Heroes Stadium, Lusaka
Referee: Victor Gomes (South Africa)

Guinea v Egypt

1 March 2017
15:00

Guinea	1–1	Egypt
Touré 79'	Report	Abdalla 37'

National Heroes Stadium, Lusaka
Referee: Jackson Pavaza (Namibia)

Mali v Zambia

1 March 2017
18:00

Mali	1–6	Zambia
Danté 5'	Report	F. Sakala 7', 65' E. Banda 24' Mwepu 37' Chilufya 49', 53'

National Heroes Stadium, Lusaka
Referee: Joshua Bondo (Botswana)

Zambia v Egypt

4 March 2017
15:00

Zambia	3–1	Egypt
Daka 48', 90' F. Sakala 72'	Report	Nedved 35'

National Heroes Stadium, Lusaka
Referee: Hélder Martins de Carvalho (Angola)

Guinea v Mali

4 March 2017
15:00

Guinea	3–2	Mali
M. Sylla 49' (pen.), 59' M. Aly Camara 72'	Report	Koïta 2' M. Diakité 52' (pen.)

Levy Mwanawasa Stadium, Ndola
Referee: Antoine Effa (Cameroon)

Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Senegal	3	2	1	0	7	4	+3	7	Knockout stage and 2017 FIFA U-20 World Cup
2	South Africa	3	2	0	1	9	6	+3	6	Knockout stage and 2017 FIFA U-20 World Cup
3	Cameroon	3	1	0	2	5	6	−1	3
4	Sudan	3	0	1	2	3	8	−5	1

Source: CAF
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers

Senegal v Sudan

27 February 2017
15:00

Senegal	1–1	Sudan
Niane 88'	Report	Mutwakil 21' (pen.)

Levy Mwanawasa Stadium, Ndola
Referee: Ibrahim Nour El Din (Egypt)

Cameroon v South Africa

27 February 2017
18:00

Cameroon	1–3	South Africa
Ayuk 14'	Report	Singh 16', 26' (pen.), 57'

Levy Mwanawasa Stadium, Ndola
Referee: Thierry Nkurunziza (Burundi)

Sudan v Cameroon

2 March 2017
15:00

Sudan	1–4	Cameroon
W. Mohamed 79'	Report	Ketu 8' Ayuk 51' Gouet 73' Mbaizo 89'

Levy Mwanawasa Stadium, Ndola
Referee: Wisdom Chewe (Zambia)

South Africa v Senegal

2 March 2017
18:00

South Africa	3–4	Senegal
Jordan 1' Malepe 24' Singh 81'	Report	Ndiaye 48' Diagne 53', 60' Diatta 70'

Levy Mwanawasa Stadium, Ndola
Referee: Louis Hakizimana (Rwanda)

Senegal v Cameroon

5 March 2017
15:00

Senegal	2–0	Cameroon
Niane 45' Diatta 47'	Report

Levy Mwanawasa Stadium, Ndola
Referee: Joshua Bondo (Botswana)

Sudan v South Africa

5 March 2017
15:00

Sudan	1–3	South Africa
Osman 24'	Report	Mahlambi 13' Margeman 60' Mbatha 66'

National Heroes Stadium, Lusaka
Referee: Sékou Ahmed Touré (Guinea)

Knockout stage

In the knockout stage, if a match is level at the end of normal playing time, extra time will be played (two periods of 15 minutes each) and followed, if necessary, by kicks from the penalty mark to determine the winner, except for the third place match where no extra time will be played.^[10]

Bracket

Semi-finals		Final

8 March – Lusaka

Zambia (a.e.t.)	1
		12 March – Lusaka
South Africa	0
		Zambia	2
9 March – Ndola
		Senegal	0
Senegal	1

Guinea	0
		Third Place

		12 March – Lusaka

		South Africa	1

		Guinea	2

Semi-finals

Zambia v South Africa

8 March 2017
18:00

Zambia	1–0 (a.e.t.)	South Africa
Chilufya 109'	Report

National Heroes Stadium, Lusaka
Referee: Sadok Selmi (Tunisia)

Senegal v Guinea

9 March 2017
18:00

Senegal	1–0	Guinea
Badji 12'	Report

Levy Mwanawasa Stadium, Ndola
Referee: Louis Hakizimana (Rwanda)

Third place match

South Africa v Guinea

12 March 2017
14:00

South Africa	1–2	Guinea
Jordan 5'	Report	Mohamme 6' (o.g.) Bangoura 85' (pen.)

National Heroes Stadium, Lusaka
Referee: Juste Ephrem Zio (Burkina Faso)

Final

Zambia v Senegal

12 March 2017
17:30

Zambia	2–0	Senegal
Daka 16' Chilufya 34'	Report

National Heroes Stadium, Lusaka
Referee: Thierry Nkurunziza (Burundi)

Awards

Winners

2017 Africa U-20 Cup of Nations Winners
Zambia First title

Individual awards

The following awards were given at the conclusion of the tournament.^[11]

Total Man of the Competition

Patson Daka

Top scorer

Luther Singh (4 goals, 2 assists)

Fair Play Award

South Africa

CAF Best XI

Goalkeeper: Mangani Banda (Zambia)
Defenders: Ousseynou Diagne (Senegal), Mamadou Mbaye (Senegal), Solomon Sakala (Zambia)
Midfielders: Krepin Diatta (Senegal), Ibrahima Niane (Senegal), Sylla Morlaye (Guinea), Edward Chilufya (Zambia), Fashion Sakala (Zambia)
Forwards: Luther Singh (South Africa), Patson Daka (Zambia)
Substitutes: Lamine Sarr (Senegal), Prosper Chiluya (Zambia), Enock Mwepu (Zambia), Grant Margeman (South Africa), Liam Jordan (South Africa), Yamodou Toure (Guinea), Mohamed Aly Camara (Guinea)

Goalscorers

4 goals

Luther Singh
Edward Chilufya
Patson Daka

3 goals

Fashion Sakala

2 goals

Eric Ayuk
Morlaye Sylla
Ousseynou Diagne
Krépin Diatta
Ibrahima Niane
Liam Jordan

1 goal

Samuel Gouet
Kalvin Ketu
Olivier Mbaizo
Mostafa Abdalla
Karim Nedved
Mohamed Aly Camara
Naby Bangoura
Yamodou Touré
Abdoul Karim Danté
Moussa Diakité
Sékou Koïta
Aliou Badji
Ibrahima Ndiaye
Phakamani Mahlambi
Tercious Malepe
Grant Margeman
Sibongakonke Mbatha
Walaa Mohamed
Hassan Mutwakil
Khaled Osman
Emmanuel Banda
Enock Mwepu

Own goal

Katlego Mohamme (against Guinea)

Qualified teams for FIFA U-20 World Cup

The following four teams from CAF qualified for the 2017 FIFA U-20 World Cup.^[12]

Team	Qualified on	Previous appearances in tournament¹
Zambia	01 !1 March 2017	02 !2 (1999, 2007)
Senegal	03 !5 March 2017	01 !1 (2015)
Guinea	02 !4 March 2017	01 !1 (1979)
South Africa	04 !5 March 2017	02 !2 (1997, 2009)

¹ Bold indicates champion for that year. Italic indicates host for that year.

References

↑ "Total, Title Sponsor of the Africa Cup of Nations and Partner of African Football". CAF. 21 July 2016. Archived from the original on 29 December 2016.
↑ "Fixtures of U-17 & U-20 AFCON qualifiers released". Cafonline.com. 11 February 2016.
↑ "Total U-20 AFCON: History of the competition". CAF. 23 February 2017.
↑ "Match officials for Total U-20 AFCON Zambia 2017 unveiled". CAF. 14 February 2017.
↑ "SELECTED MATCH OFFICIALS FOR THE TOTAL U-20 AFCON ZAMBIA 2017". CAF.
↑ "Media accreditation for draw of u-17 & u-20 AFCON final tournaments". CAFonline.com. 3 October 2016. Retrieved 3 October 2016.
↑ "Draw Procedure: TOTAL U-17 AFCON & TOTAL U-20 AFCON". CAF. 23 October 2016.
↑ "Results of draw: Total U-20 Africa Cup of Nations ZAMBIA 2017". CAF. 24 October 2016.
↑ "Procedures of the draw of the 20th Edition TOTAL U-20 Africa Cup of Nations, Zambia 2017" (PDF). CAF.
1 2 3 "Regulations of the U-20 Africa Cup of Nations" (PDF). CAFonline.com. 3 October 2016. Retrieved 3 October 2016.
↑ "Awards and Statistics". CAF. 12 March 2017.
↑ "Senegal and South Africa complete Korea Republic 2017 line-up". FIFA.com. 4 March 2017.

External links

Total U-20 Africa Cup Of Nations, Zambia 2017, CAFonline.com

African U-21 Cup of Nations, U-21 and U-20 Championship and U-20 Africa Cup of Nations

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