1995 African Youth Championship Explained

The African Youth Championship 1995 was a soccer tournament held in Nigeria. It also served as qualification for the 1995 FIFA World Youth Championship.

Qualification

Preliminary round

Benin, Botswana, Cape Verde, Congo, Liberia, Mauritania and Swaziland withdrew. As a result, Senegal, Lesotho, Guinea-Bissau, Togo, Burkina Faso, Sierra Leone and Madagascar advanced to the next round.|}

First round

Kenya, Madagascar, Sierra Leone, Uganda, Zaire and Zimbabwe withdrew. As a result, Cameroon, Mauritius, Morocco, Burundi, Zambia and Ethiopia advanced to the next round.

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Second round

|}Guinea also went through to the main tournament because Nigeria would qualify as host.

Teams

The following teams qualified for the tournament:

• • • • • • (host)

Group stage

Group A

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28 January		3–3
		2–2
30 January		2–1
		1–0
1 February		3–0
		2–1

Group B

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31 January		0–0
		1–2
2 February		1–1
		3–1
4 February		1–2
		1–0

Qualification to World Youth Championship

The two best performing teams qualified for the 1995 FIFA World Youth Championship.

External links

• Results by RSSSF