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1985 African Youth Championship

{{short description|5th African youth football qualification tournament}}

{{Infobox international football competition

| tourney_name = African Youth Championship

| year = 1985

| dates = 2 September 1984 – 4 May 1985

| num_teams = 17

| confederations = 1

| champion_other = {{fbu|20|NGA}}

| count = 2

| second_other = {{fbu|20|TUN}}

| matches = 26

| goals = 59

| prevseason = 1983

| nextseason = 1987

}}

The 1985 African Youth Championship was the 5th edition of the biennial African qualification tournament for the FIFA World Youth Championship which was contested on a home-and-away two-legged basis.

Nigeria reached the final for the first time in consecutive editions of the tournamentand successfully defended the title for the second time and beat Tunisia 3–2 on aggregate, although both teams qualified for the 1985 FIFA World Youth Championship in the Soviet Union.

Teams

The following teams entered this edition of the tournament and played at least a match:

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Preliminary Round:

  • {{fbu|20|ANG}}
  • {{fb|EQG}}
  • {{fbu|20|GAM}}
  • {{fbu|20|GHA}}
  • {{fbu|20|MOZ}}
  • {{fbu|20|SUD}}
  • {{fbu|20|UGA}}
  • {{fbu|20|ZAM}}

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First Round:

  • {{fbu|20|ALG}}
  • {{fbu|20|CMR}}
  • {{fbu|20|EGY}}
  • {{fbu|20|ETH|1975}}
  • {{fbu|20|GIN}}
  • {{fbu|20|MAR}}
  • {{fbu|20|NGA}}
  • {{fbu|20|TUN}}
  • {{fb|ZIM}}

Second Round:

  • {{fbu|20|CIV}}

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Preliminary round

Burkina Faso, Libya and Togo withdrew, leaving Benin, Ethiopia and Senegal to advance to the First Round. The teams that received byes to the next round were Algeria, Cameroon, Egypt, Ethiopia, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Morocco, Nigeria, Tunisia and Zimbabwe.

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{{TwoLegResult|{{fbu-rt|20|GAM}}||2–3|{{fbu|20|GHA}}||1–0|1–3}}

{{TwoLegResult|{{fb-rt|EQG}}||2–2|{{fbu|20|ANG}}||2–1|0–1}}

{{TwoLegResult|{{fbu-rt|20|SDN}}||1–0|{{fbu|20|UGA}}||1–0|0–0}}

{{TwoLegResult|{{fbu-rt|20|MOZ}}||0–8|{{fbu|20|ZAM}}||0–3|0–5}}

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First round

Benin and Senegal withdrew, leaving Guinea and Ivory Coast to advance to the second round.

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{{TwoLegResult|{{fbu-rt|20|TUN}}||0–0
(3–2 pen.)|{{fbu|20|ALG}}||0–0|0–0}}

{{TwoLegResult|{{fbu-rt|20|MAR}}||3–1|{{fbu|20|EGY}}||2–0|1–1}}

{{TwoLegResult|{{fbu-rt|20|NGA}}||2–1|{{fbu|20|GHA}}||2–0|0–1}}

{{TwoLegResult|{{fbu-rt|20|CMR}}||5–0|{{fbu|20|ANG}}||3–0|2–0}}

{{TwoLegResult|{{fb-rt|ZIM}}||4–3|{{fbu|20|SDN}}||4–2|0–1}}

{{TwoLegResult|{{fbu-rt|20|ETH|1975}}||5–3|{{fbu|20|ZAM}}||2–2|3–1}}

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Quarter-finals

Ivory Coast entered this edition of the tournament at this round.

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{{TwoLegResult|{{fbu-rt|20|GIN}}||1–3|{{fbu|20|CIV}}||0–0|1–3}}

{{TwoLegResult|{{fbu-rt|20|MAR}}||1–2|{{fbu|20|TUN}}||1–0|0–2}}

{{TwoLegResult|{{fbu-rt|20|CMR}}||4–5|{{fbu|20|NGA}}||3–0|1–5}}

{{TwoLegResult|{{fbu-rt|20|ETH|1975}}||3–1|{{fb|ZIM}}||1–1|2–0}}

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Semi-finals

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{{TwoLegResult|{{fbu-rt|20|CIV}}||1–1 (a)|{{fbu|20|TUN}}||1–1|0–0}}

{{TwoLegResult|{{fbu-rt|20|NGA}}||4–1|{{fbu|20|ETH|1975}}||3–0|1–1}}

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Final

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{{TwoLegResult|{{fbu-rt|20|TUN}}||2–3|{{fbu|20|NGA}}||1–1|1–2}}

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{{Winners|fbu|20|1985 African Youth Championship|Nigeria|2nd}}

Qualification for the World Youth Championship

These two best performing teams qualified for the 1985 FIFA World Youth Championship in the Soviet Union:

  • {{fbu|20|NGA}}
  • {{fbu|20|TUN}}

External links

  • [https://www.rsssf.org/tablesa/afr-u21-85.html Tournament records] at RSSSF

{{U-20 Africa Cup of Nations}}

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