1985 African Youth Championship

5th African youth football qualification tournament African Youth Championship 1985 2 September 1984 – 4 May 1985 17 1 20 NGA 2 20 TUN 26 59 1983 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 tournament and 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: Preliminary Round: 20 ANG EQG 20 GAM 20 GHA 20 MOZ 20 SUD 20 UGA 20 ZAM First Round: 20 ALG 20 CMR 20 EGY 20 ETH 1975 20 GIN 20 MAR 20 NGA 20 TUN ZIM Second Round: 20 CIV 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. 20 GAM 2–3 20 GHA 1–0 1–3 EQG 2–2 20 ANG 2–1 0–1 20 SDN 1–0 20 UGA 1–0 0–0 20 MOZ 0–8 20 ZAM 0–3 0–5 |} First round Benin and Senegal withdrew, leaving Guinea and Ivory Coast to advance to the second round. 20 TUN 0–0(3–2 pen.) 20 ALG 0–0 0–0 20 MAR 3–1 20 EGY 2–0 1–1 20 NGA 2–1 20 GHA 2–0 0–1 20 CMR 5–0 20 ANG 3–0 2–0 ZIM 4–3 20 SDN 4–2 0–1 20 ETH 1975 5–3 20 ZAM 2–2 3–1 |} Quarter-finals Ivory Coast entered this edition of the tournament at this round. 20 GIN 1–3 20 CIV 0–0 1–3 20 MAR 1–2 20 TUN 1–0 0–2 20 CMR 4–5 20 NGA 3–0 1–5 20 ETH 1975 3–1 ZIM 1–1 2–0 |} Semi-finals 20 CIV 1–1 (a) 20 TUN 1–1 0–0 20 NGA 4–1 20 ETH 1975 3–0 1–1 |} Final 20 TUN 2–3 20 NGA 1–1 1–2 |} 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: 20 NGA 20 TUN External links Tournament records at RSSSF 1985 Youth Championship Youth Championship Youth Championship Youth Championship Championship Championship Category:1985 FIFA World Youth Championship qualification Category:September 1984 in sports Category:September 1984 in Africa Category:November 1984 sports events in Africa Category:December 1984 sports events in Africa Category:January 1985 in sports Category:January 1985 in Africa Category:March 1985 sports events in Africa Category:April 1985 in sports Category:April 1985 in Africa Category:May 1985 in sports Category:May 1985 in Africa