PRELIMINARY ROUND (Jun 30 and Jul 14, 2002)
Liberia o/w Sierra Leone [Liberia withdrew]
Algeria w/o Mauritania [Mauritania withdrew]
Gabon w/o Togo [Togo withdrew]
Senegal w/o Guinea Bissau [Guinea Bissau withdrew]
Zimbabwe 5-1 2-0 Mauritius [1st leg Jun 29]
Libya w/o Niger [Niger withdrew]
Ivory Coast w/o Equatorial Guinea [Eq. Guinea withdrew]
Angola 5-0 6-2 Sao Tome e Principe
Uganda o/w Somalia [Uganda withdrew]
Lesotho 0-0 3-0 Namibia
Botswana 0-1 0-2 Tanzania [1st leg Jun 29]
Eritrea 0-0 1-3 Kenya [1st leg Jun 29]
FIRST ROUND (Dec 22, 2002 and Jan 12, 2003)
Sierra Leone 0-0 1-1 Burkina Faso [2nd leg Feb 16]
Algeria 0-0 1-2 Tunisia
Gabon 1-0 0-2 Cameroon [1st leg Dec 21]
Senegal 1-0 3-0 Morocco
Zimbabwe 2-1 0-2 Malawi [1st leg Dec 21, 2nd leg Jan 11]
Libya 0-1 0-0 Egypt
Ivory Coast 0-2 0-1 Guinea
Angola 2-3 1-0 Mozambique
Gambia 0-1 1-0 Mali [4-2 pen]
Somalia n/p 1-4 Zambia [played in one leg Dec 21]
Lesotho 1-1 1-4 South Africa [2nd leg Jan 11]
Sudan o/w Nigeria [Sudan withdrew]
Tanzania 1-1 1-5 Ethiopia [1st leg Dec 21]
Kenya 2-0 1-2 Ghana [1st leg Dec 21]
SECOND ROUND (Feb 2 and 23, 2003)
Sierra Leone 1-0 1-1 Tunisia [1st leg Mar 1, 2nd leg Mar 15]
Cameroon 1-0 0-0 Senegal [2nd leg Feb 22]
Malawi 0-1 0-2 Egypt
Guinea 3-0 1-2 Mozambique [2nd leg Feb 22]
Gambia 1-1 1-0 Zambia
Nigeria 3-1 1-1 South Africa [1st leg Feb 15, 2nd leg Mar 1]
Ethiopia 2-0 w/o Kenya [*]
[*] the Kenya Sports Minister Najib Balala disbanded the national U-17
team on Feb 14, 2003, claiming that 40% of the players who eliminated
Ghana in the first round had been over-age; he said he would seek to
re-instate Ghana in the competition and would apologise to FIFA.
While CAF did not re-instate Ghana, they did ban Kenya for 2 years
from all CAF's under-age competition for fielding under-age players
against Ghana.
FINAL TOURNAMENT [in Swaziland]
Swaziland qualify as hosts
Group A
May 25 Swaziland 0-1 Egypt
Sierra Leone 3-3 Guinea
May 28 Swaziland 0-2 Sierra Leone
Egypt 1-0 Guinea
May 31 Egypt 0-0 Sierra Leone
Guinea 6-0 Swaziland
1.EGYPT 3 2 1 0 2- 0 7
2.SIERRA LEONE 3 1 2 0 5- 3 5
3.Guinea 3 1 1 1 9- 4 4
4.Swaziland 3 0 0 3 0- 9 0
Group B
May 26 Nigeria 1-0 Cameroon
Gambia 1-0 Ethiopia
May 29 Nigeria 1-0 Gambia
Cameroon 5-3 Ethiopia
Jun 1 Ethiopia 0-4 Nigeria
Cameroon 2-2 Gambia
1.NIGERIA 3 3 0 0 6- 0 9
2.CAMEROON 3 1 1 1 7- 6 4
3.Gambia 3 1 1 1 3- 3 4
4.Ethiopia 3 0 0 3 3-10 0
Semifinals
Jun 5 Egypt 1-2 Cameroon
Nigeria 0-1 Sierra Leone
Third Place Match
Jun 7 Egypt 1-3 Nigeria
Final
Jun 8 Cameroon 1-0 Sierra Leone [aet]
First three qualify for World U-17 Championship in Finland, August 2003.
Prepared and maintained by Julián Díaz Rubio for the Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation
Author: Julián Díaz Rubio
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Last updated: 6 Mar 2004
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