African U-20 Championship 2003

Burkina Faso (host final tournament) automatically qualified

Preliminary Round [Apr 7 and 20, 2002]
Togo          3-0 1-1 Chad
Equat. Guinea 0-1 0-5 Gabon                 [1st leg Apr 6]
Guinea Bissau   w/o   Liberia               [Liberia withdrew]
Burundi       1-0 1-3 Tanzania              [2nd leg Apr 21]
Cameroon        w/o   Sao Tome e Principe   [Sao Tome e Principe withdrew]
Kenya           o/w   Somalia               [Kenya withdrew]
Sudan         3-1 1-3 Uganda                [3-4 pen; 1st leg Apr 6]
Zimbabwe      1-0 2-1 Swaziland
Sierra Leone   -   -  Mauritania            [May 5 and 17; Sierra Leone withdrew?]
Namibia       1-0 1-3 Botswana              [2nd leg Apr 21]
Mauritius       w/o   Madagascar            [Mauritius withdrew]

First Round [Jul 21 and Aug 11, 2002]
Angola        1-0 0-1 Togo                  [1-4 pen]
Senegal       1-2 2-2 Gabon                 [1st leg Jul 20, 2nd leg Aug 10]
Ghana           w/o   Guinea Bissau         [Guinea Bissau withdrew]
Tunisia       5-0 2-1 Libya                 [1st leg Jul 20]
Cameroon      4-0 0-0 Tanzania              [2nd leg Aug 10]
Algeria       0-3 0-2 Ivory Coast
Nigeria         6-0   Somalia               [played in one leg Jul 20]
Morocco       1-0 1-2 Guinea                [1st leg Jul 20]
Egypt         3-1 0-0 Uganda                [1st leg Jul 20, 2nd leg Aug 10]
Malawi          o/w   Zimbabwe              [Malawi withdrew]
Mali          9-1 w/o Mauritania            [Mauritania withdrew for 2nd leg]
Mozambique    3-0 1-1 Botswana              [1st leg Jul 20]
Ethiopia      0-0 0-2 Zambia
South Africa  2-0 3-0 Madagascar            [1st leg Jul 20]

Second Round [Sep 29 and Oct 20, 2002]
Togo          1-0 1-3 Gabon 
Ghana         1-0 0-1 Tunisia               [5-3 pen; 1st leg Sep 28] 
Cameroon      0-1 2-2 Ivory Coast
Nigeria       1-2 1-1 Morocco 
Egypt         2-0 0-0 Zimbabwe 
Mali          1-0 1-0 Mozambique 
Zambia        4-1 0-3 South Africa 


Final Tournament (in Burkina Faso)

Burkina Faso qualified as hosts.

Group 1
Jan  4 Burkina Faso  0-0 South Africa
       Mali          2-2 Gabon
Jan  7 South Africa  2-4 Mali
       Gabon         1-2 Burkina Faso
Jan 10 South Africa  1-3 Gabon
       Burkina Faso  1-1 Mali

 1.MALI                3  1  2  0  7- 5  5
 2.BURKINA FASO        3  1  2  0  3- 2  5
 3.Gabon               3  1  1  1  6- 5  4
 4.South Africa        3  0  1  2  3- 7  1

Group 2
Jan  5 Ghana         0-0 Morocco
       Ivory Coast   1-1 Egypt
Jan  8 Morocco       0-1 Ivory Coast
       Egypt         1-1 Ghana
Jan 11 Morocco       0-4 Egypt
       Ghana         2-3 Ivory Coast

 1.Ivory Coast         3  2  1  0  5- 3  7
 2.Egypt               3  1  2  0  6- 2  5
 3.Ghana               3  0  2  1  3- 4  2
 4.Morocco             3  0  1  2  0- 5  1

Semifinals
Jan 14 Mali          0-1 Egypt
       Ivory Coast   0-0 Burkina Faso      [3-1 pen]

Third Place Match
Jan 17 Mali          1-1 Burkina Faso      [5-4 pen]

Final
Jan 18 Ivory Coast   3-4 Egypt             [asdet]
         [Romaric N'dri 8, Touré Gnégnéri 21, Saki André 44;
          Ibrahim Emad 2, 94, Ahmed Fathi 26pen, Abdel Hosni 33;
          ref: Atef (Tunisia)]

NB: Mali, Ivory Coast, Burkina Faso and Egypt qualified for World Youth
    Cup 2003 in UAE between March 25 and April 16

overview file

2001

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Last updated: 11 Oct 2018

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