1999 African Youth Championship

The 1999 African Youth Championship was the tenth edition of the continental Under-20 football competition, held in Ghana. It also served as qualification for the 1999 FIFA World Youth Championship.

1999 African Youth Championship

Tournament details
Host country	Ghana
Dates	21 February – 7 March
Teams	8
Final positions
Champions	Ghana (2nd title)
Runners-up	Nigeria
Third place	Cameroon
Fourth place	Zambia
← 1997 2001 →

Qualification

Preliminary round

Gambia and Namibia withdrew before playing. As a result, Burkina Faso and Malawi advanced to the next round. Mauritania withdrew after one match and Libya went through.

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Mozambique	6–5	Réunion	4–4	2–1
Sierra Leone	6–5	Liberia	4–3	2–2
Lesotho	3–2	Swaziland	2–1	1–1
Congo	3–2	Togo	2–1	1–1
Rwanda	2–1	Chad	1–1	1–0
Mauritania	w/o	Libya	2–2	w/o

First round

Burkina Faso withdrew before playing. As a result, Nigeria advanced to the next round.

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Libya	5–4	Tunisia	3–3	2–1
Sierra Leone	2–4	Mali	1–3	1–1
Angola	5–2	Gabon	3–2	2–0
Congo	1–4	Ivory Coast	1–1	0–3
Uganda	2–4	Tanzania	1–1	1–3
Ethiopia	1–2	Egypt	0–0	1–2
Lesotho	3–4	Zambia	2–2	1–2
Rwanda	2–3	Cameroon	2–0	0–3
Burundi	2–1	Sudan	1–1	1–0
Algeria	3–6	Guinea	3–2	0–4
Senegal	1–1	Morocco	1–1	0–0
Malawi	(a)2–2	Botswana	1–0	1–2
Mozambique	2–2 (p: 3–4)	South Africa	1–1	1–1

Second round

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Ivory Coast	4–4 (p: 3–4)	Angola	4–0	0–4
Nigeria	4–2	Tanzania	3–1	1–1
Zambia	3–3 (p: 6–5)	Egypt	3–0	0–3
Burundi	1–2	Cameroon	1–2	0–0
Morocco	0–4	Guinea	0–4	0–0
South Africa	1–5	Malawi	0–1	1–4
Mali	5–4	Libya	3–0	2–4

Teams

The following teams qualified for tournament:

•   Angola
•   Cameroon
•   Ghana (host)
•   Guinea
•   Malawi
•   Mali
•   Nigeria
•   Zambia

Group stage

Group A

Teams	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Ghana	3	2	1	0	7	1	+6	7
Cameroon	3	1	2	0	3	2	+1	5
Mali	3	1	1	1	4	3	+1	4
Angola	3	0	0	3	1	9	–8	0

21 February

Ghana	1–0	Mali

21 February

Angola	0–1	Cameroon

24 February

Mali	1–1	Cameroon

24 February

Angola	0–5	Ghana

27 February

Mali	3–1	Angola

27 February

Cameroon	1–1	Ghana

Group B

Teams	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Nigeria	3	2	1	0	9	3	+6	7
Zambia	3	2	1	0	7	2	+5	7
Guinea	3	1	0	2	8	12	–4	3
Malawi	3	0	0	3	2	9	–7	0

22 February

Zambia	1–0	Malawi

22 February

Guinea	3–4	Nigeria

25 February

Malawi	0–5	Nigeria

25 February

Guinea	2-6	Zambia

28 February

Malawi	2–3	Guinea

28 February

Nigeria	0–0	Zambia

Knock-out stage

Fifth-place Match

3 March

Mali	4–1	Guinea

Semi-finals

4 March

Ghana	3–1	Zambia

Accra

4 March

Nigeria	2–1	Cameroon

Accra

Third place match

7 March

Cameroon	2–1	Zambia

Accra

Final

7 March

Ghana	1–0	Nigeria
Laryea Kingston   40'

Accra

Referee:   Mohamed Guezaz

Further information

Assistant Referees:

•   Carlos Henriques
•  Tomusange Ali
•   Monteiro Duarte

Cautions:

•   Kofi Amoako   43'
•   Aminu Sani  54'
•   Sunday Adu   59'
•   Sam Okoye   61'

Line-ups

Nigeria	Ghana
Sam Okoye Ikenna Eneh Emmanuel Izuuagha John Aranka Haruna Babangida (Joseph Yobo 82’) Hashimu Garba Aminu Sani (Julius Aghahowa 70’) Abubakar Musa Pius Ikedia Rabiu Afolabi Sunday Adu	Sammy Adjei Baffour Gyan Abdul Rahman Issah (Theophilus Amuzu 38’) Abdul Razak Hamza Mohammed Kofi Amoako (Emmanuel Adjogu 68’) Aziz Ansah Laryea Kingston Johnson Eku (Awule Quayejme 76’) George Blay Owusu Afriyie

1999 African Youth Championship
Ghana Second title

Qualification to World Youth Championship

The five best performing teams qualified for the 1999 FIFA World Youth Championship.

•   Cameroon
•   Ghana
•   Mali
•   Nigeria (host)
•   Zambia

External links

• Tournament details at Rsssf