1995 African Under-21 Football Championship

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1995 African Under-21 Football Championship
African Youth Championship 1995
Number of nations 8  (of 36 applicants)
African champions CameroonCameroon Cameroon (1st title)
venue NigeriaNigeria Nigeria
Opening game January 28, 1995
Endgame February 8, 1995
Games 16
Gates 44  (⌀: 2.75 per game)

The 1995 U-21 African Football Championship was the ninth edition of the tournament for junior football teams (U-21) in Africa organized by the African Football Association (CAF) . The tournament was held in Nigeria . The winner was Cameroon by a 4: 0 win over Burundi . The two finalists qualified for the 1995 World Junior Championship in Qatar.

Attendees

The following teams qualified for the finals:

mode

The teams first played a preliminary round in two groups of four teams each. The first two in each group qualified for the semi-finals. If there was a tie, extra time and possibly a penalty shoot-out was played there.

Group A

Group A was held in Lagos .

Pl. society Sp. S. U N Gates Diff. Points
 1. MaliMali Mali  3  2  1  0 008: 400  +4 07th
 2. NigeriaNigeria Nigeria  3  2  1  0 006: 400  +2 07th
 3. Zambia 1964Zambia Zambia  3  0  1  2 004: 600  −2 01
 4th Guinea-aGuinea Guinea  3  0  1  2 002: 600  −4 01

Group B

Group B was held in Kaduna .

Pl. society Sp. S. U N Gates Diff. Points
 1. CameroonCameroon Cameroon  3  2  1  0 004: 100  +3 07th
 2. BurundiBurundi Burundi  3  1  1  1 003: 300  ± 0 04th
 3. MauritiusMauritius Mauritius  3  1  0  2 004: 600  −2 03
 4th SenegalSenegal Senegal  3  0  2  1 002: 300  −1 02

Semifinals

Result
CameroonCameroon Cameroon 2: 1 NigeriaNigeria Nigeria
MaliMali Mali 0: 3 BurundiBurundi Burundi

Third place game

Result
NigeriaNigeria Nigeria 1-0 MaliMali Mali

final

The final was held in Lagos .

Result
CameroonCameroon Cameroon 4-0 BurundiBurundi Burundi

World Championship

Cameroon and Burundi qualified for the 1995 World Junior Championships in Qatar. There Cameroon finished its preliminary group ahead of Australia , Costa Rica and Germany as the winner, then retired in the quarter-finals against eventual world champions Argentina . Burundi finished the preliminary round behind Spain , Japan and Chile in last place.

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