2017 Africa U-20 Cup of Nations

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The 2017 Africa U-20 Cup of Nations is the 14th edition of the Africa U-20 Cup of Nations (21st edition if tournaments without hosts are included), the biennial international youth football tournament organized by the Confederation of African Football (CAF) for players aged 20 and below. The tournament is set to take place in Zambia between 26 February – 12 March 2017.[1]

2017 Africa U-20 Cup of Nations
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Tournament details
Host country Zambia
Dates26 February – 12 March 2017
Teams8 (from 1 confederation)
Venue(s)2 (in 2 host cities)
Tournament statistics
Matches played12
Goals scored43 (3.58 per match)
Top scorer(s)South Africa Luther Singh (4 goals)
← 2015
2019 →
All statistics correct as of 5 March 2017.

The top four teams will qualify for the 2017 FIFA U-20 World Cup in South Korea.

Qualification

Main article: 2017 Africa U-20 Cup of Nations qualification

The qualifiers were played between 1 April and 24 July 2016. At the end of the qualification phase, seven teams joined the hosts Zambia.

Player eligibility

Players born 1 January 1997 or later are eligible to participate in the competition.

Qualified teams

The following eight teams qualified for the final tournament. Defending champions Nigeria failed to qualify. Congo and Ghana also failed to qualify, thus the winners of five of the last six tournaments failed to qualify for this tournament.

Note: All appearance statistics count only those since the introduction of final tournament in 1991.[2]

Team Appearance Previous best appearance
  Cameroon 9th Champions (1995)
  Egypt 11th Champions (1991, 2003, 2013)
  Guinea 3rd Group stage (1995, 1999)
  Mali 11th Third place (2003)
  Senegal 4th Runners-up (2015)
  South Africa 7th Runners-up (1997)
  Sudan 2nd Group stage (1997)
  Zambia (hosts) 7th Fourth place (1991, 1999, 2007)

Match officials

A total of 12 referees and 14 assistant referees were selected for the tournament.[3][4]

Referees
  •   Hélder Martins de Carvalho (Angola)
  •   Juste Ephrem Zio (Burkina Faso)
  •   Thierry Nkurunziza (Burundi)
  •   Antoine Effa (Cameroon)
  •   Victor Gomes (South Africa)
  •   Ibrahim Nour El Din (Egypt)
  •   Sékou Ahmed Touré (Guinea)
  •   Sadok Selmi (Tunisia)
  •   Jackson Pavaza (Namibia)
  •   Louis Hakizimana (Rwanda)
  •   Maguette Ndiaye (Senegal)
  •   Chewe Wisdom (Zambia)
Assistant referees
  •   Mokrani Gourari (Algeria)
  •   Issa Yahya (Chad)
  •   Steven Danilek M. Moyo (Congo)
  •   Sosseh Sulayman (Gambia)
  •   Sidiki Sidibe (Guinea)
  •   Cheruiyot Gilbert (Kenya)
  •   Mark Ssonko (Uganda)
  •   Warr Adbelrahman (Mauritania)
  •   Nabina Blaise Sebutu (DR Congo)
  •   Toure Sengne Cheikh (Senegal)
  •   Eldrick Adelaide (Seychelles)
  •   Khumalo Steven (South Africa)
  •   Diakite Moriba (Mali)
  •   Kasengele Romeo (Zambia)

Draw

The draw for the tournament took place on 24 October 2016, 11:00 local time (UTC+2) at the CAF Headquarters in Cairo.[5][6][7]

The teams were seeded based on the results of the last edition (final tournament and qualifiers).[8]

Level 1 Level 2 Level 3 Level 4
  •   Zambia (host, assigned to A1)
  •   Senegal (2015 runner-up, assigned to B1)

Squads

Further information: 2017 Africa U-20 Cup of Nations squads

Each squad can contain a maximum of 21 players.[9]

Group stage

The group winners and runners-up advance to the semi-finals and qualify for the 2017 FIFA U-20 World Cup.

Tiebreakers

The teams are ranked according to points (3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, 0 points for a loss). If tied on points, tiebreakers are applied in the following order:[9]

  1. Number of points obtained in games between the teams concerned;
  2. Goal difference in games between the teams concerned;
  3. Goals scored in games between the teams concerned;
  4. If, after applying criteria 1 to 3 to several teams, two teams still have an equal ranking, criteria 1 to 3 are reapplied exclusively to the matches between the two teams in question to determine their final rankings. If this procedure does not lead to a decision, criteria 5 to 7 apply;
  5. Goal difference in all games;
  6. Goals scored in all games;
  7. Drawing of lots.

All times are local, CAT (UTC+2).

Group A

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1   Zambia (H) 3 3 0 0 10 2 +8 9 Knockout stage and 2017 FIFA U-20 World Cup
2   Guinea 3 1 1 1 4 4 0 4
3   Egypt 3 0 2 1 2 4 −2 2
4   Mali 3 0 1 2 3 9 −6 1
Source: CAF
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers
(H) Host.

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Zambia  1–0  Guinea
Daka   47' Report
Referee: Juste Ephrem Zio (Burkina Faso)

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Egypt  0–0  Mali
Report
Referee: Victor Gomes (South Africa)

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Guinea  1–1  Egypt
Touré   79' Report Abdalla   37'
Referee: Jackson Pavaza (Namibia)

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Mali  1–6  Zambia
Danté   5' Report F. Sakala   7', 65'
E. Banda   24'
Mwepu   37'
Chilufya   49', 53'
Referee: Joshua Bondo (Botswana)

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Zambia  3–1  Egypt
Daka   48', 90'
F. Sakala   72'		 Report Nedved   35'
Referee: Hélder Martins de Carvalho (Angola)

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Guinea  3–2  Mali
M. Sylla   49' (pen.), 59'
M. Aly Camara   72'		 Report Sékou Koïta   2'
M. Diakité   52' (pen.)
Referee: Antoine Effa (Cameroon)

Group B

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1   Senegal 3 2 1 0 7 4 +3 7 Knockout stage and 2017 FIFA U-20 World Cup
2   South Africa 3 2 0 1 9 6 +3 6
3   Cameroon 3 1 0 2 5 6 −1 3
4   Sudan 3 0 1 2 3 8 −5 1
Source: CAF
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers

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Senegal  1–1  Sudan
Niane   88' Report Mutwakil   21' (pen.)

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Cameroon  1–3  South Africa
Ayuk   14' Report Singh   16', 26' (pen.), 57'

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Sudan  1–4  Cameroon
W. Mohamed   79' Report Ketu   8'
Ayuk   51'
Gouet   73'
Mbaizo   89'
Referee: Wisdom Chewe (Zambia)

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South Africa  3–4  Senegal
Jordan   1'
Malepe   24'
Singh   81'		 Report Ndiaye   48'
Diagne   53', 60'
Diatta   70'

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Senegal  2–0  Cameroon
Niane   45'
Diatta   48'		 Report

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Sudan  1–3  South Africa
Osman   24' Report Mahlambi   13'
Margeman   60'
Mbatha   66'

Knockout stage

In the knockout stage, if a match is level at the end of normal playing time, extra time will be played (two periods of 15 minutes each) and followed, if necessary, by kicks from the penalty mark to determine the winner, except for the third place match where no extra time will be played.[9]

Bracket

 
Semi-finalsFinal
 
      
 
8 March – Lusaka
 
 
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12 March – Lusaka
 
  South Africa0
 
  Zambia2
 
9 March – Ndola
 
  Senegal0
 
  Senegal1
 
 
  Guinea0
 
Third Place
 
 
12 March – Lusaka
 
 
  South Africa1
 
 
  Guinea2

Semi-finals

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Zambia  1-0  South Africa
Report

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Senegal  v  Guinea
Report

Third place match

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South Africa  1–2  Guinea
Liam Jordan   5' Report Katlego Mohamme   6' (o.g.)
Naby Bangoura   85' (pen.)
Referee: Juste Ephrem Zio (Burkina Faso)

Final

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Zambia  2–0  Senegal
Daka   16'
Chilufya   34'		 Report
Referee: Thierry Nkurunziza (Burundi)

Awards

Winners

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Individual awards

The following awards were given at the conclusion of the tournament.[10]

Total Man of the Competition
Top scorer
Fair Play Award

CAF Best XI

  • Goalkeeper: Mangani Banda (Zambia)
  • Defenders: Ousseynou Diagne (Senegal), Mamadou Mbaye (Senegal), Solomon Sakala (Zambia)
  • Midfielders: Krepin Diatta (Senegal), Ibrahima Niane (Senegal), Sylla Morlaye (Guinea), Edward Chilufya (Zambia), Fashion Sakala (Zambia)
  • Forwards: Luther Singh (South Africa), Patson Daka (Zambia)
  • Substitutes: Lamine Sarr (Senegal), Prosper Chiluya (Zambia), Enock Mwepu (Zambia), Grant Margeman (South Africa), Liam Jordan (South Africa), Yamodou Toure (Guinea), Mohamed Aly Camara (Guinea)

Goalscorers

4 goals

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3 goals

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2 goals

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1 goal

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Own goal

Qualified teams for FIFA U-20 World Cup

The following four teams from CAF qualified for the 2017 FIFA U-20 World Cup.[11]

Team Qualified on Previous appearances in tournament1
  Zambia 1 March 2017 2 (1999, 2007)
  Senegal 5 March 2017 1 (2015)
  Guinea 4 March 2017 1 (1979)
  South Africa 5 March 2017 2 (1997, 2009)
1 Bold indicates champion for that year. Italic indicates host for that year.

References

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  11. ↑ Lua error in ...ribunto/includes/engines/LuaCommon/lualib/mwInit.lua at line 23: bad argument #1 to 'old_ipairs' (table expected, got nil).

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