2017 Africa U-20 Cup of Nations

The 2017 Africa U-20 Cup of Nations, officially known as the Total U-20 Africa Cup Of Nations, Zambia 2017,[1] was 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 was set to take place in Zambia between 26 February – 12 March 2017.[2]

2017 Africa U-20 Cup of Nations
Tournament details
Host country Zambia
Dates26 February – 12 March 2017
Teams8 (from 1 confederation)
Venue(s)2 (in 2 host cities)
Final positions
Champions Zambia (1st title)
Runners-up Senegal
Third place Guinea
Fourth place South Africa
Tournament statistics
Matches played16
Goals scored50 (3.13 per match)
Top scorer(s) Luther Singh
Edward Chilufya
Patson Daka
(4 goals each)
Best player(s) Patson Daka
Fair play award South Africa

The top four teams qualified 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.[3]

Team Appearance Previous best appearance
 Cameroon9thChampions (1995)
 Egypt11thChampions (1991, 2003, 2013)
 Guinea3rdGroup stage (1995, 1999)
 Mali11thThird place (2003)
 Senegal4thRunners-up (2015)
 South Africa7thRunners-up (1997)
 Sudan2ndGroup stage (1997)
 Zambia (hosts)7thFourth place (1991, 1999, 2007)

Venues
Lusaka
Location of venues in Zambia
 Ndola
National Heroes Stadium Levy Mwanawasa Stadium
Capacity: 60,000 Capacity: 50,000

Match officials

A total of 12 referees and 14 assistant referees were selected for the tournament.[4][5]

Referees
Assistant referees

Draw

The draw for the tournament took place on 24 October 2016, 11:00 local time (UTC+2) at the CAF Headquarters in Cairo.[6][7][8]

The teams were seeded based on the results of the last edition (final tournament and qualifiers).[9]

Level 1 Level 2 Level 3 Level 4

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

Each squad can contain a maximum of 21 players.[10]

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:[10]

  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.
Zambia 1–0 Guinea
Daka  47' Report
Referee: Juste Ephrem Zio (Burkina Faso)
Egypt 0–0 Mali
Report
Guinea 1–1 Egypt
Touré  79' Report Mostafa Mohamed  37'
Referee: Jackson Pavaza (Namibia)
Mali 1–6 Zambia
Danté  5' Report F. Sakala  7', 65'
E. Banda  24'
Mwepu  37'
Chilufya  49', 53'
Referee: Joshua Bondo (Botswana)
Zambia 3–1 Egypt
Daka  48', 90'
F. Sakala  72'		 Report Nedved  35'
Referee: Hélder Martins de Carvalho (Angola)
Guinea 3–2 Mali
M. Sylla  49' (pen.), 59'
M. Aly Camara  72'		 Report 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
Senegal 1–1 Sudan
Niane  88' Report Mutwakil  21' (pen.)
Cameroon 1–3 South Africa
Ayuk  14' Report Singh  16', 26' (pen.), 57'
Referee: Thierry Nkurunziza (Burundi)
Sudan 1–4 Cameroon
W. Mohamed  79' Report Ketu  8'
Ayuk  51'
Gouet  73'
Mbaizo  89'
Referee: Wisdom Chewe (Zambia)
South Africa 3–4 Senegal
Jordan  1'
Malepe  24'
Singh  81'		 Report Ndiaye  48'
Diagne  53', 60'
Diatta  70'
Referee: Louis Hakizimana (Rwanda)
Senegal 2–0 Cameroon
Niane  45'
Diatta  47'		 Report
Referee: Joshua Bondo (Botswana)
Sudan 1–3 South Africa
Osman  24' Report Mahlambi  13'
Margeman  60'
Mbatha  66'
Referee: Sékou Ahmed Touré (Guinea)

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.[10]

Bracket
 
Semi-finalsFinal
 
      
 
8 March – Lusaka
 
 
 Zambia (a.e.t.)1
 
12 March – Lusaka
 
 South Africa0
 
 Zambia2
 
9 March – Ndola
 
 Senegal0
 
 Senegal1
 
 
 Guinea0
 
Third place
 
 
12 March – Lusaka
 
 
 South Africa1
 
 
 Guinea2

Semi-finals
Zambia 1–0 (a.e.t.) South Africa
Chilufya  109' Report
Referee: Sadok Selmi (Tunisia)
Senegal 1–0 Guinea
Badji  12' Report
Referee: Louis Hakizimana (Rwanda)

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

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

Awards

Winners
 2017 Africa U-20 Cup of Nations Winners 

Zambia
First title

Individual awards

The following awards were given at the conclusion of the tournament.[11]

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
3 goals
2 goals
1 goal
Own goal
  • Katlego Mohamme (against Guinea)

Qualified teams for FIFA U-20 World Cup

The following four teams from CAF qualified for the 2017 FIFA U-20 World Cup.[12]

Team Qualified on Previous appearances in tournament1
 Zambia1 March 20172 (1999, 2007)
 Senegal5 March 20171 (2015)
 Guinea4 March 20171 (1979)
 South Africa5 March 20172 (1997, 2009)
1 Bold indicates champion for that year. Italic indicates host for that year.

References
  1. "Total, Title Sponsor of the Africa Cup of Nations and Partner of African Football". CAF. 21 July 2016. Archived from the original on 29 December 2016.
  2. "Fixtures of U-17 & U-20 AFCON qualifiers released". Cafonline.com. 11 February 2016.
  3. "Total U-20 AFCON: History of the competition". CAF. 23 February 2017.
  4. "Match officials for Total U-20 AFCON Zambia 2017 unveiled". CAF. 14 February 2017.
  5. "SELECTED MATCH OFFICIALS FOR THE TOTAL U-20 AFCON ZAMBIA 2017". CAF.
  6. "Media accreditation for draw of u-17 & u-20 AFCON final tournaments". CAFonline.com. 3 October 2016. Retrieved 3 October 2016.
  7. "Draw Procedure: TOTAL U-17 AFCON & TOTAL U-20 AFCON". CAF. 23 October 2016.
  8. "Results of draw: Total U-20 Africa Cup of Nations ZAMBIA 2017". CAF. 24 October 2016.
  9. "Procedures of the draw of the 20th Edition TOTAL U-20 Africa Cup of Nations, Zambia 2017" (PDF). CAF.
  10. "Regulations of the U-20 Africa Cup of Nations" (PDF). CAFonline.com. 3 October 2016. Retrieved 3 October 2016.
  11. "Awards and Statistics". CAF. 12 March 2017.
  12. "Senegal and South Africa complete Korea Republic 2017 line-up". FIFA.com. 4 March 2017.
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