2015 African U-20 Championship


The 2015 African U-20 Championship was the 20th edition of the biennial international youth football tournament organized by the Confederation of African Football for players aged 20 and below. The tournament took place in Senegal between 8–22 March 2015.
The semi-finalists of the tournament qualified for the 2015 FIFA U-20 World Cup in New Zealand. football team|Nigeria] won the tournament, and were joined by hosts Senegal, Ghana, and Mali as CAF qualifiers for the 2015 FIFA U-20 World Cup.

Qualification

The qualifiers were played between April and August 2014. At the end of the qualification phase, seven teams joined the hosts Senegal.

Qualified teams

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Match officials

The referees were:
;Referees
;Assistant referees
  • Mokrane Gourari
  • Elvis Guy Noupue Nguegoue
  • Issa Yaya
  • Olivier Safari Kabene
  • Berhe O'Michael
  • Kindie Mussie
  • David Laryea
  • Sidiki Sidibe
  • Abderahmane Warr
  • Abel Baba
  • Ababacar Sene
  • Hensley Danny Petrousse
  • Mothibidi Stevens Khumalo
  • Faouzi Jridi
  • Mark Ssonko

Draw

The draw for the final tournament was held on 21 December 2014, 11:00 UTC+02:00, at the CAF Headquarters in Cairo, Egypt. Senegal and Ghana were seeded and placed into Groups A and B respectively.

Squads

Each team could register a squad of 21 players.

Group stage

The group winners and runners-up advanced to the semi-finals and qualified for the 2015 FIFA U-20 World Cup.
;Tiebreakers
The teams were ranked according to points. If tied on points, tiebreakers were applied in the following order:
  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. Goal difference in all games;
  5. Goals scored in all games;
  6. Fair Play point system in which the number of yellow and red cards were evaluated;
  7. Drawing of lots.
All times are UTC±00:00.

Group A

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Group B

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Knockout stage

In the knockout stage, if a match was level at the end of normal playing time, extra time was played and followed, if necessary, by a penalty shoot-out to determine the winner, except for the play-off for third place where no extra time was played.

Semi-finals

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Awards

Team of the tournament

;Starting Eleven
;Substitutes

Goalscorers

;4 goals
  • Musa Muhammed
;3 goals
;2 goals
;1 goal
;Own goal