Host country Nigeria Champions Cameroon (1st title) Third place Nigeria | Teams 8 Runners-up Burundi Fourth place Mali | |
The African Youth Championship 1995 was a soccer tournament held in Nigeria. It also served as qualification for the 1995 FIFA World Youth Championship.
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Preliminary Round
Benin, Botswana, Cape Verde, Congo, Liberia, Mauritania and Swaziland withdrew. A bye was therefore given to respectively Senegal, Lesotho, Guinea Bissau, Togo, Burkina Faso, Sierra Leone and Madagascar.
First Round
Kenya, Madagascar, Sierra Leone, Uganda, Zaire and Zimbabwe withdrew. A bye was therefore given to respectively Cameroon, Mauritius, Morocco, Burundi, Zambia and Ethiopia.
Second Round
Guinea also went through to the main tournament because Nigeria would qualify as host.
Teams
The following teams qualified for the tournament:
Qualification to World Youth Championship
The two best performing teams qualified for the 1995 FIFA World Youth Championship.
References
1995 African Youth Championship Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA