1983 African Youth Championship

1983 African Youth Championship

Tournament details
Dates	25 July 1982 – 16 April 1983
Teams	18 (from 1 confederation)
Final positions
Champions	Nigeria (1st title)
Runners-up	Ivory Coast
Tournament statistics
Matches played	45
Goals scored	66 (1.47 per match)
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The 1983 African Youth Championship was the 4th edition of the biennial African qualification tournament for the FIFA World Youth Championship which was contested on a home and away two-legged basis.

By reaching the final of this edition of the competition, Nigeria and Ivory Coast qualified for the 1983 FIFA World Youth Championship in Mexico, although the former defeated the latter 4–3 on aggregate to claim their inaugural title.

Teams

The following teams entered this edition of the tournament and played at least a match:

•  Algeria
•  Angola
•  Cameroon
•  Ivory Coast
•  Equatorial Guinea
•  Egypt
•  Gabon
•  Gambia
•  Guinea
•  Liberia
•  Morocco
•  Nigeria
•  Senegal
•  Sudan
•  Swaziland
•  Togo
•  Tunisia
•  Zimbabwe

Preliminary round

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Liberia	4–3 ^1	Guinea	2–2	2–1
Senegal	0–4 ^2	Gambia	0–2	0–2 ^2
Sudan	w/o ^3	Ethiopia
Togo	w/o ^3	Ghana
Gabon	w/o ^3	Central African Republic
Swaziland	w/o ^3	Mauritius
Congo	w/o ^3	Angola
Upper Volta	w/o ^3	Ivory Coast
Libya	w/o ^3	Morocco

• ¹ Liberia were ejected from the competition for using ineligible players in both legs.
• ² Senegal withdrew after the first leg.
• ³ Ethiopia, Ghana, Central African Republic, Mauritius, Congo, Upper Volta and Libya all withdrew.

First round

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Sudan	2–4	Egypt	1–1	1–3
Guinea	3–2	Togo	2–1	1–1
Gabon	0–3	Nigeria	0–1	0–2
Swaziland	1–7 ^1	Zimbabwe	1–5	0–2 ^1
Angola	1–3	Cameroon	0–1	1–2
Ivory Coast	w/o ^2	Equatorial Guinea	4-1	n/p
Gambia	1–2	Algeria	0–0	1–2
Morocco	4–0	Tunisia	4–0	0–0

• ¹ Swaziland withdrew after the first leg.
• ² The second leg was scratched and Ivory Coast advanced to the second round after Equatorial Guinea were ejected from the competition for using five ineligible players in the first leg.

Quarter-finals

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Egypt	1–1 7–8 (pen.)	Guinea	1–0	0–1
Nigeria	3–2	Zimbabwe	3–1	0–1
Cameroon	2–5	Ivory Coast	0–2	2–3
Algeria	3–3 (a)	Morocco	2–0	1–3

Semi-finals

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Guinea	2–3	Nigeria	2–1	0–2
Ivory Coast	2–2 (a)	Algeria	1–0	1–2

Final

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Ivory Coast	3–4	Nigeria	2–2	1–2

1983 African Youth Championship
Nigeria First/Inaugural title

Qualification for the World Youth Championship

These two best performing teams qualified for the 1983 FIFA World Youth Championship in Mexico.

•  Ivory Coast
•  Nigeria

External links

• Tournament records at RSSSF