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1989 African Youth Championship
Tournament details
Dates	30 April 1988 – 14 January 1989
Teams	16 (from 1 confederation)
Final positions
Champions	Nigeria (4th title)
Runners-up	Mali
Tournament statistics
Matches played	30
Goals scored	82 (2.73 per match)
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The 1989 African Youth Championship was the 7th edition of the biennial African qualification tournament for the FIFA World Youth Championship, contested on a home and away two-legged basis.

Nigeria reached the final and defended their title for the third consecutive time and the fourth time overall by defeating Mali 4–1 on aggregate, although both teams qualified for the 1989 FIFA World Youth Championship in Saudi Arabia.

Teams

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

Preliminary Round:

First round:

Preliminary round

Central Africa, Mauritania, Mauritius and Kenya withdrew, leaving their respective opponents Gabon, Algeria, Madagascar and Lesotho to advance to the first round.

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Mali	6–4	Senegal	4–0	2–4
Guinea	4–2	Liberia	3–1	1–1
Angola	3–4	Zaire	2–1	1–3

First round

Madagascar, Somalia and Togo withdrew, leaving their respective opponents Egypt, Ivory Coast and Lesotho to advance to the second round.

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Mali	2–2 (a)	Morocco	1–0	1–2
Algeria	2–2 (a)	Tunisia	0–0	2–2
Guinea	3–3 (a)	Ghana	3–2	0–1
Zaire	2–2 (a)	Nigeria	2–2	0–0
Gabon	2–1	Cameroon	2–0	0–1