2005 African Youth Championship

2005 African Youth Championship
CAN Junior; Coupe d'Afrique des nations juniors 2005
Tournament details
Host country	Benin
Dates	15–29 January
Teams	8 (from 1 confederation)
Final positions
Champions	Nigeria (5th title)
Runners-up	Egypt
Third place	Benin
Fourth place	Morocco
Tournament statistics
Top scorer(s)	Mouhssine Iajour
	← 2003 2007 →

Last updated June 18, 2024

The 2005 African Youth Championship was an international football competition that took place between 15 and 29 January 2005. The tournament was hosted by Benin and also served as qualification for the 2005 FIFA World Youth Championship.

Qualification

Preliminary round

Burundi and Mauritius withdrew. As a result, the Republic of Congo and Lesotho advanced to the next round.

Team 1	Agg. Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Libya	2–2(a)	Niger	2–2	0–0
Sierra Leone	(a)1–1	Gambia	0–0	1–1
Sudan	3–1	Somalia	1–0	2–1
Eritrea	0–1	Rwanda	0–1	0–0
Namibia	0–5	Botswana	0–0	0–5

First round

Republic of Congo, Congo Kinshasa, Ethiopia, Gabon and Tanzania withdrew. As a result, Cameroon, Nigeria, Zambia, Ghana and Zimbabwe advanced to the next round.

Team 1	Agg. Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Algeria	1–3	Niger	1–2	0–1
Morocco	3–1	Sierra Leone	3–0	0–1
Egypt	4–0	Sudan	4–0	0–0
South Africa	2–2(a)	Lesotho	2–1	0–1
Mozambique	1–4	Rwanda	1–0	0–4
Angola	5–2	Botswana	3–0	2–2
Ivory Coast	2–2 (p: 5–4)	Guinea	2–0	0–2
Tunisia	1–1 (p: 3–5)	Burkina Faso	1–0	0–1
Mali	3–1	Senegal	3–1	0–0

Second round

Niger were disqualified by the FIFA. Accusations were made to each other from Lesotho and Zimbabwe of using over-aged players, but no actions were taken.

Team 1	Agg. Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Morocco	DSQ	Niger	4–0	not played
Zambia	2–3	Egypt	2–0	0–3
Zimbabwe	0–3	Lesotho	0–0	0–3
Angola	1–0	Rwanda	1–0	0–0
Ghana	1–2	Ivory Coast	0–1	1–1
Nigeria	5–2	Burkina Faso	2–0	3–2
Mali	(a)2–2	Cameroon	1–0	1–2

Squads

The following teams qualified for the tournament:

Group stage

Group A

Teams	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Nigeria	3	3	0	0	7	1	+6	9
Benin	3	1	1	1	7	7	0	4
Ivory Coast	3	1	0	2	2	5	–3	3
Mali	3	0	1	2	4	7	–3	1

15 January 2005

Ivory Coast	1-0	Mali
Abdramane Diaby 61'

15 January 2005

Benin	0-3	Nigeria
		Taye Taiwo 25' (pen) David Adwo 34' Victor Obinna 46'

18 January 2005

Nigeria	3-1	Mali
Kalifa Dembele 55'		David Abwo 45' Solomon Okoronkwo 81' Olubayo Adefemi 84'

18 January 2005

Ivory Coast	1-4	Benin
Yedi Zahiri 90'		Coffi Agbessi 37' Gariga Maiga 49' 80' (pen) Mathieu Adeniyi 52'

22 January 2005

Nigeria	1-0	Ivory Coast
Taye Taiwo 78'

22 January 2005

Benin	3-3	Mali
Romuald Boco 31' Bachirou Osseni 40' Razak Omotoyossi 44'		Kalifa Dembele 27' Boubacar Kebe 35' Koniba Ladji 65'

Group B

Teams	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Egypt	3	2	1	0	7	3	+4	7
Morocco	3	2	1	0	5	2	+3	7
Lesotho	3	1	0	2	3	7	–4	3
Angola	3	0	0	3	1	4	–3	0

16 January 2005

Egypt	1-0	Angola
Islam Adel 20' (pen)

16 January 2005

Morocco	2-0	Lesotho
Rachid Tiberkanine 63' Tarik Bendamou 80'

19 January 2005

Angola	1-2	Lesotho
Manuel Zando 27'		Dlomo Monaphathi 40' Bokang Mothoana 45'

19 January 2005

Morocco	2-2	Egypt
Mouhssine Iajour 49' Tarik Bendamou 76'		Mahmoud Alla 46' Islam Siam 84'

23 January 2005

Angola	0-1	Morocco
		Mouhssine Iajour 39'

23 January 2005

Egypt	4-1	Lesotho
Abdou Abdallah 7' Farag Ahmed 12' Mohamed Abdallah 75' Mahmoud Alla 82'		Lintho Korie 88' (pen)

Knock-out Stage

Semi-finals		Final

26 January -

Nigeria	2(5)
		29 January -
Morocco	2(3)
		Nigeria	2
26 January -
		Egypt	0
Egypt	1(3)

Benin	1(1)
		Third place

		29 January -

		Morocco	1(3)

		Benin	1(5)

Semifinals

26 January 2005

Nigeria	2-2	Morocco
Solomon Okoronkwo 53' Victor Obinna 114'		Mouhssine Iajour 11'101'
Penalties
	5-3

26 January 2005

Egypt	1-1	Benin
Islam Adel 83'		Abou Maiga 3'
Penalties
	3-1

Third place match

January 29, 2005

Morocco	1-1	Benin
Mouhssine Iajour 11'		Abdoulaye Ouzerou 45'
Penalties
	3-5

Final

January 29, 2005

Nigeria	2-0	Egypt
Isaac Promise 45'55'

2005 African Youth Championship
Nigeria Fifth title

Qualification to World Youth Championship

The four best performing teams qualified for the 2005 FIFA World Youth Championship.

Goalscorers

Nationality	Player name	Goals scored
	Mouhssine Iajour	5
	David Adwo	2
	Farag Ahmed	2
	Kalifa Dembele	2
	Islam Adel	2
	Solomon Okoronkwo	2
	Tarik Bendamou	2
	Victor Obinna	2
	Taye Taiwo	2
	Abou Maiga	2
	Abdou Abdallah	1
	Abdoulaye Ouzerou	1
	Abdramane Diaby	1
	Bachirou Osseni	1
	Bokang Mothoana	1
	Boubacar Kebe	1
	Coffi Agbessi	1
	Dlomo Monaphathi	1
	Hossam Nasr	1
	Isaac Promise	1
	Islam Siam	1
	Koniba Ladji	1
	Lintho Korie	1
	Manuel Zando	1
	Mathieu Adeniyi	1
	Mohamed Abdallah	1
	Olubayo Adefemi	1
	Rachid Tiberkanine	1
	Razak Omotoyossi	1
	Romuald Boco	1
	Zahiri Yedi	1

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Murder of Samiou Yessoufou

After Benin lost 3-0 to Nigeria on the opening day, Benin fans became outraged with goalkeeper Samiou Yessofou believing he was blamed for their loss. So they broke into a hotel bar just as Yessofou was beginning to drink alcohol for the first time. They grabbed glass bottles and smashed them on him and stabbed with a knife and tortured him with beating sticks. Then they left the bar causing Yessofou to fall the floor and he died. However, this did not stop the tournament which continued as normal and Benin went on to win a bronze medal later on.^[2]

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References

↑ "African U-20 Championship 2005". RSSSF . Retrieved 2017-07-11.
↑ Clare, Nelson (19 January 2005). "Murder of goalkeeper will not stop tournament". Telegraph. Retrieved 24 May 2011.

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[1] "African U-20 Championship 2005". RSSSF . Retrieved 2017-07-11.

[2] Clare, Nelson (19 January 2005). "Murder of goalkeeper will not stop tournament". Telegraph. Retrieved 24 May 2011.

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