1987 African Youth Championship

The 1987 African Youth Championship was the 6th edition of the biennial African qualification tournament for the FIFA World Youth Championship which was contested on a home-and-away two-legged basis.

1987 African Youth Championship

Tournament details
Dates	14 June 1986 – 18 April 1987
Teams	15 (from 1 confederation)
Final positions
Champions	Nigeria (3rd title)
Runners-up	Togo
Tournament statistics
Matches played	26
Goals scored	67 (2.58 per match)
← 1985 1989 →

Nigeria successfully defended the title for the second consecutive time by defeating Togo 5–1 in their 3rd straight final, although both teams qualified for the 1987 FIFA World Youth Championship in Chile.

Teams

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

•  Cameroon
•  Ivory Coast
•  Egypt
•  Ethiopia
•  Ghana
•  Guinea
•  Mauritania
•  Morocco
•  Nigeria
•  Somalia
•  Togo
•  Tunisia
•  Uganda
•  Zambia
•  Zimbabwe

Preliminary round

Swaziland, Lesotho, Sudan, Gabon, Gambia and Mauritania withdrew from this edition of the tournament, leaving their respective opponents Mauritius, Mozambique, Egypt, Ghana, Togo and Algeria to advance to the First Round.

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Uganda	1–3	Somalia	1–2	0–1
Angola	1–3	Zambia	1–1	0–21

¹ Angola were ejected from the competition for fielding over-aged players in the first leg.

First round

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Somalia	1–4 1	Zimbabwe	1–0	0–4
Egypt	6–0	Ethiopia	4–0	2–0 2
Zambia	2–3	Nigeria	2–2	0–1
Guinea	1–2	Tunisia	0–1	1–1
Togo	1–3 3	Ghana	0–2	1–1
Mauritania	0–6	Morocco	0–2	0–4
Cameroon	2–3	Ivory Coast	2–0	0–3
Mauritius	w/o 4	Mozambique

• ¹ Zimbabwe were ejected from the competition for using ineligible players.
• ² Ethiopia withdrew after the first leg.
• ³ Ghana were ejected from the competition for using ineligible players.
• ⁴ Mauritius withdrew.

Quarter-finals

Mozambique withdrew, leaving its opponent, Somalia, to advance to the semi-finals.

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Nigeria	5–2	Egypt	4–0	1–2
Tunisia	1–1(a)	Togo	1–1	0–0
Ivory Coast	2–3	Morocco	2–0	0–3

Semi-finals

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Nigeria	2–0	Somalia	1–0	1–0
Morocco	1–2	Togo	1–0	0–2

Final

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Togo	1–5	Nigeria	1–2	0–3

1987 African Youth Championship
Nigeria 3rd title

Qualification for the World Youth Championship

These two best performing teams qualified for the 1987 FIFA World Youth Championship in Chile:

•  Nigeria
•  Togo

External links

• Tournament records at RSSSF