2015 African U-20 Championship

Qualification

Main article: 2015 African U-20 Championship qualification

The qualifiers were played between April and August 2014. At the end of the qualification phase, seven teams joined the hosts Senegal.

Qualified teams

• (hosts)

Venues

Match officials

The referees were:

;Referees

• BOT Joshua Bondo
• BFA Juste Ephrem Zio
• BDI Thierry Nkurunziza
• CMR Aurélien Juenkou Wandji
• EGY Ibrahim Nour El Din
• CIV Bienvenu Sinko
• KEN Davies Ogenche Omweno
• LBY Mohamed Ragab Omar
• MLI Mahamadou Keita
• MAR Rédouane Jiyed
• SEN Daouda Gueye
• SOM Hagi Yabarow Wiish
• SDN Mutaz Abdelbasit Khairalla

;Assistant referees

• ALG Mokrane Gourari
• CMR Elvis Guy Noupue Nguegoue
• CHA Issa Yaya
• COD Olivier Safari Kabene
• ERI Berhe O'Michael
• ETH Kindie Mussie
• GHA David Laryea
• GUI Sidiki Sidibe
• MTN Abderahmane Warr
• NGA Abel Baba
• SEN Ababacar Sene
• SEY Hensley Danny Petrousse
• RSA Mothibidi Stevens Khumalo
• TUN Faouzi Jridi
• UGA Mark Ssonko

Draw

The draw for the final tournament was held on 21 December 2014, 11:00 UTC+02:00, at the CAF Headquarters in Cairo, Egypt. Senegal and Ghana were seeded and placed into Groups A and B respectively.

Squads

Main article: 2015 African U-20 Championship squads

Each team could register a squad of 21 players (three of whom had to be goalkeepers).

Group stage

The group winners and runners-up advanced to the semi-finals and qualified for the 2015 FIFA U-20 World Cup. Tiebreakers ;Tiebreakers The teams were ranked according to points (3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, 0 points for a loss). If tied on points, tiebreakers were applied in the following order:

1. Number of points obtained in games between the teams concerned;
2. Goal difference in games between the teams concerned;
3. Goals scored in games between the teams concerned;
4. Goal difference in all games;
5. Goals scored in all games;
6. Fair Play point system in which the number of yellow and red cards were evaluated;
7. Drawing of lots.

All times are UTC±00:00.

Group A

Matthew

Muhammed Awoniyi Bedia

Wadji Sarr Ganvoula Bakaki Muhammed Bedia

Group B

B. Tetteh

Afful

Sandows Zulu

Knockout stage

In the knockout stage, if a match was level at the end of normal playing time, extra time was played (two periods of 15 minutes each) and followed, if necessary, by a penalty shoot-out to determine the winner, except for the play-off for third place where no extra time was played.

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Semi-finals

Muhammed

Third place match

Aboagye

Final

Awards

• Fair play trophy: Nigeria
• Orange Man of the tournament: GHA Yaw Yeboah
• Best goal of the tournament: NGA Bernard Bulbwa against Senegal in the final

Team of the tournament

;Starting Eleven

• NGA Enaholo Joshua
• NGA Musa Muhammed
• MLI Souleymane Diarra
• SEN Mouhameth Sané
• SEN Sidy Sarr
• MLI Alassane Diallo
• SEN Ibrahima Wadji
• GHA Yaw Yeboah
• NGA Idowu Elijah
• GHA Clifford Aboagye
• NGA Taiwo Awoniyi ;Substitutes
• MLI Sory Ibrahim Traore
• GHA Joseph Aidoo
• NGA Ifeanyi Matthew
• NGA Omego Prince
• RSA Tyroane Joe Sandows
• CGO Silvere Ganvoula Mboussy
• MLI Malick Toure
• GHA Prosper Kassim

Goalscorers

;4 goals

• NGA Musa Muhammed

;3 goals

• CGO Silvère Ganvoula
• NGA Taiwo Awoniyi
• SEN Sidy Sarr
• SEN Ibrahima Wadji
• RSA Tyroane Sandows

;2 goals

• CIV Chris Bedia
• GHA Yaw Yeboah
• MLI Alassane Diallo
• MLI Hamidou Traoré
• NGA Ifeanyi Matthew
• RSA Dumisani Zuma
• SEN Moussa Koné

;1 goal

• CGO Constantin Bakaki
• CGO Moise Nkounkou
• GHA Clifford Aboagye
• GHA Samuel Afful
• GHA Asiedu Attobrah
• GHA Benjamin Tetteh
• CIV Victorien Angban
• CIV Yakou Meite
• CIV Dogbole Niangbo
• MLI Ichaka Diarra
• MLI Malick Touré
• NGA Bernard Bulbwa
• NGA Obinna Nwobodo
• NGA Christian Pyagbara
• SEN El Hadji Malick Niang
• RSA Motjeka Madisha
• ZAM Dave Daka
• ZAM Charles Zulu

;Own goal

• RSA Thamsanqa Masiya (against Ghana)
• RSA Kabelo Seriba (against Zambia)

References

References

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