2019 U-20 Africa Cup of Nations explained

Tourney Name:Africa U-20 Cup of Nations
Year:2019
Other Titles:Coupe d'Afrique des nations des moins de 20 ans 2019
Size:250px
Country:Niger
Num Teams:8
Confederations:1
Venues:2
Cities:2
Count:1
Matches:16
Goals:31
Top Scorer: Youssouph Mamadou Badji
Amadou Dia N'Diaye
Player: Moussa N'Diaye
Prevseason:2017
Nextseason:2021

The 2019 Africa U-20 Cup of Nations was the 15th edition of the Africa U-20 Cup of Nations (22nd edition if tournaments without hosts are included), the biennial international youth football tournament organized by the Confederation of African Football (CAF) for players aged 20 and below. Niger hosted the tournament, which took place from 2 to 17 February 2019. The tournament involved 8 teams, with Niger making their U-20 Africa Cup of Nations debut.[1]

The top four teams of the tournament qualified for the 2019 FIFA U-20 World Cup in Poland as the CAF representatives. Mali won their first title, while the other qualified teams which finished second to fourth were Senegal, South Africa and Nigeria. Defending champions Zambia failed to qualify.

Qualification

See main article: 2019 Africa U-20 Cup of Nations qualification.

The qualifiers were played between 30 March and 12 August 2018. At the end of the qualification phase, seven teams joined the hosts Niger.

Player eligibility

Players born 1 January 1999 or later are eligible to participate in the competition.

Qualified teams

The following eights teams qualified for the final tournament.[2]

Note: All appearance statistics count only those since the introduction of final tournament in 1991.

Teamdata-sort-type="number"AppearancePrevious best performance
(hosts) 1st
3rd (2003)
2nd (1995)
11th (1993, 1999, 2009)
12th (2003)
11th (2005, 2011, 2015)
5th (2015, 2017)
8th (1997)

Venues

The matches were played in two venues:

NiameyMaradi
Stade Général Seyni KountchéStade de Maradi
Capacity: 35,000Capacity: 15,000

Squads

Each squad can contain a maximum of 21 players.[3] [4] [5]

Draw

The draw of the final tournament was held on 13 December 2018, 21:00 WAT (UTC+1), at the Centre Technique de La Fenifoot in Niamey.[6] [7] The eight teams were drawn into two groups of four teams. The hosts Niger were seeded in Group A and allocated to position A1, while 2017 runners-up Senegal were seeded in Group B and allocated to position B1 (2017 champions Zambia did not qualify). The remaining six teams were seeded based on their results in the 2017 Africa U-20 Cup of Nations (final tournament and qualifiers), and drawn to any of the remaining three positions in each group.[8] [9]

Match officials

A total of 12 referees and 12 assistant referees were appointed for the tournament.[10] [11]

Referees

Assistant Referees

Group stage

The top two teams of each group advance to the semi-finals and qualify for the 2019 FIFA U-20 World Cup.

TiebreakersTeams are ranked according to points (3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, 0 points for a loss), and if tied on points, the following tiebreaking criteria are applied, in the order given, to determine the rankings (Regulations Article 71):[3]
  1. Points in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
  2. Goal difference in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
  3. Goals scored in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
  4. If more than two teams are tied, and after applying all head-to-head criteria above, a subset of teams are still tied, all head-to-head criteria above are reapplied exclusively to this subset of teams;
  5. Goal difference in all group matches;
  6. Goals scored in all group matches;
  7. Drawing of lots.

All times are local, WAT (UTC+1).[12]

Group A

--------

Group B

--------

Knockout stage

In the knockout stage, extra time and penalty shoot-out are used to decide the winner if necessary, except for the third place match where penalty shoot-out (no extra time) is used to decide the winner if necessary (Regulations Article 72).[3]

Semi-finals

----

Final

Goalscorers

3 goals
2 goals
1 goal
1 own goal

Awards

Top scorer
Player of the tournament
Fair Play Award

Qualified teams for FIFA U-20 World Cup

The following four teams from CAF qualified for the 2019 FIFA U-20 World Cup.[14]

TeamQualified ondata-sort-type="number"Previous appearances in FIFA U-20 World Cup1
(2015, 2017)
(1983, 1985, 1987, 1989, 1999, 2005, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2015)
(1997, 2009, 2017)
6 (1989, 1999, 2003, 2011, 2013, 2015)

1 Bold indicates champions for that year. Italic indicates hosts for that year.

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: CAF EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE DECISIONS OF 26 MAY 2015. www.cafonline.com. 25 February 2018. 27 May 2015.
  2. Web site: Ghana completes roster for Niger. CAF. 13 August 2018.
  3. Web site: Regulations of the U-20 Africa Cup of Nations. CAFonline.com. 3 October 2016. 3 October 2016.
  4. Web site: Total U-20 Africa Cup of Nations Niger, 2019: Squad lists revealed. CAFonline.com. 30 January 2019.
  5. Web site: Squad Lists. CAFonline.com. https://web.archive.org/web/20190207040725/https://www.cafonline.com/Portals/0/Total%20U%2020%20Niger%202019/Squad%20lists.pdf. 7 February 2019.
  6. Web site: Accreditation for official draw of Total U-20 AFCON Niger 2019 & Total U-17 AFCON Tanzania 2019. CAF. 29 November 2018.
  7. Web site: Tough draw for Regional rivals as host Niger draw neighbours Nigeria. CAF. 13 December 2018.
  8. Web site: Draw Procedure for Total U-20 Africa Cup of Nations Niger 2019 . CAF . 12 December 2018.
  9. Web site: Procedures of the draw of the 21st Edition TOTAL U-20 Africa Cup of Nations, Niger 2019. CAF.
  10. Web site: Match Officials for Niger 2019 confirmed. CAF. 21 January 2019.
  11. Web site: LIST OF SELECTED REFEREES U20 NIGER 2019. CAF.
  12. CAF_Online. 1090927540062031872. 31 January 2019. Here is the fixtures of #TotalAFCONU20.
  13. Web site: MALI SECURE FIRST U-20 TITLE ON PENALTIES . 17 February 2019 . 17 February 2019 . CAF.
  14. Web site: Mali complete African quartet headed to Poland 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20190213130843/https://www.fifa.com/u20worldcup/news/senegal-become-africa-s-first-to-reach-poland-2019. dead. February 13, 2019. 9 February 2019.

This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "2019 U-20 Africa Cup of Nations".

Except where otherwise indicated, Everything.Explained.Today is © Copyright 2009-2024, A B Cryer, All Rights Reserved. Cookie policy.