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2011 African Youth Championship

2011 Afrikaanse Jeug Championship CAF U20/South Africa
Tournament details
Host country	South Africa
City	Johannesburg
Dates	17 April – 1 May
Teams	8 (from 1 confederation)
Venue(s)	2 (in 1 host city)
Final positions
Champions	Nigeria (6th title)
Runners-up	Cameroon
Third place	Egypt
Fourth place	Mali
Tournament statistics
Matches played	16
Goals scored	34 (2.13 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Uche Nwofor (4 goals)
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The 2011 African Youth Championship was a football tournament for the Under-20 level national teams in Africa. It was due to be held in Libya from 18 March to 1 April. Following political unrest in the region, CAF decided to postpone the tournament, before deciding that South Africa would be the new hosts, with games taking place between 17 April and 2 May.

As the Championship also acted as a qualifier for the 2011 FIFA U-20 World Cup, the tournament would have to be played before the end of June 2011.

The tournament was won by Nigeria, who beat Cameroon in the final, to win their sixth title.

Qualification

Qualified teams:

•  South Africa (hosts, replaces  Libya)
•  Cameroon
•  Egypt
•  Gambia
•  Ghana
•  Lesotho
•  Mali
•  Nigeria

Squads

Venues

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Johannesburg has been named as venue of Orange African Youth Championship 2011. Matches was played at two stadiums in Johannesburg. Dobsonville Stadium, home of Moroka Swallows and Bidvest Stadium, home of Wits University. Rand Stadium, was originally selected as a host stadium, but was dropped in favour of Bidvest Stadium.

Johannesburg
Dobsonville Stadium	Bidvest Stadium
26°13′36″S 27°51′51″E / 26.226798°S 27.864071°E / -26.226798; 27.864071 (Dobsonville Stadium)	26°11′16″S 28°01′42″E / 26.187778°S 28.028333°E / -26.187778; 28.028333 (Bidvest Stadium)
Capacity: 24,000	Capacity: 5,000
Johannesburg

Officials

The following referees were chosen for the tournament.

Group stage

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Mali	3	2	1	0	6	3	+3	7	Advance to knockout stage
2	Egypt	3	2	0	1	3	1	+2	6
3	South Africa (H)	3	1	0	2	4	6	−2	3
4	Lesotho	3	0	1	2	2	5	−3	1

South Africa	2–4	Mali
Nguzana 20', 77'	Report	Doumbia 11' Coulibaly 22', 38' Diallo 67'

Egypt	2–0	Lesotho
Hegazy 46' Salah 63' (pen.)	Report

Lesotho	1–2	South Africa
L. Marabe 66'	Report	Koapeng 22' Nguzana 32'

Mali	1–0	Egypt
Konaté 65'	Report

Mali	1–1	Lesotho
Ballo 17'	Report	Mosiuda 82'

South Africa	0–1	Egypt
	Report	Hamdy 45'

Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Cameroon	3	2	1	0	3	1	+2	7	Advance to knockout stage
2	Nigeria	3	2	0	1	4	2	+2	6
3	Ghana	3	0	2	1	3	4	−1	2
4	Gambia	3	0	1	2	1	4	−3	1

Ghana	1–2	Nigeria
Boakye 31'	Report	Nwofor 17', 82'

Cameroon	1–0	Gambia
Sally (41)	Report

Nigeria	0–1	Cameroon
	Report	Ohandza 45+1'

Gambia	1–1	Ghana
Jammeh 22'	Report	Boakye 88'

Ghana	1–1	Cameroon
Chana 20'	Report	Mbongo 90'

Nigeria	2–0	Gambia
Kayode 65' Olamilekan 77'	Report

Knockout stage

The teams that reached this phase qualified for the 2011 FIFA U-20 World Cup.

	Semi-finals				Final
	28 April
	Mali	0
					1 May
	Nigeria	2
					Nigeria	3
	28 April
					Cameroon	2
	Egypt	0 (2)
	Cameroon	0 (4)
					Third place
					1 May
					Mali	0
					Egypt	1

Semifinals

Mali	0–2	Nigeria
	Report	Nwofor 22' Okoro 90+2' (pen.)

Egypt	0–0 (a.e.t.)	Cameroon
	Report
Penalties
Hegazy Hamdy Ibrahim Ashraf	2–4	Songo’o Nyatchou Ndema Mvom-Mbeyo'o Banana

Third place playoff

Mali	0–1	Egypt
	Report	Hamdy 48'

Final

Nigeria	3–2	Cameroon
Kayode 75' Nwofor 80' Envoh 90+2'	Report	Ohandza 82' Salli 85'

Winners

2011 African Youth Championship
Nigeria Sixth title

Player Awards

• Top goalscorer: Uche Nwofor
• Fair player of the tournament: Ahmed El Shenawy
• Player of the tournament: Edgar Salli

Goal scorers

4 goals

• Uche Nwofor

3 goals

• Lucky Nguzana

2 goals

• Frank Ohandza
• Edgar Salli
• Mohamed Hamdy
• Richmond Boakye
• Kalifa Coulibaly
• Olarenwaju Kayode

1 goal

• Emmanuel Mbongo
• Ahmed Hegazy
• Mohamed Salah
• Baboucarr Jammeh
• Kwame Chana
• Litsepe Leonty Marabe
• Amara Konaté
• Cheick Mohamed Chérif Doumbia
• Ibrahim Diallo
• Terry Envoh
• Azeez Ramon Olamilekan
• Stanley Okoro
• Letsie Koapeng

References

1. "CAF gives youth tourney to SA". Kickoff.com. 16 March 2010. Archived from the original on 15 June 2018. Retrieved 16 March 2010.
2. "CAF indefinitely postpones 2011 Africa Youth Championship". Confederation of African Football. 3 March 2010. Retrieved 3 March 2010.
3. "Nigeria win superb Africa Youth Championship final". BBC. 1 May 2011. Retrieved 28 November 2011.
4. "Johannesburg has been named as venue of Orange AYC 2011". Confederation of African Football. Retrieved 4 May 2011.
5. "Dobsonville, Rand Stadiums to host AYC". Kickoff.com. Retrieved 7 April 2011.
6. "Venue change for AYC games". Kickoff.com. Retrieved 14 April 2011.
7. "Referees". Confederation of African Football. Archived from the original on 1 January 2011. Retrieved 2 May 2011.
8. David Gold (19 March 2011). "South Africa replace Libya as African Youth Championship hosts". Insideworldfootball Limited. Retrieved 29 November 2011.
9. ^ "Awards : Orange CAN U-20". Orange African Youth Championship 2011. CAF. Retrieved 29 November 2011.

External links

• African U-20 Championship 2011 – rsssf.com
• 2011 African U-20 Championship – cafonline
• CAF U-20 Championship at Soccerway

• 2011 African U-20 Championship
• U-20 Africa Cup of Nations
• 2011 in African football
• International association football competitions hosted by South Africa
• 2010–11 in South African soccer
• 2011 in youth association football