Tournament details | |
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Host country | Nigeria |
Dates | 28 January - 8 February |
Teams | 8 |
Final positions | |
Champions | Cameroon (1st title) |
Runners-up | Burundi |
Third place | Nigeria |
Fourth place | Mali |
The African Youth Championship 1995 was a soccer tournament held in Nigeria. It also served as qualification for the 1995 FIFA World Youth Championship.
Benin, Botswana, Cape Verde, Congo, Liberia, Mauritania and Swaziland withdrew. A bye was therefore given to respectively Senegal, Lesotho, Guinea Bissau, Togo, Burkina Faso, Sierra Leone and Madagascar.
Kenya, Madagascar, Sierra Leone, Uganda, Zaire and Zimbabwe withdrew. A bye was therefore given to respectively Cameroon, Mauritius, Morocco, Burundi, Zambia and Ethiopia.
Guinea also went through to the main tournament because Nigeria would qualify as host.
The following teams qualified for the tournament: