African U-17 Championship 2003

PRELIMINARY ROUND (Jun 30 and Jul 14, 2002)

Liberia         o/w   Sierra Leone         [Liberia withdrew]
Algeria         w/o   Mauritania           [Mauritania withdrew]
Gabon           w/o   Togo                 [Togo withdrew]
Senegal         w/o   Guinea Bissau        [Guinea Bissau withdrew]
Zimbabwe      5-1 2-0 Mauritius            [1st leg Jun 29]
Libya           w/o   Niger                [Niger withdrew]
Ivory Coast     w/o   Equatorial Guinea    [Eq. Guinea withdrew]
Angola        5-0 6-2 Sao Tome e Principe
Uganda          o/w   Somalia              [Uganda withdrew]
Lesotho       0-0 3-0 Namibia
Botswana      0-1 0-2 Tanzania             [1st leg Jun 29]
Eritrea       0-0 1-3 Kenya                [1st leg Jun 29]

FIRST ROUND (Dec 22, 2002 and Jan 12, 2003)

Sierra Leone  0-0 1-1 Burkina Faso         [2nd leg Feb 16]
Algeria       0-0 1-2 Tunisia
Gabon         1-0 0-2 Cameroon             [1st leg Dec 21]
Senegal       1-0 3-0 Morocco
Zimbabwe      2-1 0-2 Malawi               [1st leg Dec 21, 2nd leg Jan 11]
Libya         0-1 0-0 Egypt
Ivory Coast   0-2 0-1 Guinea              
Angola        2-3 1-0 Mozambique
Gambia        0-1 1-0 Mali                 [4-2 pen]
Somalia       n/p 1-4 Zambia               [played in one leg Dec 21]
Lesotho       1-1 1-4 South Africa         [2nd leg Jan 11]
Sudan           o/w   Nigeria              [Sudan withdrew]
Tanzania      1-1 1-5 Ethiopia             [1st leg Dec 21]
Kenya         2-0 1-2 Ghana                [1st leg Dec 21]

SECOND ROUND (Feb 2 and 23, 2003)
Sierra Leone  1-0 1-1 Tunisia              [1st leg Mar 1, 2nd leg Mar 15]
Cameroon      1-0 0-0 Senegal              [2nd leg Feb 22]
Malawi        0-1 0-2 Egypt
Guinea        3-0 1-2 Mozambique           [2nd leg Feb 22]
Gambia        1-1 1-0 Zambia
Nigeria       3-1 1-1 South Africa         [1st leg Feb 15, 2nd leg Mar 1]
Ethiopia      2-0 w/o Kenya                [*]

[*] the Kenya Sports Minister Najib Balala disbanded the national U-17
    team on Feb 14, 2003, claiming that 40% of the players who eliminated
    Ghana in the first round had been over-age; he said he would seek to
    re-instate Ghana in the competition and would apologise to FIFA.
    While CAF did not re-instate Ghana, they did ban Kenya for 2 years
    from all CAF's under-age competition for fielding under-age players
    against Ghana.


FINAL TOURNAMENT [in Swaziland]

Swaziland qualify as hosts

Group A
May 25 Swaziland     0-1 Egypt
       Sierra Leone  3-3 Guinea
May 28 Swaziland     0-2 Sierra Leone
       Egypt         1-0 Guinea
May 31 Egypt         0-0 Sierra Leone
       Guinea        6-0 Swaziland

 1.EGYPT               3  2  1  0  2- 0  7
 2.SIERRA LEONE        3  1  2  0  5- 3  5
 3.Guinea              3  1  1  1  9- 4  4
 4.Swaziland           3  0  0  3  0- 9  0

Group B
May 26 Nigeria       1-0 Cameroon
       Gambia        1-0 Ethiopia
May 29 Nigeria       1-0 Gambia
       Cameroon      5-3 Ethiopia
Jun  1 Ethiopia      0-4 Nigeria
       Cameroon      2-2 Gambia

 1.NIGERIA             3  3  0  0  6- 0  9
 2.CAMEROON            3  1  1  1  7- 6  4
 3.Gambia              3  1  1  1  3- 3  4
 4.Ethiopia            3  0  0  3  3-10  0

Semifinals
Jun  5 Egypt         1-2 Cameroon
       Nigeria       0-1 Sierra Leone

Third Place Match
Jun  7 Egypt         1-3 Nigeria

Final
Jun  8 Cameroon      1-0 Sierra Leone   [aet]

First three qualify for World U-17 Championship in Finland, August 2003.

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