5th African youth football qualification tournament
1985 African Youth Championship
Tournament details
Dates
2 September 1984 – 4 May 1985
Teams
17 (from 1 confederation)
Final positions
Champions
Nigeria (2nd title)
Runners-up
Tunisia
Tournament statistics
Matches played
26
Goals scored
59 (2.27 per match)
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International football competition
The 1985 African Youth Championship was the 5th edition of the biennial African qualification tournament for the FIFA World Youth Championship which was contested on a home-and-away two-legged basis.
Nigeria reached the final for the first time in consecutive editions of the tournamentand successfully defended the title for the second time and beat Tunisia 3–2 on aggregate, although both teams qualified for the 1985 FIFA World Youth Championship in the Soviet Union.
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Global Information
Nigeria (2nd title)
Tunisia