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The U-20 Africa Cup of Nations, known for short as the U-20 AFCON and for sponsorship purposes as TotalEnergies U-20 Africa Cup of Nations, previously known as the African Youth Championship and the African U-20 Championship, is the biennial international youth football tournament organized by the Confederation of African Football (CAF) for its nations consisting of players under the age of 20. It serves as the African qualification tournament for the FIFA U-20 World Cup.
History
In 1979, FIFA created a world championship for upcoming footballers, causing CAF to install a home-and-away qualification tournament for African nations called the African Youth Championship which also crowned the tournament's champions. In 1991, CAF upgraded the tournament into a full-scale tournament contested by 8 in a chosen host nation.
CAF changed the name of this competition to the African U-20 Championship for the 2011 edition so as to distinguish it from the U-17 competition. On 6 August 2015, the CAF Executive Committee decided to change the tournament's name to the Africa U-20 Cup of Nations in line with the flagship Africa Cup of Nations tournament. However, the name on the official competition logo after 2015 reads as the U-20 Africa Cup of Nations.
On 21 July 2016, French energy and petroleum giant TotalEnergies (formerly Total S.A.) secured an 8-year sponsorship package from CAF to support its competitions.
Since the 2021 edition, the tournament has been contested by 12 teams.
Tournament summary
= African Youth Championship (Qualification)
== African Youth Championship (Host)
== African U-20 Championship
== U-20 Africa Cup of Nations
=Performance by nation
* = As hosts
Participating nations
Legend
Participating nations by year of debut
Participating nations by debut (Until 1989, counted Round 1, after 1991 counting Final 16)
= Before 1989
=1979: Algeria, Cameroon, Egypt, Ethiopia, Guinea, Kenya, Libya, Mauritius, Morocco, Nigeria, Tunisia
1981: Central African Republic, Equatorial Guinea, Mauritania, Togo, Zimbabwe
1983: Angola, Gabon, Gambia, Ivory Coast, Sudan, Swaziland
1985: Ghana, Zambia
1987: Somalia
1989: Congo, Lesotho, Mali
= After 1991
=1991: Cameroon, Egypt (hosts), Ethiopia, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Zambia
1993: Mauritius (hosts), Morocco, Nigeria, Senegal
1995: Burundi, Guinea, Mali
1997: South Africa, Sudan
1999: Angola, Malawi
2003: Burkina Faso, Gabon
2005: Benin (hosts), Lesotho
2007: Congo (hosts), Gambia
2009: Rwanda (hosts)
2011: No new team
2013: Algeria, DR Congo
2015: No new team
2017: No new team
2019: Niger (hosts)
2021: Central African Republic, Mauritania (hosts), Mozambique, Namibia, Tanzania, Tunisia, Uganda
2023: South Sudan
2025: Kenya, Sierra Leone
= Player awards
=FIFA U-20 World Cup performances
Legend
See also
Africa Cup of Nations
U-23 Africa Cup of Nations
U-17 Africa Cup of Nations
FIFA U-20 World Cup
References
External links
Official website
Tournament records and statistics at RSSSF
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- U-20 Africa Cup of Nations
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- 2025 U-20 Africa Cup of Nations qualification
- 2023 U-20 Africa Cup of Nations
- U-17 Africa Cup of Nations
- 2017 U-20 Africa Cup of Nations
- 2025 Africa Cup of Nations
- 2025 U-17 Africa Cup of Nations
- 2019 U-20 Africa Cup of Nations
- 2021 U-20 Africa Cup of Nations
