2021 U-17 Африканский Кубок Наций

2021 Африка U-17 Кубок наций
Кубок африканских стран до 17 лет 2021 года ; Кубок африканских стран U-17 2021 ;
Турнирные детали
Принимающая страна	Марокко
Даты	Отменен
Команды	12 (из 1 Конфедерации)
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Планируется, что Кубок U-17 2021 года Наций Африки U-17 в Африке известный в целях спонсорства как , общее количество народов США в Африке U-17 (19-е место (19-е место, если издания турнира без хозяина включены) двухлетней африканской молодежи. Футбольный турнир, организованный Конфедерацией африканского футбола (CAF) для игроков в возрасте 17 лет и ниже. Камерун был бы действующими чемпионами.

CAF объявил Марокко в качестве хозяев этого издания в сентябре 2018 года. ^{[ 1 ]} Это было бы первым выпуском турнира, в котором были представлены 12 команд на групповых этапах вместо 8 из предыдущих изданий. ^{[ 2 ]} Полуфиналисты обычно имели бы квалификацию на чемпионат мира по футболу U-17 2021 года в Перу в качестве представителей CAF. Тем не менее, ФИФА решила 24 декабря 2020 года отменить этот турнир из-за пандемии Covid-19 . ^{[ 3 ]}

This edition of the tournament was originally scheduled to take place between 13 and 31 March 2021. However, CAF announced on 8 March 2021 that the tournament had been cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic both in Morocco and in Africa at large.^[4] Zambia offered to host the tournament at a later date to be agreed upon with CAF^[5]^[6] который никогда не материализовался.

Qualification

On 20 July 2017, CAF decided that the qualification format should be changed and split according to zones.^[7]

Player eligibility

Players born 1 January 2004 or later are eligible to participate in the competition.

Qualified teams

The following twelve teams qualified for the final tournament.

Note: All appearance statistics count only those since the introduction of final tournament in 1995.

Team	Zone	Appearance	Previous best performance
Morocco (hosts)	North Zone	3rd	Fourth place (2013)
Algeria	North Zone	2nd	Runners-up (2009)
Senegal	West A Zone	3rd	Group stage (2011, 2019)
Mali	West A Zone	9th	Champions (2015, (2017)
Nigeria	West B Zone	10th	Champions (2001, 2007)
Ivory Coast	West B Zone	6th	Champions (2013)
Tanzania	Central-East Zone	3rd	Group stage (2017, 2019)
Uganda	Central-East Zone	2nd	Group stage (2019)
Cameroon	Central Zone	8th	Champions (2003, 2019)
Congo	Central Zone	3rd	Third place (2011)
South Africa	South Zone	4th	Runners-up (2015)
Zambia	South Zone	2nd	Group stage (2015)

Draw

The draw of the group stage was held on 24 February 2021, 13:00 WAT (UTC+1).^[8] The 12 qualified teams were drawn into 3 groups of 4 teams.

Pot 1	Pot 2	Pot 3
Morocco (H) Cameroon Nigeria	Tanzania Senegal Uganda	South Africa Algeria Ivory Coast Congo Mali Zambia

Group stage

The top two teams of each group advance to the quarter-finals along with the two best 3rd placed teams.

Tiebreakers:

Teams are ranked according to the three points for a win system (3 for a win, 1 for a draw and 0 or none for a loss) and if tied on points, the following tie-breaking criteria are applied, in the order given, to determine the rankings (Regulations Article 71):"U-17 AFCON Regulations" (PDF). CAFOnline.com. 20 October 2020. Retrieved 13 January 2021.

Points in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
Goal difference in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
Goals scored in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
If more than two teams are tied, and after applying all head-to-head criteria above, a subset of teams are still tied, all head-to-head criteria above are reapplied exclusively to this subset of teams;
Goal difference in all group matches;
Goals scored in all group matches;
Drawing of lots.

All times are in WAT (UTC+1).^[9]

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Morocco (H)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
2	Uganda	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
3	Zambia	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
4	Ivory Coast	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

Source: ^{[citation needed]}
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers
(H) Hosts

13 March 2021