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2020 Arab Cup U-20

2020 Arab Cup U-20

كأس العرب للمنتخبات تحت 20 سنة 2020
Tournament details
Host country	Saudi Arabia
Dates	17 February – 4 March
Teams	16 (from 2 confederations)
Venue(s)	4 (in 3 host cities)
Final positions
Champions	Senegal (1st title)
Runners-up	Tunisia
Tournament statistics
Matches played	31
Goals scored	96 (3.1 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Samba Diallo (5 goals)
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The 2020 Arab Cup U-20 was the fourth edition of the Arab Cup U-20 organised by the Union of Arab Football Associations (UAFA) for the men's under-20 national teams of the Arab world. It is the first tournament played in nearly eight years.^[1] The competition took place in Saudi Arabia between 17 February and 4 March.^[2] It was held in Dammam, Khobar and Riyadh.^[3]

Teams[edit]

Participating teams[edit]

Match officials[edit]

Below the list of the referees and the assistant referees of the tournament^[4]

Referees[edit]

Assistant referees[edit]

Draw[edit]

The group stage draw was made on 20 January 2020.^[5] The 16 teams were drawn into four groups.^[6]

Venues[edit]

Riyadh	Riyadh	Riyadh Dammam Khobar
Prince Turki bin Abdul Aziz Stadium	Prince Faisal bin Fahd Stadium
Capacity: 15,000	Capacity: 22,500
24°38′52″N 46°33′03″E / 24.6477°N 46.5508°E / 24.6477; 46.5508 (Prince Turki bin Abdul Aziz Stadium)	24°39′45″N 46°44′23″E / 24.6625°N 46.7397°E / 24.6625; 46.7397 (Prince Faisal bin Fahd Stadium)
Dammam	Khobar
Prince Mohamed bin Fahd Stadium	Prince Saud bin Jalawi Stadium
Capacity: 36,000	Capacity: 20,100
26°25′38″N 50°06′50″E / 26.4272°N 50.1140°E / 26.4272; 50.1140 (Prince Mohamed bin Fahd Stadium)	26°22′12″N 50°12′19″E / 26.3699°N 50.2052°E / 26.3699; 50.2052 (Prince Saud bin Jalawi Stadium)

Squads[edit]

Players born on or after 1 January 2000 were eligible to compete.

Group stage[edit]

The top two teams of each group advanced to the quarter-finals.

All times are local, AST (UTC+3).

Group A[edit]

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Tunisia	3	2	1	0	4	2	+2	7	Knockout stage
2	Iraq	3	1	1	1	3	2	+1	4
3	Mauritania	3	1	0	2	2	3	−1	3
4	Kuwait	3	0	2	1	1	3	−2	2

Iraq	1–2	Tunisia
Mohamed 42'		Mimouni 70' Sghaier 89'

Referee: Murad Al Zawahreh (Jordan)

Mauritania	2–0	Kuwait
Warr 26', 64'

Referee: Mohammed Bunafoor Juma (Bahrain)

Kuwait	0–0	Iraq

Referee: Ahmed El Ghandour (Egypt)

Mauritania	0–1	Tunisia
		Habassi 86'

Referee: Sabri Mohammed Fadul (Sudan)

Iraq	2–0	Mauritania
Bilal 23' (o.g.) Fadhil 85'

Referee: Ahmed Eisa Darwish (United Arab Emirates)

Tunisia	1–1	Kuwait
Mimouni 36' (pen.)		Marzouk 83'

Referee: Adil Zourak (Morocco)

Group B[edit]

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Morocco	3	3	0	0	12	3	+9	9	Knockout stage
2	Bahrain	3	2	0	1	9	9	0	6
3	Madagascar	3	1	0	2	9	10	−1	3
4	Djibouti	3	0	0	3	4	12	−8	0

Morocco	4–2	Bahrain
Sahel 26' Lahtimi 39' El Azzouzi 70' Amrani 89'		Alaoui 56' Salem 63' (pen.)

Referee: Saad Al-Fadhli Kalefah (Kuwait)

Madagascar	4–3	Djibouti
Menakely 20', 33', 45' Randrianantenaina 25'		Mohamed 19' Kamel 23' Ali 63'

Referee: Sameh Al-Qassas (Palestine)

Djibouti	0–6	Morocco
		Abida 7' Gharib 33' El Achbili 50' El Azzouzi 68' Ezzalzouli 71', 90+1'

Referee: Mehrez Melki (Tunisia)

Madagascar	4–5	Bahrain
Randrianantenaina 31', 55' Nomenjanahary 34' Menakely 60'		Salem 23', 68' Issa 27' Harouna 42' Bader 65'

Referee: Mathioro Diabel (Mauritania)

Morocco	2–1	Madagascar
Amrani 51' El Moubarek 86' (pen.)		Randrianantenaina 76'

Referee: Saoud Al-Adba (Qatar)

Bahrain	2–1	Djibouti
Alaoui 33' Abdul Aziz 40'		Ibrahim 60'

Referee: Mohammed Wathik Al-Baag (Iraq)

Group C[edit]

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Egypt	3	2	1	0	10	5	+5	7	Knockout stage
2	Algeria	3	2	0	1	4	5	−1	6
3	Saudi Arabia (H)	3	1	1	1	7	4	+3	4
4	Palestine	3	0	0	3	2	9	−7	0

Saudi Arabia	4–0	Palestine
Marran 24', 64', 90+4' Al-Ali 56'

Referee: Abdulwahid Huraywidah (Libya)

Algeria	1–4	Egypt
Boukerma 72'		Faisal 7', 46' Abdelmohsen 83' Adel 90+2'

Referee: Ahmed Issa Mohamed Darwish (United Arab Emirates)

Egypt	2–2	Saudi Arabia
Abdelmagid 8' Faisal 44'		Marran 54' (pen.) Yahya 90'

Referee: Adil Zourak (Morocco)

Algeria	1–0	Palestine
Zerrouki 5'

Referee: Saddam Houssein Mansour (Djibouti)

Saudi Arabia	1–2	Algeria
Yahya 74'		Zerrouki 67' Bekkouche 79'

Referee: Murad Al Zawahreh (Jordan)

Palestine	2–4	Egypt
Bani Odeh 6' Nazzal 59'		Mohamed 2' Adel 13' Faisal 29' Ashraf 50'

Referee: Mohamad Darwich (Lebanon)

Group D[edit]

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Senegal	3	2	1	0	6	1	+5	7	Knockout stage
2	Libya	3	2	0	1	4	4	0	6
3	United Arab Emirates	3	1	1	1	3	2	+1	4
4	Sudan	3	0	0	3	1	7	−6	0

Sudan	0–2	Libya
		Qulaib 54' Algnay 71'

Referee: Mohammed Wathik Al-Baag (Iraq)

United Arab Emirates	0–0	Senegal

Referee: Faisal Al-Balawi (Saudi Arabia)

Senegal	3–1	Sudan
Samba Diallo 27' Ba 41' Sar 42'		Yousef 51'

Referee: Saoud Al-Adba (Qatar)

United Arab Emirates	1–2	Libya
Al-Hammadi 64'		Ibrek 13' Sourait 79'

Referee: Lotfi Bekouassa (Algeria)

Sudan	0–2	United Arab Emirates
		Ahmad 33' Abdullah 90+3'

Referee: Saad Al-Fadhli Kalefah (Kuwait)

Libya	0–3	Senegal
		Ndiaye 75' Sar 88', 90+1'

Referee: Faisal Al-Balawi (Saudi Arabia)

Knockout stage[edit]

Bracket[edit]

	Quarter-finals				Semi-finals				Final
	27 February – Dammam
	Tunisia	2
					1 March – Dammam
	Algeria	0
					Tunisia	4
	27 February – Riyadh
					Morocco	0
	Morocco (p)	0 (9)
									5 March – Dammam
	Libya	0 (8)
									Tunisia	0
	27 February – Dammam
									Senegal	1
	Egypt	1
					1 March – Dammam
	Iraq	0
					Egypt	0 (5)
	27 February – Riyadh
					Senegal (p)	0 (6)
	Senegal	5
	Bahrain	0

Quarter-finals[edit]

Morocco	0–0 (a.e.t.)	Libya
Penalties
Adriouech Lahtimi El Moubarek Raoui Abida Chahir Gharib Amrani Ramzi El Azzouzi Laghzal	9–8	? Jadour Qulaib Ibrek Chabli Ettihari Takrak Chaloui Sourait Ibrahim Mimoun

Referee: Mohammed Wathik Al-Baag (Iraq)

Tunisia	2–0	Algeria
Labidi 13' Sghaier 59'

Referee: Ahmed El Ghandour (Egypt)

Egypt	1–0	Iraq
Abdelmohsen 77'

Referee: Abdulwahid Huraywidah (Libya)

Senegal	5–0	Bahrain
Diallo 7', 17', 74' Ndiaye 22', 81'

Referee: Mehrez Melki (Tunisia)

Semi-finals[edit]

Tunisia	4–0	Morocco
Berrima 21', 60' Labidi 23' Mimouni 55'

Referee: Ahmed Eisa Darwish (United Arab Emirates)

Egypt	1–1 (a.e.t.)	Senegal
Adel 56' (pen.)		Sarr 59'
Penalties
	5–6

Referee: Lotfi Bekouassa (Algeria)

Final[edit]

Tunisia	0–1	Senegal
		Diallo 45'

Referee: Faisal Al-Balawi (Saudi Arabia)

Goalscorers[edit]

There were 96 goals scored in 31 matches, for an average of 3.1 goals per match.

5 goals

4 goals

Ricardo Menakely

Arnaud Randrianantenaina

Mohammed Marran

3 goals

Babi Sar

Farouk Mimouni

2 goals

Sayed Jawad Alaoui

Abdellah Salem

Mahmoud Saber Abdulmohsen

Youssouf Warr

Omar Amrani

Anouar El Azzouzi

Abde Ezzalzouli

Ayman Yahya

Moussa Ndiaye

Zied Berrima

Chiheb Labidi

Yannis Sghaier

1 goal

Mohamed Boukerma

Hussein Abdul Aziz

Saleh Bader

Hussain Harouna

Hassan Issa

Salem Salem

Yussuf Ali

Suhaib Ibrahim

Kassim Kamel

Kandid Mohamed

Hossam Abdelmagid

Abdelrahman Ashraf

Abdelghani Mohamed

Ridha Fadhil

Abdallah Mohamed

Ibrahim Marzouk

Eslam Algnay

Ibrahim Ibrek

Noureddine Qulaib

Osama Sourait

Elisco Nomenjanahary

Haitam Abida

Taha El Achbili

Mahdi El Moubarek

Achraf Gharib

Montassir Lahtimi

Mohamed Amine Sahel

Anas Bani Odeh

Mohammed Nazzal

Hassan Al-Ali

Nikhor Ba

Abdulaye Ndiaye

Pape Matar Sarr

Tawfiq Yousef

Achraf Habassi

Harib Abdullah

Ali Ahmad

Mohammad Al-Hammadi

Own goal

• El Mokhtar Bilal (vs Iraq)

Broadcasting rights[edit]

Below the list of broadcasting rights.^[7]

Country/Region	Broadcaster	Ref.
Arab World	beIN Sports
Egypt	Time Sports
Bahrain	Bahrain Sports
Iraq	Al Iraqiya Sports
Jordan	Jordan Sports
Kuwait	KTV Sport
Oman	Oman Sports TV
Qatar	Al Kass Sports Channels
Saudi Arabia	KSA Sports
UAE	AD Sports
	Dubai Sports

References[edit]

External links[edit]

• 2020 Arab Cup U-20 - goalzz.com