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	22
Goals scored	77 (3.5 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Samba Diallo (5 goals)
← 2014

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. The competition took place in Saudi Arabia between 17 February and 4 March. It was held in Dammam, Khobar and Riyadh.

Teams

Participating teams

Africa Algeria Djibouti Egypt Libya Mauritania Morocco Sudan Tunisia

Asia Bahrain Iraq Kuwait Palestine Saudi Arabia (hosts) United Arab Emirates

Invited Madagascar Senegal

Withdrew Comoros Qatar

Did not enter Jordan Lebanon Oman Somalia Syria Yemen

Match officials

Below the list of the referees and the assistant referees of the tournament

Referees

CAF - Africa

• Lotfi Bekouassa (Algeria)
• Saddam Houssein Mansour (Djibouti)
• Ahmed El Ghandour (Egypt)
• Abdulwahid Huraywidah (Libya)
• Mathioro Diabel (Mauritania)
• Adil Zourak (Morocco)
• Sabri Mohammed Fadul (Sudan)
• Mehrez Melki (Tunisia)

AFC - Asia

• Mohammed Bunafoor Juma (Bahrain)
• Mohammed Wathik Al-Baag (Iraq)
• Murad Al Zawahreh (Jordan)
• Saad Al-Fadhli Kalefah (Kuwait)
• Mohamad Darwich (Lebanon)
• Sameh Al-Qassas (Palestine)
• Saoud Al-Adba (Qatar)
• Faisal Al-Balawi (Saudi Arabia)
• Ahmed Eisa Mohamed Darwish (United Arab Emirates)

Assistant referees

CAF - Africa

• Abbes Akram Zerhouni (Algeria)
• Liban Abdirazack Ahmed (Djibouti)
• Samir Gamal Saad Mohamed (Egypt)
• Basm Saef El-Naser (Libya)
• Mohamed Mahmoud Youssouf (Mauritania)
• Hicham Ait Abbou (Morocco)
• Omer Hamid Ahmed (Sudan)
• Mohamed Bakir (Tunisia)

AFC - Asia

• Salman Talasi (Bahrain)
• Akram Ali Jabbar (Iraq)
• Ahmad Abbas (Kuwait)
• Farooq Assi (Palestine)
• Ramzan Al-Naemi (Qatar)
• Faisal Al-Qahtani (Saudi Arabia)
• Oqubah Al-Haweij (Syria)
• Ali Al-Nuaimi (United Arab Emirates)

Draw

The group stage draw was made on 20 January 2020. The 16 teams were drawn into four groups.

Venues

Riyadh	Riyadh	Riyadh Dammam Khobar
Prince Turki bin Abdul Aziz Stadium	Prince Faisal bin Fahd Stadium
Capacity: 15,000	Capacity: 22,500
24.6477°N 46.5508°E / 24.6477; 46.5508 (Prince Turki bin Abdul Aziz Stadium)	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
26.4272°N 50.1140°E / 26.4272; 50.1140 (Prince Mohamed bin Fahd Stadium)	26.3699°N 50.2052°E / 26.3699; 50.2052 (Prince Saud bin Jalawi Stadium)

Group stage

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

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

Group A

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

Source: Soccerway
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers

17 February 2020

14:45

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

Prince Saud bin Jalawi Stadium, Khobar

Referee: Murad Al Zawahreh (Jordan)

17 February 2020

17:50

Mauritania	2–0	Kuwait
Warr 26', 64'

Prince Saud bin Jalawi Stadium, Khobar

Referee: Mohammed Bunafoor Juma (Bahrain)

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20 February 2020

14:45

Kuwait	0–0	Iraq

Prince Saud bin Jalawi Stadium, Khobar

Referee: Ahmed El Ghandour (Egypt)

20 February 2020

17:50

Mauritania	0–1	Tunisia
		Habassi 86'

Prince Saud bin Jalawi Stadium, Khobar

Referee: Sabri Mohammed Fadul (Sudan)

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23 February 2020

15:30

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

Prince Saud bin Jalawi Stadium, Khobar

Referee: Ahmed Eisa Mohamed Darwish (United Arab Emirates)

23 February 2020

15:30

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

Prince Mohamed bin Fahd Stadium, Dammam

Referee: Adil Zourak (Morocco)

Group B

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

Source: Soccerway
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers

17 February 2020

14:45

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

Prince Turki bin Abdul Aziz Stadium, Riyadh

Referee: Saad Al-Fadhli Kalefah (Kuwait)

17 February 2020

18:00

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

Prince Turki bin Abdul Aziz Stadium, Riyadh

Referee: Sameh Al-Qassas (Palestine)

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20 February 2020

14:45

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

Prince Turki bin Abdul Aziz Stadium, Riyadh

Referee: Mehrez Melki (Tunisia)

20 February 2020

18:00

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

Prince Turki bin Abdul Aziz Stadium, Riyadh

Referee: Mathioro Diabel (Mauritania)

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23 February 2020

15:30

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

Prince Turki bin Abdul Aziz Stadium, Riyadh

Referee: Saoud Al-Adba (Qatar)

23 February 2020

15:30

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

Prince Faisal bin Fahd Stadium, Riyadh

Referee: Mohammed Wathik Al-Baag (Iraq)

Group C

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

Source: Soccerway
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers
(H) Hosts

18 February 2020

14:45

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

Prince Mohamed bin Fahd Stadium, Dammam

Referee: Abdulwahid Huraywidah (Libya)

18 February 2020

17:50

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

Prince Mohamed bin Fahd Stadium, Dammam

Referee: Ahmed Issa Mohamed Darwish (United Arab Emirates)

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21 February 2020

14:45

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

Prince Mohamed bin Fahd Stadium, Dammam

Referee: Adil Zourak (Morocco)

21 February 2020

17:50

Algeria	1–0	Palestine
Zerrouki 5'

Prince Mohamed bin Fahd Stadium, Dammam

Referee: Saddam Houssein Mansour (Djibouti)

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24 February 2020

15:30

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

Prince Mohamed bin Fahd Stadium, Dammam

Referee: Murad Al Zawahreh (Jordan)

24 February 2020

15:30

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

Prince Saud bin Jalawi Stadium, Khobar

Referee: Mohamad Darwich (Lebanon)

Group D

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

Source: Soccerway
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers

18 February 2020

14:45

Sudan	0–2	Libya
		Qulaib 54' Algnay 71'

Prince Faisal bin Fahd Stadium, Riyadh

Referee: Mohammed Wathik Al-Baag (Iraq)

18 February 2020

18:00

United Arab Emirates	0–0	Senegal

Prince Faisal bin Fahd Stadium, Riyadh

Referee: Faisal Al-Balawi (Saudi Arabia)

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21 February 2020

14:45

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

Prince Faisal bin Fahd Stadium, Riyadh

Referee: Saoud Al-Adba (Qatar)

21 February 2020

18:00

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

Prince Faisal bin Fahd Stadium, Riyadh

Referee: Lotfi Bekouassa (Algeria)

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24 February 2020

15:30

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

Prince Turki bin Abdul Aziz Stadium, Riyadh

Referee: Saad Al-Fadhli Kalefah (Kuwait)

24 February 2020

15:30

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

Prince Faisal bin Fahd Stadium, Riyadh

Referee: Faisal Al-Balawi (Saudi Arabia)

Knockout stage

Bracket

	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

27 February 2020

14:45

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

Prince Turki bin Abdul Aziz Stadium, Riyadh

Referee: Mohammed Wathik Al-Baag (Iraq)

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27 February 2020

14:45

Tunisia	2–0	Algeria
Laabidi 13' Sghaier 59'

Prince Saud bin Jalawi Stadium, Khobar

Referee: Ahmed El Ghandour (Egypt)

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27 February 2020

18:30

Egypt	1–0	Iraq
Abdelmohsen 77'

Prince Saud bin Jalawi Stadium, Khobar

Referee: Abdulwahid Huraywidah (Libya)

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27 February 2020

18:30

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

Prince Turki bin Abdul Aziz Stadium, Riyadh

Referee: Mehrez Melki (Tunisia)

Semi-finals

1 March 2020

14:45

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

Prince Mohamed bin Fahd Stadium, Dammam

Referee: Ahmed Eisa Mohamed Darwish (United Arab Emirates)

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1 March 2020

18:30

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

Prince Mohamed bin Fahd Stadium, Dammam

Referee: Lotfi Bekouassa (Algeria)

Final

4 March 2020

19:30

Tunisia	0–1	Senegal
		Diallo 45'

Prince Mohamed bin Fahd Stadium, Dammam

Referee: Faisal Al-Balawi (Saudi Arabia)

Goalscorers

There have been 77 goals scored in 22 matches, for an average of 3.5 goals per match. Players highlighted in bold are still active in the competition.

5 goals

• Samba Diallo

4 goals

• Osama Faisal
• Ricardo Menakely
• Arnaud Randrianantenaina
• Mohammed Marran

3 goals

• Ibrahim Adel
• Babi Sar
• Farouk Mimouni

2 goals

• Merouane Zerrouki
• Sayed Jawad Alaoui
• Abdellah Salem
• Mahmoud Saber Abdulmohsen
• Youssouf Warr
• Omar Amrani
• Anouar El Azzouzi
• Abdessamad Ezzalzouli
• Moussa Ndiaye
• Zied Berrima
• Chiheb Laabidi
• Yannis Sghaier

1 goal

• Mohamed Bekkouche
• 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
• Ayman Salem
• Ayman Yahya
• 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

Below the list of broadcasting rights.

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

External links

• 2020 Arab Cup U-20 - goalzz.com