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2003 African U-17 Championship qualification

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2003 African U-17 Championship qualification
2001
2005

The 2003 African U-17 Championship qualification was a men's under-17 football competition which decided the participating teams of the 2003 African U-17 Championship.

Qualification

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Preliminary round

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The first leg matches were played on either 29 or 30 June 2002. The second leg matches were played on 14 July 2000. The winners advanced to the first round.

Team 1 Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
Zimbabwe  7–1  Mauritius 5–1 2–0
Angola  11–2  São Tomé and Príncipe 5–0 6–2
Lesotho  3–0  Namibia 0–0 3–0
Botswana  0–3  Tanzania 0–1 0–2
Eritrea  1–3  Kenya 0–0 1–3
Liberia  w/o  Sierra Leone
Algeria  w/o  Mauritania
Gabon  w/o  Togo
Senegal  w/o  Guinea-Bissau
Libya  w/o  Niger
Ivory Coast  w/o  Equatorial Guinea
Uganda  w/o  Somalia

First round

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The first leg matches were played on either 21 or 22 December 2002. The second leg matches were played on either 11 or 12 January 2003, except for the Burkina Faso vs Sierra Leone match, which was played on 16 February. The winners advanced to the second round.

Team 1 Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
Sierra Leone  1–1 (a)  Burkina Faso 0–0 1–1
Algeria  1–2  Tunisia 0–0 1–2
Gabon  1–2  Cameroon 1–0 0–2
Senegal  4–0  Morocco 1–0 3–0
Zimbabwe  2–3  Malawi 2–1 0–2
Libya  0–1  Egypt 0–1 0–0
Ivory Coast  0–3  Guinea 0–2 0–1
Angola  3–3 (a)  Mozambique 2–3 1–0
Gambia  1–1 (p 4–2)  Mali 0–1 1–0
Lesotho  2–5  South Africa 1–1 1–4
Tanzania  2–6  Ethiopia 1–1 1–5
Kenya  3–2  Ghana 2–0 1–2
Zambia  4–1  Somalia 4–1 [1]
Sudan  w/o  Nigeria

Second round

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The matches were played on different dates from 2 February to 15 March. The winners advanced to the finals.

Team 1 Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
Sierra Leone  2–1  Tunisia 1–0 1–1
Cameroon  1–0  Senegal 1–0 0–0
Malawi  0–3  Egypt 0–1 0–2
Guinea  4–2  Mozambique 3–0 1–2
Gambia  2–1  Zambia 1–1 1–0
Nigeria  4–2  South Africa 3–1 1–1
Ethiopia  w/o  Kenya 2–0 w/o[2]

Qualified teams

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Notes and references

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  1. ^ One-match round.
  2. ^ The Kenya U-17 team was disbanded by their Sports Minister, claiming that 40% of the players that eliminated Ghana in the first round had been over-age. Ghana was not reinstated, and Kenya was banned for two years from all CAF's under-age competitions.
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