The 1985 African Youth Championship was the 5th edition of the biennial African qualification tournament for the FIFA World Youth Championship which was contested on a home-and-away two-legged basis.

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1985 African Youth Championship

Tournament details
Dates	2 September 1984 – 4 May 1985
Teams	17 (from 1 confederation)
Final positions
Champions	Nigeria (2nd title)
Runners-up	Tunisia
Tournament statistics
Matches played	26
Goals scored	59 (2.27 per match)
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Nigeria reached the final for the first time in consecutive editions of the tournamentand successfully defended the title for the second time and beat Tunisia 3–2 on aggregate, although both teams qualified for the 1985 FIFA World Youth Championship in the Soviet Union.

The following teams entered this edition of the tournament and played at least a match:

Burkina Faso, Libya and Togo withdrew, leaving Benin, Ethiopia and Senegal to advance to the First Round. The teams that received byes to the next round were Algeria, Cameroon, Egypt, Ethiopia, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Morocco, Nigeria, Tunisia and Zimbabwe.

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Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Gambia	2–3	Ghana	1–0	1–3
Equatorial Guinea	2–2	Angola	2–1	0–1
Sudan	1–0	Uganda	1–0	0–0
Mozambique	0–8	Zambia	0–3	0–5

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Benin and Senegal withdrew, leaving Guinea and Ivory Coast to advance to the second round.

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Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Tunisia	0–0 (3–2 pen.)	Algeria	0–0	0–0
Morocco	3–1	Egypt	2–0	1–1
Nigeria	2–1	Ghana	2–0	0–1
Cameroon	5–0	Angola	3–0	2–0
Zimbabwe	4–3	Sudan	4–2	0–1
Ethiopia	5–3	Zambia	2–2	3–1

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Ivory Coast entered this edition of the tournament at this round.

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Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Guinea	1–3	Ivory Coast	0–0	1–3
Morocco	1–2	Tunisia	1–0	0–2
Cameroon	4–5	Nigeria	3–0	1–5
Ethiopia	3–1	Zimbabwe	1–1	2–0

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These two best performing teams qualified for the 1985 FIFA World Youth Championship in the Soviet Union:

•  Nigeria
•  Tunisia

• Tournament records at RSSSF