2021 Arab Cup U-20

كأس العرب للمنتخبات تحت 20 سنة
Tournament details
Host country	Egypt
City	Cairo
Dates	20 June – 6 July
Teams	16 (from 2 confederations)
Venue(s)	5 (in 1 host city)
Final positions
Champions	Saudi Arabia (1st title)
Runners-up	Algeria
Tournament statistics
Matches played	31
Goals scored	107 (3.45 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Mohamed Radid (6 goals)
Best goalkeeper	Osama Al-Mermsh
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The 2021 Arab Cup U-20 (Arabic: كأس العرب للمنتخبات تحت 20 سنة) was the seventh edition of the Arab Cup U-20. It was hosted by Egypt from 20 June to 6 July 2021.^[1] The tournament included 12 UAFA-member teams and four invited teams.^[2] Senegal were the defending champions but were eliminated in the quarter-finals. Saudi Arabia beat Algeria 2–1 in the final to win their first title.^[3]

Algeria  Comoros  Djibouti  Egypt (hosts)  Iraq  Lebanon

Mauritania  Morocco  Niger (invited)  Saudi Arabia  Senegal (invited)

Tajikistan (invited)  Tunisia  United Arab Emirates  Uzbekistan (invited)  Yemen

The draw took place on 29 May 2021. The 16 teams were drawn into four groups of four.^[4] The match schedule was unveiled on 6 June 2021.^[5]

The draw mechanism was in accordance with the seeding of the teams, as follows:^[6]

Pot 1	Pot 2	Pot 3	Pot 4
Egypt  Senegal  Tunisia  Morocco	Algeria  Iraq  Saudi Arabia  United Arab Emirates	Mauritania  Djibouti  Lebanon  Uzbekistan[A]	Yemen  Comoros  Niger  Tajikistan

The 30 June Stadium was later included as a venue for the Group D matches due to the poor condition of Police Academy Stadium.^[7]

Cities	Venues	Capacity
Cairo	Cairo International Stadium	75,000
	Osman Ahmed Osman Stadium	35,000
	30 June Stadium	30,000
	Petro Sport Stadium	16,000
	Police Academy Stadium	12,000

The following 31 referees were chosen for the tournament.^[8]

Lahlou Benbraham Mohamed Maarouf Eid Mansour Zaid Thamer Mohammed Mohamad Ghabaien Abdullah Al Jamali Abdul Basit Shahoub Qassim Al-Hatmi

Jalal Jayed Baraa Abu Aisha Abdulhadi Al Ruaile Majid Al Shamrani Amir Loussif Sultan Al-Hammadi

Players born on or after 1 January 2001 were eligible to compete.

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

All times are local, CAT (UTC+2).

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Egypt (H)	3	3	0	0	7	1	+6	9	Advance to knockout phase
2	Algeria	3	1	1	1	3	3	0	4
3	Niger	3	0	2	1	2	4	−2	2
4	Mauritania	3	0	1	2	1	5	−4	1

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Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Morocco	3	3	0	0	15	1	+14	9	Advance to knockout phase
2	Tajikistan	3	2	0	1	9	8	+1	6
3	United Arab Emirates	3	1	0	2	10	8	+2	3
4	Djibouti	3	0	0	3	0	17	−17	0

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Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Senegal	3	2	1	0	11	3	+8	7	Advance to knockout phase
2	Comoros	3	2	0	1	8	9	−1	6
3	Iraq	3	1	1	1	6	5	+1	4
4	Lebanon	3	0	0	3	2	10	−8	0

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Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Tunisia	3	3	0	0	5	1	+4	9	Advance to knockout phase
2	Saudi Arabia	3	2	0	1	5	3	+2	6
3	Yemen	3	1	0	2	4	5	−1	3
4	Uzbekistan	3	0	0	3	1	6	−5	0

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In the knockout stage, penalty shoot-out was used to decide the winner if necessary (no extra time was played).

	Quarter-finals				Semi-finals				Final
	29 June
	Egypt	3
					3 July
	Tajikistan	0
					Egypt	2
	30 June
					Saudi Arabia	3
	Senegal	1 (2)
									6 July
	Saudi Arabia (p)	1 (3)
									Saudi Arabia	2
	29 June
									Algeria	1
	Morocco	1 (3)
					3 July
	Algeria (p)	1 (4)
					Algeria	2
	30 June
					Tunisia	0
	Tunisia	1
	Comoros	0

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The final match was initially scheduled to be played at the Cairo International Stadium at 20:00. The UAFA decided to play the game at 17:00 at the 30 June Stadium, also in Cairo.^[9][10]

There were 107 goals scored in 31 matches, for an average of 3.45 goals per match.

6 goals

5 goals

4 goals

3 goals

2 goals

1 goal

1 own goal

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