# Football at the 2017 Jeux de la Francophonie

The football tournament at the 2017 Jeux de la Francophonie took place from 21 to 30 July in Abidjan, Ivory Coast. The organization of the football competition has been considered to be a fiasco by some participating countries. The tournament was supposed to follow the FIFA tiebreaker rules. However, the organizing committee decided to change the rules in the midst of the competition in favour of Ivory Coast, thus eliminating Guinea from the group stage. Due to these changes, D.R. Congo also qualified for the semifinals instead of Quebec. Also in the semifinals, Mali delegation protested the referee's call of a frivolous penalty that won the game for the hosts Ivory Coast.

## Participants

* Burkina Faso
* Congo
* Ivory Coast
* Cameroon
* DR Congo
* France
* Gabon (withdrew)
* Guinea
* Haiti
* Lebanon
* Morocco
* Mali
* Mauritius
* Niger
* Quebec
* Senegal

## Draw

The draw was carried out on 23 February 2017.
Prior to the draw, teams were divided in pools.
| Pool 1 | Ivory Coast  Morocco  Congo  France | Pool 2 | Senegal  Quebec  Cameroon  Burkina Faso |
| Pool 3 | Lebanon  Mali  Mauritius  DR Congo | Pool 4 | Haiti  Guinea  Niger  Gabon |

## Squads

Players must be born on or after 1 January 1997.

## Group stage
### Tiebreakers

The ranking of each team in each group will be determined as follows:
* Greatest number of points obtained in group matches
* Greatest number of points obtained in direct confrontation
* Goal difference in all group matches
* Greatest number of goals scored in all group matches

### Group A

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
| 1 | Ivory Coast (H) | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 3 | +2 | 6 | Advance to knockout stage |
| 2 | Guinea | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 5 | +1 | 6 | |
| 3 | Burkina Faso | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 4 | |
| 4 | Lebanon | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | −3 | 1 | |

### Group B

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
| 1 | Mali | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 0 | +3 | 5 | Advance to knockout stage |
| 2 | Cameroon | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | +2 | 5 | |
| 3 | Congo | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 3 | +1 | 4 | |
| 4 | Niger | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 7 | −6 | 1 | |

### Group C

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
| 1 | Morocco | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 11 | 0 | +11 | 7 | Advance to knockout stage |
| 2 | Senegal | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 1 | +7 | 7 | |
| 3 | Mauritius | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 13 | −9 | 3 | |
| 4 | Gabon | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 9 | −9 | 0 | Withdrew |

### Group D

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
| 1 | DR Congo | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 2 | +1 | 6 | Advance to knockout stage |
| 2 | Quebec | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 | −1 | 6 | |
| 3 | France | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 3 | +2 | 4 | |
| 4 | Haiti | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 | −2 | 1 | |

## Medalists

| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Men's under-20 | Morocco El Mehdi Benabid Hamza El Kaouakibi Achraf Dari Abdelmounaim Boutouil Badr Gaddarine Anas Bach Youssef Belammari Fahd Difi Bilal Bari Mohamed El Mourabit Zakaria Nassik El Mehdi Agdai Achraf Laadoul Zakaria El Wardi Zakaria Azoud Hamza Hannouri Sofian Kiyine Hamza Dezza Othman Fadiz | Ivory Coast Moussa Baba Bamba Junior Yeo Koffi Habib Ande Aboubacar Kouyaté Willy Braciano Ta Bi Ulrich Meleke Ali Sanogo Trazie Thomas Zai Aké Arnaud Loba Anderson Niangbo Thierry Kassi Koffi Dakoi Hamed Junior Traorè El Hadje Moustapha Danté Razack Cissé Kouya Mabea Souleymane Diaby Moustapha Camara | Mali Alkalifa Coulibaly Mamadou Sacko Djémoussa Traoré Fode Konaté Mamadi Fofana Mohamed Camara Hadji Dramé Abdoulaye Dabo El Bilal Touré Abdou Salam Ag Jiddou Mamadou Traoré Cheick Doucouré Siaka Sidibé Abdoulaye Diaby Youssouf Koita Mamadou Samake Ibrahim Kane Lassana N'Diaye Dramane Traoré |