# 2021 Arab Cup U-20

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. The tournament included 12 UAFA-member teams and four invited teams. Senegal were the defending champions but were eliminated in the quarter-finals. Saudi Arabia beat Algeria 2–1 in the final to win their second title.

## Teams

| Algeria  Comoros  Djibouti  Egypt (hosts)  Iraq  Lebanon | Mauritania  Morocco  Niger (invited)  Saudi Arabia  Senegal (invited) | Tajikistan (invited)  Tunisia  United Arab Emirates  Uzbekistan (invited)  Yemen |

## Draw

The draw took place on 29 May 2021. The 16 teams were drawn into four groups of four. The match schedule was unveiled on 6 June 2021.
The draw mechanism was in accordance with the seeding of the teams, as follows:
| Pot 1 | Pot 2 | Pot 3 | Pot 4 |
| Egypt  Senegal  Tunisia  Morocco | Algeria  Iraq  Saudi Arabia  United Arab Emirates | Mauritania  Djibouti  Lebanon  Uzbekistan | Yemen  Comoros  Niger  Tajikistan |
* ↑ Uzbekistan was not yet invited at the time of the draw.

## Venues

The 30 June Stadium was later included as a venue for the Group D matches due to the poor condition of Police Academy Stadium.
| Cities | Venues | Capacity |
| Cairo | Cairo International Stadium | 75,000 |
| Cairo | Osman Ahmed Osman Stadium | 35,000 |
| Cairo | 30 June Stadium | 30,000 |
| Cairo | Petro Sport Stadium | 16,000 |
| Cairo | Police Academy Stadium | 12,000 |

## Match officials

The following 31 referees were chosen for the tournament.
| 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 |

## Squads

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

## Group stage

The top two teams of each group advanced to the quarter-finals.
All times are local, CAT (UTC+2).

### Group A

| 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 | Advance to knockout phase |
| 3 | Niger | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 4 | −2 | 2 | |
| 4 | Mauritania | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 | −4 | 1 | |

### Group B

| 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 | Advance to knockout phase |
| 3 | United Arab Emirates | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 10 | 8 | +2 | 3 | |
| 4 | Djibouti | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 17 | −17 | 0 | |

### Group C

| 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 | Advance to knockout phase |
| 3 | Iraq | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 5 | +1 | 4 | |
| 4 | Lebanon | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 10 | −8 | 0 | |

### Group D

| 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 | Advance to knockout phase |
| 3 | Yemen | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 5 | −1 | 3 | |
| 4 | Uzbekistan | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 6 | −5 | 0 | |

## Knockout phase

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

### Bracket

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

### Final

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.

## Statistics
### Goalscorers

There were 107 goals scored in 31 matches, for an average of 3.45 goals per match.
6 goals
* Mohamed Radid
5 goals
* Souleymane Faye
4 goals
* Abdullah Radif
* Youssef Hassan
* Omar Sadik
* Mahmoud Adel
3 goals
* Muhammadali Azizboyev
* Eisa Khalfan
2 goals
* Mohamed Omar
* Abdul Qader Ayoub
* Kassem Abdul Razzaq
* Ilyas Boughafer
* Bilal El Khannous
* Meshari Al-Nemer
* Ibrahima Cissoko
* Mami Faye
* Aziz Abid
* Hedi Jertila
* Youssef Senana
* Mansoor Saeed
* Abdulfattoh Hudojdodzoda
* Fahad Yassin
* Ahmed Abdelhamid
* Ahmed Sherif
1 goal
* Issam Bouaoune
* Adil Boulbina
* Adam Dougui
* Samy Mahour
* Isman Idris
* Haider Abtah
* Abdellah Azrour
* Abdel Rahman Rashdan
* Abd Alrahman Smida
* Abdeljawad Abdeljawad
* Ahmed Hawash
* Blnd Hassan
* Nasr Salam
* Ali Reda Ismail
* Ali Kassas
* Hassan Akboub
* Abdulaziz Al-Elewai
* Mohammed Al Dawsari
* Musab Al-Juwayr
* Suhaib Al Zaid
* Mohammed Baker
* Mamadou Gning
* Ousmane Diao
* Malick Ndoye
* Fakhriddin Akhtamov
* Salam Ashurmadov
* Kabir Salimshoev
* Khosrow Tahirov
* Mohamad Al Yammahi
* Sultan Adil
* Mohamed Al Wafi
* Mubarak Ahmed
* Dhari Fahad
* Bilal Mouloud
* Adam Omar
* Salah Samila
* Abed Elakh Boldochiv
* Gacem Charafi
* Ammar Noman
* Imed Eljdaima
1 own goal
* Ahmed Mustapha (against Algeria)
* Sulaiman Hazazi (against Yemen)