| 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) |
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.
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.