African U-17 Women's World Cup qualification
The African U-17 Women's World Cup qualification is a biennial youth women's association football qualification competition for the FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup organized by the Confederation of African Football for its nations.
| Organising body | CAF |
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| Founded | 2008 |
| Region | Africa |
| 2024 edition | |
History edit
With the imminent inauguration of the FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup in 2008, CAF began organizing a qualification competition that year with 12 teams entering its debut edition, but 5 withdrew before playing.[1] On 19 January 2010, CAF released the fixtures for the second edition of this competition.[2] Ten teams entered that edition, but only five played matches; Nigeria, Ghana and South Africa qualified for that year's FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup.[3] On 7 June 2023, CAF revealed the formats for the qualification procedures for the next editions of the FIFA U-17 and U-20 Women's World Cups,[4] the former whose draw was conducted the following day.[5]
Results edit
African U-17 Women's World Cup qualification edit
| Year | Direct qualifiers | Play-off qualifier | ||||||
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| Qualified | Score | Qualified | Qualified | Score | ||||
| 2010 | Ghana | and | Nigeria | South Africa | 1–0 | Tunisia | ||
| 1–1 | ||||||||
| Year | Qualification 1 | Qualification 2 | Qualification 3 | |||||||||
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| Qualified | Score | Qualified | Score | Qualified | Score | |||||||
| 2012 | Gambia | 1–0 | Tunisia | Ghana | 0–0 | South Africa | Nigeria | 2–1 | Zambia | |||
| 2–1 | 5–1 | 5–0 | ||||||||||
| 2013 | Ghana | 2–0 | Eq. Guinea | Nigeria | w/o | South Sudan | Zambia | 3–3 | South Africa | |||
| 3–2 | 3–1 | |||||||||||
| 2016 | Cameroon | 2–1 | Egypt | Ghana | 4–0 | Morocco | Nigeria | 6–0 | South Africa | |||
| 4–0 | 6–0 | 1–0 | ||||||||||
| 2018 | Ghana | 9–0 | Djibouti | South Africa | 5–1 | Morocco | Cameroon | 2–2 | Nigeria | |||
| 10–0 | 1–0 | 1–1 | ||||||||||
| 2020 | Not completed: The 2020 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. | |||||||||||
| 2022 | Tanzania | 4–1 | Cameroon | Nigeria | 1–0 | Ethiopia | Morocco | 0–2 | Ghana | |||
| 1–0 | 0–0 | 2–0 | ||||||||||
| 2024 | Yet to be played. | |||||||||||
Results at the FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup edit
Since its inception in 2008, all editions have qualified three teams to the FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup. Ghana finished 3rd in the 2012 edition in Azerbaijan. Nigeria finished 3rd in the 2022 edition in India. Tanzania has reached the quarter-final also the same year, with all other qualified CAF nations getting eliminated in the group stages.
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Team participation edit
| Team | 2008 | 2010 | 2012 | 2013 | 2016 | 2018 | 2020 | 2022 | 2024 | Total |
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| Algeria | R1 | Q | 2 | |||||||
| Benin | • | R1 | R2 | 2 | ||||||
| Burkina Faso | Q | 1 | ||||||||
| Botswana | • | R1 | R1 | R1 | PR | R1 | R1 | R2 | 7 | |
| Burundi | R2 | Q | 2 | |||||||
| Cameroon | 3rd | R1 | Q | Q | R3 | R2 | 6 | |||
| Congo | • 1 | 0 | ||||||||
| Central African Republic | R2 | 1 | ||||||||
| DR Congo | • | • | • | R1 • | R2 | 2 | ||||
| Djibouti | R1 | R2 | R1 • | Q | 4 | |||||
| Egypt | • | R2 | R2 | 2 | ||||||
| Ethiopia | R1 | R1 | R3 | Q | 4 | |||||
| Equatorial Guinea | R2 | • | PR • | R2 | 3 | |||||
| Eritrea | R1 • | 1 | ||||||||
| Gabon | • | 0 | ||||||||
| Gambia | Q | R1 | 2 | |||||||
| Ghana | 2nd | Q | Q | Q | Q | Q | R3 | 7 | ||
| Guinea | PR | • | R2 | R2 | 3 | |||||
| Guinea-Bissau | q | 1 | ||||||||
| Kenya | • | R1 | • | • | R1 • | Q | 3 | |||
| Liberia | R1 | R1 | Q | 3 | ||||||
| Libya | • | R2 | 1 | |||||||
| Mali | • | • | R2 | 1 | ||||||
| Mauritania | PR • | 1 | ||||||||
| Mauritius | PR • | 1 | ||||||||
| Morocco | • | R2 | R2 | Q | Q | 4 | ||||
| Mozambique | • | 0 | ||||||||
| Namibia | • | R1 | R1 | R1 • | 3 | |||||
| Niger | R2 | Q | 2 | |||||||
| Nigeria | 1st | Q | Q | Q | Q | R2 | Q | Q | 8 | |
| Rwanda | PR • | 1 | ||||||||
| São Tomé and Príncipe | R1 • | 1 | ||||||||
| Senegal | R1 | Q | 2 | |||||||
| Sierra Leone | • | R1 | • | PR | PR • | 3 | ||||
| South Africa | R1 | Q | R2 | R2 | R2 | Q | R2 | R2 | 8 | |
| South Sudan | R2 | PR • | 2 | |||||||
| Tanzania | Q | R2 | 2 | |||||||
| Togo | R1 | 1 | ||||||||
| Tunisia | R2 | R2 | • | 2 | ||||||
| Uganda | R1 | Q | 2 | |||||||
| Zambia | PR | R2 | Q | • | PR | R2 | Q | 6 | ||
| Zimbabwe | R1 | 1 | ||||||||
| Total | 8 | 4 | 12 | 7 | 11 | 12 | N/A | 29 | 25 |
1 Congo did not show up for the first leg in the first round.
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See also edit
Notes edit
- ^ A round-robin mini-tournament determined the final standings though no winner was crowned.
References edit
- ^ "African Women U-17 Championship 2008". RSSSF. Retrieved 17 February 2012.
- ^ . CAFOnline.com. 19 January 2010. Archived from the original on 25 January 2010. Retrieved 17 February 2012.
- ^ . CAFOnline.com. 26 July 2011. Archived from the original on 16 March 2010. Retrieved 17 February 2012.
- ^ "CAF to conduct FIFA U17, U20 Women's World Cup Qualifier Draw on Thursday" (Press release). CAFOnline.com. 7 June 2023. Retrieved 7 June 2023.
- ^ "U-17 World Women's Cup qualifiers draw lines up exciting duels". CAFOnline.com. 8 June 2023. Retrieved 8 June 2023.
- ^ . FIFA.com. 23 June 2008. Archived from the original on 20 October 2008. Retrieved 30 October 2008.
- ^ . FIFA.com. 6 July 2008. Archived from the original on 19 October 2008. Retrieved 30 October 2008.
External links edit
- Qualification records and history via RSSSF