African U-17 Women's World Cup qualification
Organising body | CAF |
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Founded | 2008 |
Region | Africa |
2025 edition |
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.
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 Championship
[edit]Year | Hosts | Champion | Score | Runner-up | Third place | ||
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2008[a] | Home sites | Nigeria[6] |
round-robin | Ghana[7] |
Cameroon |
African U-17 Women's World Cup qualification
[edit]Year | Hosts | Final round | |||
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Winners | Agg. Score | Runners-up | |||
2010 | Home sites | Ghana | 11–0 | Tunisia | |
Nigeria | 7–1 | South Africa | |||
South Africa[b] | 2–1 | Tunisia | |||
2012 | Home sites | Gambia | 3–1 | Tunisia | |
Nigeria | 7–1 | Zambia | |||
Ghana | 5–1 | South Africa | |||
2013 | Home sites | Ghana | 5–2 | Equatorial Guinea | |
Nigeria | w/o | South Sudan | |||
Zambia | 6–4 | South Africa | |||
2016 | Home sites | Ghana | 10–0 | Morocco | |
Cameroon | 6–1 | Egypt | |||
Nigeria | 7–0 | South Africa | |||
2018 | Home sites | Ghana | 19–0 | Djibouti | |
South Africa | 6–1 | Morocco | |||
Cameroon | 3–3 (a) | Nigeria | |||
2020 | Not completed: The 2020 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. | ||||
2022 | Home sites | Morocco | 2–2 (4–2 p) | Ghana | |
Nigeria | 1–0 | Ethiopia | |||
Tanzania | 5–1 | Cameroon | |||
2024 | Home sites | Kenya | 5–0 | Burundi | |
Zambia | 3–1 | Morocco | |||
Nigeria | 6–1 | Liberia | |||
2025 | Home sites | 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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World Cup | 2008 |
2010 |
2012 |
2014 |
2016 |
2018 |
2022 |
2024 |
2025 |
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Cameroon | GS | GS | 2 | |||||||
Gambia | GS | 1 | ||||||||
Ghana | GS | GS | 3rd | QF | QF | QF | 6 | |||
Kenya | Q | 1 | ||||||||
Morocco | GS | Q | 2 | |||||||
Nigeria | GS | QF | QF | QF | GS | 3rd | Q | 7 | ||
South Africa | GS | GS | 2 | |||||||
Tanzania | QF | 1 | ||||||||
Zambia | GS | Q | 2 | |||||||
Total | 2 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 5 |
Team participation
[edit]Team | 2008 | 2010 | 2012 | 2013 | 2016 | 2018 | 2020 | 2022 | 2024 | 2025 | Total |
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Algeria | R1 | R3 | 2 | ||||||||
Benin | • | R1 | R2 | 2 | |||||||
Burkina Faso | R3 | 1 | |||||||||
Botswana | • | R1 | R1 | R1 | PR | R1 | R1 | R2 | 7 | ||
Burundi | R2 | R4 | 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 • | R3 | 4 | ||||||
Egypt | • | R2 | R2 | 2 | |||||||
Ethiopia | R1 | R1 | R3 | R3 | 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 | R4 | 3 | |||||||
Libya | • | R2 | 1 | ||||||||
Mali | • | • | R2 | 1 | |||||||
Mauritania | PR • | 1 | |||||||||
Mauritius | PR • | 1 | |||||||||
Morocco | • | R2 | R2 | Q | R4 | Q | 4 | ||||
Mozambique | • | 0 | |||||||||
Namibia | • | R1 | R1 | R1 • | 3 | ||||||
Niger | R2 | R2 | 2 | ||||||||
Nigeria | 1st | Q | Q | Q | Q | R2 | Q | Q | 8 | ||
Rwanda | PR • | 1 | |||||||||
São Tomé and Príncipe | R1 • | 1 | |||||||||
Senegal | R1 | R3 | 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 | R3 | 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]- Women's Africa Cup of Nations
- CAF Women's Champions League
- African U-20 Women's World Cup qualification
Notes
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "African Women U-17 Championship 2008". RSSSF. Retrieved 17 February 2012.
- ^ "CAF releases women U-17 fixtures - CAN U-17 women 2010". CAFOnline.com. 19 January 2010. Archived from the original on 25 January 2010. Retrieved 17 February 2012.
- ^ "Matches & results - CAN U-17 women 2010". 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.
- ^ "Flamingoes lead African charge". FIFA.com. 23 June 2008. Archived from the original on 20 October 2008. Retrieved 30 October 2008.
- ^ "Ghana join Nigeria at NZ 2008". FIFA.com. 6 July 2008. Archived from the original on 19 October 2008. Retrieved 30 October 2008.