1995_African_Women's_Championship

1995 African Women's Championship

1995 African Women's Championship

2nd edition of WAFCON

The 1995 African Women's Championship was the second edition of the African women's football tournament organized by the Confederation of African Football to determine its single qualifier for the 1995 FIFA Women's World Cup, which eventually went to Nigeria.

Quick Facts Tournament details, Dates ...

Eight teams were initially scheduled to play in this edition of the tournament, but two withdrew. This was the second and final edition of the tournament to be played on a home-and-away knockout basis, as CAF upgraded and rechristen the tournament to full-scale with the introduction of a group stage from the following edition onwards.

Participating teams

The participating teams were:

Bracket

 
Quarter-finalsSemi-finalsFinal
 
                
 
 
 
 
  Ghana (w/o) 
 
 
 
 Guinea
 
  Ghana000
 
 
 
 Nigeria 32 5
 
  Nigeria9211
 
 
 
 Sierra Leone 00 0
 
  Nigeria4711
 
 
 
 South Africa 11 2
 
  South Africa5611
 
 
 
 Zambia 32 5
 
  South Africa336
 
 
 
 Angola 13 4
 
  Angola (w/o) 
 
 
 Cameroon
 

First round

More information Nigeria, 9–0 ...
More information Sierra Leone, 0–2 ...
Nigeria win 11–0 on aggregate.
More information South Africa, 5–3 ...
More information Zambia, 2–6 ...
South Africa win 11–5 on aggregate.
More information Angola, w/o ...
Cameroon withdrew, thus Angola advance.
More information Ghana, w/o ...
Guinea withdrew, thus Ghana advance.

Second round

More information Ghana, 0–3 ...
More information Nigeria, 2–0 ...
Nigeria win 5–0 on aggregate.
More information South Africa, 3–1 ...
More information Angola, 3–3 ...
South Africa win 6–4 on aggregate.

Final round

More information Nigeria, 4–1 ...
More information South Africa, 1–7 ...
Nigeria won 11–2 on aggregate, thus won this edition of the tournament and qualified for the 1995 FIFA Women's World Cup in Sweden.

Awards

 1995 African Women's Championship winners 

Nigeria
2nd title

Team statistics

More information Pos., Team ...

Team(s) rendered in italics represent(s) the host nation(s). The competition's winning team is rendered in bold.
(1) – Total games lost not counted in total games played (total games lost = total games won)
(2) – Total number of games drawn (tied) for all teams = Total number of games drawn (tied) ÷ 2 (both teams involved)
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