African_U-17_Cup_of_Nations_for_Women

African U-17 Women's World Cup qualification

African U-17 Women's World Cup qualification

Qualification for the FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup for African nations

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.

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History

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

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African U-17 Women's World Cup qualification

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Results at the FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup

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

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1 Congo did not show up for the first leg in the first round.

Legend

See also

Notes

  1. A round-robin mini-tournament determined the final standings though no winner was crowned.

References

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    "African Women U-17 Championship 2008". RSSSF. Retrieved 17 February 2012.
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    "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.
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    "Matches & results - CAN U-17 women 2010". CAFOnline.com. 26 July 2011. Archived from the original on 16 March 2010. Retrieved 17 February 2012.
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    "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.
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    "U-17 World Women's Cup qualifiers draw lines up exciting duels". CAFOnline.com. 8 June 2023. Retrieved 8 June 2023.
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    "Flamingoes lead African charge". FIFA.com. 23 June 2008. Archived from the original on 20 October 2008. Retrieved 30 October 2008.
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    "Ghana join Nigeria at NZ 2008". FIFA.com. 6 July 2008. Archived from the original on 19 October 2008. Retrieved 30 October 2008.
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