African U-20 Women's World Cup qualification

The African U-20 Women's World Cup qualification is a biennial youth women's association football qualification competition for the FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup organized by the Confederation of African Football for its nations.

African U-20 Women's World Cup qualification
Organising bodyCAF
Founded2002
RegionAfrica
Number of teams35 (2024)
2024 edition

A final was played in the first two editions in 2002 and 2004 as only one team qualified for the first two editions of the U-20 Women's World Cup in those years. Since 2006, with the confederation granted a second spot, all qualification editions till date were and are played in a home-and-away knock-out format until 4 teams are left with half that number booking their spots at the international tournament. On 7 June 2023, CAF revealed the formats for the qualification procedures for the next editions of the FIFA U-20 and U-17 Women's World Cups,[1] the former whose draw was conducted the following day.[2]

Results edit

African U-19 Women's Championship edit

Only the winner is guaranteed a spot at the FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup for its first two editions.

Year Final match Semi-finalists
Champion Score Runner-up
2002   Nigeria 6–0   South Africa   Central African Republic   Morocco
3–2
2004   Nigeria 1–0   South Africa   DR Congo   Equatorial Guinea
0–0

African U-20 Women's World Cup qualification edit

Year Qualification 1 Qualification 2
To FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup Score To FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup Score
2006   DR Congo Walkover[a]   Equatorial Guinea   Nigeria bye[b] n/a
2008   DR Congo 1–3   South Africa   Nigeria 3–2   Ghana
2–0 2–0
2010[3]   Ghana 2–0   DR Congo   Nigeria 5–3   South Africa
3–0 7–0
2012   Ghana 3–1   Tunisia   Nigeria 4–0   DR Congo
4–1 3–0
2014[4]   Ghana 0–1   Equatorial Guinea   Nigeria 6–0   South Africa
1–0 (4–3 p) 1–0
2015   Ghana 2–2   Ethiopia   Nigeria 2–1   South Africa
4–0 1–0
2018   Ghana 1–1   Cameroon   Nigeria 2–0   South Africa
3–0 6–0
2020 Not completed as 2020 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup was cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic
2022   Ghana 3–0   Ethiopia   Nigeria 3–1   Senegal
2–1 4–1
Year Qualification 1 Qualification 2 Qualification 3 Qualification 4
To FIFA U-20 W-WC Score To FIFA U-20 W-WC Score To FIFA U-20 W-WC Score To FIFA U-20 W-WC Score
2024 Morocco   2–0   Ethiopia Ghana   2–0   Senegal Cameroon   4–2   Egypt Nigeria   1–0   Burundi
0–1 5–1 1–1 1–0

FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup qualification and results edit

Five different teams have qualified for the FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup as of the 2024 edition; Nigeria, Ghana, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Cameroon and Morocco. Nigeria has been the only team to reach the quarter-finals, the semi-finals and the final: finishing at the 2nd place twice in 2010 and 2014 and 4th in 2012. Ghana and the Democratic Republic of Congo have been eliminated in the group stages.

World Cup  
2002
 
2004
 
2006
 
2008
 
2010
 
2012
 
2014
 
2016
 
2018
 
2022
 
2024
 
2026
Total
  Cameroon Q 1
  DR Congo GS GS 2
  Ghana GS GS GS GS GS GS Q 7
  Morocco Q 1
  Nigeria GS QF QF QF 2nd 4th 2nd GS QF QF Q 11
Total 1 1 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 4 4
Legend
  • 1st — Champions
  • 2nd — Runners-up
  • 3rd — Third place
  • 4th — Fourth place
  • QF – Quarter-finals
  • GS – Group stage
  • Q – Qualified

Country participation edit

Legend
Team 2002 2004 2006 2008 2010 2012 2014 2015 2018 2020 2022 2024 Total
  Algeria R1 R1 R1 R1 4
  Angola R1 R1 2
  Benin PR R1 R2 3
  Botswana R1 R1 R1 R1 R1 PR R2 R1 8
  Burkina Faso R2 R1 R1 3
  Burundi R2 R2 Q 3
  Cameroon R2 R1 R1 R1 R3 R3 Q 7
  Chad 0
  Central African Republic SF R1 R1 3
  Comoros 0
  Congo R1 R2 R3 3
  DR Congo SF Q Q R3 R3 R2 R1 R3 8
  Djibouti PR PR PR R1 4
  Egypt R2 R1 R1 R1 R1 Q 6
  Eswatini PR R3 2
  Ethiopia R3 R1 SF Q 4
  Equatorial Guinea R1 SF R3 R1 R3 R2 R2 7
  Eritrea R1 R1 2
  Gabon PR R2 2
  Gambia R2 1
  Ghana R2 R2 Q Q Q Q Q Q Q 9
  Guinea PR R1 R2 R3 4
  Guinea-Bissau R1 R1 R2 3
  Ivory Coast R1 1
  Kenya R1 R2 R2 R1 R3 5
  Lesotho PR PR 2
  Liberia R2 R1 2
  Libya 0
  Madagascar PR 1
  Malawi R1 1
  Mali QF R1 R2 R1 R1 R3 6
  Mauritius R1 1
  Mauritania R1 1
  Morocco SF R1 R1 R1 R1 R2 R3 Q 8
  Mozambique R1 PR R1 R1 R1 R1 6
  Namibia R2 R1 R1 R1 R1 R1 R1 7
  Niger QF PR R1 3
  Nigeria 1st 1st Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q 11
  Réunion R1 1
  Rwanda PR R1 2
  São Tomé and Príncipe PR R1 2
  Senegal R1 R1 R1 SF Q 5
  Sierra Leone R1 R1 R2 R1 4
  South Africa 2nd 2nd R2 R2 R3 R2 R3 R3 R3 R2 R1 11
  South Sudan PR 1
  Tanzania R2 R1 R1 R3 R3 5
  Togo PR 1
  Tunisia R2 R3 R2 4
  Uganda R3 R3 2
  Zambia QF PR PR R2 R1 R2 R2 R3 R2 9
  Zimbabwe QF R1 R2 R2 4
Total 13 7 22 16 18 19 17 19 16 40 35

See also edit

Notes edit

  1. ^ Equatorial Guinea withdrew.
  2. ^ Nigeria were drawn to play the winner of Cameroon and Ghana, but both teams were ejected from the competition.

References edit

  1. ^ "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.
  2. ^ "FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup qualifiers draw concluded". CAFOnline.com. 8 June 2023. Retrieved 8 June 2023.
  3. ^ "Completed matches & results - CAN U-20 women 2010". CAFOnline.com. Archived from the original on 3 March 2011. Retrieved 3 June 2012.
  4. ^ "Completed matches & results of the 2014 edition". CAFOnline.com. Archived from the original on 3 April 2014. Retrieved 3 June 2014.

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