African U-20 Women's World Cup qualification

African U-20 Women's World Cup qualification
Organising bodyCAF
Founded2002
RegionAfrica
Number of teams35 (2024)
2026 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.

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

African U-19 Women's Championship

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

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

African U-20 Women's World Cup qualification

Year Hosts Final round
Winners (to FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup) Agg. Score Runners-up
2006 Home sites  Nigeria bye[a] n/a
 DR Congo w/o  Equatorial Guinea
2008 Home sites  Nigeria 5–2  Ghana
 DR Congo 3–3 (a)  South Africa
2010[3] Home sites  Ghana 5–0  DR Congo
 Nigeria 12–3  South Africa
2012 Home sites  Ghana 7–2  Tunisia
 Nigeria 7–0  DR Congo
2014[4] Home sites  Ghana 1–1 (4–3 p)  Equatorial Guinea
 Nigeria 7–0  South Africa
2015 Home sites  Ghana 6–2  Ethiopia
 Nigeria 3–1  South Africa
2018 Home sites  Ghana 4–1  Cameroon
 Nigeria 8–0  South Africa
2020 Not completed as 2020 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup was cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic
2022 Home sites  Ghana 5–1  Ethiopia
 Nigeria 7–2  Senegal
2024 Home sites  Morocco 2–1  Ethiopia
 Ghana 7–1  Senegal
 Cameroon 5–3  Egypt
 Nigeria 2–0  Burundi
2026 Home sites To be determined

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

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 R16 1
 DR Congo GS GS 2
 Ghana GS GS GS GS GS GS GS 7
 Morocco GS 1
 Nigeria GS QF QF QF 2nd 4th 2nd GS QF QF R16 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

Legend
Team 2002 2004 2006 2008 2010 2012 2014 2015 2018 2020 2022 2024 2026 Total
 Algeria R1 R1 R1 q R1 4
 Angola q R1 R1 2
 Benin PR • R1 R2 3
 Botswana • R1 R1 R1 R1 R1 PR q R2 R1 8
 Burkina Faso R2 q R1 R1 3
 Burundi R2 R2 R3 3
 Cameroon R2 R1 R1 R1 R3 q R3 Q 7
 Chad • 0
 Central African Republic SF R1 R1 3
 Comoros • 0
 Congo • • R1 q 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 q R1 R3 6
 Eswatini PR R3 2
 Ethiopia • R3 R1 q R4 R3 4
 Equatorial Guinea R1 SF R3 R1 R3 R2 • R2 7
 Eritrea R1 R1 2
 Gabon PR q R2 • 2
 Gambia • q R2 1
 Ghana R2 R2 Q Q Q Q Q q Q Q 9
 Guinea • PR • R1 q R2 R3 4
 Guinea-Bissau R1 q R1 R2 3
 Ivory Coast R1 1
 Kenya R1 • R2 R2 R1 R3 5
 Lesotho PR PR 2
 Liberia R2 R1 q 2
 Libya • • 0
 Madagascar • • PR 1
 Malawi • q R1 1
 Mali QF R1 R2 R1 R1 R3 6
 Mauritius R1 • 1
 Mauritania q R1 1
 Morocco SF R1 R1 R1 R1 R2 q R3 Q 8
 Mozambique • R1 PR • R1 R1 R1 R1 6
 Namibia • R2 R1 R1 R1 R1 q R1 R1 7
 Niger QF PR R1 3
 Nigeria 1st 1st Q 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 q R4 R3 5
 Sierra Leone • R1 R1 • R2 q R1 4
 South Africa 2nd 2nd R2 R2 R3 R2 R3 R3 R3 q R2 R1 11
 South Sudan PR q • 1
 Tanzania R2 R1 R1 q R3 R3 5
 Togo • • PR 1
 Tunisia R2 R3 R2 • • 4
 Uganda q R3 R3 2
 Zambia QF PR PR R2 R1 R2 R2 q R3 R2 9
 Zimbabwe QF R1 • R2 R2 q 4
Total 13 7 22 16 18 19 17 19 16 28 40 35

See also

Notes

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

References

  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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