2022 Women's Hockey Africa Cup of Nations

2022 Women's Hockey Africa Cup of Nations
Tournament details
Host country	Ghana
City	Accra
Dates	17–23 January
Teams	8 (from 1 confederation)
Venue(s)	Theodosia Okoh Hockey Stadium
Final positions
Champions	South Africa (7th title)
Runner-up	Ghana
Third place	Kenya
Tournament statistics
Matches played	19
Goals scored	69 (3.63 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Tarryn Glasby (9 goals)
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Last updated November 20, 2022

The 2022 Women's Hockey Africa Cup of Nations was the eighth edition of the Women's Hockey Africa Cup of Nations, the quadrennial international women's field hockey championship of Africa organised by the African Hockey Federation. In February 2021 it was announced that the tournament would be held alongside the men's tournament at the Theodosia Okoh Hockey Stadium in Accra, Ghana from 17 to 23 January 2022.^[1]

Qualification

The top two highest-ranked teams in the FIH World Rankings qualified directly for the tournament while the other teams had to play in the regional qualifiers. The top two teams from each of the regional qualifiers qualified for the tournament. The three regions were North-East Africa, North-West Africa, and Central-South Africa.^[5]^[6]

Dates	Event	Location	Quotas	Qualifiers
—	FIH World Rankings	—	2	Ghana South Africa
Cancelled^[7]	North-West Africa Qualifier	—	1	Nigeria
Cancelled	North-East Africa Qualifier	—	2	Kenya Uganda
Cancelled^[1]	Central-South Africa Qualifier	—	3	Namibia Zambia Zimbabwe
Total			8

Preliminary round

The schedule was published on 14 December 2021.^[8]

All times are local (UTC±0).

Pool A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	South Africa	3	3	0	0	19	0	+19	9	Semi-finals
2	Zimbabwe	3	1	1	1	6	4	+2	4	Semi-finals
3	Namibia	3	1	1	1	4	7	−3	4
4	Uganda	3	0	0	3	0	18	−18	0

Source: FIH
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) matches won; 3) goal difference; 4) goals for; 5) head-to-head result; 6) field goals for.^[9]

17 January 2022
07:00

Namibia	3–0	Uganda
Coetzee 40' Brinkmann 42' Myburgh 56'	Report

Umpires:
Jonelke Swanepoel (RSA)
Ebitimi Sampou (NGR)

17 January 2022
11:00

South Africa	3–0	Zimbabwe
Du Plessis 9' Coston 12' Glasby 57'	Report

Umpires:
Cynthia Clement (GHA)
Liana du Plessis (NAM)

18 January 2022
07:00

Zimbabwe	5–0	Uganda
Elijah 28' Terblanche 30', 52' Grant 47' Pope 60'	Report

Umpires:
Liana du Plassis (NAM)
Ebitimi Sampou (NGR)

18 January 2022
15:00

Namibia	0–6	South Africa
	Report	Du Plessis 9' Botha 24' Glasby 27', 44' Fourie 38' Veto 55'

Umpires:
Bryn Lowe (ZIM)
Binish Hayat (PAK)

20 January 2022
11:00

Zimbabwe	1–1	Namibia
Elijah 43'	Report	Myburgh 51'

Umpires:
Kenneth Tamale (UGA)
Cynthia Clement (GHA)

20 January 2022
17:00

South Africa	10–0	Uganda
Glasby 6', 46', 47', 56' Fourie 9' Du Plessis 12', 44' Simmons 15' Bobbs 35' Coston 56'	Report

Umpires:
Ebitimi Sampou (NGR)
Sandra Adell (ESP)

Pool B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Ghana (H)	3	2	1	0	11	2	+9	7	Semi-finals
2	Kenya	3	2	0	1	5	6	−1	6	Semi-finals
3	Nigeria	3	1	1	1	5	5	0	4
4	Zambia	3	0	0	3	1	9	−8	0

Source: FIH
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) matches won; 3) goal difference; 4) goals for; 5) head-to-head result; 6) field goals for.^[9]
(H) Host

17 January 2022
13:00

Ghana	2–2	Nigeria
Opoku 12' Sarfoa 60'	Report	Njoku 13' Johnson 55'

Umpires:
Binish Hayat (PAK)
Sandra Adell (ESP)

18 January 2022
09:00

Nigeria	2–1	Zambia
Uddoh 8' Billo 56'	Report	Nakombe 28'

Umpires:
Kenneth Tamale (UGA)
Cynthia Clement (GHA)

18 January 2022^{[note 1]}
11:00

Kenya	0–5^{[note 1]}	Ghana
	Report

19 January 2022^{[note 2]}
09:00

Kenya	3–0	Zambia
Opondo 11' Mutiva 45' Bwire 57'	Report

Umpires:
Sandra Adell (ESP)
Jonelke Swanepoel (RSA)

20 January 2022
09:00

Nigeria	1–2	Kenya
Johnson 11'	Report	Opondo 15' Kemunto 54'

Umpires:
Bryn Lowe (ZIM)
Liana du Plassis (NAM)

20 January 2022
15:00

Ghana	4–0	Zambia
Opoku 4' Narkuor 10', 39' Berko 42'	Report

Umpires:
Charity Majimbo (KEN)
Jonelke Swanepoel (RSA)

Classification round

Bracket

Semi-finals		Fifth place

21 January

Namibia (p.s.o.)	2 (3)
		23 January
Zambia	2 (2)
		Namibia	0
21 January
		Nigeria	1
Nigeria	4

Uganda	0
		Seventh place

		23 January

		Zambia	2

		Uganda	1

5–8th place semi-finals

21 January 2022
11:15

Namibia	2–2	Zambia
Semedo 19' Louis 35'	Report	Nakombe 49' Kalomo 58'
Penalties
Myburgh Van Rooyen Semedo Brinkmann Kruger	3–2	Mambwe Nakombe Mudenda Mutangama Kalomo

Umpires:
Charity Majimbo (KEN)
Bryn Lowe (ZIM)

21 January 2022
13:30

Nigeria	4–0	Uganda
Njoku 8' John 23' Billo 27' Johnson 36'	Report

Umpires:
Cynthia Clement (GHA)
Liana du Plessis (NAM)

Seventh place game

23 January 2022
07:30

Zambia	2–1	Uganda
Kalomo 3', 13'	Report	Thuwaibah 49'

Umpires:
Ebitimi Sampou (NGR)
Liana du Plassis (NAM)

Fifth place game

23 January 2022
09:45

Namibia	0–1	Nigeria
	Report	John 27'

Umpires:
Charity Majimbo (KEN)
Bryn Lowe (ZIM)

Knockout stage

Bracket

Semi-finals		Final

21 January

South Africa	4
		23 January
Kenya	0
		South Africa	3
21 January
		Ghana	1
Ghana	2

Zimbabwe	1
		Third place

		23 January

		Kenya (p.s.o.)	0 (3)

		Zimbabwe	0 (1)

Semi-finals

21 January 2022
15:45

South Africa	4–0	Kenya
Bobbs 21' Glasby 39', 60' Maddocks 55'	Report

Umpires:
Binish Hayat (PAK)
Ebitimi Sampou (NGR)

21 January 2022
18:00

Ghana	2–1	Zimbabwe
Umaru 25' Opoku 0'	Report	Terblanche 15'

Umpires:
Sandra Adell (ESP)
Kenneth Tamale (UGA)

Third place game

23 January 2022
12:00

Kenya	0–0	Zimbabwe
	Report
Penalties
Kuira Makokha Owiti Chebet	3–1	Williams Grant Elijah Levey

Umpires:
Cynthia Clement (GHA)
Kenneth Tamale (UGA)

Final

23 January 2022
16:30

South Africa	3–1	Ghana
Maddocks 15' Paton 23' Du Plessis 55'	Report	Opoku 6'

Umpires:
Sandra Adell (ESP)
Binish Hayat (PAK)

Final ranking

Rank	Team
	South Africa
	Ghana
	Kenya
4	Zimbabwe
5	Nigeria
6	Namibia
7	Zambia
8	Uganda

	Qualified for the 2022 Women's FIH Hockey World Cup

Goalscorers

There were 69 goals scored in 19 matches, for an average of 3.63 goals per match.

9 goals

Tarryn Glasby

5 goals

Lilian du Plessis

4 goals

Elizabeth Opoku

3 goals

Benedicta Johnson
Catherine Kalomo

2 goals

1 goal

Source: FIH

Notes

1 2 The match resulted in a walkover, after the Kenyan team arrived late and did not made it in time for the game.^[10]
↑ The match, originally scheduled on 17 January, was postponed to 19 January.^[11]

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[KEN-11] 1 2 The match resulted in a walkover, after the Kenyan team arrived late and did not made it in time for the game.^[10]

[13] The match, originally scheduled on 17 January, was postponed to 19 January.^[11]

[tweet-1] 1 2 @AfrHockey (February 16, 2021). "As per the 2nd AfHF Executive Board meeting of 12 Feb. 2021 and given the ongoing Corona virus outbreak impact on our 2021 events Road Map, presenting the 2nd EB Meeting Resolutions & Revised Events Dates" (Tweet) – via Twitter.

[2] "South Africa complete double at Africa Cup of Nations". fih.ch. 29 October 2017.

[3] "Africa Cup of Nations: South Africa's Hockey World Cup adventures gets underway". fih.ch. 23 January 2022.

[4] "2022 FIH Hockey Women's World Cup in Spain and the Netherlands, 2023 FIH Hockey Men's World Cup in India". fih.ch. Lausanne: International Hockey Federation. 8 November 2019. Retrieved 29 February 2020.

[5] Makhandia, Agnes (31 January 2020). "AHF introduces new Cup of Nations qualifying criteria". nation.co.ke. Daily Nation . Retrieved 29 February 2020.

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[Regulations-9] 1 2 FIH General Tournament Regulations September 2021

[10] @hockeyKE (January 18, 2022). "BREAKING: Ghana have been handed a walk-over after Kenya (W) Flagge von Kenia failed to honour the fixture. Their scheduled flight just landed in Accra a few minutes ago" (Tweet) – via Twitter.

[12] @AfrHockey (January 17, 2022). "Match 2 KEN VS ZAM (W) which was scheduled for Monday 17th January 2022 at 0900hrs has been rescheduled to be played on Wednesday 19th January 2022 at 0900hrs" (Tweet) – via Twitter.

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2022 Women's Hockey Africa Cup of Nations

Contents

Qualification

Preliminary round

Pool A

Pool B

Classification round

Bracket

5–8th place semi-finals

Seventh place game

Fifth place game

Knockout stage

Bracket

Semi-finals

Third place game

Final

Final ranking

Goalscorers

See also

Notes

Related Research Articles

References