2023 UNAF Women's Tournament

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UNAF Women's Tournament 2023
Tournament details
Host country Egypt
City Cairo
DatesCancelled
(originally 13–18 February 2023)
Teams2 (prior to the cancelation date) (from 1 sub-confederation)
Venue(s)1 (in 1 host city)
← 2020
TBC →

the 2023 UNAF Women's Tournament was supposed to be the third edition of the UNAF Women's Tournament, the international football championship organized by UNAF for the women's national teams of North Africa. the tournament was originally scheduled to be hosted in Sousse, Tunisia before relocating to Egypt due to the Tunisian inability to host the tournament. [1] [2] and that will make it the first edition not to be held in Tunisia since the first edition in 2009.

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UNAF decided to cancel this edition of the tournament on 15 January 2023, citing the low numbers of countries participating and low interest between members associations. [3]

Morocco were the defending champions having won in 2020 unbeaten. Morocco withdrew before the cancelation of the tournament and therefore wouldn't have been able to defend their title.

Participating nations

Originally four teams Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, and Egypt were supposed to participate in the 2023 UNAF women's tournament scheduled in Sousse, Tunisia. However, Tunisia decided to withdraw the right to host the competition. which led to the competition being relocated to Egypt. automatically, Egypt was confirmed as the first participating nation. on 10 January 2023, Morocco announced its withdrawal from the competition citing the time schedule as they already have a number of foreign camps and tournaments against European teams they will be participating against as preparation for their 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup debut. [4] Algeria who initially confirmed their participation, on 12 January confirmed their participation in the tournament. [5] on 15 January Tunisia's non-participation became official as the Tunisian football federation declined participation due to lack of preparation as the team wasn't prepared to participate internationally.

After Morocco withdrew, UNAF tried to invite guest teams, mainly CECAFA members Tanzania who finished as runners-up in the previous edition and Kenya. Libya was reinvited to the tournament after initially declining participation.

TeamAppLastBest placement in the tournament FIFA ranking
December 2022
Flag of Algeria.svg  Algeria
3rd
 2020 Runners-up (2009)
80
Flag of Egypt.svg  Egypt
2nd
 2009 Third Place (2009)
90
Did not enter

Main Tournament

All times are local, CAT (UTC+2)

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First match(es) will be played on 13 February 2023. Source: UNAF
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers
(H) Host

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References

  1. ↑ "Egypt is close to hosting the North African Women's Football Championship". koraplus.com (in Arabic). 2 January 2023. Retrieved 5 January 2023.
  2. ↑ "it was confirmed to "Kora Plus" that Egypt is hosting the North African Women's Football championship". koraplus.com (in Arabic). 4 January 2023. Retrieved 5 January 2023.
  3. ↑ "Officially... the cancellation of the North African Women's Championship in Egypt". koraplus.com (in Arabic). 15 January 2023. Retrieved 15 January 2023.
  4. ↑ "The Moroccan national team apologizes for not participating in the North African Women's Championship". koraplus.com (in Arabic). 10 January 2023. Retrieved 13 January 2023.
  5. ↑ "Algeria confirm its participation in the 2023 UNAF women's tournament alongside Egypt". koraplus.com (in Arabic). 12 January 2023. Retrieved 12 January 2023.
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