2024 CAF Women's Champions League qualification

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2024 CAF Women's Champions League qualification
Tournament details
Host countriesAlgeria (North Zone)
Sierra Leone (West A Zone)
Ivory Coast (West B Zone)
Democratic Republic of Congo (Central Zone)
Ethiopia (Central-East Zone)
Malawi (South Zone)
Dates2 August – ... September 2024
2023
2025

Qualification for the 2024 CAF Women's Champions League will begin in 2 August and concluding in September 2024.

Contents

Qualification was made up of 6 sub-confederation qualifying tournaments which will starting on 2 August 2024. Qualification will finish in September with the participating teams reduced to the final 8 which consisted of one winning team each from the 6 CAF sub-confederations, the tournament's defending champions and the host nation's league-winning team. These 8 teams would proceed to the main tournament phases which had not chosen yet. [1]

Participating teams

All participating teams qualified for the qualification phase by winning their respective national league titles and had their club licensing applications accepted by CAF. [2] A total of 38 (out of 54) countries have a participant club in this edition. [3]

Qualified teams for the 2024 CAF Women's Champions League qualification phase
ZonesTeams
UNAF Flag of Algeria.svg CF Akbou (1st) Flag of Egypt.svg Tutankhamun FC (1st) Flag of Morocco.svg AS FAR (4th) Flag of Tunisia.svg ASF Sousse (2nd)
WAFU A Flag of The Gambia.svg Red Scorpion WFC (1st) Flag of Liberia.svg Determine Girls (4th) Flag of Mali.svg AS Mandé (4th) Flag of Senegal.svg Aigles de la Médina (1st)
Flag of Sierra Leone.svg Mogbwemo Queens (2nd)
B Flag of Benin.svg Ainonvi FC (1st) Flag of Burkina Faso.svg Etincelles FC Flag of Cote d'Ivoire.svg FC Inter d'Abidjan (1st) Flag of Ghana.svg Hasaacas Ladies (2nd)
Flag of Niger.svg AS GNN Flag of Nigeria.svg Edo Queens (1st) Flag of Togo.svg ASKO de Kara Féminines
UNIFFAC Flag of Cameroon.svg Lekié FF (1st) Flag of the Republic of the Congo.svg CSM Diables Noirs Flag of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.svg TP Mazembe Flag of Equatorial Guinea.svg Atlético Malabo (1st)
CECAFA Flag of Burundi.svg PVP Buyenzi (2nd) Flag of Djibouti.svg FAD Club (3rd) Flag of Ethiopia.svg Commercial Bank Flag of Kenya.svg Kenya Police Bullets (1st)
Flag of Rwanda.svg Rayon Sports (1st) Flag of South Sudan.svg Yei Joint Stars Flag of Tanzania.svg Simba Queens (3rd) Flag of Uganda.svg Kawempe Muslim LFC (1st)
Flag of Zanzibar.svg Warriors Queens
COSAFA Flag of Botswana.svg Gaborone United Ladies Flag of the Comoros.svg FC MaliMdjini Flag of Eswatini.svg Young Buffaloes (3rd) Flag of Lesotho.svg Lesotho Defence Force Ladies (3rd)
Flag of Malawi.svg Ascent Academy (1st) Flag of Mozambique.svg UD Lichinga (1st) Flag of Namibia.svg FC Ongos (2nd) Flag of South Africa.svg University of the Western Cape (1st)
Flag of Zambia.svg Green Buffaloes (4th) Flag of Zimbabwe.svg Herentals Queens (1st)

Associations which did not enter a team

Schedule

The schedule of the competition was as follows

ZoneDate
UNAF22 - 31 August
WAFU UFOA A2 - 11 August
WAFU UFOA B10 - 23 August
UNIFFAC16 - 25 August
CECAFA17 August - 1 de September
COSAFA17 August - 11 September

Main Qualification Phase

UNAF

PosTeamPldWDLGFGAGDPtsQualification FAR ASF CFA TFC
1 Flag of Morocco.svg AS FAR 00000000 Main tournament
2 Flag of Tunisia.svg ASF Sousse 00000000
3 Flag of Algeria.svg CF Akbou (H)00000000
4 Flag of Egypt.svg Tutankhamun FC 00000000
Source: [ citation needed ]
(H) Hosts

WAFU Zone A

WAFU Zone B

UNIFFAC

CECAFA

COSAFA

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References

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