2025 Women's Hockey Africa Cup of Nations

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2025 Women's Hockey Africa Cup of Nations
Tournament details
Host country Egypt
City Ismailia
Dates20–31 August 2025
Teams7 (from 1 confederation)
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The 2025 Women's Hockey Africa Cup of Nations will be the ninth 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 March 2025 it was announced that the tournament would be held alongside the men's tournament in Ismailia, Egypt from 20 to 31 August 2025. [1]

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The winner will qualify for the 2026 Women's FIH Hockey World Cup. [2]

Qualification

The highest-ranked team in the FIH Women's World Ranking qualified directly for the tournament while the other teams had to play in the regional qualifiers. The top two teams from each regional qualifier qualified for the tournament. The three regions were North-East Africa, North-West Africa, and Central-South Africa. [3] [4]

DatesEventLocationQuotasQualifiers
— FIH Women's World Ranking —1Flag of South Africa.svg  South Africa
Cancelled [5] North-West Africa Qualifier—2Flag of Ghana.svg  Ghana
Flag of Nigeria.svg  Nigeria
Cancelled [6] North-East Africa Qualifier—1Flag of Uganda.svg  Uganda
17–24 August 2024 Central-South Africa Qualifier Harare, Zimbabwe3Flag of Namibia.svg  Namibia
Flag of Zambia.svg  Zambia
Flag of Zimbabwe.svg  Zimbabwe
Total7

See also

Notes

    References

    1. ↑ @sa_hockey_men (8 March 2025). "Africa Cup 2025" – via Instagram.
    2. ↑ "Qualification System for 2026 FIH Hockey World Cups" (PDF). fih.ch. International Hockey Federation.
    3. ↑ Makhandia, Agnes (31 January 2020). "AHF introduces new Cup of Nations qualifying criteria". nation.co.ke. Daily Nation . Retrieved 29 February 2020.
    4. ↑ "AfHF Presents Roadmap for 2020". africahockey.org. African Hockey Federation. Archived from the original on 29 February 2020. Retrieved 29 February 2020.
    5. ↑ "North West Africa Qualifier for ACN 2025 (M/W)". African Hockey Federation. Retrieved 2024-08-08.
    6. ↑ "North-East Africa Qualifier for ACN 2025 (M/W)". African Hockey Federation. Retrieved 2024-08-08.
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