| Organising body | CAF |
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| Founded | 2008 |
| Region | Africa |
 2025 edition | |
The African U-17 Women's World Cup qualification is a biennial youth women's association football qualification competition for the FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup organized by the Confederation of African Football for its nations.
With the imminent inauguration of the FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup in 2008, CAF began organizing a qualification competition that year with 12 teams entering its debut edition, but 5 withdrew before playing. [1] On 19 January 2010, CAF released the fixtures for the second edition of this competition. [2] Ten teams entered that edition, but only five played matches; Nigeria, Ghana and South Africa qualified for that year's FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup. [3] On 7 June 2023, CAF revealed the formats for the qualification procedures for the next editions of the FIFA U-17 and U-20 Women's World Cups, [4] the former whose draw was conducted the following day. [5]
| Year | Hosts | Champion | Score | Runner-up | Third place | ||
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| 2008 [lower-alpha 1] |  Home sites |  Nigeria [6] | round-robin |  Ghana [7] |  Cameroon |
| Year | Final round | |||
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| Winner | Score | Runner-up | ||
| 2010 | Nigeria | 5–0 |  South Africa | |
| 2–1 | ||||
Ghana | 7–0 |  Tunisia | ||
| 4–0 | ||||
South Africa [lower-alpha 2] | 1–0 | Tunisia | ||
| 1–1 | ||||
| Year | Qualification 1 | Qualification 2 | Qualification 3 | |||||||||
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| Qualified | Score | Qualified | Score | Qualified | Score | |||||||
| 2012 |  Gambia | 1–0 | Tunisia | Ghana | 0–0 | South Africa | Nigeria | 2–1 |  Zambia | |||
| 2–1 | 5–1 | 5–0 | ||||||||||
| 2013 | Ghana | 2–0 |  Eq. Guinea | Nigeria | w/o |  South Sudan | Zambia | 3–3 | South Africa | |||
| 3–2 | 3–1 | |||||||||||
| 2016 | Cameroon | 2–1 |  Egypt | Ghana | 4–0 |  Morocco | Nigeria | 6–0 | South Africa | |||
| 4–0 | 6–0 | 1–0 | ||||||||||
| 2018 | Ghana | 9–0 |  Djibouti | South Africa | 5–1 | Morocco | Cameroon | 2–2 | Nigeria | |||
| 10–0 | 1–0 | 1–1 | ||||||||||
| 2020 | Not completed: The 2020 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. | |||||||||||
| 2022 |  Tanzania | 4–1 | Cameroon | Nigeria | 1–0 |  Ethiopia | Morocco | 0–2 | Ghana | |||
| 1–0 | 0–0 | 2–0 | ||||||||||
| 2024 | Zambia | 3–1 | Morocco | Nigeria | 4–1 |  Liberia |  Kenya | 3–0 |  Burundi | |||
| 0–0 | 2–0 | 2–0 | ||||||||||
| 2025 | Yet to be played. | |||||||||||
Since its inception in 2008, all editions have qualified three teams to the FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup. Ghana finished 3rd in the 2012 edition in Azerbaijan. Nigeria finished 3rd in the 2022 edition in India. Tanzania has reached the quarter-final also the same year, with all other qualified CAF nations getting eliminated in the group stages.
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| World Cup |  2008 |  2010 |  2012 |  2014 |  2016 |  2018 |  2022 |  2024 |  2025 | Total |
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 Cameroon | GS | GS | 2 | |||||||
 Gambia | GS | 1 | ||||||||
 Ghana | GS | GS | 3rd | QF | QF | QF | 6 | |||
 Kenya | Q | 1 | ||||||||
| Morocco | GS | Q | 2 | |||||||
 Nigeria | GS | QF | QF | QF | GS | 3rd | Q | 7 | ||
 South Africa | GS | GS | 2 | |||||||
 Tanzania | QF | 1 | ||||||||
 Zambia | GS | Q | 2 | |||||||
| Total | 2 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 5 |
| Team | 2008 | 2010 | 2012 | 2013 | 2016 | 2018 | 2020 | 2022 | 2024 | 2025 | Total |
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 Algeria | R1 | R3 | 2 | ||||||||
 Benin | • | R1 | R2 | 2 | |||||||
 Burkina Faso | R3 | 1 | |||||||||
 Botswana | • | R1 | R1 | R1 | PR | R1 | R1 | R2 | 7 | ||
 Burundi | R2 | R4 | 2 | ||||||||
| Cameroon | 3rd | R1 | Q | Q | R3 | R2 | 6 | ||||
 Congo | • 1 | 0 | |||||||||
 Central African Republic | R2 | 1 | |||||||||
 DR Congo | • | • | • | R1 • | R2 | 2 | |||||
 Djibouti | R1 | R2 | R1 • | R3 | 4 | ||||||
 Egypt | • | R2 | R2 | 2 | |||||||
 Ethiopia | R1 | R1 | R3 | R3 | 4 | ||||||
 Equatorial Guinea | R2 | • | PR • | R2 | 3 | ||||||
 Eritrea | R1 • | 1 | |||||||||
 Gabon | • | 0 | |||||||||
| Gambia | Q | R1 | 2 | ||||||||
| Ghana | 2nd | Q | Q | Q | Q | Q | R3 | 7 | |||
 Guinea | PR | • | R2 | R2 | 3 | ||||||
 Guinea-Bissau | q | 1 | |||||||||
| Kenya | • | R1 | • | • | R1 • | Q | 3 | ||||
 Liberia | R1 | R1 | R4 | 3 | |||||||
 Libya | • | R2 | 1 | ||||||||
 Mali | • | • | R2 | 1 | |||||||
 Mauritania | PR • | 1 | |||||||||
 Mauritius | PR • | 1 | |||||||||
| Morocco | • | R2 | R2 | Q | R4 | Q | 4 | ||||
 Mozambique | • | 0 | |||||||||
 Namibia | • | R1 | R1 | R1 • | 3 | ||||||
 Niger | R2 | R2 | 2 | ||||||||
| Nigeria | 1st | Q | Q | Q | Q | R2 | Q | Q | 8 | ||
 Rwanda | PR • | 1 | |||||||||
 São Tomé and Príncipe | R1 • | 1 | |||||||||
 Senegal | R1 | R3 | 2 | ||||||||
 Sierra Leone | • | R1 | • | PR | PR • | 3 | |||||
| South Africa | R1 | Q | R2 | R2 | R2 | Q | R2 | R2 | 8 | ||
 South Sudan | R2 | PR • | 2 | ||||||||
| Tanzania | Q | R2 | 2 | ||||||||
 Togo | R1 | 1 | |||||||||
 Tunisia | R2 | R2 | • | 2 | |||||||
 Uganda | R1 | R3 | 2 | ||||||||
| Zambia | PR | R2 | Q | • | PR | R2 | Q | 6 | |||
 Zimbabwe | R1 | 1 | |||||||||
| Total | 8 | 4 | 12 | 7 | 11 | 12 | N/A | 29 | 25 |
1 Congo did not show up for the first leg in the first round.
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