African U-17 Women's World Cup qualification

African U-17 Women's World Cup qualification

Organising body	CAF
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.

History

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]

Results

African U-17 Women's Championship

Year	Hosts		Champion	Score	Runner-up		Third place
2008 [a]	Home sites		Nigeria [6]	round-robin	Ghana [7]		Cameroon

African U-17 Women's World Cup qualification

Year	Hosts		Final round
			Winners	Agg. Score	Runners-up
2010	Home sites		Ghana	11–0	Tunisia
			Nigeria	7–1	South Africa
			South Africa [b]	2–1	Tunisia
2012	Home sites		Gambia	3–1	Tunisia
			Nigeria	7–1	Zambia
			Ghana	5–1	South Africa
2013	Home sites		Ghana	5–2	Equatorial Guinea
			Nigeria	w/o	South Sudan
			Zambia	6–4	South Africa
2016	Home sites		Ghana	10–0	Morocco
			Cameroon	6–1	Egypt
			Nigeria	7–0	South Africa
2018	Home sites		Ghana	19–0	Djibouti
			South Africa	6–1	Morocco
			Cameroon	3–3 (a)	Nigeria
2020	Not completed: The 2020 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
2022	Home sites		Morocco	2–2(4–2 p)	Ghana
			Nigeria	1–0	Ethiopia
			Tanzania	5–1	Cameroon
2024	Home sites		Kenya	5–0	Burundi
			Zambia	3–1	Morocco
			Nigeria	6–1	Liberia
2025	Home sites		To be played

Results at the FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup

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.

QF = Quarter-final GS = Group stage

q = Qualified 3rd = Third Place/Bronze medalist    = Hosts

World Cup	2008	2010	2012	2014	2016	2018	2022	2024	2025	Total
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 participation

Team	2008	2010	2012	2013	2016	2018	2020	2022	2024	2025	Total
Algeria						R1			R3	IP	3
Benin	•							R1	R2	IP	3
Burkina Faso									R3		1
Botswana	•	R1	R1	R1	PR	R1		R1	R2	R2	8
Burundi								R2	R4	R2	3
Cameroon	3rd		R1		Q	Q		R3	R2	IP	7
Central African Republic									R2	R1	2
Congo				•1						•	0
DR Congo	•	•			•			R1 •	R2	R2	3
Djibouti					R1	R2		R1 •	R3		4
Egypt		•			R2			R2		R1	3
Ethiopia					R1	R1		R3	R3	R2	5
Equatorial Guinea				R2		•		PR •	R2	•	3
Eritrea								R1 •			1
Gabon					•					R1	1
Gambia			Q			R1					2
Ghana	2nd	Q	Q	Q	Q	Q		R3			7
Guinea	PR		•					R2	R2	IP	4
Guinea-Bissau								q			1
Kenya		•	R1	•		•		R1 •	Q	IP	4
Liberia	R1							R1	R4		3
Libya						•			R2		1
Mali					•	•			R2		1
Mauritania								PR •			1
Mauritius									PR •		1
Morocco				•	R2	R2		Q	R4	Q2	4
Mozambique			•								0
Namibia	•		R1		R1			R1 •		R1	4
Niger								R2	R2	R1	3
Nigeria	1st	Q	Q	Q	Q	R2		Q	Q	IP	9
Rwanda								PR •			1
São Tomé and Príncipe								R1 •			1
Senegal								R1	R3	R1	3
Sierra Leone		•	R1		•	PR		PR •		R2	3
South Africa	R1	Q	R2	R2	R2	Q		R2	R2	R2	9
South Sudan					R2			PR •			2
Tanzania								Q	R2	R2	3
Togo			R1							•	1
Tunisia			R2	R2		•				R1	3
Uganda								R1	R3	R2	3
Zambia	PR		R2	Q	•	PR		R2	Q	IP	7
Zimbabwe	R1									•	1
Total	8	4	12	7	11	12	N/A	29	25	23

¹ Congo did not show up for the first leg in the first round.

² Morocco didn't take part in the qualification because it hosts the WC.

Legend

1st— Champions 2nd— Runners-up 3rd— Third place 4th— Fourth place Q— Qualified PR — Preliminary Round R1 — Round 1

R2 — Round 2  • — Withdrew   — Did not enter   — Hosts q— Qualified for upcoming tournament edition

See also

• Women's Africa Cup of Nations
• CAF Women's Champions League
• African U-20 Women's World Cup qualification

Notes

1. A round-robin mini-tournament determined the final standings though no winner was crowned.
2. Qualification after a play-off round.

References

1. "African Women U-17 Championship 2008". RSSSF . Retrieved 17 February 2012.
2. "CAF releases women U-17 fixtures - CAN U-17 women 2010". CAFOnline.com . 19 January 2010. Archived from the original on 25 January 2010. Retrieved 17 February 2012.
3. "Matches & results - CAN U-17 women 2010". CAFOnline.com . 26 July 2011. Archived from the original on 16 March 2010. Retrieved 17 February 2012.
4. "CAF to conduct FIFA U17, U20 Women's World Cup Qualifier Draw on Thursday" (Press release). CAFOnline.com. 7 June 2023. Retrieved 7 June 2023.
5. "U-17 World Women's Cup qualifiers draw lines up exciting duels". CAFOnline.com . 8 June 2023. Retrieved 8 June 2023.
6. "Flamingoes lead African charge". FIFA.com . 23 June 2008. Archived from the original on 20 October 2008. Retrieved 30 October 2008.
7. "Ghana join Nigeria at NZ 2008". FIFA.com . 6 July 2008. Archived from the original on 19 October 2008. Retrieved 30 October 2008.

External links

• Qualification records and history via RSSSF