Organising body | CAF |
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Founded | 2002 |
Region | Africa |
Number of teams | 35 (2024) |
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The African U-20 Women's World Cup qualification is a biennial youth women's association football qualification competition for the FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup organized by the Confederation of African Football for its nations.
A final was played in the first two editions in 2002 and 2004 as only one team qualified for the first two editions of the U-20 Women's World Cup in those years. Since 2006, with the confederation granted a second spot, all qualification editions till date were and are played in a home-and-away knock-out format until 4 teams are left with half that number booking their spots at the international tournament. On 7 June 2023, CAF revealed the formats for the qualification procedures for the next editions of the FIFA U-20 and U-17 Women's World Cups, [1] the former whose draw was conducted the following day. [2]
Only the winner is guaranteed a spot at the FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup for its first two editions.
Year | Hosts | Final match | Semi-finalists | |||||
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Champion | Score | Runner-up | ||||||
2002 | ![]() | ![]() | 6–0 | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ||
3–2 | ||||||||
2004 | ![]() | ![]() | 1–0 | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ||
0–0 |
Year | Hosts | Final round | |||||
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Winners (to FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup) | Agg. Score | Runners-up | |||||
2006 | ![]() | ![]() | bye [lower-alpha 1] | n/a | |||
![]() | w/o | ![]() | |||||
2008 | ![]() | ![]() | 5–2 | ![]() | |||
![]() | 3–3 (a) | ![]() | |||||
2010 [3] | ![]() | ![]() | 5–0 | ![]() | |||
![]() | 12–3 | ![]() | |||||
2012 | ![]() | ![]() | 7–2 | ![]() | |||
![]() | 7–0 | ![]() | |||||
2014 [4] | ![]() | ![]() | 1–1(4–3 p) | ![]() | |||
![]() | 7–0 | ![]() | |||||
2015 | ![]() | ![]() | 6–2 | ![]() | |||
![]() | 3–1 | ![]() | |||||
2018 | ![]() | ![]() | 4–1 | ![]() | |||
![]() | 8–0 | ![]() | |||||
2020 | Not completed as 2020 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup was cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic | ||||||
2022 | ![]() | ![]() | 5–1 | ![]() | |||
![]() | 7–2 | ![]() | |||||
2024 | ![]() | ![]() | 2–1 | ![]() | |||
![]() | 7–1 | ![]() | |||||
![]() | 5–3 | ![]() | |||||
![]() | 2–0 | ![]() | |||||
2026 | ![]() | To be determined |
Five different teams have qualified for the FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup as of the 2024 edition; Nigeria, Ghana, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Cameroon and Morocco. Nigeria has been the only team to reach the quarter-finals, the semi-finals and the final: finishing at the 2nd place twice in 2010 and 2014 and 4th in 2012. Ghana and the Democratic Republic of Congo have been eliminated in the group stages.
World Cup | ![]() 2002 | ![]() 2004 | ![]() 2006 | ![]() 2008 | ![]() 2010 | ![]() 2012 | ![]() 2014 | ![]() 2016 | ![]() 2018 | ![]() 2022 | ![]() 2024 | ![]() 2026 | Total |
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![]() | R16 | 1 | |||||||||||
![]() | GS | GS | 2 | ||||||||||
![]() | GS | GS | GS | GS | GS | GS | GS | 7 | |||||
![]() | GS | 1 | |||||||||||
![]() | GS | QF | QF | QF | 2nd | 4th | 2nd | GS | QF | QF | R16 | 11 | |
Total | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 4 |
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Team | 2002 | 2004 | 2006 | 2008 | 2010 | 2012 | 2014 | 2015 | 2018 | 2020 | 2022 | 2024 | Total |
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![]() | R1 | R1 | R1 | R1 | 4 | ||||||||
![]() | R1 | R1 | 2 | ||||||||||
![]() | PR | • | R1 | R2 | 3 | ||||||||
![]() | • | R1 | R1 | R1 | R1 | R1 | PR | R2 | R1 | 8 | |||
![]() | R2 | R1 | R1 | 3 | |||||||||
![]() | R2 | R2 | R3 | 3 | |||||||||
![]() | R2 | R1 | R1 | R1 | R3 | R3 | Q | 7 | |||||
![]() | • | 0 | |||||||||||
![]() | SF | R1 | R1 | 3 | |||||||||
![]() | • | 0 | |||||||||||
![]() | • | • | R1 | R2 | R3 | 3 | |||||||
![]() | SF | Q | Q | R3 | R3 | R2 | R1 | R3 | 8 | ||||
![]() | PR | PR | PR | R1 | 4 | ||||||||
![]() | R2 | R1 | R1 | R1 | R1 | R3 | 6 | ||||||
![]() | PR | R3 | 2 | ||||||||||
![]() | • | R3 | R1 | SF | R3 | 4 | |||||||
![]() | R1 | SF | R3 | R1 | R3 | R2 | • | R2 | 7 | ||||
![]() | R1 | R1 | 2 | ||||||||||
![]() | PR | R2 | • | 2 | |||||||||
![]() | • | R2 | 1 | ||||||||||
![]() | R2 | R2 | Q | Q | Q | Q | Q | Q | Q | 9 | |||
![]() | • | PR | • | R1 | R2 | R3 | 4 | ||||||
![]() | R1 | R1 | R2 | 3 | |||||||||
![]() | R1 | 1 | |||||||||||
![]() | R1 | • | R2 | R2 | R1 | R3 | 5 | ||||||
![]() | PR | PR | 2 | ||||||||||
![]() | R2 | R1 | 2 | ||||||||||
![]() | • | • | 0 | ||||||||||
![]() | • | • | PR | 1 | |||||||||
![]() | • | R1 | 1 | ||||||||||
![]() | QF | R1 | R2 | R1 | R1 | R3 | 6 | ||||||
![]() | R1 | • | 1 | ||||||||||
![]() | R1 | 1 | |||||||||||
![]() | SF | R1 | R1 | R1 | R1 | R2 | R3 | Q| | 8 | ||||
![]() | • | R1 | PR | • | R1 | R1 | R1 | R1 | 6 | ||||
![]() | • | R2 | R1 | R1 | R1 | R1 | R1 | R1 | 7 | ||||
![]() | QF | PR | R1 | 3 | |||||||||
![]() | 1st | 1st | Q | Q | Q | Q | Q | Q | Q | Q | Q| | 11 | |
![]() | R1 | 1 | |||||||||||
![]() | PR | • | R1 | 2 | |||||||||
![]() | • | PR | R1 | 2 | |||||||||
![]() | R1 | R1 | R1 | SF | R3 | 5 | |||||||
![]() | • | R1 | R1 | • | R2 | R1 | 4 | ||||||
![]() | 2nd | 2nd | R2 | R2 | R3 | R2 | R3 | R3 | R3 | R2 | R1 | 11 | |
![]() | PR | • | 1 | ||||||||||
![]() | R2 | R1 | R1 | R3 | R3 | 5 | |||||||
![]() | • | • | PR | 1 | |||||||||
![]() | R2 | R3 | R2 | • | • | 4 | |||||||
![]() | R3 | R3 | 2 | ||||||||||
![]() | QF | PR | PR | R2 | R1 | R2 | R2 | R3 | R2 | 9 | |||
![]() | QF | R1 | • | R2 | R2 | 4 | |||||||
Total | 13 | 7 | 22 | 16 | 18 | 19 | 17 | 19 | 16 | 40 | 35 |
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