Organising body | WAFU |
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Founded | 2021 |
Region | West Africa |
Number of teams | 5 |
Current champions | Aigles de la Médina (1st title) |
Most successful club(s) | AS Mandé (women) (2 titles) |
2024 edition |
The CAF Women's Champions League WAFU Zone A, is an annual qualification tournament for the CAF Women's Champions League organized by WAFU for its WAFU A member nations.
In 2020, CAF announced the launch of the CAF Women's Champions League with each of the six sub confederations to hold qualifiers with the winners to represent them at the main tournament. [1]
Season | Champions | Score | Runners-Up | Ref. |
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2021 | AS Mande | 2–1 | AS Dakar | |
2022 | Determine Girls | AS Mande | [2] | |
2023 | AS Mande | 1–1 | AS Dakar | [3] |
2024 | Aigles de la Médina | 2–1 | Determine Girls | [4] |
Nation | Winners | Runners-up | 3rd Places | 4th places | Winner | Runners-up | 3rd Place | 4th place |
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Mali | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
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Senegal | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 |
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Liberia | 1 | 0 | 3 | |||||
Cape Verde | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
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Sierra Leone | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | ||||
Gambia | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
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