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African U-20 Women's World Cup qualification

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.

African U-20 Women's World Cup qualification
Organising bodyCAF
Founded2002
RegionAfrica
Number of teams35 (2024)
2024 edition

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]

Results

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African U-19 Women's Championship

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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
Champion Score Runner-up
2002   Home sites   Nigeria 6–0   South Africa   Central African Republic   Morocco
3–2
2004   Home sites   Nigeria 1–0   South Africa   DR Congo   Equatorial Guinea
0–0

African U-20 Women's World Cup qualification

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Year Hosts Final round
Winners (to FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup) Agg. Score Runners-up
2006   Home sites   Nigeria bye[a] n/a
  DR Congo w/o   Equatorial Guinea
2008   Home sites   Nigeria 5–2   Ghana
  DR Congo 3–3 (a)   South Africa
2010[3]   Home sites   Ghana 5–0   DR Congo
  Nigeria 12–3   South Africa
2012   Home sites   Ghana 7–2   Tunisia
  Nigeria 7–0   DR Congo
2014[4]   Home sites   Ghana 1–1 (4–3 p)   Equatorial Guinea
  Nigeria 7–0   South Africa
2015   Home sites   Ghana 6–2   Ethiopia
  Nigeria 3–1   South Africa
2018   Home sites   Ghana 4–1   Cameroon
  Nigeria 8–0   South Africa
2020 Not completed as 2020 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup was cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic
2022   Home sites   Ghana 5–1   Ethiopia
  Nigeria 7–2   Senegal
2024   Home sites   Morocco 2–1   Ethiopia
  Ghana 7–1   Senegal
  Cameroon 5–3   Egypt
  Nigeria 2–0   Burundi
2026   Home sites To be determined

FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup qualification and results

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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
  Cameroon R16 1
  DR Congo GS GS 2
  Ghana GS GS GS GS GS GS GS 7
  Morocco GS 1
  Nigeria 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
Legend
  • 1st — Champions
  • 2nd — Runners-up
  • 3rd — Third place
  • 4th — Fourth place
  • QF – Quarter-finals
  • GS – Group stage
  • Q – Qualified

Country participation

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Legend
Team 2002 2004 2006 2008 2010 2012 2014 2015 2018 2020 2022 2024 Total
  Algeria R1 R1 R1 R1 4
  Angola R1 R1 2
  Benin PR • R1 R2 3
  Botswana • R1 R1 R1 R1 R1 PR R2 R1 8
  Burkina Faso R2 R1 R1 3
  Burundi R2 R2 R3 3
  Cameroon R2 R1 R1 R1 R3 R3 Q 7
  Chad • 0
  Central African Republic SF R1 R1 3
  Comoros • 0
  Congo • • R1 R2 R3 3
  DR Congo SF Q Q R3 R3 R2 R1 R3 8
  Djibouti PR PR PR R1 4
  Egypt R2 R1 R1 R1 R1 R3 6
  Eswatini PR R3 2
  Ethiopia • R3 R1 SF R3 4
  Equatorial Guinea R1 SF R3 R1 R3 R2 • R2 7
  Eritrea R1 R1 2
  Gabon PR R2 • 2
  Gambia • R2 1
  Ghana R2 R2 Q Q Q Q Q Q Q 9
  Guinea • PR • R1 R2 R3 4
  Guinea-Bissau R1 R1 R2 3
  Ivory Coast R1 1
  Kenya R1 • R2 R2 R1 R3 5
  Lesotho PR PR 2
  Liberia R2 R1 2
  Libya • • 0
  Madagascar • • PR 1
  Malawi • R1 1
  Mali QF R1 R2 R1 R1 R3 6
  Mauritius R1 • 1
  Mauritania R1 1
  Morocco SF R1 R1 R1 R1 R2 R3 Q| 8
  Mozambique • R1 PR • R1 R1 R1 R1 6
  Namibia • R2 R1 R1 R1 R1 R1 R1 7
  Niger QF PR R1 3
  Nigeria 1st 1st Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q| 11
  Réunion R1 1
  Rwanda PR • R1 2
  São Tomé and Príncipe • PR R1 2
  Senegal R1 R1 R1 SF R3 5
  Sierra Leone • R1 R1 • R2 R1 4
  South Africa 2nd 2nd R2 R2 R3 R2 R3 R3 R3 R2 R1 11
  South Sudan PR • 1
  Tanzania R2 R1 R1 R3 R3 5
  Togo • • PR 1
  Tunisia R2 R3 R2 • • 4
  Uganda R3 R3 2
  Zambia QF PR PR R2 R1 R2 R2 R3 R2 9
  Zimbabwe QF R1 • R2 R2 4
Total 13 7 22 16 18 19 17 19 16 40 35

See also

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Notes

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  1. ^ Nigeria were drawn to play the winner of Cameroon and Ghana, but both teams were ejected from the competition.

References

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  1. ^ "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.
  2. ^ "FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup qualifiers draw concluded". CAFOnline.com. 8 June 2023. Retrieved 8 June 2023.
  3. ^ "Completed matches & results - CAN U-20 women 2010". CAFOnline.com. Archived from the original on 3 March 2011. Retrieved 3 June 2012.
  4. ^ "Completed matches & results of the 2014 edition". CAFOnline.com. Archived from the original on 3 April 2014. Retrieved 3 June 2014.
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