African U-17 Women's World Cup qualification

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.

African U-17 Women's World Cup qualification
Organising bodyCAF
Founded2008
RegionAfrica
2025 edition

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[lower-alpha 1] 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[lower-alpha 2] 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.

World Cup
2008
2010
2012
2014
2016
2018
2022
2024
2025		Total
 CameroonGSGS 2
 GambiaGS 1
 GhanaGSGS3rdQFQFQF 6
 KenyaQ 1
 MoroccoGSQ 2
 NigeriaGSQFQFQFGS3rdQ 7
 South AfricaGSGS 2
 TanzaniaQF 1
 ZambiaGSQ 2
Total233333335

Team participation
Team 2008 2010 2012 2013 2016 2018 2020 2022 2024 2025 Total
 Algeria R1R3 2
 Benin •R1R2 2
 Burkina Faso R3 1
 Botswana •R1R1R1PRR1R1R2 7
 Burundi R2R4 2
 Cameroon 3rdR1QQR3R2 6
 Congo • 1 0
 Central African Republic R2 1
 DR Congo •••R1 •R2 2
 Djibouti R1R2R1 •R3 4
 Egypt •R2R2 2
 Ethiopia R1R1R3R3 4
 Equatorial Guinea R2•PR •R2 3
 Eritrea R1 • 1
 Gabon • 0
 Gambia QR1 2
 Ghana 2ndQQQQQR3 7
 Guinea PR•R2R2 3
 Guinea-Bissau q 1
 Kenya •R1••R1 •Q 3
 Liberia R1R1R4 3
 Libya •R2 1
 Mali ••R2 1
 Mauritania PR • 1
 Mauritius PR • 1
 Morocco •R2R2QR4Q 4
 Mozambique • 0
 Namibia •R1R1R1 • 3
 Niger R2R2 2
 Nigeria 1stQQQQR2QQ 8
 Rwanda PR • 1
 São Tomé and Príncipe R1 • 1
 Senegal R1R3 2
 Sierra Leone •R1•PRPR • 3
 South Africa R1QR2R2R2QR2R2 8
 South Sudan R2PR • 2
 Tanzania QR2 2
 Togo R1 1
 Tunisia R2R2• 2
 Uganda R1R3 2
 Zambia PRR2Q•PRR2Q 6
 Zimbabwe R1 1
Total841271112N/A2925

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

Legend

See also

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.
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