| Tourney Name: | African U-20 Women's World Cup Qualifying Tournament |
| Year: | 2015 |
| Dates: | 2 May – 8 November 2015 |
| Num Teams: | 19 |
| Confederations: | 1 |
| Matches: | 32 |
| Goals: | 94 |
| Top Scorer: |  Loza Abera Chinwendu Ihezuo |
| Prevseason: | 2014 |
| Nextseason: | 2018 |
The 2015 African U-20 Women's World Cup Qualifying Tournament was the 8th edition of the African U-20 Women's World Cup Qualifying Tournament, the biennial international youth football competition organised by the Confederation of African Football (CAF) to determine which women's under-20 national teams from Africa qualify for the FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup. Players born on or after 1 January 1996 were eligible to compete in the tournament.
The top two teams of the tournament qualified for the 2016 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup in Papua New Guinea as the CAF representatives.[1]
Ghana and Nigeria qualified for the World Cup like in the last three editions.[2]
A total of 19 CAF member national teams entered the qualifying rounds.[3]
| Round | Teams entering round | No. of teams | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Preliminary round | 6 | ||
| First round | 13 | ||
| Qualifying rounds | Total | 19 |
Qualification ties were played on a home-and-away two-legged basis. If the aggregate score was tied after the second leg, the away goals rule would be applied, and if still level, the penalty shoot-out would be used to determine the winner (no extra time would be played).
The two winners of the third round qualified for the FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup.
The schedule of the qualifying rounds was as follows.[3]
| Round | Leg | Date |
|---|---|---|
| Preliminary round | First leg | 1–3 May 2015 |
| Second leg | 15–17 May 2015 | |
| First round | First leg | 10–12 July 2015 |
| Second leg | 24–26 July 2015 | |
| Second round | First leg | 25–27 September 2015 |
| Second leg | 9–11 October 2015 | |
| Third round | First leg | 23–25 October 2015 |
| Second leg | 6–8 November 2015 |
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Note: Sierra Leone withdrew.[4] First leg of DR Congo v Gabon was postponed to 9 May due to field problems, then to 16 May due to Gabon missing the flight.[5]
Burkina Faso won 7–0 on aggregate.----DR Congo won 6–0 on aggregate.----Liberia won on walkover.
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Note: Order of legs between Liberia and Nigeria reversed from original fixtures.
Burkina Faso won 3–2 on aggregate.----Ethiopia won 2–1 on aggregate.----Equatorial Guinea won 4–0 on aggregate.----Ghana won 8–0 on aggregate.----DR Congo won 5–0 on aggregate.----Nigeria won 14–1 on aggregate.----Zambia won 4–0 on aggregate.----South Africa won 9–1 on aggregate.
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Note: First leg of Burkina Faso v Ethiopia was postponed to 3 October, then to 10 October, due to coup in Burkina Faso.[6] [7]
Ethiopia won 2–0 on aggregate.----Ghana won 3–0 on aggregate.----Nigeria won 4–1 on aggregate.----South Africa won 3–2 on aggregate.
Winners qualified for 2016 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup.
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Ghana won 6–2 on aggregate.----Nigeria won 3–1 on aggregate.
The following two teams from CAF qualified for the FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup.
| Team | Qualified on | Previous appearances in tournament1 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| (2010, 2012, 2014) | |||
| (2002, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014) |
1 Bold indicates champion for that year. Italic indicates host for that year.
Joëlle Mwadi
Sandra Owusu-Ansah Yetunde Adeboyejo
Barkissa Sawadogo Hornella Lengi Salu Princella Adubea Jane Ayieyam Amarachi Ojinma Mariam Fifao Traoré Lily Niber-Lawrence Joy Bokiri Chinaza Uchendu Amina Yakubu Mouniratou Compaoré Assifou Coulibaly Chantal Drabo Yasmine Ouattara Stéphanie Sow
Catherine Mbengono Nathalie Boyengwa Émeraude Mawanda Flavine Mawete Merveille Mbemba Kate Addo Fatima Alhassan Veronica Appiah Wasila Diwura-Soale
Kanties Sayee Chinozo Sunday Hassabi Muso (playing against Ghana)