2022 African U-17 Women's World Cup qualification explained

Tourney Name:	African U-17 Women's World Cup qualification
Year:	2022
Dates:	13 January – 5 June
Num Teams:	29
Confederations:	1
Prevseason:	2020
Nextseason:	2024

The 2022 African U-17 Women's World Cup qualification was the 8th edition of the African U-17 Women's World Cup qualification, the biennial international youth football competition organised by the Confederation of African Football (CAF) to determine which women's under-17 national teams from Africa qualify for the FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup. Players born on or after 1 January 2005 were eligible to compete in the tournament.

three teams qualified from this tournament for the 2022 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup in India as the CAF representatives.^[1]

Draw

A total of 29 (out of 54) CAF member national teams entered the qualifying rounds. The draw was held on 10 May 2021 at the CAF headquarters in Cairo, Egypt. The draw procedures were as follows:

• In the first round, the 10 teams were drawn into five ties, with teams divided into four pots based on their geographical zones and those in the same pot drawn to play against each other.
• In the second round, the five first round winners and the 19 teams receiving byes to the second round were allocated into twelve ties based on the first round tie numbers, with five first round winners playing against the five teams receiving byes, and the other four first round winners playing against each other.
• In the third round, the twelve second round winners were allocated into six ties based on the second round tie numbers.
• In the fourth round, the six third round winners were allocated into three ties based on the third round tie numbers.

Table

Notes

• Teams in bold qualified for the group stage.
• (W): Withdrew after the draw

Did not enter

Format

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 was applied, and if still tied, the penalty shoot-out (no extra time) was used to determine the winner.

Schedule

Round	Leg	Date
First round	First leg	13–15 January 2022
	Second leg	27–29 January 2022
Second round^[2]	First leg	3–5 March 2022
	Second leg	17–19 March 2022
Third round^[3]	First leg	15–17 April 2022
	Second leg	29 April–1 May 2022
Fourth round^[4]	First leg	20–22 May 2022
	Second leg	4–5 June 2022

First round

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Second round

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Tanzania won 11–0 on aggregate.----3–3 on aggregate. Ethiopia won on away goals.---- Nigeria won 8–0 on aggregate.----Guinea won 9–3 on aggregate.----Ghana won 4–0 on aggregate.----Morocco won 3–1 on aggregate.

Third round

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Cameroon won 5–0 on aggregate.----Tanzania won 5–2 on aggregate.----Ethiopia won 3–1 on aggregate.----Nigeria won 6–0 on aggregate.----Ghana won 10–1 on aggregate.----Morocco won 18–0 on aggregate.

Fourth round

|}Tanzania won 5–1 on aggregate.----Nigeria won 1–0 on aggregate.----2–2 on aggregate. Morocco won 4–2 on penalties.

Qualified teams for the 2022 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup

The following three teams from CAF qualified for the 2022 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup in India.^[5]

Team	Qualified on	data-sort-type="number"	Previous appearances in the FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup
		5 (2008, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2016)
		0 (debut)
		0 (debut)

See also

• 2022 Women's Africa Cup of Nations
• 2022 African U-20 Women's World Cup qualification

Notes and References

1. Web site: 10 May 2021. Thrilling encounters in CAF draw for FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup India 2022. CAFOnline.com. 4 July 2021.
2. Web site: 1 March 2022. Second Qualifying Round Schedule – U-17 Women's World Cup India 2022. CAFOnline.com. 4 March 2022.
3. Web site: 10 April 2022. Third Qualifying Round Schedule. CAFOnline.com. 1 June 2022.
4. Web site: 17 May 2022. Last Qualifying Round Schedule. CAFOnline.com. 1 June 2022.
5. Web site: 5 June 2022. Debutante duo, Nigeria round off India 2022 line-up. FIFA. 6 June 2022 .