2022 CAF Women's Champions League CECAFA qualifiers explained

Tourney Name:CAF Women's Champions League CECAFA Qualifiers
Year:2022
Dates:15–27 August 2022
Num Teams:8
Associations:8
Venues:2
Cities:1
Country:Tanzania
City:Dar es Salaam
Count:1
Second Other: She Corporate FC
Fourth Other: AS Kigali WFC
Matches:16
Goals:72
Top Scorer: Loza Abera (11 goals)
Updated:27 August 2022
Prevseason:2021
Nextseason:2023

The 2022 CAF Women's Champions League CECAFA Qualifiers is the 2nd edition of the CAF Women's Champions League CECAFA Qualifiers, a women's club football championship organised by the CECAFA for the women's clubs of association nations. This edition will held from 28 July to 10 August 2022 in Arusha, Tanzania.[1] but it was moved to August 14-27th in Dar es salaam, Tanzania[2]

The winner of the tournament will qualify for the inaugural 2022 CAF Women's Champions League which will held later this year.

Participating clubs

TeamAppearances Previous best performance
Fofila PF n/a
Garde Republic FC n/a
Commercial Bank of Ethiopia FCRunner up(2021)
AS Kigali WFC n/a
Yei Join Star FCGroupe stage(2021)
Simba Queens FC (Host)3rd(2021)
She Corporate FC n/a
Warriors QFC n/a

Venues

Cities Venues Capacity
MiburaniNational Stadium60,000
Dar es SalaamAzam Complex Stadium 10,000

Match officials

Referees

Assistant Referees

Draw

The draw for this edition of the tournament was held on 20 July 2022 at 11:00 UTC (13:00 CAT) in Morocco. The eight teams were drawn into 2 group of 4 teams with teams finishing first and second in the groups qualifying for the knockout stages.

width=25%Group Awidth=25%Group B
AS Kigali WFC Commercial Bank of Ethiopia FC Warriors QFC Fofila PF Garde Republic FC Yei Join Star FC She Corporate FC Simba Queens FC

Group stage

The tournament was played in a two groups format.[3]

TiebreakersTeams are ranked according to points (3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, 0 points for a loss), and if tied on points, the following tiebreaking criteria are applied, in the order given, to determine the rankings.
  1. Points in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
  2. Goal difference in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
  3. Goals scored in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
  4. If more than two teams are tied, and after applying all head-to-head criteria above, a subset of teams are still tied, all head-to-head criteria above are reapplied exclusively to this subset of teams;
  5. Goal difference in all group matches;
  6. Goals scored in all group matches;
  7. Penalty shoot-out if only two teams are tied and they met in the last round of the group;
  8. Disciplinary points (yellow card = 1 point, red card as a result of two yellow cards = 3 points, direct red card = 3 points, yellow card followed by direct red card = 4 points);
  9. Drawing of lots.

Time UTC +3[4]

Group A

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Group B

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Knockout stage

Semi-finals

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Final

Statistics

Goalscorers

RankPlayerTeamGoals
1 Loza Abera11
2 Medina Busser CBE F.C.6
3 Phiona Nabbuma She Corporate FC6
4 Zawadi Usanase AS Kigali WFC5
5 Alworonga Debora Yei Joint Stars4
Favour Nambatya She Corporate FC
7 Vivian Corazone Simba Queens3
8 Olaiya Barakat Simba Queens2
Asha Djafari Simba Queens
Pambani Kuzoya Simba Queens
Philomena Abakah Simba Queens
Joanita Ainembabazi She Corporate FC
Mariam Luiz Yei Joint Stars
Fofila PF
Anita Namata She Corporate FC
Opa Clement Simba Queens
Corazone Aquino Simba Queens
18 Margaret Namiru She Corporate FC1
Jackline Nakasi She Corporate FC
Joëlle Bukuru Simba Queens
Fatuma Kankidi Fofila PF
Sakina Saidi Fofila PF
Drazila Uwenea Fofila PF
Nardos Getenet CBE F.C.
Aisha Juma Manunka Simba Queens
Diana William Mnally Simba Queens
Dorothee Mukeshimana AS Kigali WFC
Hasabe Gila CBE F.C.
Aregash CBE F.C.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Eight teams for CECAFA Women's Champions League 2022 in Tanzania. 6 July 2022.
  2. Web site: CECAFA Women's Champions League moves to Dar es Salaam - CECAFA FOOTBALL .
  3. News: All set for the inaugural CAF Women Champions League CECAFA Qualifiers . footballkenya.org . FKF Communications . 24 August 2021 .
  4. Cecafaonline . Cecafaonline . 1554557516268376069 . 2 August 2022 . CECAFA Women's Champions League 2022 fixture out. https://t.co/TDOdp3dcvL . en . 28 December 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220803031730/https://twitter.com/Cecafaonline/status/1554557516268376069 . 3 August 2022 . live.