Tourney Name: | African U-17 Women's World Cup qualification |
Year: | 2024 |
Num Teams: | 25 |
Confederations: | 1 |
Matches: | 34 |
Goals: | 136 |
Top Scorer: | Harmony Chidi |
Prevseason: | 2022 |
Nextseason: | 2025 |
The 2024 African U-17 Women's World Cup qualification was the 9th 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 2007 were eligible to compete in the tournament.
Three teams qualified from this tournament for the 2024 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup in Dominican Republic as the CAF representatives.
A total of 25 (out of 54) CAF member national teams entered the qualifying rounds. The draw was held on 8 June 2023 at the CAF headquarters in Cairo, Egypt. The draw procedures were as follows:[1]
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.
Round | Leg | Date |
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First round | First leg | 8–10 December 2023 |
Second leg | 15–17 December 2023 | |
Second round | First leg | 3–6 February 2024 |
Second leg | 9–11 February 2024 | |
Third round | First leg | 10–12 May 2024 |
Second leg | 15–19 May 2024 | |
Fourth round | First leg | 7–9 June 2024 |
Second leg | 14–16 June 2024 |
The three winners of the fourth round will qualify for the 2024 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup.
|}Nigeria won 12–0 on aggregate.----Djibouti won on walkover and advanced to the third round after Equatorial Guinea withdrew before the first leg.[2] ----Ethiopia won 3–0 on aggregate.----Zambia won 5–1 on aggregate.----Morocco won 22–0 on aggregate.----Senegal won on walkover and advanced to the third round after Libya withdrew before the first leg.----Burkina Faso won 6–2 on aggregate.----Burundi won 6–1 on aggregate.----Kenya won on walkover and advanced to the third round after DR Congo withdrew before the first leg.[3] ----Uganda won 4–2 on aggregate----2–2 on aggregate. Algeria won 8–7 on penalties.----Liberia won on walkover and advanced to the third round after Mali withdrew before the first leg.[4]
The following three teams from CAF will qualify for the 2024 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup in the Dominican Republic.
Team | Qualified on | data-sort-type="number" | Previous appearances in the FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup |
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6 (2008, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2022) | |||
1 (2014) | |||
0 (debut) |