2024 African U-17 Women's World Cup qualification explained

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.

Draw

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]

Table

Notes

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

RoundLegDate
First roundFirst leg8–10 December 2023
Second leg15–17 December 2023
Second round First leg3–6 February 2024
Second leg9–11 February 2024
Third round First leg10–12 May 2024
Second leg15–19 May 2024
Fourth round First leg7–9 June 2024
Second leg14–16 June 2024

Bracket

The three winners of the fourth round will qualify for the 2024 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup.

First round

Central African Republic won on walkover and advanced to the Second round after Mauritius withdrew before the first leg.

Second round

|}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]

Third round

Burundi won 24–0 on aggregate.----Kenya won 3–0 on aggregate.----Zambia won 2–1 on aggregate.----Morocco won 8–0 on aggregate.----3–3 on aggregate. Liberia won on away goals.----Nigeria won 7–1 on aggregate.

Fourth round

Kenya won 5–0 on aggregate.----Zambia won 3–1 on aggregate.----Nigeria won 6–1 on aggregate.

Qualified teams for the 2024 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup

The following three teams from CAF will qualify for the 2024 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup in the Dominican Republic.

TeamQualified ondata-sort-type="number"Previous appearances in the FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup
6 (2008, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2022)
1 (2014)
0 (debut)

See also

Notes and References

  1. Web site: 8 June 2023. U-17 World Women's Cup qualifiers draw lines up exciting duels. CAFOnline.com. 19 June 2023.
  2. Web site: Eliminatoires coupe du monde féminine 2024/U17 – Les gazelles qualifiées par forfait. fr. 22 January 2024. Djiboutian Football Federation. 28 January 2024.
  3. Football_Kenya. Football Kenya Federation. 1754052280272232459. Junior Starlets advanced to the 3rd round of the 2024 FIFA U17 Women’s World Cup Qualifiers after RD Congo withdrew from the ongoing qualifiers.
  4. karlyboy71. 1745460293977973214. CAF Women's Under 17 Qualifying – Mali withdrawal.