African U-17 Women's World Cup qualification explained

Organiser:	CAF
Founded:	2008
Region:	Africa
Current:	2025 edition

The African U-17 Women's World Cup qualification is a biennial youth women's association football qualification competition for the FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup organized by the Confederation of African Football for its nations.

History

With the imminent inauguration of the FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup in 2008, CAF began organizing a qualification competition that year with 12 teams entering its debut edition, but 5 withdrew before playing.^[1] On 19 January 2010, CAF released the fixtures for the second edition of this competition.^[2] Ten teams entered that edition, but only five played matches; Nigeria, Ghana and South Africa qualified for that year's FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup.^[3] On 7 June 2023, CAF revealed the formats for the qualification procedures for the next editions of the FIFA U-17 and U-20 Women's World Cups,^[4] the former whose draw was conducted the following day.^[5]

Results

African U-17 Women's Championship

width=5%	Year	width=10%	Hosts	width=1% rowspan=2		Champion	Score	Runner-up	width=1% rowspan=2		Third place
2008	Home sites	^[6]	round-robin	^[7]

African U-17 Women's World Cup qualification

Year	Hosts	width=1% rowspan=17		Final round
Winners	Agg. Score	Runners-up
2010	Home sites		11–0
			7–1
			2–1
2012	Home sites		3–1
			7–1
			5–1
2013	Home sites		5–2
			6–4
2016	Home sites		10–0
			6–1
			7–0
2018	Home sites		19–0
			6–1
			3–3 (a)
2020	Not completed: The 2020 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
2022	Home sites	width=1% rowspan=7			2–2
			1–0
			5–1
2024	Home sites		5–0
			3–1
			6–1
2025	Home sites	To be played

Results at the FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup

Since its inception in 2008, all editions have qualified three teams to the FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup. Ghana finished 3rd in the 2012 edition in Azerbaijan. Nigeria finished 3rd in the 2022 edition in India. Tanzania has reached the quarter-final also the same year, with all other qualified CAF nations getting eliminated in the group stages.

• QF = Quarter-final
• GS = Group stage

• q = Qualified
• 3rd = Third Place/Bronze medalist
• = Hosts

World Cup										Total
					GS	GS				2
			GS							1
	GS	GS	3rd	QF	QF	QF				6
								Q		1
							GS		Q	2
	GS	QF	QF	QF	GS		3rd	Q		7
		GS				GS				2
							QF			1
				GS				Q		2
Total	2	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	5

Team participation

Team	2008	2010	2012	2013	2016	2018	2020	2022	2024	2025	Total
						R1			R3		2
	•							R1	R2		2
									R3		1
	•	R1	R1	R1	PR	R1		R1	R2		7
								R2	R4		2
	3rd		R1		bgcolor=gold	Q	bgcolor=gold	Q		R3	R2		6
				• ^1							0
									R2		1
	•	•			•			R1 •	R2		2
					R1	R2		R1 •	R3		4
		•			R2			R2			2
					R1	R1		R3	R3		4
				R2		•		PR •	R2		3
								R1 •			1
					•						0
			bgcolor=gold	Q			R1					2
	bgcolor=silver	2nd	bgcolor=gold	Q	bgcolor=gold	Q	bgcolor=gold	Q	bgcolor=gold	Q	bgcolor=gold	Q		R3			7
	PR		•					R2	R2		3
								q			1
		•	R1	•		•		R1 •	bgcolor=gold	Q		3
	R1							R1	R4		3
						•			R2		1
					•	•			R2		1
								PR •			1
									PR •		1
				•	R2	R2		bgcolor=gold	Q	R4	Q	4
			•								0
	•		R1		R1			R1 •			3
								R2	R2		2
	bgcolor=gold	1st	bgcolor=gold	Q	bgcolor=gold	Q	bgcolor=gold	Q	bgcolor=gold	Q	R2		bgcolor=gold	Q	bgcolor=gold	Q		8
								PR •			1
								R1 •			1
								R1	R3		2
		•	R1		•	PR		PR •			3
	R1	bgcolor=gold	Q	R2	R2	R2	bgcolor=gold	Q		R2	R2		8
					R2			PR •			2
								bgcolor=gold	Q	R2		2
			R1								1
			R2	R2		•					2
								R1	R3		2
	PR		R2	bgcolor=gold	Q	•	PR		R2	bgcolor=gold	Q		6
	R1										1
Total	8	4	12	7	11	12	N/A	29	25

¹ Congo did not show up for the first leg in the first round.

Legend

• - Champions
• - Runners-up
• - Third place
• - Fourth place
• - Qualified
• PR - Preliminary Round
• R1 - Round 1

• R2 - Round 2
• - Withdrew
• - Did not enter
• - Hosts
• q - Qualified for upcoming tournament edition

See also

• Women's Africa Cup of Nations
• CAF Women's Champions League
• African U-20 Women's World Cup qualification

External links

• Qualification records and history via RSSSF

Notes and References

1. Web site: African Women U-17 Championship 2008. RSSSF. 17 February 2012.
2. Web site: 19 January 2010. CAF releases women U-17 fixtures - CAN U-17 women 2010. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20100125174358/http://www.cafonline.com/competition/can-u-17-women_2010/news/4355-caf-releases-women-u-17-fixtures.html. 25 January 2010. CAFOnline.com. 17 February 2012.
3. Web site: 26 July 2011. Matches & results - CAN U-17 women 2010. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20100316232639/http://www.cafonline.com/competition/can-u-17-women_2010/results. 16 March 2010. CAFOnline.com. 17 February 2012.
4. 7 June 2023. CAF to conduct FIFA U17, U20 Women’s World Cup Qualifier Draw on Thursday. CAFOnline.com. 7 June 2023.
5. Web site: 8 June 2023. U-17 World Women's Cup qualifiers draw lines up exciting duels. CAFOnline.com. 8 June 2023.
6. Web site: 23 June 2008. Flamingoes lead African charge. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20081020071428/http://www.fifa.com/u17womensworldcup/news/newsid=814409.html#flamingoes+lead+african+charge. 20 October 2008. FIFA.com. 30 October 2008.
7. Web site: 6 July 2008. Ghana join Nigeria at NZ 2008. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20081019162042/http://www.fifa.com/u17womensworldcup/news/newsid=822891.html#ghana+join+nigeria+nz+2008. 19 October 2008. FIFA.com. 30 October 2008.