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2024 African U-20 Women's World Cup qualification

The 2024 African U-20 Women's World Cup qualification was the 12th edition of the African U-20 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-20 national teams from Africa qualify for the FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup. Players born on or after 1 January 2004 were eligible to compete in the tournament.

Four teams qualified from this tournament for the 2024 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup in Colombia as the CAF representatives.

Draw

A total of 35 (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.

  • In the first round, the 6 teams were drawn into 3 ties to play against each other.
  • In the second round, the 3 first round winners and the 29 teams receiving byes to the second round were allocated into 16 ties based on the first round tie numbers, with 3 first round winners playing against the 3 teams receiving byes, and the other 26 first round winners playing against each other.
  • In the third round, the 16 second round winners were allocated into eight ties based on the second round tie numbers.
  • In the fourth round, the eight third round winners were allocated into four ties based on the third round tie numbers.

Table

Notes
  • Teams in bold qualified for the final tournament.

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

Schedule

Bracket

The four winners of the fourth round would qualify for the 2024 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup.

First round

Guinea-Bissau won 6–1 on aggregate.

Second round

Morocco won 5–1 on aggregate.

2–2 on aggregate. Mali won on away goals.

Senegal won 2–0 on aggregate.

Eswatini won on walkover and advanced to the third round after Gabon withdrew prior to the first leg without citing lack of preparation due to no local championship being contested.

Congo won 5–1 on aggregate.

Cameroon won 6–1 on aggregate.

2–2 on aggregate. DR Congo won on away goals.

Tanzania won 12–0 on aggregate.

Guinea won 10–0 on aggregate.

Ethiopia won 5–2 on aggregate.

Uganda won 8–0 on aggregate.

Ghana won 6–0 on aggregate.

Egypt won 18–0 on aggregate.

Kenya won 10–1 on aggregate.

2–2 on aggregate. Burundi won on away goals.

Nigeria won on walkover and advanced to the third round after Mauritius withdrew prior to the first leg without providing a reason for their withdrawal.

Third round

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Morocco won 5–0 on aggregate.

Ethiopia won 6–0 on aggregate.

Senegal won 2–1 on aggregate.

Ghana won 8–1 on aggregate.

Egypt won 7–1 on aggregate.

Cameroon won 6–2 on aggregate.

3–3 on aggregate. Burundi won on away goals.

Nigeria won 3–2 on aggregate.

Fourth round

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Morocco won 2–1 on aggregate and qualified for the 2024 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup.

Ghana won 7–1 on aggregate and qualified for the 2024 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup.

Cameroon won 5–3 on aggregate and qualified for the 2024 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup.

Nigeria won 2–0 on aggregate and qualified for the 2024 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup.

Qualified teams for FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup

The following four teams from CAF qualified for the 2024 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup in Colombia.

<div id="1"><sup>1</sup> Bold indicates champions for that year. Italic indicates hosts for that year.</div>

Goalscorers

See also

References