The West African Football Union (; ), officially abbreviated as WAFU-UFOA and WAFU, is a sports governing body representing the football associations in West Africa that was founded in 1975 and is a subregional body of the Confederation of African Football (CAF).
It mainly organizes qualifying tournaments/championships for the CAF Women's Champions League and CAF's national team competitions except the Africa Cup of Nations, but also organizes its own competitions, like the currently-inactive WAFU Nations Cup.
WAFU consists of all football associations of West Africa, but is split into two zones by CAF, who cited "organisational issues facing WAFU."
On December 2025, Mauritania left the West African Football Union to join the UNAF.
WAFU runs main and qualifying competitions covering men, women and youth.
Rankings are calculated by FIFA.
Top-ranked men's national football teams