2010 African U-20 Women's World Cup qualification

The 2010 African U-20 Women's World Cup Qualifying Tournament was the 5th edition of the African U-20 Women's World Cup Qualifying Tournament, 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.

2010 African U-20 Women's World Cup Qualifying Tournament
Tournament details
Dates24 October 2009 – 27 March 2010
Teams18 (from 1 confederation)
Tournament statistics
Matches played21
Goals scored80 (3.81 per match)
2008
2012

Players born on or after 1 January 1990 are eligible to compete in the tournament. The top two teams of the tournament Ghana and Nigeria qualified for the 2010 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup in Germany as the CAF representatives.[1]

Preliminary round edit

In this preliminary round, São Tomé and Príncipe withdrew from competition before the start of the 1st leg. As a result, Central African Republic qualified for the next round.[2]

Mozambique, Kenya, Togo, and Sierra Leone all withdrew from preliminary competition.[3]

Team 1 Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
Uganda   3–1   Rwanda 2–1 1–0
Madagascar   2–7   Réunion 1–4 1–3
Central African Republic   w/o   São Tomé and Príncipe
Mozambique   np   Kenya
Togo   np   Sierra Leone
Botswana   bye
Congo   bye
DR Congo   bye
Egypt   bye
Ghana   bye
Namibia   bye
Nigeria   bye
South Africa   bye
Tunisia   bye
Zambia   bye
Zimbabwe   bye
Uganda  2−1  Rwanda
Rwanda  0−1  Uganda

Uganda won 3−1 on aggregate and advanced to the first round.


Madagascar  1−4  Réunion
Réunion  3−1  Madagascar

Réunion won 7−2 on aggregate and advanced to the first round.


Central African Rep. won on walkover after São Tomé and Príncipe did not appear for the first leg and advanced to the first round.

First round edit

In the first round, Tunisia, Ghana, and Zambia qualified for the next round after that Egypt, Congo and Uganda withdrew from competition before the start of the 1st leg.[4]

There was no matches due to withdrawal of Mozambique, Kenya, Togo and Sierra Leone. As a result, Zimbabwe and Nigeria qualified for the next round.[5]

Team 1 Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
Central African Republic   1–3   DR Congo 0–2 1–1
Botswana   3–3 (3–4 p)   Namibia 1–2 2–1
Réunion   3–6   South Africa 3–4 0–2
Tunisia   w/o   Egypt
Congo   w/o   Ghana
Uganda   w/o   Zambia
Winner of matches 7–8 np   Zimbabwe
Winner of matches 9–10 np   Nigeria

DR Congo won 3−1 on aggregate and advanced to the second round.


Botswana  1−2  Namibia
Namibia  1−2  Botswana
Penalties
4–3

Namibia won on penalties free kick 4−3 after a draw of 3−3 on aggregate and advanced to the second round.


Réunion  3−4  South Africa
South Africa  2−0  Réunion

South Africa won 6−3 on aggregate and advanced to the second round.


Tunisia  Cancelled  Egypt
w/o

Tunisia won on walkover after Egypt did not appear for the first leg and advanced to the second round.


Congo  Cancelled  Ghana
w/o

Ghana won on walkover after Congo did not appear for the first leg and advanced to the second round.


Uganda  Cancelled  Zambia
w/o

Zambia won on walkover after Uganda did not appear for the first leg and advanced to the second round.

Second round edit

Team 1 Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
DR Congo   3–2   Namibia 2–2 1–0
Tunisia   0–3   Ghana 0–2 0–1
South Africa   7–2   Zambia 1–2 6–0
Zimbabwe   1–10   Nigeria 1–4 0–6
DR Congo  2−2  Namibia
Namibia  0−1  DR Congo

DR Congo won 3−2 on aggregate and advanced to the third round.


Tunisia  0−2  Ghana
Ghana  1−0  Tunisia

Ghana won 3−0 on aggregate and advanced to the third round.


South Africa  1−2  Zambia
Zambia  0−6  South Africa

South Africa won 7−2 on aggregate and advanced to the third round.


Zimbabwe  1−4  Nigeria
Nigeria  6−0  Zimbabwe

Nigeria won 10−1 on aggregate and advanced to the third round.

Third round edit

The winners of the two Third Round matches will qualify directly to the 2010 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup held in Germany.

Team 1 Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
DR Congo   0–5   Ghana 0–2 0–3
South Africa   3–12   Nigeria 3–5 0–7
DR Congo  0−2  Ghana
  • Florence Dadson  
  • Fauzia Ibrahim  
Ghana  3−0  DR Congo
  • Fauzia Ibrahim  
  • Elizabeth Cudjoe  
  • Florence Dadson  

Ghana won 5−0 on aggregate and qualified for 2010 FIFA U20 W-WC.


South Africa  3−5  Nigeria
Nigeria  7−0  South Africa

Nigeria won 12−3 on aggregate and qualified for 2010 FIFA U20 W-WC.

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

The following two teams from CAF qualified for the FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup.

Team Qualified on Previous appearances in tournament
  Ghana 26 February 2010 0
  Nigeria 27 March 2010 4 (2002, 2004, 2006, 2008)

References edit

  1. ^ "2010 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup". fifa.com. August 3, 2010.
  2. ^ "São Tomé and Príncipe is the first African nation to withdraw". cafoline.com. 2010-02-11. Archived from the original on 2012-04-14. Retrieved 2010-02-11.
  3. ^ "more preliminary round withdrawals". cafoline.com. 2010-02-11. Archived from the original on 2010-07-24. Retrieved 2010-02-11.
  4. ^ "Congo and Uganda withdraw". cafoline.com. 2010-02-11. Archived from the original on 2012-04-14. Retrieved 2010-02-11.
  5. ^ "Mozambique, Kenya, Togo and Sierra Leone withdraw". cafoline.com. 2010-02-11. Archived from the original on 2012-04-14. Retrieved 2010-02-11.

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