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2015 African U-20 Women's World Cup qualification

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The 2015 African U-20 Women's World Cup Qualifying Tournament was the 8th 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. Players born on or after 1 January 1996 were eligible to compete in the tournament.

2015 African U-20 Women's World Cup Qualifying Tournament
Tournament details
Dates2 May – 8 November 2015
Teams19 (from 1 confederation)
Tournament statistics
Matches played32
Goals scored94 (2.94 per match)
Top scorer(s)Ethiopia Loza Abera
Nigeria Chinwendu Ihezuo
(6 goals each)
← 2014
2018 →

The top two teams of the tournament qualified for the 2016 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup in Papua New Guinea as the CAF representatives.[1]

Ghana and Nigeria qualified for the World Cup like in the last three editions.[2]

Teams edit

A total of 19 CAF member national teams entered the qualifying rounds.[3]

Round Teams entering round No. of teams
Preliminary round
6
First round
13
Qualifying rounds Total 19

Format edit

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 level, the penalty shoot-out would be used to determine the winner (no extra time would be played).

The two winners of the third round qualified for the FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup.

Schedule edit

The schedule of the qualifying rounds was as follows.[3]

Round Leg Date
Preliminary round First leg 1–3 May 2015
Second leg 15–17 May 2015
First round First leg 10–12 July 2015
Second leg 24–26 July 2015
Second round First leg 25–27 September 2015
Second leg 9–11 October 2015
Third round First leg 23–25 October 2015
Second leg 6–8 November 2015

Preliminary round edit

Team 1 Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
Djibouti   0–7   Burkina Faso 0–2 0–5
DR Congo   6–0   Gabon 5–0 1–0
Sierra Leone   w/o   Liberia — —

Note: Sierra Leone withdrew.[4] First leg of DR Congo v Gabon was postponed to 9 May due to field problems, then to 16 May due to Gabon missing the flight.[5]

Djibouti  0–2  Burkina Faso
Report Sawadogo   ?', ?'
Referee: Inès Niyonsaba (Burundi)
Burkina Faso  5–0  Djibouti
Traoré   5', 46'
Sawadogo   11'
Compaoré   46' (pen.)
Sow   81'		 Report
Referee: Isatou Touray (Gambia)

Burkina Faso won 7–0 on aggregate.

DR Congo  5–0  Gabon
Mwadi   13', 32'
Mbemba   53'
Salu   68'
Mawanda   90+'		 Report
Referee: Jonesia Rukyaa Kabakama (Tanzania)
Gabon  0–1  DR Congo
Report Salu   44'

DR Congo won 6–0 on aggregate.

Sierra Leone  Cancelled  Liberia
Report
Liberia  Cancelled  Sierra Leone
Report

Liberia won on walkover.

First round edit

Team 1 Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
Algeria   2–3   Burkina Faso 1–2 1–1
Cameroon   1–2   Ethiopia 0–0 1–2
Equatorial Guinea   4–0   Mali 4–0 0–0
Ghana   8–0   Senegal 6–0 2–0
DR Congo   5–0   Namibia 4–0 1–0
Liberia   1–14   Nigeria 1–7 0–7
Tanzania   0–4   Zambia 0–4 0–0
South Africa   9–1   Botswana 8–1 1–0

Note: Order of legs between Liberia and Nigeria reversed from original fixtures.

Algeria  1–2  Burkina Faso
Meskari   47' (pen.) Report Coulibaly   25'
Ouattara   85'
Burkina Faso  1–1  Algeria
Drabo   36' Report Lamari   75'

Burkina Faso won 3–2 on aggregate.

Cameroon  0–0  Ethiopia
Report
Ethiopia  2–1  Cameroon
Abera   18', 54' Report Mbengono   40'

Ethiopia won 2–1 on aggregate.

Equatorial Guinea  4–0  Mali
Esono   37'
Aju   ?'
Nsang   ?'
Mendoua   ?'		 Report
Mali  0–0  Equatorial Guinea
Report

Equatorial Guinea won 4–0 on aggregate.

Ghana  6–0  Senegal
Owusu-Ansah   2', 90'
Alhassan   17' (pen.)
Adubea   32'
Ayieyam   41', 78'		 Report
Senegal  0–2  Ghana
Report Ayieyam   ?'
Niber-Lawrence   ?'

Ghana won 8–0 on aggregate.

DR Congo  4–0  Namibia
Boyengwa   4'
Mwadi   13', 51'
Mawete   44'		 Report
Referee: Tsige Sisay (Ethiopia)
Namibia  0–1  DR Congo
Report Mwadi   64'

DR Congo won 5–0 on aggregate.

Liberia  1–7  Nigeria
Sayee   40' Report Adeboyejo   15', 36', 60'
Ihezuo   30'
Sunday   70'
Ojinma   78', 87'
Nigeria  7–0  Liberia
Uchendu   23'
Ojinma   26'
Yakubu   35', 77'
Adeboyejo   39'
Bokiri   71', 82'		 Report
Referee: Vincentia Enyonam Amedome (Togo)

Nigeria won 14–1 on aggregate.

Tanzania  0–4  Zambia
Report Phiri   4'
Lungu   20'
Banda   33'
Wilombe   50' (pen.)
Referee: Batol Mahjob Ibrahim (Sudan)
Zambia  0–0  Tanzania
Report

Zambia won 4–0 on aggregate.

South Africa  8–1  Botswana
Wiltshire   8'
Salgado   27', 78' (pen.)
Ndyebi   35', 50'
Kgatlana   40', 58'
Motlhalo   52'		 Report Mathlo   56'
Botswana  0–1  South Africa
Report Sikweza   48'
Referee: Nirinjanahary Raharijaona (Madagascar)

South Africa won 9–1 on aggregate.

Second round edit

Team 1 Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
Burkina Faso   0–2   Ethiopia 0–2 0–0
Equatorial Guinea   0–3   Ghana 0–1 0–2
DR Congo   1–4   Nigeria 1–2 0–2
Zambia   2–3   South Africa 0–0 2–3

Note: First leg of Burkina Faso v Ethiopia was postponed to 3 October, then to 10 October, due to coup in Burkina Faso.[6][7]

Burkina Faso  0–2  Ethiopia
Report Abera   8', 69'
Referee: Uloma Nneka Nwogu (Nigeria)
Ethiopia  0–0  Burkina Faso
Report
Referee: Tabitha Wambui Njoroge (Kenya)

Ethiopia won 2–0 on aggregate.

Equatorial Guinea  0–1  Ghana
Report Diwura-Soale   31'
Referee: Suavis Iratunga (Burundi)
Ghana  2–0  Equatorial Guinea
Niber-Lawrence   73'
Appiah   90'		 Report
Referee: Viviane Kouélé Igue (Benin)

Ghana won 3–0 on aggregate.

DR Congo  1–2  Nigeria
Salu   38' Report Uchendu   6'
Ihezuo   12'
Referee: Thérèse Sylvie Abou'ou (Cameroon)
Nigeria  2–0  DR Congo
Ihezuo   8', 56' Report
Referee: Zomadre Sonia Kore (Ivory Coast)

Nigeria won 4–1 on aggregate.

Zambia  0–0  South Africa
Report
Referee: Letticia Antonella Viana (Swaziland)
South Africa  3–2  Zambia
Motlhalo   1', 74'
Makhoali   55'		 Report Banda   52'
Musesa   57'
Referee: Rusina Kuda Majo (Zimbabwe)

South Africa won 3–2 on aggregate.

Third round edit

Winners qualified for 2016 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup.

Team 1 Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
Ethiopia   2–6   Ghana 2–2 0–4
Nigeria   3–1   South Africa 2–1 1–0
Ethiopia  2–2  Ghana
Abera   15', 22' Report Muso   4' (o.g.)
Addo   80'
Ghana  4–0  Ethiopia
Adubea   33', 51'
Owusu-Ansah   49', 67'		 Report

Ghana won 6–2 on aggregate.

Nigeria  2–1  South Africa
Ihezuo   30'
Van Reyneveld   45' (o.g.)		 Report Salgado   90' (pen.)
South Africa  0–1  Nigeria
Report Ihezuo   16'

Nigeria won 3–1 on aggregate.

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 tournament1
  Ghana 8 November 2015 3 (2010, 2012, 2014)
  Nigeria 8 November 2015 7 (2002, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014)
1 Bold indicates champion for that year. Italic indicates host for that year.

Goalscorers edit

6 goals
5 goals
4 goals
3 goals
2 goals
1 goal
Own goal

References edit

  1. ^ "Decisions taken by the FIFA Executive Committee concerning women's competitions in 2016" (PDF). FIFA. 23 June 2014. Archived from the original (PDF) on July 12, 2014.
  2. ^ "Ghana and Nigeria book places in PNG". FIFA.com. 8 November 2015. Archived from the original on March 27, 2016.
  3. ^ a b "FIXTURES AFRICAN PRELIMINARIES OF THE U-20 FIFA WOMEN WORLD CUP" (PDF). CAF. 15 April 2015.
  4. ^ "U-20 Female Lone Star Qualifies To 2nd Phase". Liberian Observer. 23 April 2015. Archived from the original on 25 October 2015. Retrieved 2 May 2015.
  5. ^ "Eliminatoires-Mondial (F): le match RDC-Gabon reporté au 16 mai". Radio Okapi. 9 May 2015.
  6. ^ "Away victories boost for Falconets, Princesses". CAF. 29 September 2015.
  7. ^ "Burkina Faso vs Ethiopia rescheduled for Oct. 10". CAF. 1 October 2015.

External links edit

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