2016 African U-17 Women's World Cup qualification

2016 African U-17 Women's World Cup Qualifying Tournament
Tournament details
Dates	27 November 2015 – 26 March 2016
Teams	15 (from 1 confederation)
Tournament statistics
Matches played	14
Goals scored	53 (3.79 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Noha Tarek; Rasheedat Ajibade; (8 goals each)
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The 2016 African U-17 Women's World Cup Qualifying Tournament was the 5th edition of the African U-17 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-17 national teams from Africa qualify for the FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup. Players born on or after 1 January 1999 were eligible to compete in the tournament.

The top three teams of the tournament qualified for the 2016 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup in Jordan as the CAF representatives.^[1]

Ghana and Nigeria qualified for the World Cup like in the last four editions, while Cameroon qualified for the first time.^[2]

Teams

A total of 15 CAF member national teams entered the qualifying rounds.^[3]

Round	Teams entering round	No. of teams
Preliminary round	Botswana Djibouti DR Congo Gabon Namibia Sierra Leone	6
First round	Cameroon Egypt Ethiopia Ghana Mali Morocco Nigeria South Africa Zambia	9
Qualifying rounds	Total	15

Did not enter
Algeria Angola Benin Burkina Faso Burundi Cape Verde Central African Republic Chad Comoros Congo Equatorial Guinea Eritrea Gambia Guinea Guinea-Bissau Ivory Coast Kenya Lesotho Liberia Libya Madagascar Malawi Mauritania Mauritius Mozambique Niger Rwanda São Tomé and Príncipe Senegal Seychelles Somalia South Sudan Sudan Swaziland Tanzania Togo Tunisia Uganda Zimbabwe

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

The three winners of the second round qualified for the FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup.

Schedule

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

Round	Leg	Date
Preliminary round	First leg	27–29 November 2015
Preliminary round	Second leg	11–13 December 2015
First round	First leg	8–10 January 2016
First round	Second leg	22–24 January 2016
Second round	First leg	11–13 March 2016
Second round	Second leg	25–27 March 2016

Preliminary round

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Gabon	w/o	Sierra Leone	—	—
Djibouti	w/o	DR Congo	—	—
Botswana	2–3	Namibia	1–2	1–1

Note: DR Congo and Gabon withdrew.^[4]

27 November 2015

Gabon	Cancelled	Sierra Leone
	Report

11 December 2015

Sierra Leone	Cancelled	Gabon
	Report

Sierra Leone won on walkover.

27 November 2015

Djibouti	Cancelled	DR Congo
	Report

11 December 2015

DR Congo	Cancelled	Djibouti
	Report

Djibouti won on walkover.

29 November 2015

16:00 UTC+2

Botswana	1–2	Namibia
Radiakanyo 45+1'	Report	Van Wyk 34' Haoses 84'

Molepololo Sport Complex, Gaborone

Referee: Sarah Selemani (Zambia)

13 December 2015

16:00 UTC+2

Namibia	1–1	Botswana
Van Wyk 60'	Report	Abueng 19'

Sam Nujoma Stadium, Windhoek

Referee: Marximina Luzia Bernardo (Angola)

Namibia won 3–2 on aggregate.

First round

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Morocco	w/o	Mali	—	—
Ghana	w/o	Sierra Leone	—	—
Cameroon	3–3 (5–4 p)	Ethiopia	2–1	1–2
Egypt	9–0	Djibouti	6–0	3–0
Nigeria	9–0	Namibia	4–0	5–0
South Africa	w/o	Zambia	—	—

Note: Sierra Leone, Mali and Zambia withdrew.^[5]

8 January 2016

Morocco	Cancelled	Mali
	Report

22 January 2016

Mali	Cancelled	Morocco
	Report

Morocco won on walkover.

8 January 2016

Ghana	Cancelled	Sierra Leone
	Report

22 January 2016

Sierra Leone	Cancelled	Ghana
	Report

Ghana won on walkover.

9 January 2016

15:00 UTC+1

Cameroon	2–1	Ethiopia
Djoubi 59' (pen.), 78'	Report	Demeke 39'

Stade de la Réunification, Douala

Referee: Aissata Diarra (Mali)

24 January 2016

19:00 UTC+3

Ethiopia	2–1	Cameroon
Demeke 10' Lakew 19'	Report	Takounda 87'
Penalties
	4–5

Addis Ababa Stadium, Addis Ababa

Referee: Akhona Makalima (South Africa)

3–3 on aggregate. Cameroon won on penalties.

9 January 2016

14:30 UTC+2

Egypt	6–0	Djibouti
Mostafa 16' Tarek 31', 48', 65', 90+5' Ezzat 56'	Report

30 June Stadium, Cairo

Referee: Zomadre Sonia Kore (Ivory Coast)

23 January 2016

16:00 UTC+3

Djibouti	0–3	Egypt
	Report	Tarek 44', 48', 57'

Stade du Ville, Djibouti

Referee: Maria Rivet (Mauritius)

Egypt won 9–0 on aggregate.

9 January 2016

16:00 UTC+1

Nigeria	4–0	Namibia
Ajibade 13', 67' Aku 35' Efih 43'	Report

National Stadium, Abuja

Referee: Lamyaa Lourarhi (Morocco)

22 January 2016

16:00 UTC+2

Namibia	0–5	Nigeria
	Report	Dike 4' Aku 32', 53' Ajibade 69' Fajobi 85'

Sam Nujoma Stadium, Windhoek

Referee: Pearl Katlholo Moremi (Botswana)

Nigeria won 9–0 on aggregate.

8 January 2016

South Africa	Cancelled	Zambia
	Report

22 January 2016

Zambia	Cancelled	South Africa
	Report

South Africa won on walkover.

Second round

Winners qualified for 2016 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup.

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Morocco	0–10	Ghana	0–4	0–6
Cameroon	6–1	Egypt	2–1	4–0
Nigeria	7–0	South Africa	6–0	1–0

12 March 2016

15:30 UTC±0

Morocco	0–4	Ghana
	Report	Abdulai 4', 22' Alhassan 15' Owusu-Ansah 71'

Stade de FUS, Rabat

Referee: Neama Mohamed Rashad (Egypt)

26 March 2016

15:00 UTC±0

Ghana	6–0	Morocco
Abdulai 3' Asuako 39' (pen.) Abdul Rahman 64', 79' Owusu-Ansah 68' Asantewaa 77'	Report

Accra Sports Stadium, Accra

Referee: Uloma Nneka Nwogu (Nigeria)

Ghana won 10–0 on aggregate.

12 March 2016

15:00 UTC+1

Cameroon	2–1	Egypt
Takounda 12' Djoubi 36' (pen.)	Report	Tarek 38'

Stade de la Réunification, Douala

Referee: Patricia Obone Obiang (Gabon)

26 March 2016

17:00 UTC+2

Egypt	0–4	Cameroon
	Report	Takounda 7', 11' Dabda 21' Mpeh Bissong 27'

30 June Stadium, Cairo

Referee: Carolyne Wanjala (Kenya)

Cameroon won 6–1 on aggregate.

12 March 2016

16:00 UTC+1

Nigeria	6–0	South Africa
Fajobi 2', 30' Ajibade 26', 33', 34', 42'	Report

National Stadium, Abuja

Referee: Isatou Touray (Gambia)

26 March 2016

14:00 UTC+2

South Africa	0–1	Nigeria
	Report	Ajibade 27'

Makhulong Stadium, Johannesburg

Referee: Gladys Lengwe (Zambia)

Nigeria won 7–0 on aggregate.

Qualified teams for FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup

The following three teams from CAF qualified for the FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup.

Team	Qualified on	Previous appearances in tournament¹
Ghana	26 March 2016	4 (2008, 2010, 2012, 2014)
Cameroon	26 March 2016	0 (Debut)
Nigeria	26 March 2016	4 (2008, 2010, 2012, 2014)

¹ Bold indicates champion for that year. Italic indicates host for that year.

Goalscorers

8 goals

4 goals

Alexandra Takounda

3 goals

2 goals

1 goal

References

^ "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.
^ "Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon qualify for Jordan 2016". FIFA.com. 26 March 2016. Archived from the original on March 29, 2016.
^ ^a ^b "FIXTURES AFRICAN PRELIMINARIES OF THE U-17 FIFA WOMEN WORLD CUP" (PDF). CAF. 15 April 2015.
^ "News in Brief". CAF. 16 December 2015.
^ "Three tickets to Jordan up for grabs in Africa". CAF. 8 March 2016.

External links

2016 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup - Qualifiers, CAFonline.com

[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, Nigeria, Cameroon qualify for Jordan 2016". FIFA.com. 26 March 2016. Archived from the original on March 29, 2016.

[draw-3] "FIXTURES AFRICAN PRELIMINARIES OF THE U-17 FIFA WOMEN WORLD CUP" (PDF). CAF. 15 April 2015.

[4] "News in Brief". CAF. 16 December 2015.

[5] "Three tickets to Jordan up for grabs in Africa". CAF. 8 March 2016.

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