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African U-17 Women's World Cup qualification

Qualification for the FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup for African nations

Field	Value
organiser	CAF
founded	2008
region	Africa
current	2026 edition

The African U-17 Women's World Cup qualification is a biennial youth women's association football qualification competition for the FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup organized by the Confederation of African Football for its nations.

History

With the imminent inauguration of the FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup in 2008, CAF began organizing a qualification competition that year with 12 teams entering its debut edition, but 5 withdrew before playing. On 19 January 2010, CAF released the fixtures for the second edition of this competition. Ten teams entered that edition, but only five played matches; Nigeria, Ghana and South Africa qualified for that year's FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup. On 7 June 2023, CAF revealed the formats for the qualification procedures for the next editions of the FIFA U-17 and U-20 Women's World Cups, the former whose draw was conducted the following day.

Results

African U-17 Women's Championship

Year	Hosts	Champion	Score	Runner-up	Third place
2008	[[File:550px-Africa_(orthographic_projection).png	20px]] Home sites	****	round-robin	****

African U-17 Women's World Cup qualification

Year	Hosts	Final round	Winners	Agg. Score
2010	[[File:550px-Africa_(orthographic_projection).png	20px]] Home sites	****	11–0
****	7–1
****	2–1
2012	[[File:550px-Africa_(orthographic_projection).png	20px]] Home sites	****	3–1
****	7–1
****	5–1
2013	[[File:550px-Africa_(orthographic_projection).png	20px]] Home sites	****	5–2
****
****	6–4
2016	[[File:550px-Africa_(orthographic_projection).png	20px]] Home sites	****	10–0
****	6–1
****	7–0
2018	[[File:550px-Africa_(orthographic_projection).png	20px]] Home sites	****	19–0
****	6–1
****	3–3 (a)
2020	Not completed: The 2020 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
2022	[[File:550px-Africa_(orthographic_projection).png	20px]] Home sites	****	2–2
****	1–0
****	5–1
2024	[[File:550px-Africa_(orthographic_projection).png	20px]] Home sites	****	5–0
****	3–1
****	6–1
2025	[[File:550px-Africa_(orthographic_projection).png	20px]] Home sites	****	4–0
****	2–2 (a)
****	4–1
****	6–2

Results at the FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup

Since its inception in 2008, all editions have qualified three teams to the FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup. Ghana finished 3rd in the 2012 edition in Azerbaijan. Nigeria finished 3rd in the 2022 edition in India. Tanzania has reached the quarter-final also the same year, with all other qualified CAF nations getting eliminated in the group stages.

QF = Quarter-final
GS = Group stage
q = Qualified
3rd = Third Place/Bronze medalist
= Hosts

World Cup	NZL
2008	TRI
2010	AZE
2012	CRI
2014	JOR
2016	URU
2018	IND
2022	DOM
2024	MAR
2025	Total	3	1	6	1	1	2	8	2	1	3	Total	2	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	5
					GS	GS			Q
			GS
	GS	GS	3rd	QF	QF	QF
									Q
								GS
							GS		Q
	GS	QF	QF	QF	GS		3rd	QF	Q
		GS				GS
							QF
				GS				GS	Q

Team participation

2008	2010	2012	2013	2016	2018	2022	2024	2025
					R1		R3	R3
•						R1	R2	R3
							R3
•	R1	R1	R1	PR	R1	R1	R2	R2
						R2	R4	R2
3rd		R1		Q	Q	R3	R2	Q
							R2	R1
			•1					•
•	•			•		R1 •	R2	R2
				R1	R2	R1 •	R3
	•			R2		R2		R1
				R1	R1	R3	R3	R2
			R2		•	PR •	R2	•
						R1 •
				•				R1
		Q			R1
2nd	Q	Q	Q	Q	Q	R3
PR		•				R2	R2	R3
						q
								Q
	•	R1	•		•	R1 •	Q	R3
R1						R1	R4
					•		R2
				•	•		R2
						PR •
							PR •
			•	R2	R2	Q	R4	Q2
		•
•		R1		R1		R1 •		R1
						R2	R2	R1
1st	Q	Q	Q	Q	R2	Q	Q	Q
						PR •
						R1 •
						R1	R3	R1
	•	R1		•	PR	PR •		R2
R1	Q	R2	R2	R2	Q	R2	R2	R2
				R2		PR •
						Q	R2	R2
		R1						•
		R2	R2		•			R1
						R1	R3	R2
PR		R2	Q	•	PR	R2	Q	Q
R1								•

:1 Congo did not show up for the first leg in the first round. :2 Morocco didn't take part in the qualification because it hosts the WC.

;Legend

— Champions
— Runners-up
— Third place
— Fourth place
— Qualified
PR — Preliminary Round
R1 — Round 1
R2 — Round 2
— Withdrew
— Did not enter
— Hosts
q — Qualified for upcoming tournament edition

Notes

References

"African Women U-17 Championship 2008".
(19 January 2010). "CAF releases women U-17 fixtures - CAN U-17 women 2010".
(26 July 2011). "Matches & results - CAN U-17 women 2010".
(7 June 2023). "CAF to conduct FIFA U17, U20 Women’s World Cup Qualifier Draw on Thursday". [[Confederation of African Football.
(8 June 2023). "U-17 World Women's Cup qualifiers draw lines up exciting duels".
(23 June 2008). "Flamingoes lead African charge".
(6 July 2008). "Ghana join Nigeria at NZ 2008".

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