Organising body | CAF |
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Founded | 2008 |
Region | Africa |
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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.
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.[1] On 19 January 2010, CAF released the fixtures for the second edition of this competition.[2] 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.[3] 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,[4] the former whose draw was conducted the following day.[5]
Year | Hosts | Champion | Score | Runner-up | Third place | ||
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2008[a] | ![]() |
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round-robin | ![]() Ghana[7] |
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Year | Hosts | Final round | |||
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Winners | Agg. Score | Runners-up | |||
2010 | ![]() |
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11–0 | ![]() | |
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7–1 | ![]() | |||
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2–1 | ![]() | |||
2012 | ![]() |
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3–1 | ![]() | |
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7–1 | ![]() | |||
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5–1 | ![]() | |||
2013 | ![]() |
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5–2 | ![]() | |
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w/o | ![]() | |||
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6–4 | ![]() | |||
2016 | ![]() |
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10–0 | ![]() | |
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6–1 | ![]() | |||
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7–0 | ![]() | |||
2018 | ![]() |
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19–0 | ![]() | |
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6–1 | ![]() | |||
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3–3 (a) | ![]() | |||
2020 | Not completed: The 2020 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. | ||||
2022 | ![]() |
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2–2 (4–2 p) | ![]() | |
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1–0 | ![]() | |||
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5–1 | ![]() | |||
2024 | ![]() |
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5–0 | ![]() | |
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3–1 | ![]() | |||
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6–1 | ![]() | |||
2025 | ![]() |
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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 editioninAzerbaijan. Nigeria finished 3rd in the 2022 editioninIndia. Tanzania has reached the quarter-final also the same year, with all other qualified CAF nations getting eliminated in the group stages.
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World Cup | ![]() 2008 |
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![]() 2022 |
![]() 2024 |
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Total |
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GS | GS | 2 | |||||||
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GS | 1 | ||||||||
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GS | GS | 3rd | QF | QF | QF | 6 | |||
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Q | 1 | ||||||||
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GS | Q | 2 | |||||||
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GS | QF | QF | QF | GS | 3rd | Q | 7 | ||
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GS | GS | 2 | |||||||
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QF | 1 | ||||||||
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GS | Q | 2 | |||||||
Total | 2 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 5 |
Team | 2008 | 2010 | 2012 | 2013 | 2016 | 2018 | 2020 | 2022 | 2024 | 2025 | Total |
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R1 | R3 | 2 | ||||||||
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• | R1 | R2 | 2 | |||||||
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R3 | 1 | |||||||||
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• | R1 | R1 | R1 | PR | R1 | R1 | R2 | 7 | ||
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R2 | R4 | 2 | ||||||||
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3rd | R1 | Q | Q | R3 | R2 | 6 | ||||
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• 1 | 0 | |||||||||
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R2 | 1 | |||||||||
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• | • | • | R1 • | R2 | 2 | |||||
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R1 | R2 | R1 • | R3 | 4 | ||||||
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• | R2 | R2 | 2 | |||||||
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R1 | R1 | R3 | R3 | 4 | ||||||
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R2 | • | PR • | R2 | 3 | ||||||
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R1 • | 1 | |||||||||
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• | 0 | |||||||||
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Q | R1 | 2 | ||||||||
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2nd | Q | Q | Q | Q | Q | R3 | 7 | |||
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PR | • | R2 | R2 | 3 | ||||||
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q | 1 | |||||||||
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• | R1 | • | • | R1 • | Q | 3 | ||||
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R1 | R1 | R4 | 3 | |||||||
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• | R2 | 1 | ||||||||
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• | • | R2 | 1 | |||||||
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PR • | 1 | |||||||||
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PR • | 1 | |||||||||
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• | R2 | R2 | Q | R4 | Q | 4 | ||||
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• | 0 | |||||||||
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• | R1 | R1 | R1 • | 3 | ||||||
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R2 | R2 | 2 | ||||||||
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1st | Q | Q | Q | Q | R2 | Q | Q | 8 | ||
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PR • | 1 | |||||||||
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R1 • | 1 | |||||||||
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R1 | R3 | 2 | ||||||||
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• | R1 | • | PR | PR • | 3 | |||||
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R1 | Q | R2 | R2 | R2 | Q | R2 | R2 | 8 | ||
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R2 | PR • | 2 | ||||||||
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Q | R2 | 2 | ||||||||
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R1 | 1 | |||||||||
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R2 | R2 | • | 2 | |||||||
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R1 | R3 | 2 | ||||||||
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PR | R2 | Q | • | PR | R2 | Q | 6 | |||
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R1 | 1 | |||||||||
Total | 8 | 4 | 12 | 7 | 11 | 12 | N/A | 29 | 25 |
1 Congo did not show up for the first leg in the first round.
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