Matches played 32 | Goals scored 94 (2.94 per match) | |
Dates 2 May – 8 November 2015 Teams 19 (from 1 confederation) Top scorer(s) Loza Abera
Chinwendu Ihezuo
(6 goals each) | ||
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.
Contents
- Teams
- Format
- Schedule
- Preliminary round
- First round
- Second round
- Third round
- Qualified teams for FIFA U 20 Womens World Cup
- Goalscorers
- References
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.
Ghana and Nigeria qualified for the World Cup like in the last three editions.
Teams
A total of 19 CAF member national teams entered the qualifying rounds.
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 two winners of the third round qualified for the FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup.
Schedule
The schedule of the qualifying rounds was as follows.
Preliminary round
Note: Sierra Leone withdrew. 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.
Burkina Faso won 7–0 on aggregate.
DR Congo won 6–0 on aggregate.
Liberia won on walkover.
First round
Note: Order of legs between Liberia and Nigeria reversed from original fixtures.
Burkina Faso won 3–2 on aggregate.
Ethiopia won 2–1 on aggregate.
Equatorial Guinea won 4–0 on aggregate.
Ghana won 8–0 on aggregate.
DR Congo won 5–0 on aggregate.
Nigeria won 14–1 on aggregate.
Zambia won 4–0 on aggregate.
South Africa won 9–1 on aggregate.
Second round
Note: First leg of Burkina Faso v Ethiopia was postponed to 3 October, then to 10 October, due to coup in Burkina Faso.
Ethiopia won 2–0 on aggregate.
Ghana won 3–0 on aggregate.
Nigeria won 4–1 on aggregate.
South Africa won 3–2 on aggregate.
Third round
Winners qualified for 2016 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup.
Ghana won 6–2 on aggregate.
Nigeria won 3–1 on aggregate.
Qualified teams for FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup
The following two teams from CAF qualified for the FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup.