2024 Women's Africa Cup of Nations

2024 Women's Africa Cup of Nations
  • كأس الأمم الإفريقية للسيدات 2024
  • Coupe d'Afrique des nations féminine 2024
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Tournament details
Host countryMorocco
Dates5–26 July 2025[1]
Teams12
2022
2026

The 2024 Women's Africa Cup of Nations (Arabic: كأس الأمم الإفريقية للسيدات 2024, French: Coupe d'Afrique des nations féminine 2024), officially known as the 2024 TotalEnergies Women's Africa Cup of Nations for sponsorship purposes and as WAFCON 2024 for short, will be the 15th edition of the biennial African women's football tournament organized by the Confederation of African Football. It will be hosted by Morocco in consecutive editions, having hosted the previous edition two years before.[2]

South Africa are the defending champions.

Host selection

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CAF retained Morocco as hosts on 10 August 2022,[3][2] thus becoming the first country to host back-to-back WAFCON editions.

Qualification

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Morocco qualified automatically as hosts, while the remaining spots will be determined by the qualification rounds, whose draw was conducted on 6 July 2023 at the Mohammed VI Complex in Rabat, Morocco and will commence in August.[4]

Qualified teams

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  Qualified
  Did not qualify
  Did not enter or withdrew
  Not part of CAF

The following teams have qualified for this edition of the tournament.

Team Method of
qualification
Date of
qualification
Finals
appearance
Last
appearance
Previous best
performance
FIFA ranking
at start of event
 Morocco Hosts 10 August 2022 4th 2022 Runners-up (2022)
 South Africa Second round winners 4 December 2023 14th 2022 Champions (2022)
 Algeria 6th 2018 Group stage (2004, 2006, 2010, 2014, 2018)
 Ghana 5 December 2023 13th 2018 Runners-up (1998, 2002, 2006)
 Botswana 2nd 2022 Quarter-finals (2022)
 DR Congo 4th 2012 Third place (1998)
 Tunisia 3rd 2022 Quarter-finals (2022)
 Senegal 3rd 2022 Quarter-finals (2022)
 Zambia 5th 2022 Third place (2022)
 Tanzania 2nd 2010 Group stage (2010)
 Mali 8th 2018 Fourth place (2018)
 Nigeria 15th 2022 Champions (1991, 1995, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2010, 2014, 2016, 2018)

Group stage

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Tiebreakers

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Teams were ranked according to points (3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, 0 points for a loss).

If two teams were tied on points, the following tiebreaking criteria were applied, in the order given, to determine the rankings (Regulations Article 74):[5]

  1. Points in head-to-head matches match between the two tied teams;
  2. Goal difference in all group matches;
  3. Goals scored in all group matches;
  4. Drawing of lots.

If more than two teams were tied, the following criteria were applied instead:

  1. Points in matches between the tied teams;
  2. Goal difference in matches between the tied teams;
  3. Goals scored in matches between the tied teams;
  4. If after applying all criteria above, two teams were still tied, the above criteria were again applied to matches played between the two teams in question. If this did not resolve the tie, the next three criteria were applied;
  5. Goal difference in all group matches;
  6. Goals scored in all group matches;
  7. Drawing of lots.

Group A

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Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1  Morocco (H) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Advance to knockout stage
2 A2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
3 A3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Possible knockout stage based on ranking
4 A4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
First match(es) will be played: TBD. Source: CAF
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers
(H) Hosts

Group B

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Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1 B1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Advance to knockout stage
2 B2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
3 B3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Possible knockout stage based on ranking
4 B4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
First match(es) will be played: TBD. Source: CAF
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers

Group C

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Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1 C1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Advance to knockout stage
2 C2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
3 C3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Possible knockout stage based on ranking
4 C4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
First match(es) will be played: TBD. Source: CAF
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers

Ranking of third-placed teams

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Pos Grp Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1 A A3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Advance to knockout stage
2 B B3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
3 C C3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
First match(es) will be played: TBD. Source: CAF
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Goals scored; 4) Disciplinary points; 5) Drawing of lots.

References

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  1. ^ "CAF Executive Committee announces dates of CAF TotalEnergies Africa Cup of Nations ("AFCON") Morocco 2025 and CAF TotalEnergies Women's Africa Cup of Nations 2024". cafonline.com. Confederation of African Football. 21 June 2024. Retrieved 23 June 2024.
  2. ^ a b "Again, CAF approves Morocco as WAFCON host In 2024". Blueprint Newspapers. 10 August 2022. Retrieved 12 August 2022.
  3. ^ "WAFCON 2024: Morocco still host country". Sport News Africa. 10 August 2022. Archived from the original on 29 March 2023. Retrieved 12 August 2022.
  4. ^ "TotalEnergies CAF Women's Africa Cup of Nations, Morocco 2024 qualifiers draw concluded". CAFOnline.com. 6 July 2023. Retrieved 6 July 2023.
  5. ^ Nassar, Khaled (21 October 2021). "Regulations of the Africa Cup of Nations" (PDF). CAFOnline.com. Retrieved 21 January 2024.
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