2008 African U-17 Women's Championship

2008 African U-17 Women's Championship
Tournament details
Teams	12 (from 1 confederation)
Final positions
Champions	Nigeria (1st title)
Runners-up	Ghana
Third place	Cameroon
Tournament statistics
Matches played	14
Goals scored	50 (3.57 per match)
	2010 →

The 2008 African U-17 Women's Championship was the first edition of the African U-17 Cup of Nations for Women that served as the African qualifying tournament to the FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup. The winners of the tournament Nigeria and the runners-up Ghana have qualified to the 2008 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup.

Preliminary round[]

Of six match pairings, only two were actually played out.

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
	w/o¹		—	—
	0–12	Nigeria	0–5	0–7
Cameroon	w/o²		—	—
South Africa	w/o³		—	—
Zambia	0–6	Ghana	0–2	0–4
	w/o⁴		—	—

¹ Benin withdrew from competition before the start of the 1st leg. As a result, Liberia qualified for the next round.
² Namibia withdrew from competition before the start of the 1st leg. As a result, Cameroon qualified for the next round.
³ Botswana withdrew from competition before the start of the 1st leg. As a result, South Africa qualified for the next round.
⁴ DR Congo withdrew from competition before the start of the 1st leg. As a result, Zimbabwe qualified for the next round.

First round[]

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
	w/o¹	Nigeria	—	—
Cameroon	3–0	South Africa	2–0	1–0
Ghana	11–0		8–0	3–0

¹ Liberia withdrew from competition before the start of the 1st leg. As a result, Nigeria qualified for the next round.

Second round[]

In the second round a double-round robin was played. After that the top two teams, Nigeria and Ghana, qualified to the 2008 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup.^[1]

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Nigeria	4	2	1	1	8	4	+4	7	2008 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup
2	Ghana	4	2	0	2	6	7	−1	6	2008 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup
3	Cameroon	4	1	1	2	4	7	−3	4

Source:^{[citation needed]}


1 June 2008
Cameroon	1–1	Nigeria	Yaounde
6 June 2008
Nigeria	4–2	Ghana	Abuja
14 June 2008
Ghana	1–2	Cameroon	Accra
22 June 2008
Nigeria	3–0	Cameroon	Abuja
28 June 2008
Ghana	1–0	Nigeria	Accra
5 July 2008
Cameroon	1–2	Ghana	Yaounde

References[]

^ "Ghana join Nigeria at NZ 2008". FIFA. 6 July 2008. Retrieved 26 February 2012.

External links[]

[1] "Ghana join Nigeria at NZ 2008". FIFA. 6 July 2008. Retrieved 26 February 2012.

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