2010 African U-20 Women's World Cup Qualifying Tournament

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2010 African U-20 Women's World Cup Qualifying Tournament
Tournament details
Dates24 October 2009 – 27 March 2010
Teams18 (from 1 confederation)
Tournament statistics
Matches played21
Goals scored80 (3.81 per match)
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The 2010 African U-20 Women's World Cup Qualifying Tournament was the 5th 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 1990 are eligible to compete in the tournament. The top two teams of the tournament Ghana and Nigeria qualified for the 2010 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup in Germany as the CAF representatives.[1]

Preliminary round[]

Team 1 Agg. Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
  w/o1   — —
  2–7   1–4 1–3
Uganda  3–1  Rwanda 2–1 1–0
Mozambique  n/a2  Kenya — —
Togo  n/a2  Sierra Leone — —
Botswana  bye
  bye
DR Congo  bye
  bye
Ghana  bye
Namibia  bye
Nigeria  bye
South Africa  bye
Tunisia  bye
Zambia  bye
  bye
  • 1 – São Tomé and Príncipe withdrew from competition before the start of the 1st leg. As a result, Central African Republic qualified for the next round.[2]
  • 2 – Mozambique, Kenya, Togo, and Sierra Leone all withdrew from preliminary competition.[3]

First round[]

Team 1 Agg. Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
  1–3  DR Congo 0–2 1–1
Botswana  3–3 (3–4 pen.)  Namibia 1–2 2–1
Tunisia  w/o3   — —
  w/o3  Ghana — —
  3–6  South Africa 3–4 0–2
Uganda  w/o3  Zambia — —
Winner of Matches 7–8 w/o4   — —
Winner of Matches 9–10 w/o4  Nigeria — —
  • 3 – Egypt, Congo and Uganda withdrew from competition before the start of the 1st leg. As a result, Tunisia, Ghana, and Zambia qualified for the next round.[4]
  • 4 – No matches due to withdrawal of Mozambique, Kenya, Togo and Sierra Leone. As a result, Zimbabwe and Nigeria qualified for the next round.[5]

Second round[]

Team 1 Agg. Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
DR Congo  3–2  Namibia 2–2 1–0
Tunisia  0–3  Ghana 0–2 0–1
South Africa  7–2  Zambia 1–2 6–0
  1–10  Nigeria 1–4 0–6

Third round[]

The Third Round was held from 12 to 28 February 2010. The winners of the two Third Round matches will qualify directly to the 2010 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup held in Germany.

Team 1 Agg. Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
DR Congo  0–5  Ghana 0–2 0–3
South Africa  3–12  Nigeria 3–5 0–7

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.

Team Qualified on Previous appearances in tournament
 Ghana 26 February 2010 0
 Nigeria 27 March 2010 4 (2002, 2004, 2006, 2008)

References[]

  1. ^ "2010 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup". fifa.com. August 3, 2010.
  2. ^ "São Tomé and Príncipe is the first African nation to withdraw". cafoline.com. 2010-02-11. Archived from the original on 2012-04-14. Retrieved 2010-02-11.
  3. ^ "more preliminary round withdrawals". cafoline.com. 2010-02-11. Archived from the original on 2010-07-24. Retrieved 2010-02-11.
  4. ^ "COngo and Uganda withdraw". cafoline.com. 2010-02-11. Archived from the original on 2012-04-14. Retrieved 2010-02-11.
  5. ^ "Mozambique, Kenya, Togo and Sierra Leone withdraw". cafoline.com. 2010-02-11. Archived from the original on 2012-04-14. Retrieved 2010-02-11.

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