2015 African U-20 Women's World Cup Qualifying Tournament

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2015 African U-20 Women's World Cup Qualifying Tournament
Tournament details
Dates2 May – 8 November 2015
Teams19 (from 1 confederation)
Tournament statistics
Matches played32
Goals scored94 (2.94 per match)
Top scorer(s)Ethiopia Loza Abera
Nigeria Chinwendu Ihezuo
(6 goals each)
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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.

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.[1]

Ghana and Nigeria qualified for the World Cup like in the last three editions.[2]

Teams[]

A total of 19 CAF member national teams entered the qualifying rounds.[3]

Round Teams entering round No. of teams
Preliminary round
6
First round
13
Qualifying rounds Total 19

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.[3]

Round Leg Date
Preliminary round First leg 1–3 May 2015
Second leg 15–17 May 2015
First round First leg 10–12 July 2015
Second leg 24–26 July 2015
Second round First leg 25–27 September 2015
Second leg 9–11 October 2015
Third round First leg 23–25 October 2015
Second leg 6–8 November 2015

Preliminary round[]

Team 1 Agg. Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
  0–7  Burkina Faso 0–2 0–5
DR Congo  6–0   5–0 1–0
  w/o   — —

Note: Sierra Leone withdrew.[4] 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.[5]

 0–2 Burkina Faso
Report Goal ?', ?'
Stade du Ville, Djibouti
Referee: Inès Niyonsaba (Burundi)
Burkina Faso 5–0 
Goal 5', 46'
Goal 11'
Goal 46' (pen.)
Goal 81'		 Report
Referee: Isatou Touray (Gambia)

Burkina Faso won 7–0 on aggregate.

DR Congo 5–0 
Goal 13', 32'
Mbemba Goal 53'
Goal 68'
Mawanda Goal 90+'		 Report
Referee: Jonesia Rukyaa Kabakama (Tanzania)
 0–1 DR Congo
Report Goal 44'

DR Congo won 6–0 on aggregate.

 Cancelled 
Report
 Cancelled 
Report

Liberia won on walkover.

First round[]

Team 1 Agg. Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
Algeria  2–3  Burkina Faso 1–2 1–1
Cameroon  1–2   0–0 1–2
  4–0  Mali 4–0 0–0
Ghana  8–0   6–0 2–0
DR Congo  5–0   4–0 1–0
  1–14  Nigeria 1–7 0–7
  0–4  Zambia 0–4 0–0
South Africa  9–1   8–1 1–0

Note: Order of legs between Liberia and Nigeria reversed from original fixtures.

Algeria 1–2 Burkina Faso
Goal 47' (pen.) Report Goal 25'
Goal 85'
Stade Omar Hamadi, Algiers
Burkina Faso 1–1 Algeria
Goal 36' Report Goal 75'

Burkina Faso won 3–2 on aggregate.

Cameroon 0–0 
Report
 2–1 Cameroon
Abera Goal 18', 54' Report Mbengono Goal 40'

Ethiopia won 2–1 on aggregate.

 4–0 Mali
Goal 37'
Goal ?'
Goal ?'
Goal ?'		 Report
Nuevo Estadio de Malabo, Malabo
Mali 0–0 
Report

Equatorial Guinea won 4–0 on aggregate.

Ghana 6–0 
Owusu-Ansah Goal 2', 90'
Alhassan Goal 17' (pen.)
Adubea Goal 32'
Ayieyam Goal 41', 78'		 Report
 0–2 Ghana
Report Ayieyam Goal ?'
Niber-Lawrence Goal ?'

Ghana won 8–0 on aggregate.

DR Congo 4–0 
Goal 4'
Goal 13', 51'
Goal 44'		 Report
Referee: Tsige Sisay (Ethiopia)
 0–1 DR Congo
Report Goal 64'
Referee: Akhona Zennith Makalima (South Africa)

DR Congo won 5–0 on aggregate.

 1–7 Nigeria
Goal 40' Report Goal 15', 36', 60'
Ihezuo Goal 30'
Goal 70'
Goal 78', 87'
Nigeria 7–0 
Uchendu Goal 23'
Goal 26'
Goal 35', 77'
Goal 39'
Goal 71', 82'		 Report
National Stadium, Abuja
Referee: Vincentia Enyonam Amedome (Togo)

Nigeria won 14–1 on aggregate.

 0–4 Zambia
Report Phiri Goal 4'
Lungu Goal 20'
Banda Goal 33'
Goal 50' (pen.)
Referee: Batol Mahjob Ibrahim (Sudan)
Zambia 0–0 
Report

Zambia won 4–0 on aggregate.

South Africa 8–1 
Goal 8'
Goal 27', 78' (pen.)
Goal 35', 50'
Kgatlana Goal 40', 58'
Motlhalo Goal 52'		 Report Goal 56'
 0–1 South Africa
Report Goal 48'
Referee: Nirinjanahary Raharijaona (Madagascar)

South Africa won 9–1 on aggregate.

Second round[]

Team 1 Agg. Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
Burkina Faso  0–2   0–2 0–0
  0–3  Ghana 0–1 0–2
DR Congo  1–4  Nigeria 1–2 0–2
Zambia  2–3  South Africa 0–0 2–3

Note: First leg of Burkina Faso v Ethiopia was postponed to 3 October, then to 10 October, due to coup in Burkina Faso.[6][7]

Burkina Faso 0–2 
Report Abera Goal 8', 69'
Referee: Uloma Nneka Nwogu (Nigeria)
 0–0 Burkina Faso
Report
Referee: Tabitha Wambui Njoroge (Kenya)

Ethiopia won 2–0 on aggregate.

 0–1 Ghana
Report Diwura-Soale Goal 31'
Nuevo Estadio de Malabo, Malabo
Referee: Suavis Iratunga (Burundi)
Ghana 2–0 
Niber-Lawrence Goal 73'
Goal 90'		 Report
Referee: Viviane Kouélé Igue (Benin)

Ghana won 3–0 on aggregate.

DR Congo 1–2 Nigeria
Goal 38' Report Uchendu Goal 6'
Ihezuo Goal 12'
Referee: Thérèse Sylvie Abou'ou (Cameroon)
Nigeria 2–0 DR Congo
Ihezuo Goal 8', 56' Report
National Stadium, Abuja
Referee: Zomadre Sonia Kore (Ivory Coast)

Nigeria won 4–1 on aggregate.

Zambia 0–0 South Africa
Report
Referee: Letticia Antonella Viana (Swaziland)
South Africa 3–2 Zambia
Motlhalo Goal 1', 74'
Goal 55'		 Report Banda Goal 52'
Goal 57'
Referee: Rusina Kuda Majo (Zimbabwe)

South Africa won 3–2 on aggregate.

Third round[]

Winners qualified for 2016 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup.

Team 1 Agg. Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
  2–6  Ghana 2–2 0–4
Nigeria  3–1  South Africa 2–1 1–0
 2–2 Ghana
Abera Goal 15', 22' Report Goal 4' (o.g.)
Addo Goal 80'
Ghana 4–0 
Adubea Goal 33', 51'
Owusu-Ansah Goal 49', 67'		 Report

Ghana won 6–2 on aggregate.

Nigeria 2–1 South Africa
Ihezuo Goal 30'
Goal 45' (o.g.)		 Report Goal 90' (pen.)
National Stadium, Abuja
South Africa 0–1 Nigeria
Report Ihezuo Goal 16'

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.

Team Qualified on Previous appearances in tournament1
 Ghana 8 November 2015 3 (2010, 2012, 2014)
 Nigeria 8 November 2015 7 (2002, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014)
1 Bold indicates champion for that year. Italic indicates host for that year.

Goalscorers[]

6 goals
5 goals
  • Democratic Republic of the Congo
4 goals
3 goals
2 goals
1 goal
Own goal
  • Ethiopia (playing against Ghana)
  • South Africa (playing against Nigeria)

References[]

  1. ^ "Decisions taken by the FIFA Executive Committee concerning women's competitions in 2016" (PDF). FIFA. 23 June 2014. Archived from the original (PDF) on July 12, 2014.
  2. ^ "Ghana and Nigeria book places in PNG". FIFA.com. 8 November 2015. Archived from the original on March 27, 2016.
  3. ^ a b "FIXTURES AFRICAN PRELIMINARIES OF THE U-20 FIFA WOMEN WORLD CUP" (PDF). CAF. 15 April 2015.
  4. ^ "U-20 Female Lone Star Qualifies To 2nd Phase". Liberian Observer. 23 April 2015.
  5. ^ "Eliminatoires-Mondial (F): le match RDC-Gabon reporté au 16 mai". Radio Okapi. 9 May 2015.
  6. ^ "Away victories boost for Falconets, Princesses". CAF. 29 September 2015.
  7. ^ "Burkina Faso vs Ethiopia rescheduled for Oct. 10". CAF. 1 October 2015.

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