2008 African U-20 Women's World Cup Qualifying Tournament

2008 African U-20 Women's World Cup Qualifying Tournament

Tournament details
Dates	13 January – 14 June 2008
Teams	16 (from 1 confederation)
Tournament statistics
Matches played	18
Goals scored	64 (3.56 per match)

The 2008 African U-20 Women's World Cup Qualifying Tournament was the 4th 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.

The top two teams of the tournament DR Congo and Nigeria qualified for the 2008 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup in Chile as the CAF representatives.^[1]

Preliminary round

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Cameroon	w/o^1	Benin	—	—
Nigeria	w/o^1	Congo	—	—
Ghana	7–0	Guinea	4–0	3–0
Lesotho	2–4	Botswana	1–1	1–3
Zambia	3–3	Egypt	2–2	1–1
Namibia	w/o^1	DR Congo	—	—
Zimbabwe	w/o^1	Mauritius	—	—
South Africa	7–1	Mozambique	4–0	3–1

• 1 - Benin, Congo, Namibia and Zimbabwe withdrew from competition before the start of the 1st leg. As a result, Cameroon, Nigeria, DR Congo and Mauritius qualified for the next round.

First round

The First Round matches were played from 4 to 20 April 2008.

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Nigeria	4–0	Cameroon	1–0	3–0
Botswana	4–10	Ghana	4–1	0–9
DR Congo	5–1	Egypt	2–0	3–1
South Africa	w/o^2	Mauritius	—	—

• 2 - Mauritius withdrew from competition before the start of the 1st leg. As a result, South Africa qualified for the next round.

Second round

The Second Round was played from 30 May to 18 June 2008. The winners of both two-legged ties have qualified directly to the 2008 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup.

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

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
DR Congo	10 June 2006	1 (2006)
Nigeria	11 June 2006	3 (2002, 2004, 2006)

References

1. "2008 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup". fifa.com. December 8, 2008.

External links

• African U-20 Women's World Cup Qualifying Tournament 2008 - rsssf.com