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

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.

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) Loza Abera
Chinwendu Ihezuo
(6 goals each)

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
  •  Burkina Faso
  •  Djibouti
  •  DR Congo
  •  Gabon
  •  Liberia
  •  Sierra Leone
 6
First round
  •  Algeria
  •  Botswana
  •  Cameroon
  •  Equatorial Guinea
  •  Ethiopia
  •  Ghana
  •  Mali
  •  Namibia
  •  Nigeria
  •  Senegal
  •  South Africa
  •  Tanzania
  •  Zambia
 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
Djibouti  0–7  Burkina Faso 0–2 0–5
DR Congo  6–0  Gabon 5–0 1–0
Sierra Leone  w/o  Liberia — —

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]

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

Burkina Faso won 7–0 on aggregate.

DR Congo 5–0 Gabon
Mwadi  13', 32'
Makiese  53'
Salu  68'
Muyenga  90+'		 Report
Referee: Jonesia Rukyaa Kabakama (Tanzania)
Gabon 0–1 DR Congo
Report Salu  44'

DR Congo won 6–0 on aggregate.

Sierra Leone Cancelled Liberia
Report
Liberia Cancelled Sierra Leone
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  Ethiopia 0–0 1–2
Equatorial Guinea  4–0  Mali 4–0 0–0
Ghana  8–0  Senegal 6–0 2–0
DR Congo  5–0  Namibia 4–0 1–0
Liberia  1–14  Nigeria 1–7 0–7
Tanzania  0–4  Zambia 0–4 0–0
South Africa  9–1  Botswana 8–1 1–0

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

Algeria 1–2 Burkina Faso
Meskari  47' (pen.) Report Coulibaly  25'
Ouattara  85'
Stade Omar Hamadi, Algiers
Burkina Faso 1–1 Algeria
Drabo  36' Report Lamari  75'

Burkina Faso won 3–2 on aggregate.

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

Ethiopia won 2–1 on aggregate.

Equatorial Guinea 4–0 Mali
Esono  37'
Aju  ?'
Nsang  ?'
Abossolo  ?'		 Report
Nuevo Estadio de Malabo, Malabo
Mali 0–0 Equatorial Guinea
Report

Equatorial Guinea won 4–0 on aggregate.

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

Ghana won 8–0 on aggregate.

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

DR Congo won 5–0 on aggregate.

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

Nigeria won 14–1 on aggregate.

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

Zambia won 4–0 on aggregate.

South Africa 8–1 Botswana
Wiltshire  8'
Salgado  27', 78' (pen.)
Ndyebi  35', 50'
Kgatlana  40', 58'
Motlhalo  52'		 Report Mathlo  56'
Botswana 0–1 South Africa
Report Sikweza  48'
Molepololo Sport Complex, Gaborone
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  Ethiopia 0–2 0–0
Equatorial Guinea  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 Ethiopia
Report Abera  8', 69'
Referee: Uloma Nneka Nwogu (Nigeria)
Ethiopia 0–0 Burkina Faso
Report
Referee: Tabitha Wambui Njoroge (Kenya)

Ethiopia won 2–0 on aggregate.

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

Ghana won 3–0 on aggregate.

DR Congo 1–2 Nigeria
Salu  38' Report Uchendu  6'
Ihezuo  12'
Referee: Thérèse Sylvie Abou'ou (Cameroon)
Nigeria 2–0 DR Congo
Ihezuo  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  1', 74'
Makhoali  55'		 Report Banda  52'
Musesa  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
Ethiopia  2–6  Ghana 2–2 0–4
Nigeria  3–1  South Africa 2–1 1–0
Ethiopia 2–2 Ghana
Abera  15', 22' Report Muso  4' (o.g.)
Addo  80'
Ghana 4–0 Ethiopia
Adubea  33', 51'
Owusu-Ansah  49', 67'		 Report

Ghana won 6–2 on aggregate.

Nigeria 2–1 South Africa
Ihezuo  30'
Van Reyneveld  45' (o.g.)		 Report Salgado  90' (pen.)
National Stadium, Abuja
South Africa 0–1 Nigeria
Report Ihezuo  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
 Ghana8 November 20153 (2010, 2012, 2014)
 Nigeria8 November 20157 (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
  • Joëlle Mwadi
4 goals
  • Sandra Owusu-Ansah
  • Yetunde Adeboyejo
3 goals
  • Barkissa Sawadogo
  • Hornella Lengi Salu
  • Princella Adubea
  • Jane Ayieyam
  • Amarachi Ojinma
  • Gabriela Salgado
  • Linda Motlhalo
2 goals
1 goal
  • Naima Lamari
  • Baya Meskari
  • Refilwe Mathlo
  • Mouniratou Compaoré
  • Assifou Coulibaly
  • Chantal Drabo
  • Yasmine Ouattara
  • Stéphanie Sow
  • Catherine Mbengono
  • Nathalie Boyengwa
  • Merveille Mbemba Makiese
  • Emeraude Mawanda Muyenga
  • Flavie Mawete
  • Muriellynda Abossolo
  • Olga Esono
  • Francisca Ondo
  • Isabel Nsang
  • Kate Addo
  • Fatima Alhassan
  • Veronica Appiah
  • Wasila Diwura-Soale
  • Kanties Sayee
  • Chinozo Sunday
  • Mosili Makhoali
  • Nomathansanqa Sikweza
  • Chamelle Wiltshire
  • Ireen Lungu
  • Agnes Musesa
  • Memory Phiri
  • Marry Wilombe
Own goal
  • Hassabi Muso (playing against Ghana)
  • Caryn van Reyneveld (playing against Nigeria)

References
  1. "Decisions taken by the FIFA Executive Committee concerning women's competitions in 2016" (PDF). FIFA. 23 June 2014.
  2. "Ghana and Nigeria book places in PNG". FIFA.com. 8 November 2015.
  3. "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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