Football at the 2015 African Games – Women's qualification (original) (raw)

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2015 African Games women's football tournament qualification

Tournament details
Dates 22 February – 12 April
Teams 17 (from 1 confederation)
Tournament statistics
Matches played 14
Goals scored 48 (3.43 per match)
Top scorer(s) Tanzania Asha Rashid (3 goals)
2011 2023

International football competition

The 2015 African Games women's football tournament qualification decided the participating teams of the 2015 African Games women's football tournament. A total of eight teams qualified to play in the women's football tournament, including Congo who qualified automatically as hosts.[1] Both the qualifying rounds and the final tournament were open to full women's national teams (unlike the men's tournament, which was age-restricted).

A total of 17 teams entered the qualifying rounds, organized by the Confederation of African Football (CAF).[2]

Round Teams entering round No. of teams
First round Botswana Gabon Guinea-Bissau Libya Madagascar Mali 6
Second round Cameroon Egypt Ethiopia Ghana Ivory Coast Nigeria South Africa Senegal Tanzania Zambia Zimbabwe 11
Qualifying rounds Total 17
Final tournament Congo (hosts) 1
Did not enter
Algeria Angola Benin Burkina Faso Burundi Cape Verde Central African Republic Chad Comoros Djibouti DR Congo Equatorial Guinea Eritrea Gambia Guinea Kenya Lesotho Liberia Malawi Mauritania Mauritius Morocco Mozambique Namibia Niger Rwanda São Tomé and Príncipe Seychelles Sierra Leone Somalia South Sudan Sudan Swaziland Togo Tunisia Uganda

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 seven winners of the second round qualified for the final tournament.

The schedule of the qualifying rounds was as follows.[3]

Round Leg Date
First round First leg 20–22 February 2015
Second leg 6–8 March 2015
Second round First leg 20–22 March 2015
Second leg 10–12 April 2015

Qualification rounds

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Team 1 Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
Mali w/o Gabon
Madagascar 2–3 Botswana 1–3 1–0
Libya w/o Guinea-Bissau

Note: Madagascar played their first FIFA sanctioned international match. Gabon and Libya withdrew.[4] Gabon were not approved to travel by the Ministry of Youth and Sports.[5]

Mali won on walkover.


Botswana won 3–2 on aggregate.


Guinea-Bissau won on walkover.

Winners qualified for 2015 African Games.

Team 1 Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
Mali 1–9 Nigeria 1–1 0–8
Botswana 0–6 South Africa 0–1 0–5
Ghana 4–3 Zimbabwe 2–1 2–2
Zambia 5–6 Tanzania 2–4 3–2
Ethiopia 2–4 Cameroon 1–2 1–2
Guinea-Bissau w/o Ivory Coast
Egypt 2–1 Senegal 0–0 2–1

Note: Guinea-Bissau withdrew.[6]

Nigeria won 9–1 on aggregate.


South Africa won 6–0 on aggregate.


Ghana won 4–3 on aggregate.


Tanzania won 6–5 on aggregate.


Cameroon won 4–2 on aggregate.


Ivory Coast won on walkover.


Egypt won 2–1 on aggregate.

The following eight teams qualified for the final tournament.[7]

Team Qualified on Previous appearances in tournament**1**
Congo (hosts) 14 September 2011[1] 0 (debut)
Nigeria 10 April 2015 2 (2003, 2007)
South Africa 11 April 2015 3 (2003, 2007, 2011)
Ghana 12 April 2015 2 (2007, 2011)
Tanzania 10 April 2015 1 (2011)
Cameroon 11 April 2015 2 (2003, 2011)
Ivory Coast 20 March 2015 0 (debut)
Egypt 11 April 2015 0 (debut)

1 Bold indicates champion for that year. Italic indicates host for that year.

On 26 August 2015, the CAF announced that Egypt had withdrawn from the competition. Senegal, the team eliminated by Egypt in the final round, declined to replace them due to short notice. Therefore, only seven teams competed in the final tournament.[8]

3 goals

2 goals

1 goal

Own goal

  1. ^ a b "Congo to host 2015 All Africa Games". 2011-09-14.
  2. ^ "AAG Congo 2015: Men, Women qualifiers set for start". CAFonline.com. 20 February 2015.
  3. ^ "CAF Full Calendar". CAFonline.com. 28 February 2015. Retrieved 28 February 2015.
  4. ^ "Jeux Africains : La RD Congo et le Gabon à la trappe" (in French). Afrik.com. 9 March 2015. Archived from the original on 2 April 2015. Retrieved 12 March 2015.
  5. ^ "Jeux Africains : Nicole Asselé à l'origine du forfait des Panthères dames contre les Aigles du Mali" (in French). gaboneco.com. 27 February 2015. Archived from the original on 2 April 2015. Retrieved 26 March 2015.
  6. ^ "Basigi: We will boss Zimbabwe around". CAF. 21 March 2015.
  7. ^ "African Games (Women): Finalists for Brazzaville decided". CAF. 13 April 2015.
  8. ^ "Egypt withdraws from African Games Brazzaville 2015". CAF. 26 August 2015.