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

Tournament details
Dates	2 May – 8 November 2015
Teams	19 (from 1 confederation)
Tournament statistics
Matches played	32
Goals scored	94 (2.94 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Loza Abera 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.

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

Teams

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

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.

Preliminary round

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	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. 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.

Djibouti	0–2	Burkina Faso
	Report	Sawadogo ?', ?'

Burkina Faso	5–0	Djibouti
Traoré 5', 46' Sawadogo 11' Compaoré 46' (pen.) Sow 81'	Report

Burkina Faso won 7–0 on aggregate.

DR Congo	5–0	Gabon
Mwadi 13', 32' Mbemba 53' Salu 68' Boyengwa 90+'	Report

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.Tooltip Aggregate score	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'

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 ?' Mendoua ?'	Report

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
Salu 4' Mwadi 13', 51' Kipoyi 44'	Report

Namibia	0–1	DR Congo
	Report	Mwadi 64'

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

Nigeria won 14–1 on aggregate.

Tanzania	0–4	Zambia
	Report	Phiri 4' Lungu 20' Banda 33' Wilombe 50' (pen.)

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'

South Africa won 9–1 on aggregate.

Second round

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	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.

Burkina Faso	0–2	Ethiopia
	Report	Abera 8', 69'

Ethiopia	0–0	Burkina Faso
	Report

Ethiopia won 2–0 on aggregate.

Equatorial Guinea	0–1	Ghana
	Report	Diwura-Soale 31'

Ghana	2–0	Equatorial Guinea
Niber-Lawrence 73' Appiah 90'	Report

Ghana won 3–0 on aggregate.

DR Congo	1–2	Nigeria
Salu 38'	Report	Uchendu 6' Ihezuo 12'

Nigeria	2–0	DR Congo
Ihezuo 8', 56'	Report

Nigeria won 4–1 on aggregate.

Zambia	0–0	South Africa
	Report

South Africa	3–2	Zambia
Motlhalo 1', 74' Makhoali 55'	Report	Banda 52' Musesa 57'

South Africa won 3–2 on aggregate.

Third round

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

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	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.)

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 tournament
Ghana	8 November 2015	3 (2010, 2012, 2014)
Nigeria	8 November 2015	7 (2002, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014)

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

Goalscorers

6 goals

• Loza Abera
• Chinwendu Ihezuo

5 goals

• Joëlle Mwadi

4 goals

• Hornella Lengi Salu
• Sandra Owusu-Ansah
• Yetunde Adeboyejo

3 goals

• Barkissa Sawadogo
• Princella Adubea
• Jane Ayieyam
• Amarachi Ojinma
• Gabriela Salgado
• Linda Motlhalo

2 goals

• Mariam Fifao Traoré
• Lily Niber-Lawrence
• Joy Bokiri
• Chinaza Uchendu
• Amina Yakubu
• Chrestinah Kgatlana
• Anelisa Ndyebi
• Barbara Banda

1 goal

• Naima Lamari
• Baya Meskari
• Refilwe Mathlo
• Mouniratou Compaoré
• Assifou Coulibaly
• Chantal Drabo
• Yasmine Ouattara
• Stéphanie Sow
• Catherine Mbengono
• Natacha Boyengwa
• Ruth Kipoyi
• Flavine Mawete
• Merveille Mbemba
• Olga Esono
• Aju Francisca
• Muriel Lynda Mendoua
• Isabel Nsang
• Kate Addo
• Fatima Alhassan
• Veronica Appiah
• Wasila Diwura-Soale
• Kanties Sayee
• Chinozo Sunday
• Mosili Makhoali
• Nomathansanqa Sikweza
• Chamelle Wiltshire
• Ireen Lungu
• Agness Musesa
• Memory Phiri
• Mary 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. 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. ^ "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. Archived from the original on 25 October 2015. Retrieved 2 May 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.

External links

• 2016 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup – Qualifiers, CAFonline.com

• African U-20 Women's World Cup qualification
• 2015 in African football
• 2015 in women's association football
• 2015 in youth association football