2024 Women's Africa Cup of Nations qualification

2024 Women's Africa Cup of Nations qualification

Tournament details
Dates	20–26 September and 29 November – 5 December 2023
Teams	42 (from 1 confederation)
Tournament statistics
Matches played	56
Goals scored	205 (3.66 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Agueicha Diarra (8 goals)
← 2022 2026 →

Qualification for the 2024 Women's Africa Cup of Nations began on the week of 20–26 September 2023 and concluded on the week of 29 November – 5 December the same year. Its draw was held at the Mohammed VI Football Academy in Salé, Morocco on 6 July 2023 at 18:00 CET (UTC+1).^[1]

A total of 12 teams qualified for the group stages and joined automatically-qualified hosts Morocco.

Qualification ties took place on a home-and-away two-legged basis. If the aggregate score was tied after the second leg, the away goals rule was applied, and if still tied, the penalty shoot-out (no extra time).^[2]

Round	Leg	Dates
First round	First leg	20 – 22 September 2023[3]
	Second leg	24 – 26 September 2023[3]
Second round	First leg	29 November – 1 December 2023[4]
	Second leg	4 and 5 December 2023[5]

The applicant teams were seeded according to the FIFA Women's World Ranking of June 2023 and their performance in the previous edition of the tournament.

Tournament hosts

Team	Rank
Morocco	72

Teams received a bye to the second round

Team	Rank
South Africa	54
Zambia	77

Teams entering first round

Pot 1 Team Rank  Nigeria 40  Cameroon 56  Ghana 58  Ivory Coast 66  Equatorial Guinea 70  Tunisia 76  Algeria 80  Mali 81  Senegal 82

Pot 2 Team Rank  Egypt 88  Congo 110  DR Congo 112  Togo 120  Gambia 123  Ethiopia 124  Cape Verde 134  Gabon 135  Guinea 136

Pot 3 Team Rank  Burkina Faso 141  Angola 143  Benin 145  Namibia 146  Kenya 148  Botswana 150  Tanzania 152  Uganda 161  Rwanda 163  Liberia 164  Niger 166  Guinea-Bissau 173  Mozambique 174  Burundi 176  Eswatini 177  South Sudan 187  Mauritius 188  Central African Republic NR  São Tomé and Príncipe NR  Libya NR  Djibouti NR  Sudan NR

Notes

• Teams marked in bold qualified for the group stages.

Did not enter

Team	Rank
Zimbabwe	125
Sierra Leone	139
Malawi	159
Seychelles	165
Lesotho	169
Comoros	183
Madagascar	184
Chad	NR
Mauritania	NR
Eritrea	NR

Team 1	Agg. Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Senegal	3–2	Mozambique	1–1	2–1
Egypt	8–0	South Sudan	4–0	4–0
Central African Republic	1–10	Mali	1–7	0–3
Guinea	11–0	Mauritius	8–0	3–0
Nigeria	w/o	São Tomé and Príncipe	—	—
Cape Verde	6–2	Liberia	3–0	3–2
Uganda	2–3	Algeria	1–2	1–1
Burundi	2–2 (5–3 p)	Ethiopia	1–1	1–1
Equatorial Guinea	w/o	Libya	—	—
DR Congo	4–2	Benin	2–1	2–1
Ivory Coast	2–2 (2–4 p)	Tanzania	2–0	0–2
Djibouti	0–13	Togo	0–7	0–6
Rwanda	0–12	Ghana	0–7	0–5
Gambia	2–5	Namibia	2–3	0–2
Cameroon	1–1 (3–4 p)	Kenya	1–0	0–1
Gabon	1–10	Botswana	1–4	0–6
Tunisia	12–1	Niger	7–0	5–1
Guinea-Bissau	0–3	Congo	0–1	0–2
Angola	w/o	Sudan	—	—
Eswatini	2–6	Burkina Faso	2–3	0–3

Senegal won 3–2 on aggregate.

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Egypt won 8–0 on aggregate.

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Mali won 10–1 on aggregate.

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Guinea won 11–0 on aggregate.

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Nigeria won on walkover and advanced to the second round after São Tomé and Príncipe withdrew prior to the first leg without providing a reason for their withdrawal.

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Cape Verde won 6–2 on aggregate.

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Algeria won 3–2 on aggregate.

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2–2 on aggregate. Burundi won 5–3 on penalties.

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Equatorial Guinea won on walkover and advanced to the second round after Libya withdrew prior to the first leg due to the aftermath of the 2023 Libya floods.

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DR Congo won 4–2 on aggregate.

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2–2 on aggregate. Tanzania won 4–2 on penalties.

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Togo won 13–0 on aggregate.

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Ghana won 12–0 on aggregate.

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Namibia won 5–2 on aggregate.

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1–1 on aggregate. Kenya won 4–3 on penalties.

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Botswana won 10–1 on aggregate.

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Tunisia won 12–1 on aggregate.

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Congo won 3–0 on aggregate.

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Angola won on walkover and advanced to the second round after Sudan withdrew prior to the first leg citing lack of preparation due to no local championship being contested since the War in Sudan started.

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Burkina Faso won 6–2 on aggregate.

Team 1	Agg. Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Senegal	4–0	Egypt	4–0	0–0
Mali	10–2	Guinea	7–2	3–0
Nigeria	7–1	Cape Verde	5–0	2–1
Algeria	6–1	Burundi	5–1	1–0
Equatorial Guinea	2–3	DR Congo	1–1	1–2
Tanzania	3–2	Togo	3–0	0–2
Ghana	3–2	Namibia	3–1	0–1
Kenya	1–2	Botswana	1–1	0–1
Tunisia	6–3	Congo	5–2	1–1
Angola	0–12	Zambia	0–6	0–6
Burkina Faso	1–3	South Africa	1–1	0–2

Senegal won 4–0 on aggregate.

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Mali won 10–2 on aggregate.

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Nigeria won 7–1 on aggregate.

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Algeria won 6–1 on aggregate.

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DR Congo won 3–2 on aggregate. A CAF decision on Equatorial Guinea challenge, regarding DR Congo players Fideline Ngoy and Falonne Pambani's dates of birth, is pending.^[6]

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Tanzania won 3–2 on aggregate.

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Ghana won 3–2 on aggregate.

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Botswana won 2–1 on aggregate.

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Tunisia won 6–3 on aggregate.

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Zambia won 12–0 on aggregate.

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South Africa won 3–1 on aggregate.

The following teams qualified for the final tournament.

Team	Qualified as	Qualified on	Previous appearances in Women's Africa Cup of Nations1
Morocco	Hosts	10 August 2022	3 (1998, 2000, 2022)
South Africa	Second round winners	4 December 2023	13 (1995, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2018, 2022)
Algeria			5 (2004, 2006, 2010, 2014, 2018)
Ghana		5 December 2023	12 (1991, 1995, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2014, 2016, 2018)
Botswana			1 (2022)
DR Congo			3 (1998, 2006, 2012)
Tunisia			2 (2008, 2022)
Senegal			2 (2012, 2022)
Zambia			4 (1995, 2014, 2018, 2022)
Tanzania			1 (2010)
Mali			7 (2002, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2016, 2018)
Nigeria			14 (1991, 1995, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2018, 2022)

¹ Bold indicates champions for that year. Italic indicates hosts for that year.

There were 205 goals scored in 56 matches, for an average of 3.66 goals per match.

8 goals

7 goals

4 goals

3 goals

2 goals

1 goal

1 own goal