Africa Cup of Women

This article covers the Africa Cup of Women in Football. For other sports see African Championship .

Africa Cup of Women
Full name	Africa Women Cup of Nations Coupe d'Afrique des nations féminine
Association	CAF
First edition	1998 (1991)
hierarchy	Continental Championship
Teams	12 (8 to 2019)
Game mode	Round-robin tournament (3 groups of 4 teams each) Knockout system (from semi-finals)
Title holder	Nigeria
Record winner	Nigeria 9 wins (11 wins)
Record player	?
Record scorer	Perpetua Nkwocha (34)
Website	www.cafonline.com
Qualification for	Women's soccer World Cup

The African Football Championship for women , officially the Africa Women Cup of Nations ( French Coupe d'Afrique des nations féminine , also Africa Cup of women ; until 2015 African Women Championship / Championnat d'Afrique de football féminin ), is organized by the African Football Association organized continental championship in women's football. The tournament has been held every two years since 1998 and is used to determine the African champions in women's football . The tournaments, which are played a year before the women's soccer World Cup, also serve as qualifications for the world tournament. Africa was initially entitled to one place, two places from 1999 and three teams have been able to qualify for the World Cup since 2014.

The record winners and reigning titleholders are the Nigerians , who have won eight out of ten tournaments so far. In addition, the Nigerians won the two events in 1991 and 1995, which the African Football Association CAF does not consider to be the official African championship for women.

The competition has been officially named Africa Women Cup of Nations since 2015 .

First participations

At all African Championships up to 2016 there was always at least one national football team that took part in an African Cup of Nations finals for the first time. In 2018, for the first time, no newcomer will participate. Below is a list of the 23 first-time participants. A total of 56 national football associations are represented in the CAF , but only 45 of these represent a women's national team.

• Teams in bold became African champions when they first participated.
• Teams in italics were hosts when they first participated.

year	First time participant
1998	Egypt	Ghana	Cameroon	DR Congo
	Morocco	Nigeria	South Africa
2000	Zimbabwe	Reunion	Uganda
2002	Angola	Ethiopia	Mali
2004	Algeria
2006	Equatorial Guinea
2008	Republic of the Congo	Tunisia
2010	Tanzania
2012	Ivory Coast	Senegal
2014	Namibia	Zambia
2016	Kenya
2018	no

The tournaments at a glance

year	host	final			Game for third place
		winner	Result	2nd place	3rd place	Result	4th Place
1991 details	no final tournament	Nigeria	2-0 / 4-0	Cameroon	Not carried out
1995 details	no final tournament	Nigeria	4: 1 / 7: 1	South Africa	Not carried out
1998 details	Nigeria	Nigeria	2-0	Ghana	DR Congo	3: 3 (3: 1 i. E. )	Cameroon
2000 details	South Africa	Nigeria	2: 0 (canceled)	South Africa	Ghana	6: 3	Zimbabwe
2002 details	Nigeria	Nigeria	2-0	Ghana	Cameroon	3-0	South Africa
2004 details	South Africa	Nigeria	5-0	Cameroon	Ghana	0: 0 (6: 5 on account )	Ethiopia
2006 details	Nigeria	Nigeria	1-0	Ghana	South Africa	2: 2 (5: 4 on account )	Cameroon
2008 details	Equatorial Guinea	Equatorial Guinea	2: 1	South Africa	Nigeria	1: 1 (4: 3 i.E. )	Cameroon
2010 details	South Africa	Nigeria	4: 2	Equatorial Guinea	South Africa	2-0	Cameroon
2012 details	Equatorial Guinea	Equatorial Guinea	4-0	South Africa	Cameroon	1-0	Nigeria
2014 details	Namibia	Nigeria	2-0	Cameroon	Ivory Coast	1-0	South Africa
2016 details	Cameroon	Nigeria	1-0	Cameroon	Ghana	1-0	South Africa
2018 details	Ghana	Nigeria	0: 0 n.v. (4: 3 in good condition )	South Africa	Cameroon	4: 2	Mali
2020 details	Tunisia	canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic

Ranking list of winners

rank	country	title	Year (s)
1	Nigeria	9 (11)	(1991, 1995), 1998, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2010, 2014, 2016, 2018
2	Equatorial Guinea	2	2008, 2012

Participation and final round placement

country	Tournament placements													Meld. total	Participation		Disqu. / Withdrawal
			1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9	10	11
	1991 *	1995 *	1998 *	2000	2002 *	2004	2006 *	2008	2010 *	2012	2014 *	2016	2018 *		HE	Agony
Egypt			V	•			-	-	-	•	•	V		8th	2	3	3
Equatorial Guinea					•	•	V	1	2	1	•	D.	V	9	5	3	1
Ethiopia					V	4th			•	V	•	•	•	7th	3	4th	-
Algeria				•		V	V	•	V		V	•	V	8th	5	3	-
Angola		H			V		•		•					4th	2	2	-
Benin							•	-						2	-	1	1
Botswana					-		-	•	•	•	•	•		7th	-	5	2
Burundi								-		-				2	-	-	2
Burkina Faso											•	•	•	3	-	3	-
Djibouti							•							1	-	1	-
Ivory Coast					•		•	•	•	V	3	•	•	8th	2	6th	-
Eritrea					•	•	-	•	•					5	-	4th	1
Gabon				•	•	-	-		•					5	-	3	2
Gambia													•	1	-	1	-
Ghana	VF	H	2	3	2	3	2	V	V	•	V	3	V	13	12	1	-
Guinea	H	-	•			•	•	•	•	•		•		9	1	7th	1
Guinea-Bissau					-						-			2	-	-	2
Cameroon	2	-	4th	V	3	2	4th	4th	4th	3	2	2	3	13	12	-	1
Kenya			-	-			•		-	-	•	V	•	8th	1	3	4th
Republic of the Congo						•	•	V					•	4th	1	3	-
Zaire / DR Congo	-		3	-	•	-	V	•	•	V		-		10	3	3	4th
Comoros											z			1	-	-	1
Libya							-					•	•	3	-	2	1
Lesotho			•	•			-						•	4th	-	3	1
Malawi						•	•			•				3	-	3	-
Mali					V	V	V	V	V	•	•	V	4th	9	7th	2	-
Morocco			V	V	•		•	•	•	•	•	•	•	10	2	8th	-
Mauritius												•		1
Mozambique			••				•			•	-			4th	-	3	1
Namibia			-				•	•	•	•	V	•	•	8th	1	6th	1
Nigeria	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	3	1	4th	1	1	1	13	13	-	-
Reunion				V										1	1	-	-
Rwanda											•			1	-	1	-
Zambia	-	VF			•		•	•		•	V	•	V	9	3	5	1
Sao Tome and Principe					•		•							2	-	2	-
Senegal	-				•	•	•	•	•	V	•	•	•	10	1	8th	1
Sierra Leone		VF	-	-					•		-		-	6th	1	1	4th
Zimbabwe	-			4th	V	V		•		•	•	V	•	9	4th	4th	1
South Africa		2	V	2	4th	V	3	2	3	2	4th	4th	2	12	12	-	-
South Sudan											-			1	-	-	1
Swaziland			•		-		-						•	4th	-	2	2
Tanzania					•	•	•	•	V	•	•	•	•	9	1	8th	-
Tunisia								V	•	•	•	•		5	1	4th	-
Togo							•		-					2	-	1	1
Uganda			•	V	•	-	-			•			•	7th	1	4th	2
Central African Republic							•						•	2	-	2	-
Finalists	*4 *	*6 *	7th	8th	8th	8th	8th	8th	8th	8th	8th	8th	8th
reported teams	8th	8th	15th	15th	22nd	18th	33	23	24	24	26th	24	25th
Each record host

Remarks:

• At the African Championships in 1991 and 1995, there was no final tournament in a host country, and thus no qualifying games for this. The teams that took part in the games in the 1991 and 1995 tournaments are therefore statistically considered to be “finalists”.
• In years with "*", the championship also served as qualification for the next world championship.

Explanation:

Participation in the final round (97) of which 87 “real” final round participants since 1998

1 2 3 4 = placement

H = semi-finals

VF = out in the quarterfinals (only 1991 and 1995)

V = out in the preliminary round

Q = Qualified for the 2018 finals

Qualification (125) 1998 to 2018

• = not qualified / withdrawal or disqualification during qualification

•• = no participation in the final round after successful qualification

z = After the first qualifying game, no longer started for the second

D = disqualified after successful qualification

Withdrawal (42)

- = Not started for qualification / excluded before the first game

Not participated

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→ Main article : Eternal table of the Africa Cup of Women

Varia

competition	places	Stages	Messages 1	Teams	Games		/Game	spectator	Z / game		/Game		/Game		/Game
1991	2		8th	5	6th	22nd	3.67
1995	2		8th	6th	10	55	5.55
1998	2	2	15th	8th	13	62	4.77
2000	2	2	15th	8th	16	60	3.75
2002	2	2	22nd	8th	16	46	2.88
2004	3	3	18th	8th	16	48	3.00
2006	4th	4th	35	8th	16	54	3.38
2008	2	2	23	8th	16	37	2.31
2010	2	2	24	8th	16	59	3.69			50	3.13	3	0.19	0	0.00
2012	2	2	24	8th	16	47	2.94			27	1.69	0	0.00	1	0.06
2014	1	2	26th	8th	16	44	2.75
2016	2	2	24	8th	16	39	2.44
2018	2	2	25th	8th	16	51	3.40			39	2.60	0	0.00	0	0.00
2020				12	26th
Respective record

¹The reports submitted on time are counted regardless of whether they were withdrawn or not started before the start of the qualification; including defending champions and hosts.

²No classic finals in one country. Round trip up to the final.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Decisions of CAF Executive Committee on August 6, 2015 , cafonline.com, August 9, 2015, accessed on May 19, 2018.
2. ↑ Incl. 2018