2010 African Cup of Nations Soccer

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2010 African Cup of Nations Soccer
African Women Championship 2010
Number of nations 8  (of 24 applicants)
African champions NigeriaNigeria Nigeria (8th title)
venue South AfricaSouth Africa South Africa
Opening game October 31, 2010
Endgame November 14, 2010
Games 16
Gates 59  (⌀: 3.69 per game)
Top scorer NigeriaNigeria Perpetua Nkwocha (11 goals)
Best player NigeriaNigeria Stella Mbachu
Yellow card yellow cards 50  (⌀: 3.13 per game)
Yellow-red card Yellow-red cards 3  (⌀: 0.19 per game)
Red card Red cards 0

The Africa Women Cup of Nations 2010 ( Engl. : African Women Championship , French. : Championnat d'Afrique de football féminin ) was the seventh official playout of the African continental championship in women's football and was held from 31 October to 14 November for the third time after 2000 and 2004 in South Africa . The venues were Benoni and Tembissa .

Record winners Nigeria became African champions for the eighth time and qualified together with finalist Equatorial Guinea for the 2011 Women's World Cup in Germany.

The top scorer for the fourth time after 2002 (4), 2004 (9) and 2006 (7) was the oldest participant of the tournament at 34 , Nigerian Perpetua Nkwocha , who played for the Swedish club Sunnanå SK with 11 goals.

qualification

Attendees

AlgeriaAlgeria Algeria Equatorial GuineaEquatorial Guinea Equatorial Guinea (TV) CameroonCameroon Cameroon GhanaGhana Ghana
MaliMali Mali NigeriaNigeria Nigeria South AfricaSouth Africa South Africa TanzaniaTanzania Tanzania

TV = defending champion

mode

The eight qualified teams were divided into two groups of four teams each. Within the groups, each team plays each other once. The group winners and runners reach the semifinals and play there in the knock-out system "crosswise" to today. The semi-final winners reach the final, the losers play for third place. From the semi-finals onwards, if the score is tied, there is an extra period of fifteen minutes twice and, if there is no winner, a penalty shoot-out .

Preliminary round

The group draw took place on September 21, 2010 in Ekurhuleni .

Group A

rank country Gates Points
1 NigeriaNigeria Nigeria 10: 1 9
2 South AfricaSouth Africa South Africa 7: 3 6th
3 MaliMali Mali 3:11 3
4th TanzaniaTanzaniaTanzania 3: 8 0
October 31, 2010 in Benoni
South Africa - Tanzania 2: 1 (1: 1)
November 1st in Benoni
Nigeria - Mali 5: 0 (3: 0)
November 4th in Benoni
South Africa - Nigeria 1: 2 (1: 2)
Mali - Tanzania 3: 2 (2: 2)
November 7th in Benoni / Tembisa (Johannesburg)
Mali - South Africa 0: 4 (0: 1)
Tanzania - Nigeria 0: 3 (0: 2)

Group B

rank country Gates Points
1 Equatorial GuineaEquatorial Guinea Equat.-Guinea 6: 3 7th
2 CameroonCameroon Cameroon 6: 4 7th
3 GhanaGhana Ghana 4: 6 3
4th AlgeriaAlgeria Algeria 2: 5 0
November 2nd in Benoni
Equatorial Guinea - Cameroon 2: 2 (2: 1)
Algeria - Ghana 1: 2 (1: 0)
November 5th in Benoni
Equatorial Guinea - Algeria 1: 0 (1: 0)
Ghana - Cameroon 1: 2 (1: 2)
November 8th in Benoni / Tembisa
Ghana - Equatorial Guinea 1: 3 (1: 1)
Cameroon - Algeria 2: 1 (0: 0)

Final round

Semifinals

November 11th, Benoni NigeriaNigeria Nigeria - CameroonCameroon Cameroon 5: 1 (2: 0)
November 11th, Benoni Equatorial GuineaEquatorial Guinea Equatorial Guinea - South AfricaSouth Africa South Africa 3: 1 a.d. (0: 0, 0: 0)

3rd place match

November 14th, Benoni CameroonCameroon Cameroon - South AfricaSouth Africa South Africa 0: 2 (0: 2)

final

November 14th, Benoni NigeriaNigeria Nigeria - Equatorial GuineaEquatorial Guinea Equatorial Guinea 4: 2 (1: 0)

Best goalscorers

rank Player Gates
1 NigeriaNigeria Perpetua Nkwocha 11
2 South AfricaSouth Africa Amanda Dlamini 4th
3 Equatorial GuineaEquatorial Guinea Salimata Simpore 3
NigeriaNigeria Desire Oparanoia 3
5 Equatorial GuineaEquatorial Guinea Chinasa 2
Equatorial GuineaEquatorial Guinea Boho Sayo Jade 2
GhanaGhana Agnes Aduaku 2
CameroonCameroon Christine mania 2

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