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2016 CAF Women's Olympic Qualification Tournament 2016
Number of nations	13  (from 18 applicants)
Opening game	May 2, 2015
Tournament end	October 18, 2015
Games	21st

For the fourth time, a four-round qualification tournament, through which two teams qualified for the Olympic Games, served as qualification for the women's tournament at the 2016 Olympic Summer Games for the teams from the CAF . The tournament was marked by the cancellation of several teams, partly due to the Ebola epidemic , partly due to administrative or financial problems. Since two teams withdrew in the first round, there were no games in the first round. For the first time, the national soccer teams of women from Ivory Coast, the Republic of the Congo and Kenya took part, which had already registered for 2004 but then withdrew. None of the African participants in the 2015 World Cup could qualify, with Cameroon only being eliminated in the fourth round due to the away goals rule against Zimbabwe, which was thus able to qualify for an intercontinental tournament for the first time. The South Africans who were already there in 2012 in London qualified as the second African team .

mode

All games should be played back and forth, with the away goal rule applying in the event of a tie and if this did not lead to a decision, extra time followed with renewed application of the away goal rule or a penalty shoot-out . The latter was not used. Of the 18 registered teams, four teams should compete against each other in the first round, but since Guinea-Bissau and Libya withdrew, Gabon and Liberia reached the second round without a fight, like the 14 teams that had already been set for the second round. The 16 remaining teams played eight teams in the second round for the third round, with three teams withdrawing again. In the third round, the four teams of the fourth round were determined, which then determined the two African participants for the Olympic Games.

The teams marked with "*" each qualified for the next round.

First round

04/24/2015	Guinea-Bissau	-	Liberia	not played because Guinea-Bissau withdrew
	Gabon	-	Libya	did not take place as Libya withdrew
05/08/2015	Liberia *	-	Guinea-Bissau	not played because Guinea-Bissau withdrew
	Libya	-	Gabon *	did not take place as Libya withdrew

Second round

The matches of the teams from Ivory Coast, Cameroon and Nigeria were brought forward to give these teams enough time to prepare for the 2015 World Cup . In the end, these games were not played because the opponents withdrew, which meant that the African World Cup participants also lacked match practice for the World Cup and only Cameroon survived the preliminary round.

05/02/2015	Liberia	-	Cameroon	not carried out as Liberia withdrew
05/08/2015	Cameroon *	-	Liberia	not carried out as Liberia withdrew
05/09/2015	Nigeria	-	Mali	not held because Mali withdrew
05/16/2015	Mali	-	Nigeria *	not held because Mali withdrew
05/22/2015	Ivory Coast	-	Tunisia	not held as Tunisia withdrew
	Botswana	-	Kenya	2: 1 (2: 0)
05/23/2015	Gabon	-	South Africa	2: 3 (1: 2)
	Republic of the Congo	-	Equatorial Guinea	0: 3 (0: 3)
	Egypt	-	Ghana	1: 1 (0: 1)
05/24/2015	Zambia	-	Zimbabwe	2: 1 (2: 0)
05/29/2015	Tunisia	-	Ivory Coast *	not held as Tunisia withdrew
05/31/2015	Zimbabwe *	-	Zambia	1: 0 (1: 0) - Zimbabwe due to the away goal rule one round further
	Ghana *	-	Egypt	3: 0 (0: 0)
	South Africa *	-	Gabon	5: 0 (3: 0)
	Kenya *	-	Botswana	1: 0 (0: 0) - Kenya due to the away goals rule one round further
	Equatorial Guinea *	-	Republic of the Congo	4-0

Third round

07/18/2015	South Africa	-	Kenya	1: 0 (0: 0)
	Cameroon	-	Ghana	1: 1 (0: 1)
	Nigeria	-	Equatorial Guinea	1: 1 (1: 0)
07/19/2015	Ivory Coast	-	Zimbabwe	3-0, scoring at the green table , because Zimbabwe did not start.
08/01/2015	Ghana	-	Cameroon *	2: 2 (1: 1) - Cameroon one round due to the away goals rule
08/02/2015	Kenya	-	South Africa *	0: 1 (0: 1)
	Equatorial Guinea *	-	Nigeria	2: 1 n.V. (1: 1, 0: 1)
08/23/2015	Zimbabwe *	-	Ivory Coast	not played because the Ivorians did not compete, so Zimbabwe went one round.

Fourth round

03/10/2015	South Africa	-	Equatorial Guinea	0-0
	Cameroon	-	Zimbabwe	2: 1 (0: 1)
October 18, 2015	Zimbabwe	-	Cameroon	1: 0 (1: 0) - Zimbabwe qualified for the Olympic Games for the first time due to the away goals rule.
	Equatorial Guinea	-	South Africa	0: 1 (0: 1)

Web links

• cafonline.com: Olympic Football Tournament Rio 2016, (women) Qualifiers

Individual evidence

1. ↑ QUALIFICATION SYSTEM - GAMES OF THE XXXI OLYMPIAD - RIO 2016
2. ↑ voazimbabwe.com: "Mighty Warriors Facing Ban for Failing to Fulfill Olympic Games Qualifier"
3. ↑ allafrica.com: "Zimbabwe: Mighty Warriors Squad Named"
4. ↑ newsday.co: "Mighty Warriors, Ivory Coast match in doubt"
5. ↑ bbc.com: "Ivory Coast women withdraw from Olympic qualifiers"