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2020 CAF Women's Olympic Qualification Tournament 2020
Number of nations	22  (of 25 applicants)
Opening game	April 1, 2019
Tournament end	March 10, 2020
Games	41
Gates	100  (⌀: 2.44 per game)
Top scorer	Grace Chanda (8 goals)

For the first time, a five-round qualification tournament through which a team was able to qualify for the Olympic Games served as qualification for the women's tournament at the 2020 Olympic Summer Games for the teams from the CAF area . The loser of the last round also has the chance to win another starting place against the runner-up in the South American qualification in intercontinental playoffs. None of the African participants in the 2019 World Cup were able to qualify, with Cameroon only failing to qualify directly in the fifth round due to the away goals rule against Zambia, which was the first to qualify for an intercontinental tournament.

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

04/01/2019	Angola	-	Zambia *	not played because Angola withdrew
04/03/2019	* Ivory Coast	-	Sierra Leone	did not take place as the Sierra Leone Football Association was suspended by FIFA
	Mali *	-	Morocco	3: 1
	Ethiopia *	-	Uganda	3: 2
	Gabon *	-	Republic of the Congo	0: 2
04/04/2019	Algeria *	-	Chad	2-0
	Malawi *	-	Mozambique	11: 1
04/05/2019	Tanzania	-	Democratic Republic of the Congo *	2: 2
	Botswana *	-	Namibia	1-0
	Sierra Leone	-	Ivory Coast *	did not take place as the Sierra Leone Football Association was suspended by FIFA
04/06/2019	Uganda	-	Ethiopia *	0: 1
04/07/2019	Morocco	-	Mali *	2: 2
	Zambia *	-	Angola	not played because Angola withdrew
04/09/2019	Chad	-	Algeria *	1: 1
	Democratic Republic of the Congo *	-	Tanzania	1-0
	Republic of the Congo	-	Gabon *	0: 2 n.V .; 3: 5 i. E.
	Mozambique	-	Malawi *	0: 3
	Namibia	-	Botswana *	2: 2

Second round

08/26/2019	Ethiopia	-	Cameroon *	1: 1
08/28/2019	Algeria	-	Nigeria *	0: 2
	Democratic Republic of the Congo *	-	Equatorial Guinea	not held because Equatorial Guinea withdrew
	Gabon	-	Ghana *	0: 3
	Malawi	-	Kenya	3: 2
	Zambia *	-	Zimbabwe	5-0
08/30/2019	Botswana *	-	South Africa	0-0
08/31/2019	Ivory Coast *	-	Mali	3-0
09/01/2019	Equatorial Guinea	-	Democratic Republic of the Congo *	not held because Equatorial Guinea withdrew
	Kenya *	-	Malawi	3-0
	Zimbabwe	-	Zambia *	not held because Zimbabwe did not take part
09/03/2019	Nigeria *	-	Algeria	1-0
	Mali	-	Ivory Coast *	0-0
	Cameroon *	-	Ethiopia	0-0
	Ghana *	-	Gabon	2-0
	South Africa	-	Botswana *	0: 0 n.V .; 2: 3 i. E.

Third round

October 02, 2019	Zambia *	-	Botswana	1-0
03/10/2019	Ivory Coast *	-	Nigeria	0-0
	Cameroon *	-	Democratic Republic of Congo	2-0
04/10/2019	Ghana	-	Kenya *	0-0
07.10.2019	Nigeria	-	Ivory Coast *	1: 1
08/10/2019	Democratic Republic of Congo	-	Cameroon *	2: 1
	Kenya *	-	Ghana	1: 0 a.d.
	Botswana	-	Zambia *	0: 2

Fourth round

11/08/2019	Kenya	-	Zambia	2: 2
11/09/2019	Ivory Coast	-	Cameroon	0-0
11/11/2019	Zambia *	-	Kenya	1-0
11/12/2019	Cameroon *	-	Ivory Coast	2: 1

Fifth round

05.03.2020	Cameroon	-	Zambia *	3: 2
03/10/2020	Zambia *	-	Cameroon	2: 1

Web links

• Women's Olympic Qualifying CAF

Individual evidence

1. ↑ fifa.com: Zambia makes history - hope for Cameroon
2. ↑ bbc.com: Zimbabwe's women boycott Olympic football qualifier against Zambia over unpaid fees