U-20 Women's Africa Cup

U-20 Women's Africa Cup
Full name	Africa U20 Women's Cup of Nations
Association	CAF
First edition	2002
Game mode	Knockout system with return legs to semi-finals (since 2006 no finals with final)
Title holder	Nigeria Ghana
Record winner	Nigeria (2 wins)
Website	www.cafonline.com
Qualification for	U-20 Women's World Cup

The U-20 Women's Africa Cup (until 2015 U-20 Women's African Championship ), officially Africa U20 Women's Cup of Nations (until 2015 African U20 Women's Championship ), is a soccer tournament between the best teams in Africa for female soccer players 20 years, which serves almost exclusively to qualify for the U-20 women's soccer world championship. The tournament was held for the first time in 2002. A preliminary round, quarter-finals and semi-finals as well as a final for the tournament victory and the only qualifying place for the U-20 World Cup were held there.

Since then, it has taken place every two years, so that the qualified teams are qualified for the following World Cup tournaments. The competition will be played in the knockout system with two legs, although since the World Cup was increased to 16 teams in 2006, a finals have not been held, so that the two victorious semi-finalists are qualified for the World Cup.

Since 2015 the competition has been officially called the Africa U20 Women's Cup of Nations .

The tournaments at a glance

year	host	final			Game for third place
		winner	Results	2nd place	3rd place	Results	4th Place
2002 details	-	Nigeria	6: 0/3: 2	South Africa		not carried out
2004 details	-	Nigeria	1: 0/0: 0	South Africa		not carried out
from 2006 only played up to the semi-finals
year	host	1st semifinals			2nd semifinals
		winner	Result	loser	winner	Result	loser
2006 details	-	Nigeria	did not take place	Ghana and Cameroon disqualified	DR Congo	did not take place	Equatorial Guinea withdrawn
2008 details	-	Nigeria	3: 2/2: 0	Ghana	DR Congo	1: 3/2: 0	South Africa
2010 details	-	Nigeria	5: 3/7: 0	South Africa	Ghana	2: 0/3: 0	DR Congo
2012 details	-	Nigeria	4: 0/3: 0	DR Congo	Ghana	3: 1/4: 1	Tunisia
2014 details	-	Nigeria	6-0 / 1-0	South Africa	Ghana	0: 1/1: 0 4: 3 i. E.	Equatorial Guinea
2015 details	-	Ghana	2: 2/4: 0	Ethiopia	Nigeria	2: 1/1: 0	South Africa
2018 details	-	Ghana	1: 1/3: 0	Cameroon	Nigeria	2-0 / 6-0	South Africa

Web links

• African Women U-19 Championship 2002
• African Women U-20 Championship 2006
• African Women U-20 World Cup 2008 Qualifying
• African Women U-20 World Cup 2010 Qualifying
• 2012 tournament schedule

Individual evidence

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