2024 Women's Africa Cup of Nations

2024 Women's Africa Cup of Nations

كأس الأمم الإفريقية للسيدات 2024 Coupe d'Afrique des nations féminine 2024
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Tournament details
Host country	Morocco
Dates	5–26 July 2025
Teams	12
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The 2024 Women's Africa Cup of Nations (Arabic: كأس الأمم الإفريقية للسيدات 2024, French: Coupe d'Afrique des nations féminine 2024), officially known as the 2024 TotalEnergies Women's Africa Cup of Nations for sponsorship purposes and as WAFCON 2024 for short, will be the 15th edition of the biennial African women's football tournament organized by the Confederation of African Football. It will be hosted by Morocco in consecutive editions, having hosted the previous edition two years before.

South Africa are the defending champions.

Host selection

CAF retained Morocco as hosts on 10 August 2022, thus becoming the first country to host back-to-back WAFCON editions.

Qualification

Main article: 2024 Women's Africa Cup of Nations qualification

Morocco qualified automatically as hosts, while the remaining spots will be determined by the qualification rounds, whose draw was conducted on 6 July 2023 at the Mohammed VI Complex in Rabat, Morocco and will commence in August.

Qualified teams

  Qualified

  Did not qualify

  Did not enter or withdrew

  Not part of CAF

The following teams have qualified for this edition of the tournament.

Team	Method of qualification	Date of qualification	Finals appearance	Last appearance	Previous best performance	FIFA ranking at start of event
Morocco	Hosts	10 August 2022	4th	2022	Runners-up (2022)
South Africa	Second round winners	4 December 2023	14th	2022	Champions (2022)
Algeria			6th	2018	Group stage (2004, 2006, 2010, 2014, 2018)
Ghana		5 December 2023	13th	2018	Runners-up (1998, 2002, 2006)
Botswana			2nd	2022	Quarter-finals (2022)
DR Congo			4th	2012	Third place (1998)
Tunisia			3rd	2022	Quarter-finals (2022)
Senegal			3rd	2022	Quarter-finals (2022)
Zambia			5th	2022	Third place (2022)
Tanzania			2nd	2010	Group stage (2010)
Mali			8th	2018	Fourth place (2018)
Nigeria			15th	2022	Champions (1991, 1995, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2010, 2014, 2016, 2018)

Draw

The final draw will be held at the Mohammed VI Technical Centre in Salé on 22 November 2024. The 12 qualified teams were seeded into four levels based on their FIFA rankings from August 2024. Host nation Morocco will automatically be assigned position A1, while defending champions South Africa will occupy position C1. Nigeria, the third team in Level 1, will take position B1.

Seeds	Pot 1	Pot 2	Pot 3
Morocco (59) (hosts) Nigeria (36) South Africa (50) (title holders)	Zambia (62) Ghana (66) Tunisia (78)	Mali (81) Senegal (83) Algeria (84)	DR Congo (102) Tanzania (145) Botswana (153)

Group stage

All times are local, CET (UTC+1).

Tiebreakers

Teams were ranked according to points (3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, 0 points for a loss).

If two teams were tied on points, the following tiebreaking criteria were applied, in the order given, to determine the rankings (Regulations Article 74):

1. Points in head-to-head matches match between the two tied teams;
2. Goal difference in all group matches;
3. Goals scored in all group matches;
4. Drawing of lots.

If more than two teams were tied, the following criteria were applied instead:

1. Points in matches between the tied teams;
2. Goal difference in matches between the tied teams;
3. Goals scored in matches between the tied teams;
4. If after applying all criteria above, two teams were still tied, the above criteria were again applied to matches played between the two teams in question. If this did not resolve the tie, the next three criteria were applied;
5. Goal difference in all group matches;
6. Goals scored in all group matches;
7. Drawing of lots.

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Morocco (H)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Advance to knockout stage
2	Zambia	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
3	Senegal	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Possible knockout stage based on ranking
4	DR Congo	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

First match(es) will be played: TBD. Source: CAF
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers
(H) Hosts

Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Nigeria	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Advance to knockout stage
2	Tunisia	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
3	Algeria	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Possible knockout stage based on ranking
4	Botswana	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

First match(es) will be played: TBD. Source: CAF
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers

Group C

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	South Africa	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Advance to knockout stage
2	Ghana	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
3	Mali	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Possible knockout stage based on ranking
4	Tanzania	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

First match(es) will be played: TBD. Source: CAF
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers

Ranking of third-placed teams

Pos	Grp	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	A	A3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Advance to knockout stage
2	B	B3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
3	C	C3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

First match(es) will be played: TBD. Source: CAF
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Goals scored; 4) Disciplinary points; 5) Drawing of lots.

External links

• Official website