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2014 African Women's Championship
The 2014 African Women's Championship, the 11th edition of the tournament, was held in Namibia. This tournament, organized by the Confederation of African Football, was also a qualification tournament for the 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup, with top three qualifying for the finals in Canada. It was played on 11–25 October 2014. The tournament marked the first participation of Namibia in the African championship. Also for the first time the defending champions, Equatorial Guinea, were not taking part after failing to win their last qualifying round match. Nigeria defeated Cameroon 2–0 in the final to win their ninth title. Host Namibia were awarded the hosting rights in October 2011. It is the first time they will appear in the final tournament. There has been some criticism of the slow preparation and campaigning for the event. The national women's league will be suspended this year because all money is used for hosting the continental event. Venues The final tournament matches ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Desire Oparanozie
Ugochi Desire Oparanozie (born 17 December 1993) is a Nigerian footballer who plays as a forward in the Chinese Women's Super League for Wuhan Jianghan University and the Nigerian national team. Club career Oparanozie started her career at Bayelsa Queens in the Nigerian Women's Championship and moved to Delta Queens in 2010. She then spent 2 months on loan at Düvenciler Lisesispor in the Turkish Women's First Football League in 2011, before returning to Delta Queens. In 2012, she joined Rossiyanka from the Russian Women's Football Championship, with them she played four matches at the 2012–13 UEFA Women's Champions League, scoring one goal. Oparanozie joined Bundesliga club VfL Wolfsburg for the 2013–14 season signing a two-year contract. In the first half of the season, she only appeared in one game, and mostly played for Wolfsburg's second team. In the winter, after half a season, she left Wolfsburg. On 21 February 2014, Oparanozie transferred to Ataşehir Belediye ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2008 African Women's Championship
The 2008 African Women's Championship is of 15–29 November 2008 in Equatorial Guinea. The central African country is the first time host of the tournament. Eight national teams played in group matches and then against each other. Qualification ;Qualified teams: * (hosts) * * * * * * * Tunisia and Congo will compete at the African Championship for the first time. Squads . Final tournament Group A ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- Group B ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- Knockout stage Semi-finals ---- Third-place match Final match Awards Equatorial Guinea's Genoveva Añonma was announced player of the tournament and also won the top scorer award with six goals. Statistics Goalscorers References External linksTournamentat soccerway.com {{International women's football 2008 African Women's Championship, 2008 in African football, Women's Football Championship Women's Africa Cup of Nations tournaments International association football competitions h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2002 African Women's Championship
The 2002 African Women's Championship was the fifth edition of the Africa Women Cup of Nations, African Women's Championship (now known as the ''Africa Women Cup of Nations''), the biennial international association football, football championship organised by the Confederation of African Football (CAF) for the women's national teams of Africa. It was held in Nigeria between 7 December and 20 December 2002. The tournament determined the Confederation of African Football, CAF's two qualifiers for the 2003 FIFA Women's World Cup — the winner Nigeria women's national football team, Nigeria and the runner-up Ghana women's national football team, Ghana. Nigeria won its fifth title, beating Ghana 2–0 in the final. Host selection In January 2001, the Botswana Football Association had confirmed that the country has submitted a bid to host the tournament. It is unknown if they withdrew from bidding later. Nigeria were elected as hosts in March 2002 after there were no serious takers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2000 African Women's Championship
The 2000 Women's Africa Cup of Nations, African Women's Championship was the 4th edition of the biennial African international women's association football tournament organized by Confederation of African Football, CAF and the second to be hosted by a country for the women's national teams of Africa. It was held in South Africa between 11 November and 25 November 2000. Nigeria women's national football team, Nigeria won the tournament for the fourth time, beating South Africa women's national football team, South Africa in the final 2–0, which was abandoned at the 73rd minute. Qualification South Africa women's national football team, South Africa as hosts and Nigeria women's national football team, Nigeria as title holders were qualified automatically, while the remaining six spots were determined by the qualification rounds which took place between June and August 2000. Format Qualification was held on a home-and-away two-legged tie, two-legged basis. If aggregate scores we ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1998 African Women's Championship
The 1998 African Women's Championship was the 3rd edition of the international women's association football tournament organized by CAF. Since this edition, the tournament has been organized biennially and was hosted by a country unlike the previous two editions. Nigeria hosted this edition from 17 to 31 October 1998 and Nigeria women's national football team, its women's team successfully defended its title, winning it for a 3rd time after beating Ghana women's national football team, Ghana 2–0 in the final, with both qualifying for 1999 FIFA Women's World Cup, the following year's FIFA Women's World Cup in the United States. Qualification A qualification round was installed in the African Women's Championship from this edition onward. With Nigeria qualifying automatically as hosts, the remaining seven spots were determined by a qualification round and a play-off round which took place between March and April 1998. First leg on March 28–29, Second leg on April 10â ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1995 African Women's Championship
The 1995 African Women's Championship was the second staging of the CAF Women's Championship, the women's football championship of Africa ( CAF). It determined the CAF's single qualifier for the FIFA Women's World Cup 1995: the winner was Nigeria. Eight teams were scheduled to play in the tournament, but two of them withdrew, leaving six teams to compete for the right to represent Africa in the World Cup. In the tournament, 55 goals were scored in 10 matches. Participating teams The eight participating teams were: * * * * * * * * Bracket First round in 1994: :''Nigeria win 11–0 on aggregate.'' ---- :''South Africa win 11–5 on aggregate.'' ---- :''Cameroon withdraw. Angola advance.'' ---- :''Guinea withdraw. Ghana advance.'' Second round in January 1995: :''Nigeria win 5–0 on aggregate.'' ---- :''South Africa win 6–4 on aggregate.'' Final round in March 1995: :''Nigeria won 11–2 on aggregate, won the tournament and qualified for 1995 FIF ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1991 African Women's Championship
The 1991 African Women's Championship was the inaugural edition of the currently-named Women's Africa Cup of Nations, invoked to determine Confederation of African Football, CAF's single qualifier for 1991 FIFA Women's World Cup, the inaugural edition of the FIFA Women's World Cup that year. Nigeria women's national football team, Nigeria defeated Cameroon in the final to win its first title and earn qualification. Eight teams were originally scheduled to play in the tournament, but four of them withdrew, with Cameroon reaching the final on two walkovers. Participating teams The eight participating teams were: * * ' * * * * ' * ' * ' The teams who withdrew in ''italics''. Bracket Final Tournament First round :''Nigeria won 7–2 on aggregate.'' ---- :''Senegal withdrew: Guinea advanced.'' ---- :''Zimbabwe withdrew, Zambia advanced.'' ---- :''Congo withdrew, Cameroon advanced.'' Semifinals :''Nigeria won 7–0 on aggregate.'' ---- :''Zambia withdrew, Ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Senegal Women's National Football Team
The Senegal women's national football team represents Senegal in international women's football. The team is governed by the Senegalese Football Federation. History Senegal has already had a women's team in the 1970s under the name Gazelles de Dakar. Some of these players have even been solicited by European clubs, such as European clubs, such as Ndew Niang, the first Senegalese to play in the first division of Ndew Niang is the first Senegalese player to play in the Bundesliega in the team of Normonia 08. After a promising start in the 1970s, Senegalese women's soccer has considerably lost ground to other African teams such as Nigeria, Ghana, Congo etc. From 1974 to 2002, many Senegalese teams disappeared due to problems not yet identified. In 2002, Senegal participated for the first time in a qualifying phase of the African Cup of Nations. This means that 28 years have passed without Senegal really taking into account women's soccer. Home stadium Results and fixtures ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2010 African Women's Championship
The 2010 African Women's Championship was held in South Africa from 31 October to 14 November 2010. Seven national teams joined the host nation following a series of knock-out home and away ties. This tournament was also a qualification tournament for the 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup, with the two finalists, Nigeria and Equatorial Guinea qualifying for the finals in Germany. Qualification A total of 23 national teams entered qualification which has held over two rounds. In the preliminary round, the 18 lowest-ranked nations were drawn in pairs. The nine winners joined five other national teams in the first round, where the seven winners qualified for the finals. Qualified teams * * * * * * * * Squads Group stage The final tournament was held in Gauteng, South Africa from 31 October to 14 November 2010. The seven first round winners joined the host in the finals. The draw took place on 21 September. Matches were played at Sinaba Stadium in Daveyton and Makhulong Stadium in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2006 African Women's Championship
The 2006 African Women's Championship was the seventh edition of the Africa Women Cup of Nations, African Women's Championship (now known as the ''Africa Women Cup of Nations''), the biennial international association football, football championship organised by the Confederation of African Football (CAF) for the women's national teams of Africa. It was held in Nigeria between 28 October and 11 November 2006. The tournament was originally scheduled to be held in Gabon, but the country withdrew from hosting the competition due to ''organisational reasons''. The Confederation of African Football, CAF awarded the hosting of the competition to Nigeria Football Federation, Nigeria in May 2006. Initially, the tournament was scheduled for September 2006, but it was moved to October due to weather considerations. The tournament determined the Confederation of African Football, CAF's two qualifiers for the 2007 FIFA Women's World Cup — the winner Nigeria women's national football team, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2004 African Women's Championship
The 2004 African Women's Championship was the sixth edition of the African Women's Championship (now known as the ''Africa Women Cup of Nations''), the biennial international football championship organised by the Confederation of African Football (CAF) for the women's national teams of Africa. It was held in South Africa between 18 September and 3 October 2004. Nigeria won its sixth title, after defeating Cameroon 5–0 in the final. South Africa were elected as hosts on 12 December 2003. Qualification South Africa qualified automatically as hosts, while the remaining seven spots were determined by the qualifying rounds, which took place from May to July 2004. From this tournament onwards, the defending champions does not receive automatic qualification. Format Qualification ties were played on a home-and-away two-legged basis. If the aggregate score was tied after the second leg, the away goals rule would be applied, and if still level, the penalty shoot-out would be used to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
