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DR Congo Women's National Under-20 Football Team
The DR Congo U-20 women's national football team represents Democratic Republic of the Congo in international women's football for under 20. The team plays its home games in Kinshasa. DR Congo became African champions twice, in 2006 and 2008, and took part in the World Cup in the same two years. See also *DR Congo women's national football team References {{DEFAULTSORT:Congo DR Women's National Under-20 Football Team National National may refer to: Common uses * Nation or country ** Nationality – a ''national'' is a person who is subject to a nation, regardless of whether the person has full rights as a citizen Places in the United States * National, Maryland, ce ... African women's national under-20 association football teams ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Congolese Association Football Federation
The Congolese Association Football Federation (french: Fédération Congolaise de Football-Association, FECOFA) is the governing body of Football (soccer), football in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It was founded in 1919 and affiliated to the FIFA in 1964 and Confederation of African Football, CAF in 1964. It organizes the national football league Linafoot and the Congo DR national football team, national team. The organisation was previously named the Zairian Association Football Federation (french: Fédération Zaïroise de Football Association, FEZAFA) while the country was known as Zaire. In September 2021, the General Inspectorate of Finance claims to have foiled an attempt to embezzle public funds. Fécofa, the Congolese Football Association, was forced to return nearly a million US dollars acquired fraudulently. This sum was initially allocated to the organization of a sporting event. References External links * DR Congoat the FIFA website. DR Congo at the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Central African Football Federations' Union
The Central African Football Federations' Union (french: Union des Fédérations de Football d'Afrique Centrale; pt, União das Federações Centroafricanas de Futebol; es, Unión de Federaciones de Fútbol de África Central), officially abbreviated as UNIFFAC, is a regional governing body for association football teams in Central Africa. Current president Iya Mohammed was re-elected in 2008. Member associations Competitions UNIFFAC runs several competitions which cover men's, women's, youth. Current title holders Defunct competitions A women's tournament and the re-introduction of the Clubs Cup was announced in January 2011. See also *Confederation of African Football (CAF) *Council for East and Central Africa Football Associations (CECAFA) *Council of Southern Africa Football Associations (COSAFA) *Union of North African Football Federations (UNAF) *West African Football Union The West African Football Union (french: Union des Fédérations Ouest-Africaines de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Confederation Of African Football
The Confederation of African Football, or CAF for short (french: link=yes, Confédération Africaine de Football, ar, link=yes, الاتحاد الأفريقي لكرة القدم, al-Ittiḥād al-Afrīqī li-Kurat al-Qadam), is the administrative and controlling body for association football, futsal and beach soccer in Africa. It was established on 8 February 1957 at the ''Grand Hotel'' in Khartoum, Sudan by the national football associations of Egyptian Football Association, Egypt, Ethiopian Football Federation, Ethiopia, South African Football Association, South Africa and Sudan Football Association, Sudan, following formal discussions between the aforementioned associations at the FIFA Congress held on 7 June 1956 at Avenida Hotel in Lisbon, Portugal. One of the six continental confederations of world football governing body, FIFA, CAF represents the national football associations of Africa, runs national team and club continental competitions and controls the prize money ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Africa
Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most populous continent, after Asia in both cases. At about 30.3 million km2 (11.7 million square miles) including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of Earth's total surface area and 20% of its land area.Sayre, April Pulley (1999), ''Africa'', Twenty-First Century Books. . With billion people as of , it accounts for about of the world's human population. Africa's population is the youngest amongst all the continents; the median age in 2012 was 19.7, when the worldwide median age was 30.4. Despite a wide range of natural resources, Africa is the least wealthy continent per capita and second-least wealthy by total wealth, behind Oceania. Scholars have attributed this to different factors including geography, climate, tribalism, colonialism, the Cold War, neocolonialism, lack of democracy, and corruption. Despite this low concentration of wealth, recent economic expansion and the large and young population make Afr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stade Des Martyrs
The Stade des Martyrs de la Pentecôte (Martyrs of Pentecost Stadium), also known as simply the Stade des Martyrs and formerly known as Stade Kamanyola, is a national stadium located in the town of Lingwala in Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It is mainly used for football matches and has organised many concerts and athletics competitions. It is the home stadium of the National Team of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the AS Vita Club and DC Motema Pembe of Championship Democratic Republic of the Congo football. The stadium has a capacity of 80,000 for international matches and 100,000 for national matches. History The Stade des Martyrs was originally called Stade Kamanyola. Construction began on October 14, 1988 and ended on October 14, 1993. It replaced the former National Stadium, the Stade Tata Raphaël. In 1997, the stadium was renamed in memory of four ministers purged by Mobutu Sese Seko and hanged at the site on 2 June 1966: Éva ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kinshasa
Kinshasa (; ; ln, Kinsásá), formerly Léopoldville ( nl, Leopoldstad), is the capital and largest city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Once a site of fishing and trading villages situated along the Congo River, Kinshasa is now one of the world's fastest growing megacities. The city of Kinshasa is also one of the DRC's 26 provinces. Because the administrative boundaries of the city-province cover a vast area, over 90 percent of the city-province's land is rural in nature, and the urban area occupies a small but expanding section on the western side. Kinshasa is Africa's third-largest metropolitan area after Cairo and Lagos. It is also the world's largest nominally Francophone urban area, with French being the language of government, education, media, public services and high-end commerce in the city, while Lingala is used as a ''lingua franca'' in the street. Kinshasa hosted the 14th Francophonie Summit in October 2012. Residents of Kinshasa are known as ''Kinoi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
African U-20 Women's World Cup Qualification
The African U-20 Women's World Cup qualification is an association football tournament for the under 20 teams, that is held every two years, and serves as a qualifying tournament for the FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup. In the first two editions in 2002 and 2004 only one team qualified for the World Cup, thus a final was played. From 2006 onwards the confederation was granted a second spot, so all following tournaments were played in a knock-out format only to the semi finals. All matches are played on a home and away system, there is no host country for the single years. Results African U-19 Women's Championship Only the winner qualified for the World Cup in the first two editions. African U-20 Women's World Cup qualifying tournament Two teams qualify for the World Cup. No final match is played. # # FIFA World Cup qualification and results Three different teams have qualified for the FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup. Nigeria has been the only team to reach the quarter-finals at the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2004 African U-19 Women's Championship
The 2004 African U-19 Women's Championship was the second edition of the African under-19 women's football championship. The winners of the tournament Nigeria have qualified to the 2004 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup. First round ''Equatorial Guinea won 2−1 on aggregate and advanced to the Semifinals.'' ---- ''South Africa won on walkover after Madagascar did not appear for the first leg and advanced to the Semifinals.'' ---- ''DR Congo won on walkover after Mozambique did not appear for the first leg and advanced to the Semifinals.'' Semifinals ''Nigeria won 7−0 on aggregate and advanced to the final.'' ---- ''South Africa won on walkover after DR Congo did not appear for the first leg and advanced to the final.'' Final ''Nigeria won 1−0 on aggregate and became the champion.'' Qualified teams for FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup The following team from CAF qualified for the 2004 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup The 2004 FIFA U-19 Women's World Championship ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2006 African U-20 Women's World Cup Qualifying Tournament
In 2006, FIFA granted Africa a second qualification spot at the FIFA U-20 Women's World Championship. The Confederation of African Football (CAF) organized qualification matches for its member nations between 4 March and 11 June 2006. At the conclusion of qualification, DR Congo and Nigeria represented Africa at the 2006 FIFA U-20 Women's World Championship in Russia. First round ''Mozambique won 5−2 on aggregate and advanced to the second round.'' ---- ''DR Congo won 3−1 on aggregate and advanced to the second round.'' ---- ''Liberia won on walkover after Guinea failed to appear for the first leg.'' ---- ''Kenya won on walkover after Congo failed to appear for the first leg.'' ---- ''Egypt won on walkover after Ethiopia failed to appear for the first leg.'' ---- ''Senegal won on walkover after Madagascar failed to appear for the first leg.'' Second round ''South Africa won 9−0 on aggregate and advanced to the third round.'' ---- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2008 African U-20 Women's World Cup Qualifying Tournament
The Confederation of African Football (CAF) organized qualification matches for the 2008 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup in Chile for its member nations between 13 January and 14 June 2008. At the conclusion of qualification, DR Congo and Nigeria booked their spots at the international tournament as CAF representatives. Preliminary round ''Ghana won 7−0 on aggregate and advanced to the first round.'' ---- ''Botswana won 4−2 on aggregate and advanced to the first round.'' ---- ''Egypt won 3−3 on aggregate via the away goals rule and advanced to the first round.'' ---- ''South Africa won 7−1 on aggregate and advanced to the first round.'' ---- ''Cameroon won on walkover and advanced to the first round after Benin failed to appear for the first leg .'' ---- ''Nigeria won on walkover and advanced to the first round after Congo failed to appear for the first leg.'' ---- ''DR Congo won on walkover and advanced to the first round after Namibia failed to ap ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2006 FIFA U-20 Women's World Championship
The 2006 FIFA U-20 Women's World Championship was held in Russia from 17 August to 3 September 2006. It was the officially recognized world championship for women's under-20 national association football teams. Matches were held in four Moscow stadiums (Dynamo, Lokomotiv, Podmoskovie Stadium and Torpedo Stadium) and one in Saint Petersburg (Petrovsky Stadium). This was the third women's world youth championship organized by FIFA, but the first with an age limit of 20. The first two events, held in Canada in 2002 and Thailand in 2004, had an age limit of 19. FIFA changed the age limit to prepare for the creation of an under-17 championship in 2008. North Korea won the tournament. They became the first Asian team to win a FIFA women's tournament and the first Asian football team to win any FIFA tournaments since Saudi Arabia's triumph in the 1989 FIFA U-16 World Championship. Venues Squads Tournament The draw for the tournament was held in Moscow's City Hall on 22 March 20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2008 FIFA U-20 Women's World Championship
The 2008 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup was the 4th edition of the tournament. It was held in Chile between 19 November and 7 December 2008. Sixteen teams, comprising representatives from all six confederations, took part in the final competition, in which Chile had a guaranteed place as the host nation. Background On 15 September 2006 FIFA officially announced Chile as the host country. It was the third time Chile organized a football world cup, after the 1962 FIFA World Cup and the 1987 FIFA World Youth Championship, but the first in the women's competition. The decision came as a surprise to Chile, as it had bid in August 2006 to host the 2008 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup, which was finally granted to New Zealand ( Ecuador was unsuccessful in both bids). Chile previously hosted the South American Under-20 Women's Football Championship and the first edition for Under 17s in January 2008. Venues Four different cities were selected as venues in an open bidding process. Changes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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