The 1998

African Women's Championship The Women's Africa Cup of Nations, also called the TotalEnergies Women's Africa Cup of Nations for sponsorship reasons and abbreviated to WAFCON, is an international women's football competition held every two years and sanctioned by the Confe ...

was the 3rd edition of the international

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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 Nigeria ( ), , ig, Naìjíríyà, yo, Nàìjíríà, pcm, Naijá , ff, Naajeeriya, kcg, Naijeriya officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is a country in West Africa. It is situated between the Sahel to the north and the Gulf o ...

hosted this edition from 17 to 31 October 1998 and its women's team successfully defended its title, winning it for a 3rd time after beating

Ghana Ghana (; tw, Gaana, ee, Gana), officially the Republic of Ghana, is a country in West Africa. It abuts the Gulf of Guinea and the Atlantic Ocean to the south, sharing borders with Ivory Coast in the west, Burkina Faso in the north, and To ...

2–0 in the final, with both qualifying for the following year's FIFA Women's World Cup in the

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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 10–12:

Mozambique Mozambique (), officially the Republic of Mozambique ( pt, Moçambique or , ; ny, Mozambiki; sw, Msumbiji; ts, Muzambhiki), is a country located in southeastern Africa bordered by the Indian Ocean to the east, Tanzania to the north, Malawi ...

won 7–2 on aggregate and qualified for the final tournament. ----

South Africa South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the southernmost country in Africa. It is bounded to the south by of coastline that stretch along the South Atlantic and Indian Oceans; to the north by the neighbouring countri ...

won 15–0 on aggregate and qualified for the final tournament. ----

Egypt Egypt ( ar, مصر , ), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a transcontinental country spanning the northeast corner of Africa and southwest corner of Asia via a land bridge formed by the Sinai Peninsula. It is bordered by the Mediter ...

won 2–1 on aggregate and qualified for the final tournament. ----

won 19–0 on aggregate and qualified for the final tournament. ----

DR Congo The Democratic Republic of the Congo (french: République démocratique du Congo (RDC), colloquially "La RDC" ), informally Congo-Kinshasa, DR Congo, the DRC, the DROC, or the Congo, and formerly and also colloquially Zaire, is a country in ...

won by default and qualified for the final tournament. ----

Cameroon Cameroon (; french: Cameroun, ff, Kamerun), officially the Republic of Cameroon (french: République du Cameroun, links=no), is a country in west-central Africa. It is bordered by Nigeria to the west and north; Chad to the northeast; the C ...

won by default and qualified for the final tournament. ----

Morocco Morocco (),, ) officially the Kingdom of Morocco, is the westernmost country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It overlooks the Mediterranean Sea to the north and the Atlantic Ocean to the west, and has land borders with Algeria to ...

won by default and qualified for the final tournament.

Qualified teams

and

made their first appearances in the tournament.

failed to arrive for the tournament despite qualifying with

Lesotho Lesotho ( ), officially the Kingdom of Lesotho, is a country landlocked country, landlocked as an Enclave and exclave, enclave in South Africa. It is situated in the Maloti Mountains and contains the Thabana Ntlenyana, highest mountains in Sou ...

as a late replacement for Mozambique, also failing to show up.

Squads

Venues

Final tournament

The top two teams of each group advance to the semi-finals. The teams were ranked according to points (3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, 0 points for a loss).

First round

Group A

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Group B

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Knockout stage

In the knockout stage, if a match is level at the end of normal playing time,

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is played (two periods of 15 minutes each) and followed, if necessary, by

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to determine the winner, except for the third place match where no extra time is played.

Semi-finals

Winners qualified for

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Third place playoff

Final

Awards

Statistics

Team statistics

, - , colspan="10", Eliminated in the group stage , -

Goalscorers

;3 goals *

Nkiru Okosieme Nkiru Doris "NK" Okosieme (born 1 March 1972) is a former captain of the Nigerian female football team ( Super Falcons) football midfielder who played for the Nigeria women's national football team across four FIFA Women's World Cups (1991, 19 ...

;2 goals *

Patience Avre Patience Avre (born 10 June 1976) is a Nigerian former football forward who played for the Nigeria women's national football team at the 1995 FIFA Women's World Cup, 1999 FIFA Women's World Cup and 2003 FIFA Women's World Cup as well as the ...

* Rita Nwadike ;1 goal * Mercy Akide * Stella Mbachu *

Florence Omagbemi Florence Omagbemi (born 2 February 1975) is a Nigerian former football midfielder. She was part of the Nigeria women's national football team across four FIFA Women's World Cups, several Africa Women Cup of Nations and at the 2000 Summer Olym ...

;Unknown scorers * : 18 additional goals. * : 11 additional goals. * : 8 additional goals. * : 7 additional goals. * : 4 additional goals. * : 2 additional goals. * : 2 additional goals.

References

External links

Tables & Results
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