The

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(CAF) organized a qualification competition from 13 January to 5 June 2022 for its nations consisting of players born on or after 1 January 2005 to secure one of 3 qualification spots at the that year's FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup in

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Draw

A total of 29 (out of 54) CAF member national teams entered the qualifying rounds. The draw was held on 10 May 2021 at the CAF headquarters in

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. The draw procedures were as follows: *In the first round, the 10 teams were drawn into five ties, with teams divided into four pots based on their geographical zones and those in the same pot drawn to play against each other. *In the second round, the five first round winners and the 19 teams receiving byes to the second round were allocated into twelve ties based on the first round tie numbers, with five first round winners playing against the five teams receiving byes, and the other four first round winners playing against each other. *In the third round, the twelve second round winners were allocated into six ties based on the second round tie numbers. *In the fourth round, the six third round winners were allocated into three ties based on the third round tie numbers.

Table

;Notes *Teams in bold qualified for the group stage. *(W): Withdrew after the draw

Did not enter

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Format

Qualification ties were played on a home-and-away

two-legged In sports (particularly association football), a two-legged tie is a contest between two teams which comprises two matches or "legs", with each team as the home team in one leg. The winning team is usually determined by aggregate score, the sum o ...

basis. If the aggregate score was tied after the second leg, the

away goals rule The away goals rule is a method of tiebreaker, tiebreaking in association football and other sports when teams play each other twice, once at each team's home ground. Under the away goals rule, if the total goals scored by each team are equal, the ...

was applied, and if still tied, the penalty shoot-out (no

extra time Overtime or extra time is an additional period of play specified under the rules of a sport to bring a game to a decision and avoid declaring the match a tie or draw where the scores are the same. In some sports, this extra period is played onl ...

) was used to determine the winner.

Schedule

First round

Second round

''Tanzania won 11–0 on aggregate.'' --------------- ''3–3 on aggregate. Ethiopia won on away goals.'' --------------- ''Nigeria won 8–0 on aggregate.'' --------------- ''Guinea won 9–3 on aggregate.'' --------------- ''Ghana won 4–0 on aggregate.'' --------------- ''Morocco won 3–1 on aggregate.''

Third round

''Cameroon won 5–0 on aggregate.'' ---- ''Tanzania won 5–2 on aggregate.'' ---- ''Ethiopia won 3–1 on aggregate.'' ---- ''Nigeria won 6–0 on aggregate.'' ---- ''Ghana won 10–1 on aggregate.'' ---- ''Morocco won 18–0 on aggregate.''

Fourth round

''Tanzania won 5–1 on aggregate.'' ---- ''Nigeria won 1–0 on aggregate.'' ---- ''2–2 on aggregate. Morocco won 4–2 on penalties.''

Qualified teams for the 2022 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup

The following three teams from CAF qualified for the

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Goalscorers

References

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