2024 CAF Women's Olympic Qualifying Tournament
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The 2024 CAF Women's Olympic qualifying tournament (officially, the Women's Olympic Football Tournament Qualifiers) will be the sixth edition of the
CAF Women's Olympic Qualifying Tournament The CAF Women's Olympic Qualifying Tournament is a association football, football competition which acts as qualification to the Football at the Summer Olympics, Summer Olympics women's football tournament for the Confederation of African Football ( ...
, the quadrennial international
football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to score a goal. Unqualified, the word ''football'' normally means the form of football that is the most popular where the word is used. Sports commonly c ...
competition organised by the
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 administ ...
(CAF) to determine which women's national teams from Africa qualify for the
Olympic football tournament Football at the Summer Olympics, referred to as the Olympic Football Tournament, has been included in every Summer Olympic Games as a men's competition sport, except 1896 (the inaugural Games) and 1932 (in an attempt to promote the new FIFA Wo ...
. On 24 February 2022,
FIFA FIFA (; stands for ''Fédération Internationale de Football Association'' ( French), meaning International Association Football Federation ) is the international governing body of association football, beach football and futsal. It was found ...
awarded CAF two slots for the
2024 Summer Olympic Games ) , nations = TBA , athletes = 10,500 ''(quota limit)'' , events = 329 in 32 sports (48 disciplines) , opening = 26 July 2024 , closing = 11 August 2024 , opened_by = , stadium = Stade de France Jardins du Trocadéro and River Seine , summer ...
in France.


Entrants

Fifty-three CAF members were eligible to enter qualifying, with Zimbabwe having been suspended since 24 February 2022, though only 25 submitted entries. The draw took place on 30 May 2023 in Cairo, Egypt. Seven teams were awarded a bye to the second round of qualifying based upon their results in the
2022 Women's Africa Cup of Nations The 2022 Women's Africa Cup of Nations ( ar, كأس الأمم الإفريقية للسيدات 2022, french: Coupe d'Afrique des nations féminine 2022), (also referred to as WAFCON 2022) officially known as the 2022 TotalEnergies Women's Afric ...
. ;Notes * Teams in bold qualified for the Olympics. * Numbers in parentheses indicate world ranking at the time of the draw. ;Did not enter


Draw

The teams being drawn into round 1 were divided into 4 pots based upon geographical considerations, with teams from pot 1 being drawn against teams from pot 2 and teams from pot 3 being drawn against teams from pot 4; an empty pot was used to randomize which team played at home first. One team each from pots 1 and 2 were drawn and placed into pot 5, where the first team drawn will play the first leg at home and the second team drawn will play the second leg at home. This process was repeated until pots 1 and 2 were empty, then the same process occurred with pots 3 and 4.


Format

Four rounds of home-and-away matches will determine the two CAF representatives to the 2024 Summer Olympic Games in France. If the cumulative scores are even after the second leg ends regulation time, then 30 minutes of
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 ...
will be played. If the score is still level after extra time, then kicks from the penalty spot will be used to determine the winner. The matches will be played in the FIFA match windows in July and October 2023 and in February and April 2024.


Bracket

The match bracket is as follows:


First round

''All times in GMT'' ''Benin won won 5–4 on aggregate.'' ---- ''Ghana won won 7–0 on aggregate.'' ---- ''Mali won won 3–2 on aggregate.'' ---- ''Ivory Coast won on walkover after Sierra Leone withdrew.'' ---- ''Namibia won won 2–0 on aggregate.'' ---- ''Uganda won won 4–3 on aggregate.'' ---- ''Ethiopia won won 10–0 on aggregate.'' ---- ''Tanzania won on walkover after Congo withdrew.'' ---- ''DR Congo won on walkover after Mozambique withdrew.''


Second round

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Third round

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Fourth round

The winners of the fourth round ties will qualify for the
2024 Summer Olympics The 2024 Summer Olympics (french: Jeux olympiques d'été de 2024), officially the Games of the XXXIII Olympiad (french: Jeux de la XXXIIIe Olympiade, links=no) and also known as Paris 2024, is an upcoming international multi-sport event that is s ...
in France. ----


References


External websites

CAF® Women's Football
{{CAF Women's Olympic Qualifying Tournament CAF Women's Olympic qualifying tournament Football at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Women's qualification 2023 in African football 2023 in women's association football