The 2004 African Women's Championship was the sixth edition of the

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 ...

(now known as the ''Africa Women Cup of Nations''), the biennial international

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championship organised by the

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(CAF) for the women's national teams of Africa. It was held in

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between 18 September and 3 October 2004.

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 ...

won its sixth title, after defeating

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 ...

5–0 in the final.

were elected as hosts on 12 December 2003.

Qualification

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

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

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would be applied, and if still level, the

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would be used to determine the winner (no

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would be played). The seven winners of the final round qualified for the final tournament.

Qualified teams

2004 African Womens Football Championship qualification

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appeared for the first time in the tournament. :

¹ Bold indicates champions for that year. ''Italic'' indicates hosts for that year.

² Mali qualified as lucky loser after both

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and

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(who were due to play each other) withdrew.

Format

The eight teams were divided into two groups of four teams each. The top two teams in the groups advanced 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).

Results

Group stage

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,

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

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Third place match

Final

Awards

Statistics

Team statistics

2004 African Womens Football Championship Results

Goalscorers

Perpetua Nkwocha Perpetua Ijeoma Nkwocha (born 3 January 1976) is a Nigerian female professional footballer, who is the coach of Clemensnäs IF from Swedish Women's Football Division 2, she previously played for Swedish club Sunnanå SK. She was also a member ...

was the top scorer of the event with nine goals. In total, 48 goals were scored by 27 players. ;9 goals *

;4 goals *

Cynthia Uwak Cynthia Uwak (born 15 July 1986 in Akwa Ibom State) is a Nigerian football striker who most recently played for Åland United in the Naisten Liiga in Finland. Early life Cynthia Uwak's first experience of playing football was against boys in th ...

;3 goals * Séraphine Mbida ;2 goals * Nabila Imloul * Françoise Bella * Stéphanie Mekongo * Belay Tutu * Akua Anokyewaa * Bernice Asante *

Vera Okolo Vera Okolo (born 5 January 1985) is a Nigerian footballer who plays for the Nigeria women's national football team. She played for the Delta Queens in the Nigerian Women's Championship. Playing career International Okolo was put forward for th ...

* Nomsa Moyo ;1 goal * Naïma Laouadi * Farida Sedhane * Marceline Mete * Feleke Addis * Birtukan Gebrekirstos * Anita Amenuku *

Adjoa Bayor Adjoa Bayor (born 17 May 1979) is a Ghanaian former footballer who played as a midfielder. She has captained the Ghana women's national team. International career Bayor was part of the Ghana women's national football team at the 1999 FIFA Wom ...

* Gloria Foriwa * Fatoumata Diarra * Man Keita * Ajuma Ameh * Effioanwan Ekpo * Felicia Eze * Portia Modise * Veronica Phewa * Marjory Nyaumwe

References

External links

Tables & results
at RSSSF.com
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