The 2022

Women's Africa Cup of Nations 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 ...

( 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

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Women's Africa Cup of Nations for sponsorship purposes, was the 14th edition of the biennial African international women's football tournament organized 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), hosted by

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 ...

from 2 to 23 July 2022. The tournament also doubled as the African qualifiers to the

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. The top four teams qualified for the World Cup, and two more teams advanced to the inter-confederation play-offs.

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 ...

were the three-time defending champions, having won the previous 3 editions in

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and

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; but had its journey ended in the semi-finals after losing to the hosts

on penalties, making it for the first time neither Nigeria or

Equatorial Guinea Equatorial Guinea ( es, Guinea Ecuatorial; french: Guinée équatoriale; pt, Guiné Equatorial), officially the Republic of Equatorial Guinea ( es, link=no, República de Guinea Ecuatorial, french: link=no, République de Guinée équatoria ...

featured in the final. The hosts went on to lose to

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 ...

in the

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, as South Africa claimed its first ever continental trophy after five previous attempts. With this triumph, South Africa joined Nigeria as the only countries to have won both the men's and women's competition. This was the first edition to feature 12 teams as the 2020 edition, which would have been the first, was cancelled due to the

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. The Morocco vs Nigeria semi-final broke the WAFCON attendance records with 45,562 spectators.

Host selection

Morocco were announced as hosts on 15 January 2021. This is the first time a North African Arab country has hosted the Women's Africa Cup of Nations.

Mascot

The mascot for this edition of the tournament was unveiled as "TITRIT" (a Moroccan Berber name meaning "star" or "celebrity"), a young lioness clothed with the home jersey of the host nation's national football team, with a traditional Moroccan tiara.

Qualification

Morocco qualified automatically as hosts, while the remaining eleven spots were determined by the qualifying rounds.

Qualified teams

2022 Women's Africa Cup of Nations qualification

Venues

The tournament was held in

Casablanca Casablanca, also known in Arabic as Dar al-Bayda ( ar, الدَّار الْبَيْضَاء, al-Dār al-Bayḍāʾ, ; ber, ⴹⴹⴰⵕⵍⴱⵉⴹⴰ, ḍḍaṛlbiḍa, : "White House") is the largest city in Morocco and the country's econom ...

and

Rabat Rabat (, also , ; ar, الرِّبَاط, er-Ribât; ber, ⵕⵕⴱⴰⵟ, ṛṛbaṭ) is the capital city of Morocco and the country's seventh largest city with an urban population of approximately 580,000 (2014) and a metropolitan populati ...

Squads

Match officials

A total of 16 referees, 16 assistant referees and 8 VAR referees were appointed for the tournament. Originally, Fatima El Ajjani (

) was assigned as video assistant referee only. However, she was assigned as principal referee during the tournament after Aïssata Boudy Lam (

Mauritania Mauritania (; ar, موريتانيا, ', french: Mauritanie; Berber: ''Agawej'' or ''Cengit''; Pulaar: ''Moritani''; Wolof: ''Gànnaar''; Soninke:), officially the Islamic Republic of Mauritania ( ar, الجمهورية الإسلامية ...

) sustained an injury. ;Referees * Suavis Iratunga * Zomadre Kore * Shahenda El-Maghrabi * Letticia Viana *

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* Maria Rivet * Aïssata Boudy Lam * Fatima El Ajjani * Bouchra Karboubi * Antsino Twanyanyukwa * Ndidi Patience Madu *

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* Mame Faye *

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* Vincentia Amedome * Dorsaf Ganouati * Shamira Nabadda ;Assistant referees * Asma Ouahab * Nafissatou Yekini * Carine Atezambong * Kanjinga Mujanayi * Yara Abdelfattah * Mona Atallah * Lidwine Rakotozafinoro * Bernadettar Kwimbira * Fanta Kone * Queency Victoire * Mariem Chedad * Soukaina Hamdi * Fatiha Jermoumi * Mimisen Iyorhe * Afine Houda * Diana Chikotesha ;Video assistant referees * Lahlou Benbraham * Ahmed El-Ghandour * Ahmed Ibrahim * Ahmad Heerallal * Zakaria Brindisi * Samir Guezzaz * Haythem Guirat

Draw

The final draw was held in

on 29 April 2022 at 20:30

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). The twelve teams were drawn into three groups of four teams, with the hosts Morocco, reigning champions Nigeria, and next-highest-ranked Cameroon assigned to positions A1, C1, and B1, respectively.

Group stage

CAF released the official match schedule for the tournament on 29 April 2022. All times are local, (

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). ;Tiebreakers

Group A

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Group B

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Group C

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Ranking of third-placed teams

Knockout stage

Bracket

Quarter-finals

The winners qualified for the

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Repechage

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Semi-finals

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Third place play-off

Final

Goalscorers

Awards

The following awards were given at the conclusion of the tournament:

Qualified teams for the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup

The following teams will represent Africa directly at the

, while two more teams will have opportunities to join them through the inter-confederation playoffs. :

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

Notes

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Africa Women Cup of Nations 2022

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