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2026 Women's Africa Cup Of Nations Qualification
The 2026 Women's Africa Cup of Nations qualification is a women's football competition that will determine the 11 teams joining the automatically qualified host Morocco in the 2026 Women's Africa Cup of Nations final tournament. Format The African qualifiers commenced in February 2025 and will feature two rounds of competition. In the first round, the 32 teams ranked 7th and below played home-and-away two-legged ties. The 16 winners advanced to the second round, where they will be joined by the 6 teams that received a bye. The winners of the 11 second round home-and-away ties will qualify for the final tournament in Morocco. Tiebreakers If the aggregate score is tied after the second leg, the away goals rule will have been applied, and if still tied, a penalty shoot-out will be held (no extra time). Schedule Entrants All 53 CAF national teams were eligible to enter the competition; however, excluding Morocco, who qualified automatically as hosts of the final tournament, 38 tea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ghoutia Karchouni
Ghoutia Karchouni (; born 29 May 1995) is a professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Italian Serie A club Inter Milan and the Algeria national team. She previously played for Paris Saint-Germain, Boston Breakers and Bordeaux. Born in France, she plays for the Algeria national team. Career Karchouni joined PSG in 2013. She made her league debut against Arras on 13 October 2013. On June 29, 2016, Chicago Red Stars acquired a second-round pick in the 2017 NWSL College Draft from the Boston Breakers in exchange for a 2016 international roster spot, which Boston used to sign Karchouni. She made her league debut against FC Kansas City on 28 August 2016. Karchouni made her league debut against Montpellier on 12 February 2017. She scored her first league goal against PSG on 25 May 2017, scoring in the 48th minute. Karchouni left Bordeaux with her being described as a key player, with one of her goals being nominated for best goal of the season. On 20 July 2021, Karch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
COSAFA
Council of Southern Africa Football Associations (; ), officially abbreviated as COSAFA, is an association of the football playing nations in Southern Africa. It is affiliated to CAF. COSAFA organise several tournaments in the Southern African region, and its most renowned tournament is the COSAFA Cup. Executive committee The 2008 annual general assembly saw the election of the new COSAFA Executive Committee. Previously the committee consisted of 14 members; the new committee now consists of seven members: the president, vice-president and five members, as well as the chief operations officer. The most recent committee was elected on 17 December 2016. The term of office of the COSAFA President is five years and that of the Vice President is four years. The other office bearer is three years. Member associations All associations that joined in 1997 were founding members of COSAFA. Comoros is the only COSAFA member to also be a member of the Union of Arab Football Asso ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yolanda Kanyai
Yolanda or Yolonda may refer to: * Yolanda (name), a given name derived from the Greek ''Iolanthe'' Places * Yolanda, California * Yolanda Shrine, monument located at Barangay Anibong, Tacloban, Leyte Film * ''Yolanda'' (film), a 1924 film starring Marion Davies * ''Yolanda and the Thief'', a 1945 musical-comedy film * ''Yolanda'' (1952 film) * Yolanda "Honey Bunny", in the 1994 film Pulp Fiction Music * Yolanda Be Cool, an Australian band Songs * "Yolanda", by Bobby Blue Bland * "Yolanda", by Pablo Milanés * "Yolanda Hayes", by Fountains of Wayne * "Yolanda, You Learn", by Lyle Mays and Pat Metheny Other uses * Tropical Storm Yolanda, tropical cyclones named ''Yolanda'' * ''Yolanda,'' a synonym of the orchid genus ''Brachionidium'' * ''Yolanda'' (ship), a Cypriot cargo ship * ''Yolanda, the Black Corsair's Daughter'', 1905 adventure novel by Italian novelist Emilio Salgari * ''Yolanda'', a platforming video game for the Amiga * Pauline Sharpe (1925–2005), or ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daisy Kaitano
Daisy Kaitano (born 20 September 1993) is a Zimbabwean footballer. She represented Zimbabwe in the football competition at the 2016 Summer Olympics The 2016 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXXI Olympiad () and officially branded as Rio 2016, were an international multi-sport event held from 5 to 21 August 2016 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, with preliminary events i .... References Zimbabwean women's footballers 21st-century Zimbabwean sportswomen 1993 births Living people Footballers at the 2016 Summer Olympics Olympic footballers for Zimbabwe Zimbabwe women's international footballers Women's association football midfielders {{Zimbabwe-women-footy-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mavis Chirandu
Mavis Chirandu (born 15 January 1995) is a Zimbabwean footballer who plays for Weerams F.C. and the Zimbabwe women's national football team. Biography and career As a newborn, Chirandu was abandoned by her mother in some roadside bushes. She was brought up in an SOS Children's Villages orphanage in Bindura. She played for the senior Zimbabwe team for the first time in 2013, against Uruguay. She acquired the nickname "Madam Chair" after Zimbabwe's women's football chairman Mavis Gumbo, and scored her first international goal in a 6–1 win over Lesotho in November 2013. At 21 years old, left-sided midfielder Chirandu was included in the national squad for the 2016 Summer Olympics. She scored Zimbabwe's late consolation goal in their 3–1 group stage defeat by Canada at Arena Corinthians, São Paulo São Paulo (; ; Portuguese for 'Paul the Apostle, Saint Paul') is the capital of the São Paulo (state), state of São Paulo, as well as the List of cities in Brazil by populat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nobukhosi Ncube
Nobukhosi Ncube (born 17 February 1993) is a Zimbabwean Association football, footballer who plays as a Defender (association football), defender. She has been a member of the Zimbabwe women's national football team, Zimbabwe women's national team. International career Ncube capped for Zimbabwe at senior level during the 2016 Africa Women Cup of Nations. References 1993 births Living people Zimbabwean women's footballers 21st-century Zimbabwean sportswomen Zimbabwe women's international footballers Women's association football defenders {{Zimbabwe-women-footy-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christabel Katona
Christabel may refer to: * ''Christabel'' (poem), a lengthy poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge ** ''Christabel'' (film), a 2001 experimental feature by James Fotopoulos based on the poem **''Christabel'', a 1998 lesbian Gothic romance novel by Karin Kallmaker inspired by the Samuel Taylor Coleridge poem * ''Christabel'' (TV series), a 1988 British drama by Dennis Potter, about an English woman married to a German lawyer in Nazi Germany * Christabel LaMotte, a character in the novel ''Possession: A Romance'' * 2695 Christabel (1979 UE), a main-belt asteroid discovered in 1979 * Lake Christabel, a small lake of New Zealand * USS ''Christabel'' (SP-162), a United States Navy patrol vessel of World War I People Pseudonym *Christine Elizabeth Abrahamsen (1916–1995), American science fiction and gothic novelist *Mary Downing (c. 1815–1881), Irish poet Given name *Christabel Baxendale (1886–1953), English violinist and composer *Christabel Bielenberg (1909–2003), Anglo-Irish-German n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ethel Chinyerere
Ethel (also '' æthel'') is an Old English word meaning "noble", today often used as a feminine given name. Etymology and historic usage The word means ''æthel'' "noble". It is frequently attested as the first element in Anglo-Saxon names, both masculine and feminine, e.g. Æthelhard, Æthelred, Æthelwulf; Æthelburg, Æthelflæd, Æthelthryth (Audrey). It corresponds to the ''Adel-'' and ''Edel-'' in continental names, such as Adolf (Æthelwulf), Albert (Adalbert), Adelheid (Adelaide), Edeltraut and Edelgard. Some of the feminine Anglo-Saxon names in Æthel- survived into the modern period (e.g. Etheldred Benett 1776–1845). ''Ethel'' was in origin used as a familiar form of such names, but it began to be used as a feminine given name in its own right beginning in the mid-19th century, gaining popularity due to characters so named in novels by W. M. Thackeray (''The Newcomes'' – 1855) and Charlotte Mary Yonge (''The Daisy Chain'' whose heroine Ethel's full name is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luanda
Luanda ( ) is the Capital city, capital and List of cities and towns in Angola, largest city of Angola. It is Angola's primary port, and its major industrial, cultural and urban centre. Located on Angola's northern Atlantic coast, Luanda is Angola's administrative centre, its chief seaport, and also the capital of the Luanda Province. Luanda and its metropolitan area is the most populous Portuguese-speaking capital city in the world and the most populous Lusophone city outside Brazil. In 2020 the population reached more than 8.3 million inhabitants (a third of Angola's population). Among the oldest colonial cities of Africa, Luanda was founded in January 1576 as ''São Paulo da Assunção de Loanda'' by Portuguese explorer Paulo Dias de Novais, being occasionally called "Leonda" or "St Paul de Leonda" by non-Portuguese sources. The city served as the centre of the Slavery in Angola, slave trade to Brazil before the institution was prohibited. At the start of the Angolan Civil W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Estádio Joaquim Dinis
Estádio Joaquim Dinis is a multi-use stadium in Luanda, Angola. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home ground of Atlético Sport Aviação Atlético Sport Aviação, best known as ASA, was a association football, football club from Luanda, Angola. The club was founded in 1953 by a group of workers from TAAG's predecessor DTA. Mr. Jacinto Medina was the first chairman. Before Ango .... The stadium holds 7,800 people and was built in 2003. References Estádio Joaquim Dinisat Soccerway Sports venues completed in 2005 Football venues in Angola Estadio Joaquim Dinis Sports venues in Luanda {{Angola-sports-venue-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ruvimbo Mucherera
Ruvimbo Tracy Elizabeth Mucherera (born October 5, 1996) is a professional soccer player who plays as a forward. Born in the United States, she plays for the Zimbabwe national team. She played college soccer for the North Carolina Tar Heels. She has also previously played for clubs in Ireland, Israel, Lithuania, and Poland. Early life Mucherera was born in Denver, Colorado, one of four children born to Tapiwa and Bertha Mucherera. Both parents are PhD holders who emigrated from Zimbabwe. After moving to Lexington, Kentucky, Mucherera began playing soccer on a boys' team when she was four. She also played other sports growing up, including basketball, football, and golf. While living in Oviedo, Florida, she played for Elite Clubs National League clubs Orlando City and Florida Kraze Krush. She attended Paul J. Hagerty High School in Oviedo, where she set the career scoring record with 94 goals. She led the team to three district titles and one regional title and earned first-team ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WAFU
The West African Football Union (; ), officially abbreviated as WAFU-UFOA and WAFU, is a sports governing body representing the football associations in West Africa that was founded in 1975 and is a subregional body of the Confederation of African Football (CAF). It mainly organizes qualifying tournaments/championships for the CAF Women's Champions League and CAF's national team competitions except the Africa Cup of Nations, but also organizes its own competitions, like the currently-inactive WAFU Nations Cup. Presidents * K. Tandoh (1975–1977) * Seyi Memene (1977–1984) * Abdoulaye Fofana (1984–1988) * Jonathan Boytie Ogufere (1988–1994) * Dieng Ousseynou (1994–1999) * Abdulmumini Aminu (1999–2002) * El Hadji Malick Sy (2002–2004) * Jacques Anouma (2004–2008) * Amos Adamu (2008–2010) * Kwesi Nyantakyi (2011–2018) * Kurt Okraku (2019–present) Member associations WAFU consists of all football associations of West Africa, but got split into two ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
