The 2002

African Women's Championship The Women's Africa Cup of Nations (WAFCON), known for sponsorship purposes as the TotalEnergies Women's Africa Cup of Nations and formerly the African Women's Championship, is a biennial international women's football tournament organized by t ...

was the 5th edition of the biennial African

women's association football Women's association football, more commonly known as women's football or women's soccer, is the team sport of association football played by women. It is played at the professional level in multiple countries, and about 200 national teams partic ...

tournament organized by the

Confederation of African Football The Confederation of African Football (CAF) is the administrative and controlling body for association football, beach soccer, and futsal in Africa. It was established on 8 February 1957 at the ''Grand Hotel'' in Khartoum, Sudan. At the FIFA Co ...

. It took place in

Nigeria Nigeria, officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is a country in West Africa. It is situated between the Sahel to the north and the Gulf of Guinea in the Atlantic Ocean to the south. It covers an area of . With Demographics of Nigeria, ...

between 7 and 20 December 2002. This edition of the tournament also doubled as the African qualification for the

2003 FIFA Women's World Cup The 2003 FIFA Women's World Cup was the fourth edition of the FIFA Women's World Cup, the quadrennial championship of women's association football, women's national soccer teams organized by FIFA. It was held in the United States from September ...

beat

Ghana Ghana, officially the Republic of Ghana, is a country in West Africa. It is situated along the Gulf of Guinea and the Atlantic Ocean to the south, and shares borders with Côte d’Ivoire to the west, Burkina Faso to the north, and Togo to t ...

2–0 in the final to with their 5th title, although both were guaranteed qualification to that international tournament edition held in the

United States The United States of America (USA), also known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It is a federal republic of 50 U.S. state, states and a federal capital district, Washington, D.C. The 48 ...

Host selection

On 24 January 2001, the

Botswana Football Association The Botswana Football Association (BFA) is the governing body of association Football (soccer), football in Botswana, and controls the national football team. It is an affiliate of FIFA, Confederation of African Football, CAF and the Council of ...

announced the submission of a hosting bid, but it was neither considered nor came to fruition by CAF. CAF approached

at the

2002 African Cup of Nations The 2002 African Cup of Nations was the 23rd edition of the Africa Cup of Nations, the association football championship of Africa ( CAF). It was hosted by Mali. Just like in 2000, the field of sixteen teams was split into four groups of four. Ca ...

Mali Mali, officially the Republic of Mali, is a landlocked country in West Africa. It is the List of African countries by area, eighth-largest country in Africa, with an area of over . The country is bordered to the north by Algeria, to the east b ...

for that tournament edition's hosting rights and got it on 19 March that year. Nigeria previously had the honor of hosting the tournament when it began full-scale in 1998.

Qualification

qualified automatically as both hosts and defending champions, while the remaining seven spots were determined by the qualifying rounds, which took place from August to October 2002.

Format

Qualification ties were played on a home-and-away two-legged basis. If the aggregate score was tied after the second leg, the

away goals rule The away goals rule is a method of 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 team that ...

would be applied, and if still level, the

penalty shoot-out The penalty shootout is a method of determining a winner in sports matches that would have otherwise been drawn or tied. The rules for penalty shootouts vary between sports and even different competitions; however, the usual form is similar to pe ...

would be used to determine the winner (no

extra time Overtime (OT) or extra time (ET) is an additional period of play 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 only if the game is required t ...

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

Qualified teams

2002 African Womens Football Championship qualification

Ethiopia Ethiopia, officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a landlocked country located in the Horn of Africa region of East Africa. It shares borders with Eritrea to the north, Djibouti to the northeast, Somalia to the east, Ken ...

and

made their first appearances in the tournament. ;Notes

Officials

The following referees were named for the tournament: * Ondo Akono * Chimane Nombauli * Mukulu Mbula * Scholastica Tetteh * Bola Abidoye * Bolanle Sekiteri * Xonam Agboyi * Catherine Adipo

Format

The eight teams were divided into two groups of four teams, where the top two teams in each group advanced to the semi-finals. The finalists of this edition of the tournament qualified for the

in the

. The teams were ranked according to the

three points for a win Three points for a win is a standard used in many sports leagues and group tournaments, especially in association football, in which 3 points are awarded to the team winning a match, with no points awarded to the losing team. If the game is draw ...

standard.

Group stage

Tiebreakers

If two or more teams in the group stage are tied on points tie-breakers are in order: # greater number of points in matches between tied teams # superior goal difference in matches between tied teams # greater number of goals scored in matches between tied teams # superior goal difference in all group matches # greater number of goals scored in all group matches # fair play criteria based on red and yellow cards received # drawing of lots

Group A

---- ----

Group B

---- ----

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

kicks from the penalty mark In association football, a penalty shoot-out (previously known as kicks from the penalty mark) is a tie-breaking method to determine which team is awarded victory in a match that cannot end in a draw, when the score is tied after the normal tim ...

to determine the winner, except for the third place match where no extra time is played.

Bracket

Semi-finals

Winners qualified for the

. ----

Third place play-off

Final

The match was held up for about 5 minutes after fans pelted a lineswoman with sachets of water after Alberta Sackey had not been given offside (but missed the chance anyway).

Awards

Statistics

Team statistics

2002 African Womens Football Championship Results

Goalscorers

;4 goals * Alberta Sackey *

Perpetua Nkwocha Perpetua Ijeoma Nkwocha (born 3 January 1976) is a Nigerian former professional association football, footballer who played for and captained the Nigeria women's national football team. She is the Coach (sport), coach of Clemensnäs IF from Swe ...

* Veronica Phewa ;3 goals *

Mercy Akide Mercy Joy Akide Udoh (; born 26 August 1975) is a Nigerian former footballer who played as a midfielder for the Nigeria women's national football team. Early life Mercy started playing football at the age of five with her oldest brother Seleipi ...

* Stella Mbachu ;2 goals * Awasso Endegene-Leme *

Mavis Dgajmah Mavis Dgajmah (born 21 December 1973) is a Ghanaian women's international footballer who plays as a forward. She was a member of the Ghana women's national football team. She was part of the team at the 1999 FIFA Women's World Cup and at the 200 ...

* Nana Gyamfuah * Rokiatou Samake * Ifenyichukwu Chiejine * Esther Zulu Talent ;1 goal * Irene Gonçalves * Jacinta Rios * Antoinette Anounga * Rolande Belemgoto * Christelle Pokam * Madeleine Ngono Mani * Adjoa Bayor * Maïchata Konaté * Ekpo Effionwan * Florence Iweta * Olaitan Yusuf * Antonia Carelse * Lydia Monyepao ;Unknown goalscorers *: 3 additional goals

Qualified teams for the 2003 FIFA Women's World Cup

The teams below qualified to represent Africa at the

in the

Notes

References

External links

2002 edition records and results
at

RSSSF The Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation (''RSSSF'') is an international organisation dedicated to collecting statistics about association football. The foundation aims to build an exhaustive archive of football-related information from around ...

{{International women's football 2002 African Women's Championship

Championship In sport, a championship is a competition in which the aim is to decide which individual or team is the champion. Championship systems Various forms of competition can be referred to by the term championship. Title match system In this sys ...

Women's Africa Cup of Nations tournaments 2003 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification International association football competitions hosted by Nigeria