The 2021
CAF Women's Champions League, known as the 2021
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CAF Women's Champions League for
sponsorship purposes, was the inaugural edition of the annual African
women's association football
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club tournament
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# One or more competitions held at a single venue and concen ...
organized by
CAF. It was held in
Cairo
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,
Egypt
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from 5 to 19 November 2021.
Qualified teams
The qualification phases were made up of 6 sub-confederation qualification tournaments which began with those of
UNAF for North Africa and
West Africa's Zone A on 24 July 2021 and concluded on 8 September 2021. Qualification ended with the participating teams reduced to the final 8 which were made up of one winning team each from the 6 CAF sub-confederations (
WAFU is split into two zones), the host nation's league-winning team and, for this edition only, an additional team from the sub-confederation of
the incumbent Women's Africa Cup of Nations champions.
Draw
The draw for this edition of the tournament was held at the CAF headquarters in
Cairo
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, Egypt on 29 September 2021 at 17:00
CAT (15:00
UTC). The eight confirmed teams were put into two groups of four teams. As club competition hosts,
Wadi Degla was allocated to position A1.
Venues
This edition of the tournament was held in two venues in
Cairo
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; the
30 June Stadium and the
Al Salam Stadium.
Match officials
The following sets of referees were chosen for the tournament;
Referees
Assistant referees
Group stage
The group stage kick-off times were in
Central Africa Time
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(CAT) (
UTC+02:00). Owing to the
COVID-19 pandemic
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and
its associated travel restrictions, the matches were played
behind closed doors.
Group A
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Group B
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Knock-out phase
Bracket
Semi-finals
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Third-place match
Final
Statistics
Top scorers
Below is the list of the top 10 scorers in the main phase of this edition of the tournament:
Squad of the group stage
The CAF Women's Champions League technical study group selected the following 11 players as the squad of the group stage:
Best XI
Awards of the group stage
The CAF Women's Champions League technical study group selected the following as the best of the group stage:
Squad of the tournament
The CAF Women's Champions League technical study group selected the following 11 players as the squad of this edition of the tournament.
Best XI
Awards of the tournament
The CAF Women's Champions League technical study group selected the following as the best of the tournament.
Final standings
Per statistical convention in football, matches decided in
extra time
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are counted as wins and losses, while matches decided by a
penalty shoot-out
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are counted as draws.
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References
External links
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Champions League
November 2021 sports events in Africa
2021
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