The 2021

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, known as the 2021

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CAF Women's Champions League for

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purposes, was the inaugural edition of the annual African

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club

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organized by CAF. It was held in

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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

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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

, Egypt on 29 September 2021 at 17:00

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(15:00

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). 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

; the

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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

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and its associated travel restrictions, the matches were played

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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

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are counted as wins and losses, while matches decided by a

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are counted as draws. , - , colspan="11", Eliminated in group stage , -

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Caf Women's Champions League 2021 Champions League November 2021 sports events in Africa

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