The 2021 CECAFA Women's Championship was set to be the 5th edition of the biennial association football tournament for women's national teams in the

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region organized by

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. It was set to held in

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, Djibouti 17 to 31 December 2021. but was cancelled after the

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withdrew from hosting the tournament due to ongoing work of the

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are the defending champion by having defeated

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2–0 goals on 25 November 2019 in the previous edition final.

Participants

The following eight teams were set to contest in the tournament.

Venue

The tournament was scheduled to take place in the

, but was cancelled due to reconstruction of the stadium.

References

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