The 2024

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(), officially known as the 2024

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Women's Africa Cup of Nations for sponsorship purposes and as WAFCON 2024 for short, will be the 15th edition of the biennial African

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tournament organized by the

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. It will be hosted by

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in consecutive editions, having hosted the previous edition two years before.

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are the defending champions.

Host selection

CAF retained Morocco as hosts on 10 August 2022, thus becoming the first country to host back-to-back WAFCON editions.

Qualification

Morocco qualified automatically as hosts, while the remaining spots will be determined by the qualification rounds, whose draw was conducted on 6 July 2023 at the Mohammed VI Complex in

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and will commence in August.

Qualified teams

The following teams have qualified for this edition of the tournament.

Venues

Casablanca Casablanca (, ) is the largest city in Morocco and the country's economic and business centre. Located on the Atlantic Ocean, Atlantic coast of the Chaouia (Morocco), Chaouia plain in the central-western part of Morocco, the city has a populatio ...

Mohammédia Mohammedia (), known until 1960 as Fedala (), is a port city on the west coast of Morocco between Casablanca and Rabat in the region of Casablanca-Settat. It hosts the most important oil refinery of Morocco, Samir Refinery, which makes it the cen ...

Oujda Oujda (, ) is a major city in northeast Morocco near the Algeria–Morocco border, border with Algeria. Oujda is the capital city of the Oriental (Morocco), Oriental region of northeastern Morocco and has a population of 506,224 people (2024 censu ...

and

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were the five cities chosen to host the competition.

Draw

The final draw was held at the Mohammed VI Technical Centre in

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on 22 November 2024. The 12 qualified teams were seeded into four levels based on their

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from August 2024. Host nation

will automatically be assigned position A1, while defending champions

will occupy position C1.

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, the third team in Level 1, will take position B1.

Squads

Match officials

A total of 18 referees, 18 assistant referees and 10 VAR referees were appointed for the tournament. ;Referees * * Awa Alphonsine Ilboudo * Suavis Iratunga * Aline Guimbang Etong * * * Josephine Wanjiku * Yacine Samassa * Bouchra Karboubi * Sabah Sadir * Twanyanyukwa Antsino * Yemisi Akintoye * Aline Umutoni * Aminata Fullah * Akhona Makalima * Vincentia Amedome * Dorsaf Ganouati * Shamirah Nabadda ;Assistant referees * Asma Ouahab * Nafissatou Yekini * Fides Bangourabona * Carine Atezambong Fomo * Mireille Kanjinga * Yara Atef * Mahawa Kourouma * Hannah Moses * Fanta Kone * Mariem Chedad * Fathia Jermoumi * Ishsane Nouajli * Sakina Hamidou Alfa * Alice Umutesi * Tabara Mbodji * Houda Afine * Diana Chikotesha * Nancy Kasitu ;Video assistant referees * Lamia Atman * Hossam Haggag * * Pierre Atcho * Daniel Nii Laryea * Abdulrazg Ahmed * Babacar Sarr * * Salima Mukansanga * Abdalaziz Yasir Ahmed

Group stage

Tiebreakers

Teams were ranked according to

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(3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, 0 points for a loss). If two teams were tied on points, the following tiebreaking criteria were applied, in the order given, to determine the rankings (Regulations Article 74): # Points in head-to-head matches match between the two tied teams; #

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in all group matches; # Goals scored in all group matches; # Drawing of lots. If more than two teams were tied, the following criteria were applied instead: # Points in matches between the tied teams; # Goal difference in matches between the tied teams; # Goals scored in matches between the tied teams; # If after applying all criteria above, two teams were still tied, the above criteria were again applied to matches played between the two teams in question. If this did not resolve the tie, the next three criteria were applied; # Goal difference in all group matches; # Goals scored in all group matches; # Drawing of lots.

Group A

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Group B

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Group C

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Ranking of third-placed teams

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Women's Africa Cup of Nations, 2024 Women's Africa Cup of Nations tournaments 2020s in Moroccan sport Cup of Nations International association football competitions hosted by Morocco 2024 in African women's sport