2020 African U-20 Women's World Cup Qualifying Tournament
# 2020 African U-20 Women's World Cup Qualifying Tournament

The 2020 African U-20 Women's World Cup Qualifying Tournament was the 10th edition of the African U-20 Women's World Cup Qualifying Tournament, the biennial international youth football competition organised by the Confederation of African Football (CAF) to determine which women's under-20 national teams from Africa qualify for the FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup. Players born on or after 1 January 2000 were eligible to compete in the tournament.

Two teams would have qualified from this tournament for the 2021 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup (originally 2020 but postponed due to COVID-19 pandemic) in Costa Rica as the CAF representatives. However, FIFA announced on 17 November 2020 that this edition of the World Cup would be cancelled. As a result, all remaining qualifying matches were cancelled.

## Draw

A total of 29 (out of 54) CAF member national teams entered the qualifying rounds. The draw was held on 4 December 2019 at the CAF headquarters in Cairo, Egypt. The draw procedures were as follows:

* In the preliminary round, the 26 teams were drawn into 13 ties, with teams divided into five pots based on their geographical zones and those in the same pot drawn to play against each other.
* In the first round, the 13 preliminary round winners and the three teams receiving byes to the first round were allocated into eight ties based on the preliminary round tie numbers, with three preliminary round winners playing against the three teams receiving byes, and the other ten preliminary round winners playing against each other.
* In the second round, the eight first round winners were allocated into four ties based on the first round tie numbers.
* In the third round, the four second round winners were allocated into two ties based on the second round tie numbers.

| Bye to first round (3 teams) | Preliminary round entrants (26 teams) | Preliminary round entrants (26 teams) | Preliminary round entrants (26 teams) | Preliminary round entrants (26 teams) | Preliminary round entrants (26 teams) |
| - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Bye to first round (3 teams) | Pot A (3 from UNAF + 1 from CECAFA) | Pot B (3 from UNIFFAC + 1 from COSAFA) | Pot C (7 from WAFU A + 1 from WAFU B) | Pot D (4 from CECAFA) | Pot E (6 from COSAFA) |
| Cameroon  Ghana  Nigeria | Algeria  Egypt  Morocco  South Sudan | Congo  DR Congo  Gabon  Angola | Gambia  Guinea  Guinea-Bissau  Liberia  Mauritania  Senegal  Sierra Leone  Burkina Faso | Burundi  Ethiopia  Tanzania  Uganda | Botswana  Malawi  Namibia  South Africa  Zambia  Zimbabwe |

### Notes

* Teams in bold qualified for the World Cup.
* (W): Withdrew after draw

### Did not enter

* Benin
* Cape Verde
* Central African Republic
* Chad
* Comoros
* Djibouti
* Equatorial Guinea
* Eritrea
* Eswatini
* Ivory Coast
* Kenya
* Lesotho
* Libya
* Madagascar
* Mali
* Mauritius
* Mozambique
* Niger
* Rwanda
* São Tomé and Príncipe
* Seychelles
* Somalia
* Sudan
* Togo
* Tunisia

## 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 was applied, and if still tied, the penalty shoot-out (no extra time) was used to determine the winner.

## Schedule

The schedule of the qualifying rounds was as follows.

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, all first round matches, originally scheduled for 20–22 and 27–29 March 2020, had been postponed until further notice. The CAF announced the new dates in July 2020. However, on 15 August 2020, CAF announced that all first round matches, rescheduled for 3–5 and 10–12 September 2020, were again postponed due to travel restrictions across parts of Africa as a result of COVID-19. The CAF sent a letter to the member associations on 21 December 2020 confirming the cancellation of the qualifiers.

| Round | Leg | Date |
| - | - | - |
| Preliminary round | First leg | 17–19 January 2020 |
| Preliminary round | Second leg | 31 January–2 February 2020 |
| First round | First leg | 20–22 March 2020, postponed to 3–5 September 2020, eventually cancelled |
| First round | Second leg | 27–29 March 2020, postponed to 10–12 September 2020, eventually cancelled |
| Second round | First leg | 24–26 April 2020, postponed to 2–4 October 2020, eventually cancelled |
| Second round | Second leg | 8–10 May 2020, postponed to 9–11 October 2020, eventually cancelled |
| Third round | First leg | 29–31 May 2020, postponed to 6–8 November 2020, eventually cancelled |
| Third round | Second leg | 19–21 June 2020, postponed to 13–15 November 2020, eventually cancelled |

## Bracket

The two winners of the third round would have qualified for the 2021 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup.

| Preliminary round | Preliminary round | Preliminary round | Preliminary round | First round | Second round | | Third round |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Egypt | 3 | 1 | 4 | | | | |
| Morocco | 5 | 3 | 8 | | | | |
| Morocco | 5 | 3 | 8 | Morocco | | | |
| | | | | Algeria | | | |
| South Sudan | 0 | 0 | 0 | Algeria | | | |
| Algeria | 5 | 4 | 9 | | | | |
| Algeria | 5 | 4 | 9 | | Winner 14 | | |
| | | | | | Winner 15 | | |
| Gabon | — | — | w/o | | | Winner 15 | | |
| DR Congo | — | — | | | | | |
| DR Congo | — | — | | Gabon | | | |
| | | | | Congo | | | |
| Congo | 2 | 4 | 6 | Congo | | | |
| Angola | 0 | 2 | 2 | | | | |
| Angola | 0 | 2 | 2 | | | | Winner 22 |
| | | | | | | | Winner 23 |
| Liberia | 3 | 4 | 7 | | | | | Winner 23 |
| Guinea | 0 | 5 | 5 | | | | |
| Guinea | 0 | 5 | 5 | Liberia | | | |
| | | | | Cameroon | | | |
| | | | | | Winner 16 | | |
| | | | | | Winner 17 | | |
| Burkina Faso | 3 | 0 | 3 | | | Winner 17 | | |
| Gambia | 2 | 0 | 2 | | | | |
| Gambia | 2 | 0 | 2 | Burkina Faso | | | |
| | | | | Nigeria | | | |
| Preliminary round | Preliminary round | Preliminary round | Preliminary round | First round | Second round | | Third round |
| Mauritania | 0 | 0 | 0 | | | | |
| Guinea-Bissau | 6 | 9 | 15 | | | | |
| Guinea-Bissau | 6 | 9 | 15 | Guinea-Bissau | | | |
| | | | | Ghana | | | |
| | | | | | Winner 18 | | |
| | | | | | Winner 19 | | |
| Sierra Leone | 0 | 0 | 0 | | | Winner 19 | | |
| Senegal | 1 | 0 | 1 | | | | |
| Senegal | 1 | 0 | 1 | Senegal | | | |
| | | | | Tanzania | | | |
| Tanzania | 2 | 2 | 4 | Tanzania | | | |
| Uganda | 1 | 1 | 2 | | | | |
| Uganda | 1 | 1 | 2 | | | | Winner 24 |
| | | | | | | | Winner 25 |
| Burundi | 0 | 1 | 1 | | | | | Winner 25 |
| Ethiopia | 5 | 2 | 7 | | | | |
| Ethiopia | 5 | 2 | 7 | Ethiopia | | | |
| | | | | Zimbabwe | | | |
| Malawi | 1 | 0 | 1 | Zimbabwe | | | |
| Zimbabwe | 1 | 1 | 2 | | | | |
| Zimbabwe | 1 | 1 | 2 | | Winner 20 | | |
| | | | | | Winner 21 | | |
| Namibia | 0 | 0 | 0 | | | Winner 21 | | |
| Botswana | 7 | 2 | 9 | | | | |
| Botswana | 7 | 2 | 9 | Botswana | | | |
| | | | | South Africa | | | |
| Zambia | 0 | 2 | 2 | South Africa | | | |
| South Africa | 2 | 2 | 4 | | | | |

## Preliminary round

| Team 1 | Agg. | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| Egypt | 4–8 | Morocco | 3–5 | 1–3 |
| South Sudan | 0–9 | Algeria | 0–5 | 0–4 |
| Gabon | w/o | DR Congo | — | — |
| Congo | 6–2 | Angola | 2–0 | 4–2 |
| Liberia | 7–5 | Guinea | 3–0 | 4–5 |
| Burkina Faso | 3–2 | Gambia | 3–2 | 0–0 |
| Mauritania | 0–15 | Guinea-Bissau | 0–6 | 0–9 |
| Sierra Leone | 0–1 | Senegal | 0–1 | 0–0 |
| Tanzania | 4–2 | Uganda | 2–1 | 2–1 |
| Burundi | 1–7 | Ethiopia | 0–5 | 1–2 |
| Malawi | 1–2 | Zimbabwe | 1–1 | 0–1 |
| Namibia | 0–9 | Botswana | 0–7 | 0–2 |
| Zambia | 2–4 | South Africa | 0–2 | 2–2 |

Morocco won 8–4 on aggregate.

Algeria won 9–0 on aggregate.

Gabon won on walkover after DR Congo did not appear for the first leg.

Congo won 6–2 on aggregate.

Liberia won 7–5 on aggregate.

Burkina Faso won 3–2 on aggregate.

Guinea-Bissau won 15–0 on aggregate.

Senegal won 1–0 on aggregate.

Tanzania won 4–2 on aggregate.

Ethiopia won 7–1 on aggregate.

Zimbabwe won 2–1 on aggregate.

Botswana won 9–0 on aggregate.

South Africa won 4–2 on aggregate.

## First round

| Team 1 | Agg. | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| Morocco | Match 14 | Algeria | — | — |
| Gabon | Match 15 | Congo | — | — |
| Liberia | Match 16 | Cameroon | — | — |
| Burkina Faso | Match 17 | Nigeria | — | — |
| Guinea-Bissau | Match 18 | Ghana | — | — |
| Senegal | Match 19 | Tanzania | — | — |
| Ethiopia | Match 20 | Zimbabwe | — | — |
| Botswana | Match 21 | South Africa | — | — |

## Second round

| Team 1 | Agg. | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| Winner 14 | Match 22 | Winner 15 | — | — |
| Winner 16 | Match 23 | Winner 17 | — | — |
| Winner 18 | Match 24 | Winner 19 | — | — |
| Winner 20 | Match 25 | Winner 21 | — | — |

## Third round

Winners would have qualified for the 2021 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup.

| Team 1 | Agg. | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| Winner 22 | Match 26 | Winner 23 | — | — |
| Winner 24 | Match 27 | Winner 25 | — | — |

## Goalscorers

There were 94 goals scored in 24 matches, for an average of 3.92 goals per match (as of 2 February 2020).

7 goals

* Fatumata

5 goals

* Michelle Abueng

4 goals

* Agatha Nimene

3 goals

* Khadidja Nefidsa
* Doha Ahmamou

2 goals

* Oratile Rathari
* Aminata Dembélé
* Dorise Senga
* Nadine Ghazi
* Aregash Kalsa
* Aminata Camara
* Nadi
* Nani
* Lucy Kikeh
* Diana Msewa
* Opah Clement
* Chelsea Daniels

1 goal

* Ghania Ayadi
* Ikram Bahri
* Nassima Bakhti
* Aïcha Hamidèche
* Ghada Kennouche
* Khouloud Ournani
* Alima
* Madó
* Keitumetse Dithebe
* Tebatso Pilane
* Adama Congo
* Elodie Goungounga
* Adèle Kaboré
* Divine Nihorimbere
* Queen Dzoussi
* Magalie Massoumou
* Nada Emad
* Dana Nada
* Rediet Asereshagn
* Tarikwua Debisa
* Mirekat Feleke
* Sira Yirdaw
* Catherine Jatta
* Haddy Wally
* Nathaly Cissé
* Kany Sidibé
* Adama
* Nanó
* Surai
* Pauline Agbotsu
* Yamikani Mhango
* Safae Banouk
* Jihane Barchi
* Fatema Brima
* Zineb Redouani
* Oumaïma Tayar
* Fatou Touré
* Thubelihle Shamase
* Zethembiso Vilakazi
* Phiona Nabbumba
* Juliet Nalukenge
* Oseke Lubanji
* Siomala Mapepa
* Talent Bizeki
* Shyline Dambamuromo

1 own goal

* Keza Angelique (against Ethiopia)
* Jackie Touah (against Guinea)
* ? (against Guinea-Bissau)
