Football at the 2023 African Games – Women's tournament

2023 African Games
women's football tournament

Tournament details
Host country	Ghana
City	Accra
Dates	8–21 March 2024
Teams	7 (from 1 confederation)
Venue(s)	1 (in 1 host city)
Final positions
Champions	Ghana (2nd title)
Runners-up	Nigeria
Third place	Uganda
Fourth place	Senegal
Tournament statistics
Matches played	13
Goals scored	31 (2.38 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Tracey Twum (3 goals)
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The 2023 African Games women's football tournament is the 6th edition of the African Games women's football tournament. The women's football tournament was held as part of the 2023 African Games between 8 and 21 March 2024. Under-20 national teams took part in the tournament.^[1]

Schedule

P

Group stage

½

Semifinals

B

Bronze medal match

F

Gold medal match

8 Fri	9 Sat	10 Sun	11 Mon	12 Tue	13 Wed	14 Thu	15 Fri	16 Sat	17 Sun	18 Mon	19 Tue	20 Wed	21 Thu
G	G		G	G		G	G			½			B	F

Qualification

As per the decision of CAF Executive Committee was as below, the eight teams who reached the fourth round of the 2022 African U-20 Women's World Cup qualification are qualified to the Final Tournament.

Means of qualification	Venue(s)	Dates	Qualified
2022 African U-20 W-WC qualification 4th round	Home/away	12 December 2021	Morocco
		17 December 2021	Ethiopia
			Nigeria
			Uganda
		18 December 2021	Cameroon
			Ghana
			Senegal
			Tanzania
Total			8 teams

Venues

1 stadium were allocated to host the matches.

Cape Coast		Cape Coast
		Cape Coast Sports Stadium
		Capacity: 15,000

Squads

Match officials

Group stage

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Ghana (H)	3	2	1	0	4	2	+2	7	Semifinals
2	Uganda	3	1	2	0	4	2	+2	5
3	Tanzania	3	0	2	1	3	4	−1	2
4	Ethiopia	3	0	1	2	1	4	−3	1

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Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Nigeria	2	2	0	0	6	0	+6	6	Semifinals
2	Senegal	2	1	0	1	4	4	0	3
3	Morocco	2	0	0	2	0	6	−6	0

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Knockout stage

Bracket

	Semi-finals				Gold medal match
	18 March – Cape Coast
	Ghana	3
					21 March – Cape Coast
	Senegal	1
					Ghana (a.e.t.)	2
	18 March – Cape Coast
					Nigeria	1
	Nigeria	2
	Uganda	0
					Bronze medal match
					21 March – Cape Coast
					Senegal	0 (5)
					Uganda (p)	0 (6)

Semi-finals

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Bronze medal match

Gold medal match

Statistics

Goalscorers

There were 31 goals scored in 13 matches, for an average of 2.38 goals per match.

3 goals

2 goals

1 goal

1 own goal

Final ranking

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Final result
	Ghana (H)	5	4	1	0	9	4	+5	13	Gold Medal
	Nigeria	4	3	0	1	10	1	+9	9	Silver Medal
	Uganda	5	1	3	1	4	4	0	6	Bronze Medal
4	Senegal	4	1	1	2	5	7	−2	4	Fourth place
5	Tanzania	3	0	2	1	3	4	−1	2	Eliminated in group stage
6	Ethiopia	3	0	1	2	1	4	−3	1
7	Morocco	2	0	0	2	0	6	−6	0

See also

• Football at the 2023 African Games – Men's tournament

References

External links

• Seven countries set to compete in Women’s Football at 13th African Games, Accra 2023 - cafonline.com