African Women's Championship

African Women's Championship

Founded	1991
Region	Africa (CAF)
Current champions	Nigeria
Most successful team	Nigeria (8 times)
2012 Women's African Football Championship

The African Women's Championship is a biennial competition in women's football for national teams which belong to the Confederation of African Football (CAF). Nine tournaments have been held, with the current champions being Nigeria. Nigeria have won all but one of the previous tournaments.

The competition has served as a qualifying tournament for the FIFA Women's World Cup every other year since its inception in 1991. In 2006, the final round of the competition took place in Nigeria for the third time, replacing Gabon, which was initially granted the right to host but later pulled out citing financial difficulties.

History

In 2000, hosts South Africa met three-time champions Nigeria in the final game of the tournament. After Nigeria finished the first half ahead 1-0, Nigeria's Stella Mbachu scored a second goal in the 72nd minute and the home crowd realized there was no coming back. Supporters began hurling bottles and other debris at officials and Nigerian players. The match was abandoned after three attempts at restarts were all interrupted by further disturbances. Riot police began fighting battles with bottle-throwing supporters about 40 minutes after the goal had been allowed, throwing tear gas into the crowd to break up the disturbance. The game and the tournament were awarded to Nigeria.

Results

Year	Host nation		Final				Third Place
			Winner	Score	Second Place
1991 Details	home sites		Nigeria	2 – 0 4 – 0	Cameroon		Guinea	and	Zambia
1995 Details	home sites		Nigeria	4 – 1 7 – 1	South Africa		Angola	and	Ghana
Year	Host nation		Final				Third Place Match
			Winner	Score	Second Place		Third Place	Score	Fourth Place
1998 Details	Nigeria		Nigeria	2 – 0	Ghana		Congo DR	3 – 3 (3 – 1) penalties	Cameroon
2000 Details	South Africa		Nigeria	2 – 0 (abd 73')	South Africa		Ghana	6 – 3	Zimbabwe
2002 Details	Nigeria		Nigeria	2 – 0	Ghana		Cameroon	3 – 0	South Africa
2004 Details	South Africa		Nigeria	5 – 0	Cameroon		Ghana	0 – 0 (6 – 5) penalties	Ethiopia
2006 Details	Nigeria		Nigeria	1 – 0	Ghana		South Africa	2 – 2 (5 – 4) penalties	Cameroon
2008 Details	Equatorial Guinea		Equatorial Guinea	2 – 1	South Africa		Nigeria	1 – 1 (5 – 4) penalties	Cameroon
2010 Details	South Africa		Nigeria	4 – 2	Equatorial Guinea		South Africa	2 – 0	Cameroon
2012 Details	Equatorial Guinea			-				-
2014 Details	Namibia			-				-

Note: abd - match abandoned

Statistics

Performance by nation

#	Nation	Winners	Runners-up	Third Place	Fourth Place	Total
1	Nigeria	8	0	1	0	9
2	Equatorial Guinea	1	1	0	0	2
3	Ghana	0	3	3	0	6
4	South Africa	0	3	2	1	6
5	Cameroon	0	2	1	4	7
6	Angola	0	0	1	0	1
-	Congo DR	0	0	1	0	1
-	Guinea	0	0	1	0	1
-	Zambia	0	0	1	0	1
10	Ethiopia	0	0	0	1	1
-	Zimbabwe	0	0	0	1	1
Total		9	9	11	7	36

Tournament appearances

Appearances	Nation
9	Ghana  Nigeria  Cameroon  South Africa
5	Mali
3	Algeria  Equatorial Guinea  Zimbabwe
2	Angola  Ethiopia  Morocco  Congo DR
1	Congo  Egypt  Guinea  Uganda  Réunion  Sierra Leone  Tanzania  Tunisia  Zambia

Participating nations

Team	1991	1995	1998	2000	2002	2004	2006	2008	2010	2012	Years
Algeria						GS	GS		GS		3
Angola		3rd			GS						2
Cameroon	2nd	GS	4th	GS	3rd	2nd	4th	4th	4th		9
Congo	GS							GS			2
Congo DR			3rd				GS				2
Egypt			GS								1
Equatorial Guinea							GS	1st	2nd		3
Ethiopia					GS	4th					2
Ghana	GS	3rd	2nd	3rd	2nd	3rd	2nd	GS	GS		9
Guinea	3rd	GS									2
Mali					GS	GS	GS	GS	GS		5
Morocco			GS	GS							2
Mozambique			GS								1
Nigeria	1st	1st	1st	1st	1st	1st	1st	3rd	1st		9
Réunion				GS							1
Senegal	GS										1
Sierra Leone		GS									1
South Africa		2nd	GS	2nd	4th	GS	3rd	2nd	3rd		8
Tanzania									GS		1
Tunisia								GS			1
Uganda				GS							1
Zambia	3rd	GS									2
Zimbabwe	GS			4th	GS	GS					4
Total

Legend

• 1st – Champions
• 2nd – Runners-up
• 3rd – Third place
• 4th – Fourth place
• QF – Quarter Finals
• GS – Group stage
• q – Qualified
•     — Hosts

Most championships won

#	Wins	Nation	Year(s)
1	8 times	Nigeria	1991, 1995, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2010
2	1 time	Equatorial Guinea	2008

Most tournaments hosted

Hosts	Nation	Year(s)
3 times	Nigeria	1998, 2002, 2006
3 times	South Africa	2000, 2004, 2010
2 times	Equatorial Guinea	2008, 2012
1 time	Namibia	2014

External links

• Africa - Women's Championship
• 2006 Africa - Women's Championship & 2007 FIFA Women's Cup Qualification

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