# 2024 Women's Africa Cup of Nations

The 2024 Women's Africa Cup of Nations (Arabic: كأس الأمم الإفريقية للسيدات 2024, French: Coupe d'Afrique des nations féminine 2024), officially known as the 2024 TotalEnergies Women's Africa Cup of Nations for sponsorship purposes and as WAFCON 2024 for short, will be the 15th edition of the biennial African women's football tournament organized by the Confederation of African Football. It will be hosted by Morocco in consecutive editions, having hosted the previous edition two years before.
South Africa 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 Rabat, Morocco and will commence in August.

### Qualified teams

The following teams have qualified for this edition of the tournament.
| Team | Method of qualification | Date of qualification | Finals appearance | Last appearance | Previous best performance |
| Morocco | Hosts | 10 August 2022 | 4th | 2022 | Runners-up (2022) |
| South Africa | Second round winners | 4 December 2023 | 14th | 2022 | Champions (2022) |
| Algeria | Second round winners | 4 December 2023 | 6th | 2018 | Group stage (2004, 2006, 2010, 2014, 2018) |
| Ghana | Second round winners | 5 December 2023 | 13th | 2018 | Runners-up (1998, 2002, 2006) |
| Botswana | Second round winners | 5 December 2023 | 2nd | 2022 | Quarter-finals (2022) |
| DR Congo | Second round winners | 5 December 2023 | 4th | 2012 | Third place (1998) |
| Tunisia | Second round winners | 5 December 2023 | 3rd | 2022 | Quarter-finals (2022) |
| Senegal | Second round winners | 5 December 2023 | 3rd | 2022 | Quarter-finals (2022) |
| Zambia | Second round winners | 5 December 2023 | 5th | 2022 | Third place (2022) |
| Tanzania | Second round winners | 5 December 2023 | 2nd | 2010 | Group stage (2010) |
| Mali | Second round winners | 5 December 2023 | 8th | 2018 | Fourth place (2018) |
| Nigeria | Second round winners | 5 December 2023 | 15th | 2022 | Champions (1991, 1995, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2010, 2014, 2016, 2018) |

## Draw

The final draw was held at the Mohammed VI Technical Centre in Salé on 22 November 2024. The 12 qualified teams were seeded into four levels based on their FIFA rankings from August 2024. Host nation Morocco will automatically be assigned position A1, while defending champions South Africa will occupy position C1. Nigeria, the third team in Level 1, will take position B1.
| Seeds | Pot 1 | Pot 2 | Pot 3 |
| Morocco (59) (hosts) Nigeria (36) South Africa (50) (title holders) | Zambia (62) Ghana (66) Tunisia (78) | Mali (81) Senegal (83) Algeria (84) | DR Congo (102) Tanzania (145) Botswana (153) |

## Group stage
### Tiebreakers

Teams were ranked according to points (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;
* Goal difference 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

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
| 1 | Morocco (H) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Advance to knockout stage |
| 2 | Zambia | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Advance to knockout stage |
| 3 | Senegal | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Possible knockout stage based on ranking |
| 4 | DR Congo | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |

### Group B

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
| 1 | Nigeria | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Advance to knockout stage |
| 2 | Tunisia | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Advance to knockout stage |
| 3 | Algeria | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Possible knockout stage based on ranking |
| 4 | Botswana | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |

### Group C

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
| 1 | South Africa | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Advance to knockout stage |
| 2 | Ghana | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Advance to knockout stage |
| 3 | Mali | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Possible knockout stage based on ranking |
| 4 | Tanzania | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |

### Ranking of third-placed teams

| Pos | Grp | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
| 1 | A | A3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Advance to knockout stage |
| 2 | B | B3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Advance to knockout stage |
| 3 | C | C3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |