# 2020 Women's Africa Cup of Nations qualification

Qualification for the 2020 Women's Africa Cup of Nations was scheduled to run from 6 April to 9 June 2020 with 12 teams, including the host nation team, participating in the group stages for the first time in the tournament. However, the Confederation of African Football (CAF) decided to cancel this edition due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Africa and rather launch the CAF Women's Champions League, which began the following year, i.e. 2021.

## Format

Qualification ties were to be played on a home-and-away two-legged basis. If the aggregate score was tied after the second leg, the away goals rule would be applied, even to the extent of a penalty shoot-out, with extra time skipped, to determine the winner.

## Schedule

The first round of matches was originally scheduled for 8 – 14 April 2020, but CAF announced its postponement until further notice on 13 March 2020 at the onset of the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic in Africa.
The second round of matches were originally scheduled for 1 – 9 June 2020, but on 3 April 2020, FIFA had recommended that all international matches scheduled for June that year be postponed. With qualification not held, CAF announced the cancellation of this edition of the tournament on 30 June 2020, making history in the process as the first African continent-centric football event or competition that was cancelled or not held for global health reasons.

## Draw

A then-record of 36 (out of 54) CAF member national teams entered qualification, whose draw was held on 4 December 2019 at the CAF headquarters in Cairo, Egypt. The draw procedures were as follows:
* In the first round, the 28 teams were drawn into 14 ties, with teams divided into four pots based on their geographical zones and those in the same pot drawn to play against each other.
* In the second round, the 14 preliminary round winners and the eight teams receiving byes to the second round were allocated into 11 ties based on the first round tie numbers, with eight first round winners playing against the eight teams receiving byes, and the other six first round winners playing against each other.
| Bye to second round (8 teams) | First round entrants (28 teams) | First round entrants (28 teams) | First round entrants (28 teams) | First round entrants (28 teams) | First round entrants (28 teams) |
| Bye to second round (8 teams) | Pot A (8 from COSAFA) | Pot B (1 from COSAFA + 5 from UNIFFAC) | Pot C (6 from CECAFA) | Pot D (4 from WAFU A) | Pot E (3 from WAFU B + 1 from UNAF) |
| Cameroon  Equatorial Guinea  Ghana  Ivory Coast  Mali  Morocco  Nigeria  South Africa | Botswana  Eswatini  Malawi  Mauritius  Mozambique  Namibia  Zambia  Zimbabwe | Angola  Central African Republic  Congo  DR Congo  Gabon  São Tomé and Príncipe | Burundi  Djibouti  Ethiopia  Kenya  Tanzania  Uganda | Gambia  Guinea-Bissau  Liberia  Senegal | Burkina Faso  Niger  Togo  Algeria |

### Notes

* Teams in bold qualified for the group stages.
* (W): Withdrew after draw

### Did not enter

* Benin
* Cape Verde
* Chad
* Comoros
* Egypt
* Eritrea
* Guinea
* Lesotho
* Libya
* Madagascar
* Mauritania
* Rwanda
* Seychelles
* Sierra Leone
* Somalia
* South Sudan
* Sudan
* Tunisia

## Bracket

The 11 winners of the second round would have qualified for the main phase of the 2020 Women's Africa Cup of Nations.
| First round | First round | Second round | Second round |
| 1 | Zambia | | |
| 4 | Mozambique | | |
| 4 | Mozambique | Winner 1 | Winner 1 |
| | | Winner 2 | Winner 2 |
| 3 | Zimbabwe | Winner 2 | Winner 2 |
| 2 | Mauritius | | |
| First round | First round | Second round | Second round |
| 1 | Malawi | | |
| 4 | Eswatini | | |
| 4 | Eswatini | Winner 3 | Winner 3 |
| | | South Africa | South Africa |
| First round | First round | Second round | Second round |
| 1 | Namibia | | |
| 4 | Botswana | | |
| 4 | Botswana | Winner 4 | Winner 4 |
| | | Winner 5 | Winner 5 |
| 3 | Gabon | Winner 5 | Winner 5 |
| 2 | Central African Republic | | |
| First round | First round | Second round | Second round |
| 1 | Angola | | |
| 4 | Congo | | |
| 4 | Congo | Winner 6 | Winner 6 |
| | | Equatorial Guinea | Equatorial Guinea |
| First round | First round | Second round | Second round |
| 1 | DR Congo | | |
| 4 | São Tomé and Príncipe | | |
| 4 | São Tomé and Príncipe | Winner 7 | Winner 7 |
| | | Winner 8 | Winner 8 |
| 3 | Tanzania | Winner 8 | Winner 8 |
| 2 | Kenya | | |
| First round | First round | Second round | Second round |
| 1 | Burundi | | |
| 4 | Uganda | | |
| 4 | Uganda | Winner 9 | Winner 9 |
| | | Cameroon | Cameroon |
| First round | First round | Second round | Second round |
| 1 | Ethiopia | | |
| 4 | Djibouti | | |
| 4 | Djibouti | Winner 10 | Winner 10 |
| | | Morocco | Morocco |
| First round | First round | Second round | Second round |
| 1 | Liberia | | |
| 4 | Senegal | | |
| 4 | Senegal | Winner 11 | Winner 11 |
| | | Mali | Mali |
| First round | First round | Second round | Second round |
| 1 | Guinea-Bissau | | |
| 4 | Gambia | | |
| 4 | Gambia | Winner 12 | Winner 12 |
| | | Ghana | Ghana |
| First round | First round | Second round | Second round |
| 1 | Togo | | |
| 4 | Niger | | |
| 4 | Niger | Winner 13 | Winner 13 |
| | | Nigeria | Nigeria |
| First round | First round | Second round | Second round |
| 1 | Algeria | | |
| 4 | Burkina Faso | | |
| 4 | Burkina Faso | Winner 14 | Winner 14 |
| | | Ivory Coast | Ivory Coast |

## First round

| Team 1 | Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
| Zambia | Match 1 | Mozambique | — | — |
| Zimbabwe | Match 2 | Mauritius | — | — |
| Malawi | Match 3 | Eswatini | — | — |
| Namibia | Match 4 | Botswana | — | — |
| Gabon | Match 5 | Central African Republic | — | — |
| Angola | Match 6 | Congo | — | — |
| DR Congo | Match 7 | São Tomé and Príncipe | — | — |
| Tanzania | Match 8 | Kenya | — | — |
| Burundi | Match 9 | Uganda | — | — |
| Ethiopia | Match 10 | Djibouti | — | — |
| Liberia | Match 11 | Senegal | — | — |
| Guinea-Bissau | Match 12 | Gambia | — | — |
| Togo | Match 13 | Niger | — | — |
| Algeria | Match 14 | Burkina Faso | — | — |

## Second round

Winners would have qualified for the main phase of the 2020 Women's Africa Cup of Nations.
| Team 1 | Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
| Winner 1 | Match 15 | Winner 2 | — | — |
| Winner 3 | Match 16 | South Africa | — | — |
| Winner 4 | Match 17 | Winner 5 | — | — |
| Winner 6 | Match 18 | Equatorial Guinea | — | — |
| Winner 7 | Match 19 | Winner 8 | — | — |
| Winner 9 | Match 20 | Cameroon | — | — |
| Winner 10 | Match 21 | Morocco | — | — |
| Winner 11 | Match 22 | Mali | — | — |
| Winner 12 | Match 23 | Ghana | — | — |
| Winner 13 | Match 24 | Nigeria | — | — |
| Winner 14 | Match 25 | Ivory Coast | — | — |