# 2015 African U-20 Women's World Cup qualification

The 2015 African U-20 Women's World Cup Qualifying Tournament was the 8th 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 1996 were eligible to compete in the tournament.
The top two teams of the tournament qualified for the 2016 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup in Papua New Guinea as the CAF representatives.
Ghana and Nigeria qualified for the World Cup like in the last three editions.

## Teams

A total of 19 CAF member national teams entered the qualifying rounds.
| Round | Teams entering round | No. of teams |
| Preliminary round | Burkina Faso  Djibouti  DR Congo  Gabon  Liberia  Sierra Leone | 6 |
| First round | Algeria  Botswana  Cameroon  Equatorial Guinea  Ethiopia  Ghana  Mali  Namibia  Nigeria  Senegal  South Africa  Tanzania  Zambia | 13 |
| Qualifying rounds | Total | 19 |
* Did not enter
* Angola
* Benin
* Burundi
* Cape Verde
* Central African Republic
* Chad
* Comoros
* Congo
* Egypt
* Eritrea
* Gambia
* Guinea
* Guinea-Bissau
* Ivory Coast
* Kenya
* Lesotho
* Libya
* Madagascar
* Malawi
* Mauritania
* Mauritius
* Morocco
* Mozambique
* Niger
* Rwanda
* São Tomé and Príncipe
* Somalia
* Seychelles
* South Sudan
* Sudan
* Swaziland
* Togo
* Tunisia
* Uganda
* Zimbabwe

## 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 would be applied, and if still level, the penalty shoot-out would be used to determine the winner (no extra time would be played).
The two winners of the third round qualified for the FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup.

## Schedule

The schedule of the qualifying rounds was as follows.
| Round | Leg | Date |
| Preliminary round | First leg | 1–3 May 2015 |
| Preliminary round | Second leg | 15–17 May 2015 |
| First round | First leg | 10–12 July 2015 |
| First round | Second leg | 24–26 July 2015 |
| Second round | First leg | 25–27 September 2015 |
| Second round | Second leg | 9–11 October 2015 |
| Third round | First leg | 23–25 October 2015 |
| Third round | Second leg | 6–8 November 2015 |

## Preliminary round

| Team 1 | Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
| Djibouti | 0–7 | Burkina Faso | 0–2 | 0–5 |
| DR Congo | 6–0 | Gabon | 5–0 | 1–0 |
| Sierra Leone | w/o | Liberia | — | — |
Note: Sierra Leone withdrew. First leg of DR Congo v Gabon was postponed to 9 May due to field problems, then to 16 May due to Gabon missing the flight.
Burkina Faso won 7–0 on aggregate.
DR Congo won 6–0 on aggregate.
Liberia won on walkover.

## First round

| Team 1 | Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
| Algeria | 2–3 | Burkina Faso | 1–2 | 1–1 |
| Cameroon | 1–2 | Ethiopia | 0–0 | 1–2 |
| Equatorial Guinea | 4–0 | Mali | 4–0 | 0–0 |
| Ghana | 8–0 | Senegal | 6–0 | 2–0 |
| DR Congo | 5–0 | Namibia | 4–0 | 1–0 |
| Liberia | 1–14 | Nigeria | 1–7 | 0–7 |
| Tanzania | 0–4 | Zambia | 0–4 | 0–0 |
| South Africa | 9–1 | Botswana | 8–1 | 1–0 |
Note: Order of legs between Liberia and Nigeria reversed from original fixtures.
Burkina Faso won 3–2 on aggregate.
Ethiopia won 2–1 on aggregate.
Equatorial Guinea won 4–0 on aggregate.
Ghana won 8–0 on aggregate.
DR Congo won 5–0 on aggregate.
Nigeria won 14–1 on aggregate.
Zambia won 4–0 on aggregate.
South Africa won 9–1 on aggregate.

## Second round

| Team 1 | Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
| Burkina Faso | 0–2 | Ethiopia | 0–2 | 0–0 |
| Equatorial Guinea | 0–3 | Ghana | 0–1 | 0–2 |
| DR Congo | 1–4 | Nigeria | 1–2 | 0–2 |
| Zambia | 2–3 | South Africa | 0–0 | 2–3 |
Note: First leg of Burkina Faso v Ethiopia was postponed to 3 October, then to 10 October, due to coup in Burkina Faso.
Ethiopia won 2–0 on aggregate.
Ghana won 3–0 on aggregate.
Nigeria won 4–1 on aggregate.
South Africa won 3–2 on aggregate.

## Third round

Winners qualified for 2016 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup.
| Team 1 | Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
| Ethiopia | 2–6 | Ghana | 2–2 | 0–4 |
| Nigeria | 3–1 | South Africa | 2–1 | 1–0 |
Ghana won 6–2 on aggregate.
Nigeria won 3–1 on aggregate.

## Qualified teams for FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup

The following two teams from CAF qualified for the FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup.
| Team | Qualified on | Previous appearances in tournament |
| Ghana | 8 November 2015 | 3 (2010, 2012, 2014) |
| Nigeria | 8 November 2015 | 7 (2002, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014) |
    $^1$ Bold indicates champion for that year. Italic indicates host for that year.

## Goalscorers
### 6 goals

* Loza Abera
* Chinwendu Ihezuo

### 5 goals

* Joëlle Mwadi

### 4 goals

* Hornella Lengi Salu
* Sandra Owusu-Ansah
* Yetunde Adeboyejo

### 3 goals

* Barkissa Sawadogo
* Princella Adubea
* Jane Ayieyam
* Amarachi Ojinma
* Gabriela Salgado
* Linda Motlhalo

### 2 goals

* Mariam Fifao Traoré
* Lily Niber-Lawrence
* Joy Bokiri
* Chinaza Uchendu
* Amina Yakubu
* Chrestinah Kgatlana
* Anelisa Ndyebi
* Barbara Banda

### 1 goal

* Naima Lamari
* Baya Meskari
* Refilwe Mathlo
* Mouniratou Compaoré
* Assifou Coulibaly
* Chantal Drabo
* Yasmine Ouattara
* Stéphanie Sow
* Catherine Mbengono
* Natacha Boyengwa
* Ruth Kipoyi
* Flavine Mawete
* Merveille Mbemba
* Olga Esono
* Aju Francisca
* Muriel Lynda Mendoua
* Isabel Nsang
* Kate Addo
* Fatima Alhassan
* Veronica Appiah
* Wasila Diwura-Soale
* Kanties Sayee
* Chinozo Sunday
* Mosili Makhoali
* Nomathansanqa Sikweza
* Chamelle Wiltshire
* Ireen Lungu
* Agness Musesa
* Memory Phiri
* Mary Wilombe

### Own goal

* Hassabi Muso (playing against Ghana)
* Caryn van Reyneveld (playing against Nigeria)