# 2025 African U-17 Women's World Cup qualification

The 2025 African U-17 Women's World Cup qualification will be the 10th edition of the African U-17 Women's World Cup qualification, the biennial international youth football competition organised by the Confederation of African Football (CAF) to determine which women's under-17 national teams from Africa qualify for the FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup. Players born on or after 1 January 2008 are eligible to compete in the tournament.
Four teams will qualify from this tournament for the 2025 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup in Morocco as the CAF representatives alongside Morocco being the hosts of the World Cup.

## 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 was applied, and if still tied, the penalty shoot-out (no extra time) was used to determine the winner.

## Entrants

A total of 52 CAF member associations remained eligible to enter the qualification after Morocco automatically qualified as the World Cup host and Ghana was barred from competing in this age category due to a ban imposed for cheating during the 2022 qualifiers.
Only 28 teams including nine teams who did not participate in the previous edition, entered the competition. Teams that did not enter the qualification were listed below. The following teams with asterisks are the teams that never entered the qualification.
* Angola*
* Burkina Faso
* Cape Verde*
* Chad*
* Comoros*
* Djibouti
* Eritrea
* Gambia
* Guinea-Bissau
* Lesotho*
* Liberia
* Libya
* Madagascar*
* Malawi*
* Mali
* Mauritania
* Mauritius
* Mozambique
* Rwanda
* São Tomé and Príncipe
* Seychelles*
* Somalia*
* South Sudan
* Sudan*

### Draw

The draw for the qualifiers was held on 12 December 2024 at the CAF Headquarters in Cairo, Egypt.
28 teams were seeded into six pots based on their performance at the qualifying tournament of the previous edition (the round each team reached in the last edition, and in case of a tie in the round reached, the number of points obtained in that particular round, the best goal difference, the highest goals scored, and the away goals). Geographical conditions were also considered, grouping neighboring zones together.

#### Qualification rankings

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Round reached |
| 1 | Nigeria | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 24 | 2 | +22 | 16 | 2024 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup |
| 2 | Kenya | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 14 | 0 | +14 | 16 | 2024 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup |
| 3 | Zambia | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 10 | 3 | +7 | 10 | 2024 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup |
| 4 | Morocco | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 31 | 3 | +28 | 13 | Fourth round |
| 5 | Burundi | 6 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 30 | 6 | +24 | 12 | Fourth round |
| 6 | Liberia | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 10 | 9 | +1 | 9 | Fourth round |
| 7 | Senegal | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 3 | +6 | 9 | Third round |
| 8 | Uganda | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 4 | +1 | 7 | Third round |
| 9 | Burkina Faso | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 9 | −2 | 7 | Third round |
| 10 | Djibouti | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 24 | −18 | 6 | Third round |
| 11 | Ethiopia | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 5 | Third round |
| 12 | Algeria | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 10 | −8 | 3 | Third round |
| 13 | Benin | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 3 | Second round |
| 14 | Tanzania | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 5 | −4 | 3 | Second round |
| 15 | Cameroon | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | −2 | 1 | Second round |
| 16 | South Africa | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | −3 | 1 | Second round |
| 17 | Guinea | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 6 | −4 | 0 | Second round |
| 18 | Botswana | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 6 | −5 | 0 | Second round |
| 19 | Central African Republic | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 12 | −12 | 0 | Second round |
| 20 | Niger | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 22 | −22 | 0 | Second round |
| 21 | DR Congo | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 6 | −6 | 0 | Forfeited the tie |
| 21 | Equatorial Guinea | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 6 | −6 | 0 | Forfeited the tie |
| 21 | Libya | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 6 | −6 | 0 | Forfeited the tie |
| 21 | Mali | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 6 | −6 | 0 | Forfeited the tie |
| 25 | Mauritius | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 6 | −6 | 0 | Forfeited the tie |

### Draw pots

The three teams that qualified for the World Cup were exempt from the first round along with the highest-ranked non-qualified team Burundi, and were automatically seeded into ties in the second round. The qualification rankings from the previous edition are shown in parentheses, except for teams that did not participate which will be denoted by (–), and teams that participated but withdrew before playing are denoted by (w/o).
Teams exempted from the first round :
* Nigeria Kenya Zambia Burundi (best ranked non-qualified team for the World Cup)
Teams entering the qualification first round :
| Lower ranked |||
| Pot 1 | Pot 3 | Pot 5 |
| Egypt (–) Eswatini (–) Namibia (–) Zimbabwe (–) | DR Congo (w/o) Equatorial Guinea (w/o) Congo (–) Gabon (–) | Tunisia (–) Sierra Leone (–) Togo (–) Ivory Coast (–) |
| Higher ranked |||
| Pot 2 | Pot 4 | Pot 6 |
| Uganda (8) Ethiopia (11) Tanzania (14) Cameroon (15) | Benin (13) South Africa (16) Botswana (18) Niger (20) | Senegal (7) Algeria (12) Guinea (17) Central African Republic (19) |

## Schedule

| Round | Leg | Date |
| First round | First leg | 10–12 January 2025 |
| First round | Second leg | 17–19 January 2025 |
| Second round | First leg | 7–9 March 2025 |
| Second round | Second leg | 14–16 March 2025 |
| Third round | First leg | 18–20 April 2025 |
| Third round | Second leg | 25–27 April 2025 |

## Bracket

The four winners of the third round will qualify for the 2025 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup.
| First round | First round | First round | First round | Second round |
| Namibia | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Uganda | 10 | 8 | 18 | |
| Uganda | 10 | 8 | 18 | Uganda |
| | | | | Kenya |
| Egypt | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Cameroon | 5 | 1 | 6 | |
| Cameroon | 5 | 1 | 6 | Cameroon |
| | | | | Ethiopia |
| Zimbabwe | — | — | | Ethiopia |
| Ethiopia | — | — | w/o | |
| First round | First round | First round | First round | Second round |
| Eswatini | — | — | | |
| Tanzania | — | — | w/o | |
| Tanzania | — | — | w/o | Tanzania |
| | | | | Zambia |
| Congo | — | — | | |
| Benin | — | — | w/o | |
| Benin | — | — | w/o | Benin |
| | | | | DR Congo |
| DR Congo | 2 | 2 | 4 | DR Congo |
| Niger | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| First round | First round | First round | First round | Second round |
| Gabon | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
| South Africa | 12 | 9 | 21 | |
| South Africa | 12 | 9 | 21 | South Africa |
| | | | | Nigeria |
| Equatorial Guinea | — | — | | |
| Botswana | — | — | w/o | |
| Botswana | — | — | w/o | Botswana |
| | | | | Algeria |
| Tunisia | 0 | 0 | 0 | Algeria |
| Algeria | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| First round | First round | First round | First round | Second round | Second round | Second round | Second round | Third round |
| Ivory Coast (a) | 1 | 2 | 3 | | | | | |
| Senegal | 1 | 2 | 3 | | | | | |
| Senegal | 1 | 2 | 3 | Ivory Coast | 1 | 3 | 4 | |
| | | | | Burundi | 3 | 0 | 3 | |
| | | | | | | | | Ivory Coast |
| Sierra Leone | 0 | 2 | 2 | | | | | |
| Central African Republic | 0 | 0 | 0 | | | | | |
| Central African Republic | 0 | 0 | 0 | Sierra Leone | | | | |
| | | | | Guinea | | | | |
| Togo | — | — | | Guinea | | | | |
| Guinea | — | — | w/o | | | | | |

## First round

| Team 1 | Agg. Tooltip Aggregate score | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
| Namibia | 1–18 | Uganda | 0–10 | 1–8 |
| Egypt | 0–6 | Cameroon | 0–5 | 0–1 |
| Zimbabwe | w/o | Ethiopia | — | — |
| Eswatini | w/o | Tanzania | — | — |
| Congo | w/o | Benin | — | — |
| DR Congo | 4–0 | Niger | 2–0 | 2–0 |
| Gabon | 2–21 | South Africa | 1–12 | 1–9 |
| Equatorial Guinea | w/o | Botswana | — | — |
| Tunisia | 0–1 | Algeria | 0–1 | 0–0 |
| Ivory Coast | 2–2 (a) | Senegal | 1–1 | 2–2 |
| Sierra Leone | 2–0 | Central African Republic | 0–0 | 2–0 |
| Togo | w/o | Guinea | — | — |
Uganda won 18–1 on aggregate.
Cameroon won 6–0 on aggregate.
Ethiopia won on walkover and advanced to the second round after Zimbabwe withdrew before the first leg.
Tanzania won on walkover and advanced to the second round after Eswatini withdrew before the first leg.
Benin won on walkover and advanced to the second round after Congo withdrew before the first leg citing financial and institutional constraints beyond their federation control.
South Africa won 21–2 on aggregate.
Botswana won on walkover and advanced to the second round after Equatorial Guinea withdrew before the first leg.
Algeria won 1–0 on aggregate.
Sierra Leone won 2–0 on aggregate.
Guinea won on walkover and advanced to the second round after Togo withdrew before the first leg.

## Second round

| Team 1 | Agg. Tooltip Aggregate score | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
| Uganda | 0–5 | Kenya | 0–2 | 0–3 |
| Cameroon | 6–2 | Ethiopia | 5–2 | 1–0 |
| Tanzania | 0–4 | Zambia | 0–3 | 0–1 |
| Benin | 5–0 | DR Congo | 2–0 | 3–0 |
| South Africa | 1–5 | Nigeria | 1–3 | 0–2 |
| Botswana | 2–5 | Algeria | 2–1 | 0–4 |
| Ivory Coast | 4–3 | Burundi | 1–3 | 3–0 |
| Sierra Leone | 3–4 | Guinea | 2–2 | 1–2 |
Kenya won 3–0 on aggregate.
Cameroon won 6–2 on aggregate.
Zambia won 4–0 on aggregate.
Benin won 5–0 on aggregate.
Nigeria won 5–1 on aggregate.
Algeria won 5–2 on aggregate.
Ivory Coast won 4–3 on aggregate.
Guinea won 4–3 on aggregate.

## Third round

| Team 1 | Team 2 |
| Kenya | Cameroon |
| Zambia | Benin |
| Nigeria | Algeria |
| Ivory Coast | Guinea |

## Qualified teams for the 2025 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup

The following four teams from CAF will qualify for the 2025 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup in Morocco alongside Morocco who automatically qualified as host.
| Team | Qualified on | Previous appearances in the FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup. |
| Morocco | 14 March 2024 | 1 (2022) |

## Goalscorers

6 Goals
. Nabukenya
. Nzuza
5 Goals
. Khoza
. Tazanou
4 Goals
. Namulindwa
. Malebana
. Simamane
3 Goals
. Tiwa
. Ariho
. Horak
.Harmony chidi
.Sehoul