2022 Women's Africa Cup of Nations

The 2022 Women's Africa Cup of Nations (, ), also known as WAFCON 2022. They officially called it the 2022 TotalEnergies Women's Africa Cup of Nations because of sponsorship. It was the 14th time they had this tournament, and it happens every two years. Organized by Confederation of African Football (CAF), and it was held in Morocco from 2nd to 23rd July 2022.

This tournament also decided which African teams could go to the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup. The top four teams got to go to the World Cup, and two more teams had a chance to get in through play-offs with teams from other parts of the world.

Before this tournament, Nigeria had won it three times in a row in 2014, 2016, and 2018. But this time, they got knocked out in the semi-finals by Morocco after a penalty shootout. It was the first time that neither Nigeria nor Equatorial Guinea made it to the final match. In the final, Morocco lost to South Africa, and that was the first time South Africa had ever won this tournament. They had tried five times before and never won it. With this win, South Africa became only the second country, after Nigeria, to win both the men's and women's competitions.

This was also the first time they had 12 teams in the tournament because the 2020 edition, which should have been the first one with 12 teams, got canceled because of the COVID-19 pandemic in Africa. The semi-final between Morocco and Nigeria had a record number of people watching, with 45,562 spectators.

 Qualification 
Morocco got into the competition because they were the hosts. The other eleven places were decided by the games that teams played to get in.
TeamFinals appearanceLast appearanceDate of qualificationPrevious best performancePrevious World Cup
appearancesFIFA ranking at start of event (hosts)3rd200015 January 2021 (1998, 2000)0772nd200028 January 2022 (2000)01561st—21 February 202201694th201822 February 2022 (1995)01032nd201222 February 2022 (2012)0891st—23 February 2022011814th201823 February 2022 (1991, 1995, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2010, 2014, 2016, 2018)8392nd200823 February 2022 (2008)0721st—23 February 202201381st—23 February 2022015213th201823 February 2022 (1991, 2004, 2014, 2016)25413th201823 February 2022 (1995, 2000, 2008, 2012, 2018)158

 Venues 
The competition took place in  Casablanca and Rabat.
MoroccoRabatCasablancaPrince Moulay Abdellah StadiumStade Moulay HassanStade Mohammed VCapacity: 45,800Capacity: 12,000Capacity: 45,891220x220px150x150px220x220px

 Group stage 

 Group A 

 Morocco vs Burkina Faso 

 Senegal vs Uganda 

 Burkina Faso vs Senegal 

 Uganda vs Morocco 

 Morocco vs Senegal 

 Burkina Faso vs Uganda 

 Group B 

 Cameroon vs Zambia 

 Tunisia vs Togo 

 Zambia vs Tunisia 

 Togo vs Cameroon 

 Cameroon vs Tunisia 

 Zambia vs Togo 

 Group C 

 Nigeria vs South Africa 

 Burundi vs Botswana 

 South Africa vs Burundi 

 Botswana vs Nigeria 

 South Africa vs Botswana 

 Nigeria vs Burundi 

 Knockout stage 

 Bracket 

 Quarter-finals 

 Zambia vs Senegal 

 Morocco vs Botswana 

 Cameroon vs Nigeria 

 South Africa vs Tunisia 

 Semi-finals 

 Zambia vs South Africa 

 Morocco vs Nigeria 

 Third place play-off 

 Final 

 Goalscorers 

 Qualified teams for the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup 
In the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup, these teams from Africa participated, and two more teams may also get a chance to join them in the playoffs between different football regions.
TeamQualified onPrevious appearances in FIFA Women's World Cup10 (debut)0 (debut)8 (1991, 1995, 1999, 2003, 2007, 2011, 2015, 2019)1 (2019)

 1 Bold indicates champions for that year. Italic indicates hosts for that year.

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