2024 African U-17 Women's World Cup qualification

A total of 25 (out of 54) CAF member national teams entered the qualifying rounds. The draw was held on 8 June 2023 at the CAF headquarters in Cairo, Egypt. The draw procedures were as follows:^[1]

• In the first round, the 2 lowest ranked teams played against each other:
•  Mauritius
•  Central African Republic
• In the second round, the first round winner will play against the top ranked team (Nigeria). The 22 other teams receiving byes to the second round were allocated into eleven ties.
• In the third round, the twelve second round winners were allocated into six ties based on the second round tie numbers.
• In the fourth round, the six third round winners were allocated into three ties based on the third round tie numbers.

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Second round entrants (23 teams)
Pot A (6 from CECAFA)	Pot B (3 from COSAFA) and (3 from UNIFFAC)	Pot C (3 from UNAF)	Pot D (8 from WAFU)
Ethiopia  Uganda  Kenya  Djibouti  Burundi  Tanzania	Cameroon  DR Congo  Equatorial Guinea  Zambia  Botswana  South Africa	Algeria  Morocco  Libya	Nigeria  Burkina Faso  Niger  Benin  Guinea  Liberia  Senegal  Mali

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• Teams in bold qualified for the group stage.
• (W): Withdrew after the draw

Did not enter

•  Angola
•  Cape Verde
•  Chad
•  Comoros
•  Congo
•  Egypt
•  Eritrea
•  Eswatini
•  Gabon
•  Gambia
•  Ghana
•  Guinea-Bissau
•  Ivory Coast
•  Lesotho
•  Madagascar
•  Malawi
•  Mauritania
•  Mozambique
•  Namibia
•  Rwanda
•  São Tomé and Príncipe
•  Seychelles
•  Sierra Leone
•  Somalia
•  South Sudan
•  Sudan
•  Togo
•  Tunisia
•  Zimbabwe

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.^[1]

The three winners of the fourth round will qualify for the 2024 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup.

	Second round						Third round						Fourth round
	Djibouti	—	—	w/o
	Equatorial Guinea	—	—
							Djibouti	0	0	0
							Burundi	18	6	24
	Burundi	4	2	6
	Botswana	1	0	1
													Burundi	0	0	0
													Kenya	3	2	5
	Ethiopia	3	0	3
	South Africa	0	0	0
							Ethiopia	0	0	0
							Kenya	0	3	3
	DR Congo	—	—
	Kenya	—	—	w/o

	Second round						Third round						Fourth round
	Zambia	5	0	5
	Tanzania	0	1	1
							Zambia	2	0	2
							Uganda	0	1	1
	Uganda	1	3	4
	Cameroon	1	1	2
													Zambia	3	0	3
													Morocco	1	0	1
	Niger	0	0	0
	Morocco	11	11	22
							Morocco	4	4	8
							Algeria	0	0	0
	Benin	2	0	2 (7)
	Algeria (p)	0	2	2 (8)

	Second round						Third round						Fourth round
	Libya	—	—
	Senegal	—	—	w/o
							Senegal	3	0	3
							Liberia (a)	1	2	3
	Liberia	—	—	w/o
	Mali	—	—
													Liberia	1	0	1
													Nigeria	4	2	6
	Burkina Faso	4	2	6
	Guinea	1	1	2
							Burkina Faso	1	0	1
							Nigeria	1	6	7
	Central African Republic	0	0	0
	Nigeria	6	6	12

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Central African Republic won on walkover and advanced to the Second round after Mauritius withdrew before the first leg.

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Nigeria won 12–0 on aggregate.

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Djibouti won on walkover and advanced to the third round after Equatorial Guinea withdrew before the first leg.^[2]

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Ethiopia won 3–0 on aggregate.

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Zambia won 5–1 on aggregate.

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Morocco won 22–0 on aggregate.

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Senegal won on walkover and advanced to the third round after Libya withdrew before the first leg.

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Burkina Faso won 6–2 on aggregate.

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Burundi won 6–1 on aggregate.

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Kenya won on walkover and advanced to the third round after DR Congo withdrew before the first leg.^[3]

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Uganda won 4–2 on aggregate

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2–2 on aggregate. Algeria won 8–7 on penalties.

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Liberia won on walkover and advanced to the third round after Mali withdrew before the first leg.^[4]

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Burundi won 24–0 on aggregate.

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Kenya won 3–0 on aggregate.

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Zambia won 2–1 on aggregate.

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Morocco won 8–0 on aggregate.

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3–3 on aggregate. Liberia won on away goals.

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Nigeria won 7–1 on aggregate.

Kenya won 5–0 on aggregate.

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Zambia won 3–1 on aggregate.

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Nigeria won 6–1 on aggregate.

The following three teams from CAF will qualify for the 2024 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup in the Dominican Republic.

There were 136 goals scored in 34 matches, for an average of 4 goals per match.

12 goals

8 goals

3 goals

2 goals

1 goal

1 own goal

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