2008 African Women's Championship qualification

The 2008 African Women's Championship qualification process was organized by the Confederation of African Football (CAF) to decide the participating teams of the 2008 African Women's Championship. Equatorial Guinea qualified automatically as hosts, while the remaining seven spots were determined by qualifying rounds, which took place from November 2007 to March 2008.

2008 African Women's Championship qualification

Tournament details
Dates	30 November 2007 – 8 March 2008
Teams	22 (from 1 confederation)
Tournament statistics
Matches played	24
Goals scored	86 (3.58 per match)
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Teams

A total of 22 national teams entered qualification. The qualification was in two rounds, with each match taking place over 2 legs. In the first round, the 16 lowest-ranked nations were drawn in pairs. The eight winners joined six other national teams in the 2nd round, where the seven winners together with the hosts qualified for the finals.

Teams who withdrew before playing a match are in italics.

Round	Teams entering round	No. of teams
First round	Algeria Benin Botswana Burundi Congo Egypt Eritrea Guinea Ivory Coast Morocco Namibia Senegal Tanzania Tunisia Zambia Zimbabwe	16
Second round	Cameroon DR Congo Ghana Mali Nigeria South Africa	6
Qualifying rounds	Total	22
Final tournament	Equatorial Guinea	1

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 seven winners of the final round qualified for the final tournament.

Schedule

The schedule of the qualifying rounds was as follows.

Round	Leg	Date
First round	First leg	30 November 2007
	Second leg	16 December 2007
Second round	First leg	24 February 2008
	Second leg	8 March 2008

First round

Was played between 30 November and 16 December 2007. Cameroon, Congo-Kinshasa, Ghana, Mali, Nigeria and South Africa had a bye to the second round.

Overview

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Morocco	1–3	Algeria	0–1	1–2
Zimbabwe	6–3	Zambia	3–1	3–2
Eritrea	2–4	Tanzania	2–3	0–1
Botswana	1–9	Namibia	0–3	1–6
Senegal	1–3	Ivory Coast	1–1	0–2
Tunisia	w/o	Egypt	—	—
Burundi	w/o	Congo	—	—
Guinea	w/o	Benin	—	—

Egypt, Burundi and Benin withdrew their matches.

Matches

2 December 2007 (2007-12-02)

Morocco	0–1	Algeria
	Report	Zerrouki

Stade El Abdi, El Jadida

Referee: ... (Togo)

16 December 2007 (2007-12-16)

Algeria	2–1	Morocco
Bouhenni 44' Benguedouche 63'	Report	Regab 42'

Stade Ali Benfedda, Zéralda

Algeria won 3–1 on aggregate.

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30 November 2007 (2007-11-30)

Tunisia	Cancelled	Egypt

16 December 2007 (2007-12-16)

Egypt	Cancelled	Tunisia

Tunisia advanced on walkover after Egypt withdrew.

Second round

Played between 24 February and 8 March 2008.

Overview

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Tunisia	2–1	Algeria	0–0	2–1
Congo	5–2	DR Congo	4–1	1–1
Zimbabwe	1–6	South Africa	1–4	0–2
Tanzania	1–5	Cameroon	0–3	1–2
Namibia	1–13	Nigeria	0–3	1–10
Guinea	0–11	Mali	0–8	0–3
Ivory Coast	1–4	Ghana	1–1	0–3

Matches

24 February 2008 (2008-02-24)

Tunisia	0–0	Algeria
	Report

8 March 2008 (2008-03-08)

Algeria	1–2	Tunisia
Idoughi 19'	Report	Guedri 8' (pen.) Zouaoui 90+3'

Stade de Béni Khalled, Béni Khalled

Referee: Houaïda Brahim Sayed (Egypt)

Algeria won 2–1 on aggregate.

Qualified teams

The following teams qualified for the final tournament.

Team	Qualified as	Qualified on	Previous appearances in tournament1
Equatorial Guinea	Hosts		1 (2006)
Cameroon	Winners against Tanzania	8 March 2008	6 (1991, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006)
Congo	Winners against DR Congo	8 March 2008	Debut
Ghana	Winners against Ivory Coast	8 March 2008	7 (1991, 1995, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006)
Mali	Winners against Guinea	8 March 2008	3 (2002, 2004, 2006)
Nigeria	Winners against Namibia	8 March 2008	7 (1991, 1995, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006)
South Africa	Winners against Zimbabwe	8 March 2008	6 (1995, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006)
Tunisia	Winners against Algeria	8 March 2008	Debut

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