2012 CAF Women's Olympic qualifying tournament

2011 CAF Women's Olympic Qualifying Tournament
Tournament details
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Tournament statistics
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The CAF Women's Pre-Olympic Tournament determined the two participants representing the African continent in Football at the 2012 Summer Olympics. The competition was played as knockout tournament of four rounds.^[1]

Qualification

First round

First leg played on October 2, second leg played on October 23, 2010.

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Botswana	2–6	Zambia	1–4	1–2

Second round

The first leg was played on January 15, 2011, second leg on January 29, 2011. The first leg of Guinea v Ghana was played on January 16, 2011. The second leg of Ethiopia v Democratic Republic of Congo was played on January 30, 2011.

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Gabon	w/o	Equatorial Guinea
Angola	2–2 (a)	Namibia	2–2	0–0
Congo	w/o	Nigeria
Cameroon	6–0	Mali	5–0	1–0
Guinea	1–7	Ghana	1–2	0–5
DR Congo	0–3	Ethiopia	0–0	0–3
Morocco	1–3	Tunisia	0–3	1–0
Zambia	1–5	South Africa	1–2	0–3

Gabon	Cancelled	Equatorial Guinea

Equatorial Guinea won on walkover.

15 January 2011

Morocco	0–3	Tunisia
	Report	Chebbi 3' Houij 21' Mlayeh 62'

Stade El Abdi, El Jadida, Morocco

29 January 2011

Tunisia	0 – 1	Morocco
		Bouharat

Tunisia won 3–1 on aggregate.

Third round

The first leg was played on 1–3 April, second leg on 15–17 April.

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Ethiopia	2–2 (a)	Ghana	1–0	1–2
Cameroon	0–2¹	Equatorial Guinea	0–0	0–2
Nigeria	9–0	Namibia	7–0	2–0
South Africa	1–1 (6–5 p)	Tunisia	1–0	0–1

2 April 2011

15:30 UTC+1

Cameroon	0–0	Equatorial Guinea
	Report

Stade Ahmadou Ahidjo, Yaoundé, Cameroon

Attendance: 5,000

Referee: Kankou Coulibaly (Mali)

17 April 2011

Equatorial Guinea	2–0	Cameroon
Añonma 12' Jade 58'

¹ Equatorial Guinea were ejected from the competition for fielding an ineligible player,^[2] Jade Boho; Cameroon were advanced to the final round.^[3]

2 April 2011

13:00 UTC+2

South Africa	1–0	Tunisia
Matlou 47'	Report

King Zwelithini Stadium, Umlazi, South Africa

17 April 2011

Tunisia	1–0	South Africa

Penalties
	5–6

1–1 on aggregate. South Africa won 6–5 on penalties.

Final round

The two winners qualified for the 2012 Olympic Games.^[1]

The first leg was played on 27 August, second leg on 11 September and 22 October.^[4]^[5]

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Nigeria	3–3 (3–4 p)	Cameroon	2–1	1–2
South Africa	4–1	Ethiopia	3–0	1–1

References

^ ^a ^b FIFA.com – Women's Olympic Football Tournament: Qualifiers, retrieved on April 15, 2011.
^ "Eq Guinea thrown out of women's Olympic qualifiers". BBC. 1 July 2011. Retrieved 3 July 2011.
^ "Equatorial Guinea's Jade Boho to be replaced". FIFA. 28 June 2011. Archived from the original on 12 July 2011. Retrieved 3 July 2011.
^ Fixture change in Africa
^ "Cameroon's women reach Olympics". BBC News. 22 October 2011.

External links

FIFA Women's Olympic Football Tournament official website

[olympic-qualification-format-1] FIFA.com – Women's Olympic Football Tournament: Qualifiers, retrieved on April 15, 2011.

[2] "Eq Guinea thrown out of women's Olympic qualifiers". BBC. 1 July 2011. Retrieved 3 July 2011.

[3] "Equatorial Guinea's Jade Boho to be replaced". FIFA. 28 June 2011. Archived from the original on 12 July 2011. Retrieved 3 July 2011.

[4] Fixture change in Africa

[5] "Cameroon's women reach Olympics". BBC News. 22 October 2011.

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