2025 African U-17 Women's World Cup qualification

The 2025 African U-17 Women's World Cup qualification was 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 were eligible to compete in the tournament.

Four teams qualified from this tournament for the 2025 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup in Morocco as the CAF representatives alongside the hosts Morocco.

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. Did not enter

Draw The draw for the qualifiers was held on 12 December 2024 at the CAF Headquarters in Cairo, Egypt.

The 28 teams were seeded into six pots based on their performance at the qualifying tournament of the previous edition, decided by the round each team reached in the last edition, with ties in round decided by 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

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 (). +Teams exempted from the first round +Teams entering the qualification first roundLower rankedPot 1 Pot 3 Pot 5Higher ranked Pot 2 Pot 4 Pot 6

Schedule RoundLegDateFirst round First leg11–12 January 2025Second leg17–19 January 2025Second round First leg8–9 March 2025Second leg15–16 March 2025Third round First leg19–20 April 2025Second leg25–26 April 2025

Bracket The four winners of the third round qualified for the 2025 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup.

First round

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

Kenya won 5–0 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

Cameroon won 4–1 on aggregate.

Zambia won 6–2 on aggregate.

Nigeria won 4–0 on aggregate.

2–2 on aggregate. Ivory Coast won on away goals.

Qualified teams for the 2025 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup The following five teams from CAF qualified for the 2025 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup including Morocco who automatically qualified as host.

Team Qualified onPrevious appearances in the FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup. 1 (2022) 0 (debut) 2 (2016, 2018) 7 (2008, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2022, 2024) 2 (2014, 2024)

Goalscorers

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