1991 African Women's Championship

1991 African Women's Championship
Tournament details
Dates February 16 – June 30
Teams 8 (from 1 confederation)
Final positions
Champions  Nigeria (1st title)
Runners-up  Cameroon
Tournament statistics
Matches played 6
Goals scored 22 (3.67 per match)

The 1991 Women's African Football Championship was the first staging of the CAF Women's Championship, the women's football championship in Africa (CAF). It determined the CAF's single qualifier for the FIFA Women's World Cup 1991. Nigeria won the tournament, defeating Cameroon in the final.

Eight teams were scheduled originally to play in the tournament, but half of them withdrew, causing only four teams to compete actively for the right to represent Africa in the World Cup. Cameroon in fact reached the final by default.

In the tournament, 22 goals were scored in 6 games.

Participating teams

The eight participating teams were:

First round

February 16, 1991
Nigeria  5–1  Ghana

March 3, 1991
Ghana  1–2  Nigeria
Nigeria win 7–2 on aggregate.


Guinea  w/o  Senegal
Senegal withdraw. Guinea advance.


Zambia  w/o  Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe withdraw. Zambia advance.


Cameroon  w/o  Congo
Congo withdraw. Cameroon advance.

Second round

May 4, 1991
Nigeria  3–0  Guinea

May 19, 1991
Guinea  0–4  Nigeria
Nigeria win 7–0 on aggregate.


Zambia  w/o  Cameroon
Zambia withdraw. Cameroon advance.

Final round

June 15, 1991
Nigeria  2–0  Cameroon

June 30, 1991
Cameroon  0–4  Nigeria
Yaoundé
Attendance: 30.000
Nigeria win 6–0 on aggregate.

Awards

 1991 Women's African Football Championship Winners 

Nigeria
First title

Team statistics

Pos. Team Pld W D L Pts GF GA GD
1  Nigeria 6 6 0 0 18 20 2 +18
2  Cameroon 2 0 0 2 0 0 6 -6
Eliminated in the second round
3  Guinea 2 0 0 2 0 0 7 -7
—  Zambia 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Eliminated in the first round
4  Ghana 2 0 0 2 0 2 7 -5
—  Senegal 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
—  Zimbabwe 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
—  Congo 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Total 6(1) 6 0(2) 6 18 22 22 0

Team(s) rendered in italics represent(s) the host nation(s).
(1) – Total games lost not counted in total games played (total games lost = total games won)
(2) – Total number of games drawn (tied) for all teams = Total number of games drawn (tied) ÷ 2 (both teams involved)

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