2015 CAF Women's Olympic Qualifying Tournament

2015 CAF Women's Olympic Qualifying Tournament

Tournament details
Dates	3 May – 18 October 2015
Teams	18 (from 1 confederation)

The 2015 CAF Women's Olympic Qualifying Tournament is a football competition which acts as qualification to the 2016 Summer Olympics women's football tournament for the Confederation of African Football (CAF), with the top two teams qualifying.^[1] It is the fourth edition of the CAF Women's Olympic Qualifying Tournament.

Teams

A total of 18 teams entered the qualifying rounds.

Round	Teams entering round	No. of teams
First round	Gabon  Guinea-Bissau  Liberia  Libya	4
Second round	Botswana  Cameroon  Congo  Egypt  Equatorial Guinea  Ghana  Ivory Coast  Kenya  Mali  Nigeria  South Africa  Tunisia  Zambia  Zimbabwe	14

Did not enter
Algeria  Angola  Benin  Burkina Faso  Burundi  Cape Verde  Central African Republic  Chad  Comoros  Djibouti  DR Congo  Eritrea  Ethiopia  Gambia  Guinea  Lesotho  Madagascar  Malawi  Mauritania  Mauritius  Morocco  Mozambique  Namibia  Niger  Rwanda  São Tomé and Príncipe  Senegal  Seychelles  Sierra Leone  Somalia  South Sudan  Sudan  Swaziland  Tanzania  Togo  Uganda

Format

Qualification ties are played on a home-and-away two-legged basis. If the sides are level on aggregate after the second leg, the away goals rule is applied, and if still level, the tie proceeds directly to a penalty shoot-out (no extra time is played).

Schedule

The schedule of the qualifying rounds is as follows.^[2]

Round	Leg	Date
First round	First leg	24–26 April 2015
	Second leg	8–10 May 2015
Second round	First leg	22–24 May 2015
	Second leg	29–31 May 2015
Third round	First leg	17–19 July 2015
	Second leg	31 July–2 August 2015
Fourth round	First leg	2–4 October 2015
	Second leg	16–18 October 2015

First round

Matches were to be played on 24 April and 8 May.

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Gabon	w/o	Libya	—	—
Guinea-Bissau	w/o	Liberia	—	—

Note: Libya and Guinea-Bissau withdrew.^[3]

Second round

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Nigeria	–	Mali	–	–
Egypt	w/o	Ghana	—	—
Zambia	–	Zimbabwe	–	–
Botswana	–	Kenya	–	–
Congo	–	Equatorial Guinea	–	–
Ivory Coast	–	Tunisia	–	–
Gabon	–	South Africa	–	–
Liberia	–	Cameroon	–	–

Note: Egypt withdrew. Nigeria versus Mali and Liberia versus Cameroon to be played in early/mid-May so Nigeria and Cameroon are able to leave earlier for the World Cup.^[4][5] Liberia play their home match in Cameroon due to Ebola outbreak.

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Third round

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
TBD	–	Ghana	–	–
TBD	–	TBD	–	–
TBD	–	TBD	–	–
TBD	–	TBD	–	–

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Fourth round

The two winners of the fourth round qualify for the 2016 Summer Olympics.

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
TBD	–	TBD	–	–
TBD	–	TBD	–	–

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References

External links

• U-23WََQ, CAFonline.com

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