1998 African Women's Championship

1998 African Women's Championship
Tournament details
Host country  Nigeria
Dates 17 – 31 October
Teams 8 (from 1 confederation)
Venue(s) 2 (in 2 host cities)
Final positions
Champions  Nigeria (3rd title)
Runners-up  Ghana
Third place  DR Congo
Fourth place  Cameroon
Tournament statistics
Matches played 13
Goals scored 62 (4.77 per match)
Top scorer(s) Nigeria Nkiru Okosieme
(2 goals)

The 1998 African Women's Championship was the third staging of the CAF Women's Championship, the women's football tournament of Africa (CAF), who took place in Nigeria. It determined the CAF's two qualifiers for the FIFA Women's World Cup 1999 — the winner Nigeria and the runner-up Ghana. Nigeria won its third title, beating Ghana 2–0 in the final.

Qualifying Tournament

Nigeria as host qualified automatically.

Team 1 Agg. Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
Mozambique  7–2  Lesotho 3–0 4–2
South Africa  15–0  Swaziland 9–0 6–0
Egypt  2–1  Uganda 1–1 1–0
Ghana  19–0  Guinea 11–0 8–0
DR Congo  w/o  Namibia — —
Cameroon  w/o  Sierra Leone — —
Morocco  w/o  Kenya — —

First leg in March 28–29, Second leg in April 10–12:

28 March 1998
Mozambique  3–0  Lesotho

12 April 1998
Lesotho  2–4  Mozambique

29 March 1998
South Africa  9–0  Swaziland

11 April 1998
Swaziland  0–6  South Africa

29 March 1998
Egypt  1–1  Uganda

10 April 1998
Uganda  0–1  Egypt

29 March 1998
Ghana  11–0  Guinea

12 April 1998
Guinea  0–8  Ghana


Morocco  w/o  Kenya

Participating teams

Venues

Kaduna
Locations of the 1998 African Women's Championship venues
 Ijebu Ode
Ahmadu Bello Stadium Gateway Stadium
Capacity: 16,000 Capacity: 20,000

Final tournament

First round

Teams highlighted in green progress to the Semi-Finals.

Group A

Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
 Nigeria 3300200+209
 DR Congo 311147-34
 Morocco 311149-54
 Egypt 3003214−120

17 October 1998
Nigeria  8–0  Morocco
Okosieme  ?'

17 October 1998
DR Congo  4–1  Egypt

20 October 1998
Morocco  4–1  Egypt

20 October 1998
Nigeria  6–0  DR Congo

23 October 1998
Morocco  0–0  DR Congo

23 October 1998
Nigeria  6–0  Egypt

Group B

Mozambique failed to arrive for the tournament. Late replacement Lesotho also failed to show up.[1]

Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
 Ghana 220071+66
 Cameroon 210145-13
 South Africa 200227-50
 Mozambique Withdrew

18 October 1998
Ghana  4–0  South Africa

24 October 1998
Ghana  3–1  Cameroon

Knockout stage

In the knockout stage, if a match is level at the end of normal playing time, extra time is played (two periods of 15 minutes each) and followed, if necessary, by kicks from the penalty mark to determine the winner, except for the third place match where no extra time is played.

Semifinals Final
27 October - Kaduna
  Nigeria  6  
  Cameroon  0  
 
31 October - Ijebu Ode
      Nigeria  2
    Ghana  0
Third place
27 October - Kaduna 30 October - Ijebu Ode
  Ghana (a.e.t.)  4   Cameroon  3 (1)
  DR Congo  1     DR Congo  3 (3)

Semi-finals

27 October 1998
Nigeria  6–0  Cameroon

27 October 1998
Ghana  4–1 (aet)  DR Congo

Third place playoff

30 October 1998
DR Congo  3–3 (aet)
(3–1 PSO) 		 Cameroon

Final

31 October 1998
Nigeria  2–0  Ghana
Okosieme  43'
Mbachu  64'
Gateway Stadium, Ijebu Ode
Attendance: 30,000

Awards

 1998 African Women's Championship Winners 

Nigeria
Third title

Statistics

Team statistics

Pos. Team Pld W D L Pts GF GA GD
1  Nigeria 5 5 0 0 15 28 0 +28
2  Ghana 4 3 0 1 9 11 4 +7
3  DR Congo 5 1 2 2 5 8 14 -6
4  Cameroon 4 1 1 2 4 7 14 -7
Eliminated in the group stage
5  Morocco 3 1 1 1 4 4 9 -5
6  South Africa 2 0 0 2 0 2 7 -5
7  Egypt 3 0 0 3 0 2 14 -12
—  Mozambique 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Total 12(1) 11 1(2) 11 35 62 62 0

Team(s) rendered in italics represent(s) the host nation(s). The competition's winning team is rendered in bold.
(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)

Goalscorers

2 goals
1 goal
Unknown scorers

References

  1. ↑ http://www.thenationonlineng.net/archive2/tblnews_Detail.php?id=3145
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