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2008 African Women's Football Championship

2008 Campeonato Femenino de Fútbol de África
Tournament details
Host country	Equatorial Guinea
Dates	15–29 November 2008
Teams	8 (from 1 confederation)
Venue(s)	2 (in 2 host cities)
Final positions
Champions	Equatorial Guinea (1st title)
Runners-up	South Africa
Third place	Nigeria
Fourth place	Cameroon
Tournament statistics
Matches played	16
Goals scored	37 (2.31 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Genoveva Añonma (6 goals)
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The 2008 Women's African Football Championship is of 15–29 November 2008 in Equatorial Guinea. The central African country is the first time host of the tournament. Eight national teams played in group matches and then against each other.

Qualification

A total of 22 national teams entered qualification. The qualification was in two rounds, with each match taking place over 2 legs. In the first round, the 16 lowest-ranked nations were drawn in pairs. The eight winners joined six other national teams in the 2nd round, where the seven winners together with the hosts qualified for the finals.^[1]

First round

Was played between 30 November and 16 December 2007. Cameroon, Congo-Kinshasa, Ghana, Mali, Nigeria and South Africa had a bye to the second round.

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Morocco	1–3	Algeria	0–1	1–2
Zimbabwe	6–3	Zambia	3–1	3–2
Eritrea	2–4	Tanzania	2–3	0–1
Botswana	1–9	Namibia	0–3	1–6
Senegal	1–3	Ivory Coast	1–1	0–2
Tunisia	w/o	Egypt	—	—
Burundi	w/o	Congo	—	—
Guinea	w/o	Benin	—	—

Egypt, Burundi and Benin withdrew their matches.

Second round

Played between 24 February and 8 March 2008.

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Tunisia	2–1	Algeria	0–0	2–1
Congo	5–2	DR Congo	4–1	1–1
Zimbabwe	1–6	South Africa	1–4	0–2
Tanzania	1–5	Cameroon	0–3	1–2
Namibia	1–13	Nigeria	0–3	1–10
Guinea	0–11	Mali	0–8	0–3
Ivory Coast	1–4	Ghana	1–1	0–3

Participants

Therefore, the following eight teams will take part at the African Championship:

• 
   Equatorial Guinea (hosts)


• 
   Ghana
  


• 
   Cameroon
  


• 
   Congo
  


• 
   Mali
  


• 
   Nigeria
  


• 
   South Africa
  


• 
   Tunisia
  

Tunisia and Congo will compete at the African Championship for the first time.

Final tournament

Group A

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	Pts
Equatorial Guinea	3	3	0	0	8	3	9
Cameroon	3	2	0	1	3	2	6
Congo	3	1	0	2	3	6	3
Mali	3	0	0	3	2	5	0

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Group B

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	Pts
South Africa	3	2	0	1	3	2	6
Nigeria	3	1	2	0	2	1	5
Ghana	3	1	1	1	4	4	4
Tunisia	3	0	1	2	3	5	1

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Knockout stage

Semi-Finals

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Third Place match

Final match

Awards

Equatorial Guinea's Genoveva Añonma was announced player of the tournament^[2] and also won the top scorer award with six goals.^{[citation needed]}

2008 Women's African Football Championship Winners
Equatorial Guinea First title

Statistics

Goalscorers

6 Goals Genoveva Añonma

References

External links

• 
  Tournament at soccerway.com


• RSSSF