Nigeria and Zambia amongst Girls’s Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers

Rasheedat Ajibade celebrates a goal for Nigeria at the Women's World Cup
Rasheedat Ajibade was on track to present Nigeria victory in opposition to Cape Verde

9-time Girls’s Africa Cup of Nations winners Nigeria turned the ultimate facet to e book their place on the 2024 match as qualifiers culminated on Tuesday.

The Tremendous Falcons got here from behind to beat Cape Verde 2-1 away from house, with Rasheedat Ajibade’s injury-time winner clinching a 7-1 mixture victory.

Barbra Banda was amongst Zambia’s scorers because the Copper Queens, who completed third ultimately 12 months’s Nations Cup, thrashed Angola 6-0 at house to finish a 12-0 mixture win.

Nonetheless, two-time champions Equatorial Guinea will miss out on the 12-team finals following a 2-1 defeat away in opposition to DR Congo which noticed the hosts progress 3-2 total.

Botswana beat Kenya 1-0 to safe qualification for his or her second consecutive finals. whereas Ghana, Mali, Senegal, Tanzania and Tunisia all sealed their locations in Morocco, who will host for the second time in a row.

The dates for the match, scheduled for subsequent 12 months, are but to be introduced.

Holders South Africa and Algeria secured their spots on Monday, with Banyana Banyana beating Burkina Faso 3-1 on aggregate and the North Africans sealing a 1-0 win in Burundi to progress 6-1 over the 2 legs.

Ghana will return to the finals for the primary time since 2018 regardless of dropping 1-0 away in opposition to Namibia, with the Black Queens going via 3-2 on mixture.

Senegal, Tanzania and Tunisia additionally did not win their away ties, however progressed in opposition to Egypt, Togo and Congo respectively.

Mali received 3-0 away in opposition to Guinea to spherical off a 10-2 victory total.

Tuesday’s Girls’s Nations Cup qualifying outcomes

  • Namibia 1-0 Ghana (2-3 agg)
  • Congo 1-1 Tunisia (3-6 agg)
  • DR Congo 2-1 Equatorial Guinea (3-2 agg)
  • Botswana 1-0 Kenya (2-1 agg)
  • Egypt 0-0 Senegal (0-4 agg)
  • Guinea 0-3 Mali (2-10 agg)
  • Togo 2-0 Tanzania (2-3 agg)
  • Zambia 6-0 Angola (12-0 agg)
  • Cape Verde 1-2 Nigeria (1-7 agg)

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