Nigeria’s U-20 feminine soccer group, the Falconets, have secured a spot within the third spherical of the African qualifiers for the 2024 FIFA U-20 Ladies’s World Cup in Colombia, Soccernet.ng report.

Falconets’ development happened with out the group setting foot on the pitch, courtesy of the withdrawal of the Mauritius Soccer Affiliation from the continuing African qualifiers.

A press release issued by Ademola Olajire, the Director of Communications on the Nigeria Soccer Federation (NFF), revealed that the Confederation of African Soccer (CAF) communicated the withdrawal of Mauritius by way of a proper letter.

The assertion from CAF acknowledged, “Kindly observe that CAF was knowledgeable of the withdrawal of Mauritius Soccer Affiliation from the African qualifiers of the FIFA U-20 WWC 2024. Consequently, Nigeria is certified to the following spherical of the competitors, and the missions of all officers of matches 37 & 38 are cancelled.”

The Falconets had been getting ready for his or her upcoming match in opposition to Mauritius, with the primary leg initially scheduled to happen in Saint Pierre subsequent week. The return leg was deliberate for the Moshood Abiola Nationwide Stadium in Abuja on October 14.

Colombia 2024: Falconets progress to 3rd spherical as Mauritius withdraw.

  Mauritius have withdrawn from subsequent week’s #FWWCU20 qualifier in opposition to the Falconets.

This implies Nigeria have now progressed to the following spherical of qualifiers. pic.twitter.com/nCHdNzq9cK

— The NFF (@thenff) September 28, 2023

The Falconets have a powerful historical past within the competitors, having reached the finals in 2010 and 2014, and the semi-finals in 2012, establishing themselves as essentially the most profitable African group within the event.

Recalled that Sao Tome and Principe’s ladies’s nationwide group additionally withdrew from going through Nigeria within the qualifying rounds for the 2024 Africa Ladies’s Cup of Nations.

The Central African facet had initially been slated to sq. off in opposition to the 11-time AWCON champions in a first-round qualifying fixture scheduled for this month.

Nigeria’s ladies’s nationwide groups proceed to exhibit dominance at numerous ranges of girls’s soccer in Africa, cementing their place as essentially the most profitable within the continent.