Dates
The CAF Women’s Africa Cup of Nations 2026, which will be used as FIFA Women’s World Cup 2027 CAF qualifiers, will be played between 17 March and 3 April 2026 in Morocco.
Participating nations
Algeria, Burkina Faso, Cabo Verde, Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire, Egypt, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Mali, Morocco, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia
How qualifying works
The CAF Women’s Africa Cup of Nations will serve as FIFA Women’s World Cup qualifiers. After a group stage with four groups of four, the top two teams of each group will qualify for the quarter-finals. All four semi-finalists will qualify for Brazil 2027.
The losing quarter-finalists will take part in play-off matches to determine the two teams who will play in the FIFA Play-Off Tournament.
FIFA Play-Off Tournament
Ten nations will qualify for the FIFA Play-Off Tournament, two from each of the AFC, CAF, Concacaf and CONMEBOL and one each from the OFC and UEFA.
The first phase of the play-off tournament will take place in November and December 2026 in a centralised venue featuring six teams ranked based on the latest FIFA/Coca-Cola Women’s World Ranking prior to the play-off draw.
The top two teams will qualify for the final play-off phase to be played in a centralised location in February 2027, in which they will be joined by two teams from Concacaf, one from CONMEBOL and one from UEFA. The six teams will be drawn into three paths, with a direct knockout match to determine the final three teams qualifying for the FIFA Women’s World Cup 2027. Teams from the same confederation will not be permitted to be drawn in the same pathway.
African teams qualified for the Women’s World Cup 2027
None.
African teams qualified for the FIFA Play-Off Tournament
None.
CAF Women’s Africa Cup of Nations 2026
17 March – 3 April
FIFA Women’s World Cup appearances
9 – Nigeria (1991, 1995, 1999, 2003, 2007, 2011, 2015, 2019, 2023)
3 – Ghana (1999, 2003, 2007)
2 – Cameroon (2015, 2019), South Africa (2019, 2023)
1 – Morocco
(2023), Equatorial Guinea (2011), Côte d’Ivoire (2015), Zambia (2023)
