The draw for the African Women’s Olympic Football Qualifiers has been made

On 30 May in Cairo, Egypt, the draw was made by CAF for the African Women’s Olympic Qualifying Tournament.

The competition, the dates of which are yet to be finalised, will decide the two African representatives who will compete at next year’s Olympic Games Paris 2024.

The four-round tournament will begin with a first round that includes 18 nations, with the nine winners of the first-round matches advancing to round two where they will be joined by the seven highest-ranked teams at the last Women’s African Cup of Nations.

In every round, teams will play each other home and away in a knockout format, with round three including the eight winners from the second round and the fourth round seeing four teams battle it out for the two Paris 2024 quotas.

African Women’s Olympic Qualifying Tournament: Matchups for round one revealed

The first round of the Women’s Olympic Qualifying Tournament will see nine home and away matchups, with the following teams drawn to play against each other: 

• Guinea-Bissau vs Benin
• Guinea vs Ghana 
• Burkina Faso vs Mali
• Côte d’Ivoire vs Sierra Leone 
• Namibia vs Equatorial Guinea 
• Uganda vs Rwanda 
• Ethiopia vs Chad
• Congo vs United Republic of Tanzania
• Mozambique vs DR Congo 

The winners of each of these ties will join the seven highest-ranked teams from the last Women’s African Cup of Nations in the second round. Those teams are: 

• South Africa
• Morocco
• Zambia
• Nigeria 
• Cameroon
• Tunisia 
• Botswana

What is the format of the women’s Olympic football tournament?

In all, 12 nations will compete in the Paris 2024 women’s football tournament, with quotas distributed as follows: 

Africa: 2 quota places 

North, Central America and the Caribbean: 1 quota place

South America: 2 quota places 

Europe: 2 quota places 

Oceania: 1 quota place 

Host country (France)

The Paris 2024 football tournament will take place between 24 July and 10 August 2024.