2020 Africa Women Cup of Nations

The 2020 Africa Women Cup of Nations, officially known as the Total Women's Africa Cup Of Nations, was supposed to be the 12th edition of the Africa Women Cup of Nations (14th edition if tournaments without hosts are included), the biennial international football championship organised by the Confederation of African Football (CAF) for the women's national teams of Africa.

2020 Africa Women Cup of Nations
Coupe d'Afrique des nations féminine de football 2020
Tournament details
DatesCancelled
(originally November/December 2020)
Teams12 (planned) (from 1 confederation)

On 30 June 2020, following a virtual meeting by CAF in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the tournament was cancelled due to "challenging conditions" according to CAF and rather approved the maiden CAF Women's Champions League which is scheduled to begin in 2021. Subsequently, the men's edition scheduled to take place the following year was moved to 2022, while the 2020 African Nations Championship was postponed to 2021.[1]

The tournament was earlier scheduled to take place between 23 November to 20 December 2020, and would originally be expanded from eight to 12 teams.[2] Nigeria were the defending champions.

Host selection

The Republic of the Congo were named as the hosts in September 2018.[3] They withdrew as hosts in July 2019.[4]

No official replacement hosts were named by the CAF before the tournament was cancelled. Some sources mentioned Tunisia hosts.[5][6] But no official confirmation had been given. Apparently Nigeria and Equatorial Guinea were interested in hosting.[7]

Qualification
Main article: 2020 Africa Women Cup of Nations qualification

A record total of 36 women's national teams had entered the qualifying rounds. However, all qualifying matches, originally scheduled to be played in April and June 2020, were postponed until further notice due to the COVID-19 pandemic, before the tournament was cancelled.

References
  1. "2020 Africa women's cup of nations cancelled". Goal.com. Retrieved 30 June 2020.
  2. "CAF Holds Executive Committee Meeting ahead of CAN Total U-23 Final". CAFOnline.com. CAF-Confedération Africaine du Football. Retrieved 21 November 2019.
  3. "Decisions of CAF Executive Commitee [sic] - 27 & 28 September 2018". CAF. 29 September 2018.
  4. "Caf expands African Women's Cup of Nations to 12 teams". Goal.com. 17 July 2019.
  5. https://www.pressreader.com/namibia/new-era/20191211/281913069993674
  6. http://nampa.org/index.php?model=categories&function=display&id=19602485
  7. https://www.goal.com/en-gh/news/nigeria-and-equatorial-guinea-bid-to-host-the-2020-africa-womens-/u22cb9rjatcq1bhlaknb7nqdm
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