Football at the 2011 All-Africa Games – Women's tournament

The 2011 All-Africa Games football – Women's tournament was the third edition of the All-Africa games to include women's football. The football tournament was held in Maputo, Mozambique between 3 and 18 September 2011 as part of the 2011 All-Africa Games. Eight teams took part to the tournament.

2011 Women's All-Africa Games
football tournament
Tournament details
Host countryMozambique
CityMaputo
Dates3–18 September
Teams8 (from 1 confederation)
Venue(s)1 (in 1 host city)
Final positions
Champions Cameroon (1st title)
Runners-up Ghana
Third place Algeria
Fourth place South Africa
Tournament statistics
Matches played13
Goals scored44 (3.38 per match)

The tournament was won by Cameroon, which defeated Ghana 1–0 in the gold medal game. Madeleine Ngono scored the game-winning goal in the 56th minute for Cameroon, which collected their first ever All-Africa Games gold medal.[1]

Qualified teams
Main article: Football at the 2011 All-Africa Games – Women's qualification

Only Ghana, Zimbabwe and South Africa had played games in qualifying. Other teams advanced by default because opponents withdraw. Two time champions Nigeria lost to Ghana in the qualifying.

ZoneQualifiers
Host  Mozambique
Zone 1  Algeria
Zone 2  Guinea
Zone 3  Ghana
Zone 4  Tanzania
Zone 5  Cameroon
Zone 6  South Africa
 Zimbabwe

Final tournament

The draw for the women’s final tournament took place in Cairo, Egypt on July 12 in CAF headquarters. The eight teams were divided into two groups of four teams. The two top teams from each group played the semifinals before the final match.[2]

Group winners and runners-up advanced to the semifinals.

All times given as local time (UTC+2)

Group A
Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
 Cameroon 220040+46
 Algeria 210174+33
 Mozambique 200218−70
 Guinea
withdrew
  • Guinea withdrew and Group A became a three-team group.
Mozambique 0–1 Cameroon
Report Zouga  16'
Cameroon 3–0 Algeria
Manie  5'
Iven  45'
Beyene  84'		 Report
Mozambique 1–7 Algeria
Mutola  42' Report Meflah  24'
Bouhenni-Benziane  52', 76'
Bekhedda  60'
Marek  66', 69'
Yahi  90'

Group B
Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
 Ghana 321064+27
 South Africa 312085+35
 Tanzania 302156−12
 Zimbabwe 301248−41
South Africa 4–1 Zimbabwe
Tanzania 1–2 Ghana
South Africa 2–2 Tanzania
Zimbabwe 1–2 Ghana
South Africa 2–2 Ghana
Tanzania 2–2 Zimbabwe

Knockout stage
 
Semi-finalsFinal
 
      
 
13 September
 
 
 Cameroon2
 
17 September
 
 South Africa0
 
 Cameroon1
 
14 September
 
 Ghana0
 
 Algeria0
 
 
 Ghana3
 
Third place
 
 
16 September
 
 
 South Africa0
 
 
 Algeria3

Semifinals
Cameroon 2–0 South Africa
Aboudi  36'
Enganamouit  62'		 Report
Ghana 3–0 Algeria
Cudjoe  17', 24'
Myles  38'		 Report

Third Place Play-off
South Africa 0–3 Algeria
Report Zerrouki  6'
Bouhenni-Benziane  50'
Marek  71'

Final
Ghana 0–1 Cameroon
Report Ngono  56'

Final ranking
Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Final result
 Cameroon 4 4 0 0 7 0 +7 12 Gold Medal
 Ghana 5 3 1 1 9 5 +4 10 Silver Medal
 Algeria 4 2 0 2 10 7 +3 6 Bronze Medal
4  South Africa 5 1 2 2 8 10 −2 5 Fourth place
5  Tanzania 3 0 2 1 5 6 −1 2 Eliminated in
group stage
6  Mozambique (H) 2 0 0 2 1 8 −7 0
7  Zimbabwe 3 0 1 2 4 8 −4 1
8  Guinea 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Withdrew
Source: todor66
(H) Host.

See also

References
  1. "Cameroon win gold in All Africa Games women's football". BBC. 17 September 2011. Retrieved 10 March 2015.
  2. AAG draw on July 12 in Egypt
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