We know the twelve teams that will play the next Women’s African Cup of Nations (CAN 2022) in football, scheduled for July 2 to 23 in Morocco. Burkina Faso and Togo in particular will play this competition for the very first time, while Côte d’Ivoire and Algeria failed in the last round of the playoffs on February 23, 2022.
The first twelve-team African Women’s Cup of Nations will therefore be played with South Africa, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Morocco (host country), Nigeria, Uganda , Senegal, Togo, Tunisia and Zambia.
Big first for four teams
The AFCON 2022scheduled from July 2 to 23, will see the great debut in the final phase of Botswana, Burundi, Burkinabe and Togolese.
The latter went to win their qualification for the tournament on the ground of Gabon (2-1 victory in the first leg then on the return). Gabonese women who were also running after a first participation in the women’s CAN.
The Burkinabè, they beat the Bissau-Guinéennes 1-0 and had little to fear after their 6-0 victory in the first leg.
Cameroon and Tunisia qualified without trembling
The teams of Cameroon and Tunisia were also almost assured of qualification after the first leg. The Cameroonians, who crushed the Gambians 8-0 last week, won 2-1 in The Gambia.
The Tunisians lost 3-2 in Equatorial Guinea. But they won 5-0 at home… They will be back after fourteen years of absence (CAN 2008).
► To (re) read: Women’s CAN 2022: qualification program and results
Ivory Coast and Algeria defeated by stronger than them
The Algerians, on the other hand, will not be traveling to Morocco. They were eliminated by the South Africans after a 1-1 draw (2-0 defeat in South Africa).
The Ivorians will also miss the CAN 2022, after their 1-0 loss at home against the Nigerians. Like Algeria, Ivory Coast fell to one of the best nations on the continent.
A CAN 2022 qualifier for the 2023 World Cup
The Nigerians, three-time defending champions, will therefore defend their crown during a qualifying edition for the next World Cup (July 20 to August 23, 2023 in Australia and New Zealand). The semi-finalists of this African Cup will indeed have their ticket in their pocket for the 2023 World Cup.
As a reminder, the last women’s CAN, scheduled for 2020 in Congo-Brazzaville, had been canceled by the Confederation of African Football, following the withdrawal from the Congolese authorities and the coronavirus crisis.