By Harry Awurumibe, Editor, Abuja Bureau
The Confederation of African Football (CAF) will conduct a draw for the 2026 Women’s Africa Cup of Nations (WAFCON) Qualifies tomorrow Thursday, December 12, 2024.
Record nine-time African champions Nigeria and 37 other countries will go into the draw to determine the 12 teams that will qualify for the WAFCON 2026.
WAFCON 2026 will also serve as qualifiers for the 2027 FIFA Women’s World Cup in Brazil.
The last edition of the TotalEnergies CAF WAFCON also took place in Morocco, where it broke all previous attendance and global television (TV) audience records as South Africa clinched their first ever title ahead of the host.
Morocco, which staged the competition in 2022, will also host the 2024 (in 2025) and 2026 editions.
Equatorial Guinea has won the tournament twice as the second most successful team in the tournament.
The 2026 TotalEnergies CAF WAFCON qualifiers will see the participation of 38 African teams.
The participating teams
Algeria, Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Congo, DR Congo, Cote d’Ivoire, Djibouti, Egypt, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Equatorial Guinea, Kenya, Mali, Malawi, Morocco, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Uganda, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Sudan, South Africa Tanzania, Chad, Togo, Tunisia, Zambia, Zimbabwe.
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