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1998 African Women's Championship

3rd edition of WAFCON

Field	Value
year	1998
country	Nigeria
dates	17 – 31 October
num_teams	8
venues	2
cities	2
champion_other
count	3
second_other
third_other
fourth_other
matches	13
goals	62
top_scorer	Nkiru Okosieme
(3 goals)
prevseason	[1995](1995-african-women-s-championship)
nextseason	[2000](2000-african-women-s-championship)

(3 goals)

The 1998 African Women's Championship was the 3rd edition of the biennial African Women's Championship tournament organised by the Confederation of African Football (CAF). Since this edition, the tournament has been organized biennially and was hosted by a country unlike the previous two editions.

It was hosted from 17 to 31 October by Nigeria whose women's team successfully defended its title, winning it for a 3rd time after beating Ghana 2–0 in the final. Both finalists qualified for the following year's FIFA Women's World Cup in the United States.

Qualification

A qualification round was installed in the tournament for the first time. With Nigeria qualifying automatically as hosts, the remaining seven spots were determined by a qualification round and a play-off round which took place between March and April 1998.

First leg:

Second leg:

Mozambique won 7–2 on aggregate and qualified for the main tournament.

South Africa won 15–0 on aggregate and qualified for the main tournament.

Egypt won 2–1 on aggregate and qualified for the main tournament.

Ghana won 19–0 on aggregate and qualified for the main tournament.

DR Congo won by default and qualified for the main tournament.

Cameroon won by default and qualified for the main tournament.

Morocco won by default and qualified for the main tournament.

Qualified teams

DR Congo, Egypt and Morocco made their debuts in the tournament at this edition. Mozambique failed to arrive for the tournament despite qualifying with Lesotho as its late replacement for Mozambique, also failing to show up.

Team	Appearance	Previous best appearance
		([1991](1991-african-women-s-championship))
		([1995](1995-african-women-s-championship))
(hosts)		([1991](1991-african-women-s-championship), [1995](1995-african-women-s-championship))
		([1995](1995-african-women-s-championship))

Venues

Kaduna	Ijebu Ode
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Ahmadu Bello Stadium	Gateway Stadium
Capacity: 16,000	Capacity: 20,000

Group stage

Tiebreakers

If two or more teams in the group stage are tied on points tie-breakers are in order:

greater number of points in matches between tied teams
superior goal difference in matches between tied teams
greater number of goals scored in matches between tied teams
superior goal difference in all group matches
greater number of goals scored in all group matches
fair play criteria based on red and yellow cards received
drawing of lots

Group A

Group B

was also drawn into this group, but withdrew before playing.

Knockout stage

|27 October - Kaduna||6||0 |27 October - Kaduna| |4||1 |31 October - Ijebu Ode||2||0 |30 October - Ijebu Ode||3 (1)| |3 (3)

Semi-finals

Winners qualified for the 1999 FIFA Women's World Cup in the United States.

Third place play-off

Final

Awards

Statistics

Team statistics

-

Goalscorers

;3 goals

NGA Nkiru Okosieme ;2 goals
NGA Patience Avre
NGA Rita Nwadike ;1 goal
NGA Mercy Akide
NGA Stella Mbachu
NGA Florence Omagbemi

;Unknown scorers

: 18 additional goals.
: 11 additional goals.
: 8 additional goals.
: 7 additional goals.
: 4 additional goals.
: 2 additional goals.
: 2 additional goals.

References

(12 January 2012). "Enkonge ezizze zeekiika mu kkubo lyagwo".
(10 November 2006). "History of CAF Women's Championship".

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