WAFU Zone A Women's Cup
| Organising body | WAFU |
|---|---|
| Founded | 2020 |
| Region | West Africa |
| Number of teams | 9 (Maximum) |
| Current champions |  Senegal (2nd title) |
| Most successful team(s) | Senegal (2 titles) |
 2025 WAFU Zone A Women's Cup | |
| Tournaments |
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The WAFU Zone A Women's Cup is a women's association football competition contested by national teams of the West African Football Union (WAFU). The WAFU region is divided into two zone and each has its own tournament.
The first edition was planned for December 2019 but then postponed two months.[1] It was then played in 2020 with eight teams. The only national team from Zone A not entering was Mauritania.[2]
The relevant WAFU Zone B Women's Cup was first played out two years earlier in 2018.
Results
[edit]| Editions | Years | Hosts | Finals | Third place playoff | Number of teams | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Winners | Scores | Runners-up | Third place | Score | Fourth place | |||||||
| 1 | 2020 |  Sierra Leone
|
Senegal |
3–0 |  Mali |
 Liberia |
1–0 |  Cape Verde |
8 | |||
| 2 | 2023 | Cape Verde
|
Senegal |
1–0 | Cape Verde |
 Gambia |
3–2 |  Guinea-Bissau |
7 | |||
| 3 | 2025 |  Mauritania
|
Sierra Leone |
1–0 | Senegal |
Liberia |
1–0 | Mali |
8 | |||
Comprehensive team results by tournament
[edit]Legend
- 1st – Champions
- 2nd – Runners-up
- 3rd – Third place
- 4th – Fourth place
- Q – Qualified for upcoming tournament
- • – Did not qualify
- × – Did not enter / Withdrew / Banned
- – Hosts
For each tournament, the number of teams (in brackets) are shown.
| Team | 2020 (8) |
2023 (7) |
2025 (8) |
Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cape Verde
|
4th | 2nd | × | 2 |
| Gambia
|
GS | 3rd | GS | 3 |
 Guinea
|
GS | GS | GS | 3 |
| Guinea-Bissau
|
GS | 4th | GS | 3 |
| Liberia
|
3rd | × | 3rd | 2 |
| Mali
|
2nd | × | 4th | 2 |
| Mauritania
|
× | GS | GS | 2 |
| Senegal
|
1st | 1st | 2nd | 3 |
| Sierra Leone
|
GS | GS | 1st | 3 |
Overall team records
[edit]Teams are ranked by total points, then by goal difference, then by goals scored.
| Rank | Team | Part | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Senegal
|
3 | 15 | 12 | 2 | 1 | 36 | 6 | +30 | 38 |
| 2 | Mali
|
2 | 10 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 22 | 7 | +15 | 19 |
| 3 | Liberia
|
2 | 10 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 14 | 10 | +4 | 17 |
| 4 | Gambia
|
3 | 11 | 5 | 0 | 6 | 20 | 29 | −9 | 15 |
| 5 | Cape Verde
|
2 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 15 | 9 | +6 | 13 |
| 6 | Sierra Leone
|
3 | 11 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 9 | 16 | −7 | 13 |
| 7 | Guinea
|
3 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 8 | 18 | −10 | 7 |
| 8 | Mauritania
|
2 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 13 | −10 | 4 |
| 9 | Guinea-Bissau
|
3 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 7 | 31 | −24 | 3 |
Awards
[edit]
Winning coaches[edit]
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Top goalscorers[edit]
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Fair play award[edit]
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References
[edit]- ^ Football, CAF-Confedération Africaine du. "New date set for 2020 WAFU Women's Cup". CAFOnline.com. Retrieved 2021-08-24.
- ^ News, F. S. L. (2020-02-09). "Draw for Wafu Women's Sierra Leone 2020 released". Football Sierra Leone. Retrieved 2021-08-24.
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