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1998 African Women's Championship

Tournament details
Host country	Nigeria
Dates	17 – 31 October
Teams	8
Venue(s)	2 (in 2 host cities)
Final positions
Champions	Nigeria (3rd title)
Runners-up	Ghana
Third place	DR Congo
Fourth place	Cameroon
Tournament statistics
Matches played	13
Goals scored	62 (4.77 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Nkiru Okosieme (3 goals)
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The 1998 African Women's Championship was the 3rd edition of the African women's association football tournament organized by the Confederation of African Football. 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.

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Mozambique	7 – 2	Lesotho	3–0	4–2
South Africa	15 – 0	Swaziland	9–0	6 – 0
Egypt	2 – 1	Uganda	1–1	1–0
Ghana	19 – 0	Guinea	11–0	8–0
DR Congo	w/o	Namibia	—	—
Cameroon	w/o	Sierra Leone	—	—
Morocco	w/o	Kenya	—	—

First leg:

Second leg:

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

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

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

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

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

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Cameroon won by default and qualified for the main tournament.

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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.^[2]

Team	Appearance	Previous best appearance
Cameroon	2nd	Runners-up (1991)
DR Congo	1st	Debut
Egypt	1st	Debut
Ghana	3rd	Semi-finals (1995)
Morocco	1st	Debut
Mozambique	1st	Debut
Nigeria (hosts)	3rd	Champions (1991, 1995)
South Africa	2nd	Runners-up (1995)

Venues

Main tournament

The top two teams of each group advance to the semi-finals. The teams were ranked according to points (3 for a win, 1 for a draw and none for a loss).

Key to colours in group tables
	Group winners and runners-up advance to the semi-finals

First round

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Nigeria	3	3	0	0	20	0	+20	9	Knock-out stage
2	DR Congo	3	1	1	1	4	7	−3	4
3	Morocco	3	1	1	1	4	9	−5	4
4	Egypt	3	0	0	3	2	14	−12	0

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Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Ghana	2	2	0	0	7	1	+6	6	Knock-out stage
2	Cameroon	2	1	0	1	4	5	−1	3
3	South Africa	2	0	0	2	2	7	−5	0
—	Mozambique	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Withdrew

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Knock-out stage

	Semi-finals				Final
	27 October - Kaduna
	Nigeria	6
					31 October - Ijebu Ode
	Cameroon	0
					Nigeria	2
	27 October - Kaduna
					Ghana	0
	Ghana (a.e.t.)	4
	DR Congo	1
					Third place
					30 October - Ijebu Ode
					Cameroon	3 (1)
					DR Congo	3 (3)

Semi-finals

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

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Third place play-off

Final

Awards

1998 African Women's Championship winners
Nigeria 3rd title

Statistics

Team statistics

Pos.	Team	Pld	W	D	L	Pts	GF	GA	GD
1	Nigeria	5	5	0	0	15	28	0	+28
2	Ghana	4	3	0	1	9	11	4	+7
3	DR Congo	5	1	2	2	5	8	14	−6
4	Cameroon	4	1	1	2	4	7	14	−7
Eliminated in the group stage
5	Morocco	3	1	1	1	4	4	9	−5
6	South Africa	2	0	0	2	0	2	7	−5
7	Egypt	3	0	0	3	0	2	14	−12
—	Mozambique	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Total		12(1)	11	1(2)	11	35	62	62	0

Team(s) rendered in italics represent(s) the host nation(s). The competition's winning team is rendered in bold.
⁽¹⁾ – Total games lost not counted in total games played (total games lost = total games won)
⁽²⁾ – Total number of games drawn (tied) for all teams = Total number of games drawn (tied) ÷ 2 (both teams involved)

Goalscorers

3 goals

2 goals

1 goal

Unknown scorers

•  Nigeria : 18 additional goals.
•  Ghana : 11 additional goals.
•  DR Congo : 8 additional goals.
•  Cameroon : 7 additional goals.
•  Morocco : 4 additional goals.
•  South Africa : 2 additional goals.
•  Egypt : 2 additional goals.

References

External links

• Tournament edition records and statistics at RSSSF