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1991 African Women's Championship

Tournament details
Dates	16 February – 30 June
Teams	8
Final positions
Champions	Nigeria (1st title)
Runners-up	Cameroon
Tournament statistics
Matches played	6
Goals scored	22 (3.67 per match)
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The 1991 African Women's Championship was the inaugural edition of the currently-named Women's Africa Cup of Nations, invoked to determine CAF's single qualifier for the inaugural edition of the FIFA Women's World Cup that year. Nigeria defeated Cameroon in the final to win its first title and earn qualification.

Eight teams were originally scheduled to play in the tournament, but four of them withdrew, with Cameroon reaching the final on two walkovers.

Participating teams

The eight participating teams were:

•  Cameroon
•  Congo
•  Ghana
•  Guinea
•  Nigeria
•  Senegal
•  Zambia
•  Zimbabwe

The teams who withdrew in italics.

Bracket

	Quarter-finals						Semi-finals						Final
	Nigeria	5	2	7
	Ghana	1	1	2
							Nigeria	3	4	7
							Guinea	0	0	0
	Guinea (w/o)
	Senegal
													Nigeria	2	4	6
													Cameroon	0	0	0
	Zambia (w/o)
	Zimbabwe
							Zambia
							Cameroon (w/o)
	Cameroon (w/o)
	Congo

Final Tournament

First round

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Nigeria	7–2	Ghana	5–1	2–1
Guinea	w/o	Senegal	—	—
Zambia	w/o	Zimbabwe	—	—
Cameroon	w/o	Congo	—	—

Nigeria	5–1	Ghana

Ghana	1–2	Nigeria

Nigeria won 7–2 on aggregate.

Guinea	w/o	Senegal

Senegal withdrew, Guinea advanced.

Zambia	w/o	Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe withdrew, Zambia advanced.

Cameroon	w/o	Congo

Congo withdrew, Cameroon advanced.

Semifinals

Nigeria	3–0	Guinea

Guinea	0–4	Nigeria

Nigeria won 7–0 on aggregate.

Cameroon	w/o	Zambia

Zambia withdrew, Cameroon advanced.

Final

Nigeria	2–0	Cameroon

Cameroon	0–4	Nigeria

Nigeria won 6–0 on aggregate and also qualified for the 1991 FIFA Women's World Cup.

Awards

1991 Women's African Football Championship winners
Nigeria First title

External links

• Tournament profile at RSSSF

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