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2003 Women's All-Africa Games
football tournament
Tournament details
Host country Algeria
CityAlgiers
DatesJuly 2007
Teams6 (from 1 confederation)
Final positions
Champions Nigeria (2nd title)
Runners-up South Africa
Third place Ghana
Fourth place Algeria
Tournament statistics
Matches played10
Goals scored36 (3.6 per match)
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International football competition

The 2007 All-Africa Games football – Women's tournament was the 2nd edition of the African Games men's football tournament for women. The football tournament was held in Algiers, Algeria in July 2007 as part of the 2007 All-Africa Games. Six teams took part. The final was a repeat of the first one four years ago. Nigeria again beat South Africa.

Qualification

Main article: Football at the 2007 All-Africa Games – Women's qualification

Algeria (hosts), Nigeria and Ghana qualified automatically. Cameroon and Mozambique withdrew. Teams that qualified for the tournament were:

Zone Team
Zone I  Algeria (hosts)
Zone II  Senegal
Zone III  Ghana
Zone IV  Cameroon (withdrew)
Zone V no team
Zone VI  Mozambique (withdrew)
 South Africa
Zone VII no team

Final tournament

All times given as local time (UTC+1)

The top two teams advanced. Ethiopia and Senegal were eliminated.

Group stage

Key to colours in group tables
Teams that advanced to the semifinals

Group A

Group A consisted of Ethiopia, Nigeria and South Africa.

Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
 Nigeria 2 1 1 0 5 2 +3 4
 South Africa 2 1 1 0 5 3 +2 4
 Ethiopia 2 0 0 2 1 6 −5 0
Source:
South Africa 2–2 Nigeria
Stade Omar Hamadi, Algiers
Nigeria 3–0 Ethiopia
Stade Omar Hamadi, Algiers
Ethiopia 1–3 South Africa
20 August Stadium, Algiers

Group B

Group B consisted of Algeria, Ghana and Senegal.

Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
 Ghana 2 2 0 0 5 1 +4 6
 Algeria 2 1 0 1 4 3 +1 3
 Senegal 2 0 0 2 1 6 −5 0
Source:
Ghana 2–1 Algeria
Stade Ali Benfedda, Zéralda
Algeria 3–1 Senegal
Stade Ali Benfedda, Zéralda
Ghana 3–0 Senegal
Stade Omar Hamadi, Algiers

Knockout stage

 SemifinalsFinal
       
 21 July – Algiers
 
  Nigeria5
 22 July – Zéralda
  Algeria0
  Nigeria4
 21 July – Algiers
  South Africa0
  Ghana0
 
  South Africa2
 Third place
 
 22 July – Algiers
 
  Algeria1
 
  Ghana3

Semifinals

Nigeria 5–0 Algeria
Omar Hamadi Stadium, Algiers
Ghana 0–2 South Africa
August 20 Stadium, Algiers

Third-place match

Algeria 1–3 Ghana
Zéralda Stadium, Zéralda

Final

Nigeria 4–0 South Africa
August 20 Stadium, Algiers

Final ranking

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Final result
1st place, gold medalist(s)  Nigeria 4 3 1 0 14 2 +12 10 Gold Medal
2nd place, silver medalist(s)  South Africa 4 2 1 1 7 7 0 7 Silver Medal
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)  Ghana 3 2 0 1 6 6 0 6 Bronze Medal
4  Algeria (H) 4 1 0 3 5 11 −6 3 Fourth place
5  Ethiopia 2 0 0 2 1 6 −5 0 Eliminated in
group stage
6  Senegal 2 0 0 2 1 6 −5 0
Source:
(H) Hosts

See also

References

  1. "Nigeria and SA in women's final". 18 July 2007.
  2. "Sortie ratée de la sélection Algérienne".
  3. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2015-04-02. Retrieved 2015-03-08.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

External links

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