2025 CAF Women's Champions League WAFU Zone B Qualifiers

2025 CAF Women's Champions League WAFU Zone B Qualifiers
Tournament details
Host countryIvory Coast
CityYamoussoukro
Dates23 August-4 September
Teams7 (from 7 associations)
Venue(s)2 (in 2 host cities)
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The 2025 CAF Women's Champions League WAFU Zone B Qualifiers is the 5th edition of the CAF Women's Champions League WAFU Zone B Qualifiers organized by the WAFU for the women's clubs of association nations. This edition will be held in Yamoussoukro, Ivory Coast from 23 August to 4 September 2025.[1]

The tournament winners qualified automatically for the 2025 CAF Women's Champions League final tournament

Participating clubs

Team Qualifying method Appearances Previous best performance
Ivory Coast ASEC Mimosas 2024–25 Ivory Coast Women's Championship Champions 1st n/a
Benin Sam Nelly FC 2024–25 Benin Women's Championship Champions 2nd 4th(2025)
Ghana Police Ladies FC 2024–25 Ghana Women's Premier League Champions 1st n/a
Niger AS GNN 2023–24 Niger Women's Championship Champions 2nd Groupe-stage (2025)
Burkina Faso USFA 2024–25 Burkinabé Women's Championship Champions 4th 4th(2021)
Togo ASKO Kara 2024–25 Togolese Women's Championship Champions 2nd Groupe-stage (2025)
Nigeria Bayelsa Queens FC 2024–25 NWFL Premiership Champions 2nd Champion(2022)

Venues

 Yamoussoukro
Charles Konan Banny Stadium
Capacity: 20,000

Draw

The draw for this edition of the tournament was held on 14 August 2025 at 10:00 UTC+0 in Abidjan,Ivory Coast at the CAF WEST ZONE B headquarters.[2] The seven teams were drawn into 2 groups with teams finishing first and second in the groups qualifying for the knockout stages.[3]

Match officials

The following match officials were selected for the tournament.

Referees

  • Benin Béatrice Gouchoedou
  • Burkina Faso Jacqueline Nikiéma
  • Ivory Coast Natacha Konan
  • Ghana Rita Boateng-Nkansah

Assistant referees

  • Benin Sonia Louis
  • Burkina Faso Ami Kouma
  • Ivory Coast Ndeko Appia
  • Ghana Patricia Kyeraa
  • Mali Kadidia Dicko
  • Niger Sakina Hamidou Alfa
  • Nigeria Faith Agbons
  • Togo Kossiwa Awoutey

Group stage

All times are local, GMT (UTC±0).
Tiebreakers

Teams are ranked according to points (3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, 0 points for a loss), and if tied on points, the following tiebreaking criteria are applied, in the order given, to determine the rankings.

  1. Points in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
  2. Goal difference in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
  3. Goals scored in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
  4. If more than two teams are tied, and after applying all head-to-head criteria above, a subset of teams are still tied, all head-to-head criteria above are reapplied exclusively to this subset of teams;
  5. Goal difference in all group matches;
  6. Goals scored in all group matches;
  7. Penalty shoot-out if only two teams are tied and they met in the last round of the group;
  8. Disciplinary points (yellow card = 1 point, red card as a result of two yellow cards = 3 points, direct red card = 3 points, yellow card followed by direct red card = 4 points);
  9. Drawing of lots.

Group A

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1 Ivory Coast ASEC Mimosas 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Semi-finals
2 Niger AS GNN 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
3 Burkina Faso USFA 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
First match(es) will be played: 23 August 2025. Source: WAFU B
ASEC Mimosas Ivory Coast–Niger AS GNN
AS GNN Niger–Burkina Faso USFA
USFA Burkina Faso–Ivory Coast ASEC Mimosas

Group B

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1 Nigeria Bayelsa Queens 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Semi-finals
2 Ghana Police Ladies 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
3 Togo ASKO Kara 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
4 Benin Sam Nelly 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
First match(es) will be played: 24 August 2025. Source: WAFU B
Bayelsa Queens Nigeria–Ghana Police Ladies
ASKO Kara Togo–Benin Sam Nelly
ASKO Kara Togo–Nigeria Bayelsa Queens
Police Ladies Ghana–Benin Sam Nelly
Police Ladies Ghana–Togo ASKO Kara
Sam Nelly Benin–Nigeria Bayelsa Queens

Knockout stage

Awards and statistics

Goalscorers

References

  1. ^ Yah, Chamade (4 August 2025). "Dames : Zone UFOA-B : Yamoussoukro abritera la compétition". sport-ivoire.ci (in French). Retrieved 5 August 2025.
  2. ^ "The draw for the 𝐂𝐀𝐅 𝐖𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐧'𝐬 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐦𝐩𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐋𝐞𝐚𝐠𝐮𝐞 - 𝐖𝐀𝐅𝐔 𝐁 𝐐𝐮𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐟𝐢𝐞𝐫𝐬 - Ivory Coast 2025 will take place tomorrow in Abidjan 🇨🇮 at the CAF WEST ZONE B headquarters". ZONE OUEST B. 13 August 2025. Retrieved 16 August 2025.
  3. ^ "Here are the results of the Women's Champion League draw held today at the headquarters of WAFU B". ZONE OUEST B. 13 August 2025. Retrieved 16 August 2025.
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