2022 CAF Women's Champions League CECAFA qualifiers

2022 CAF Women's Champions League CECAFA Qualifiers
Tournament details
Host countryTanzania
CityDar es Salaam
Dates15–27 August 2022
Teams8 (from 8 associations)
Venue(s)2 (in 1 host city)
Final positions
Champions Simba Queens FC (1st title)
Runners-up She Corporate FC
Third place CBE F.C.
Fourth place AS Kigali WFC
Tournament statistics
Matches played16
Goals scored72 (4.5 per match)
Top scorer(s) Loza Abera (11 goals)
2021
2023
All statistics correct as of 27 August 2022.

The 2022 CAF Women's Champions League CECAFA Qualifiers is the 2nd edition of the CAF Women's Champions League CECAFA Qualifiers, a women's club football championship organised by the CECAFA for the women's clubs of association nations. This edition will held from 28 July to 10 August 2022 in Arusha, Tanzania.[1] but it was moved to August 14-27th in Dar es salaam, Tanzania[2]

The winner of the tournament will qualify for the inaugural 2022 CAF Women's Champions League which will held later this year.

Participating clubs

Team Appearances Previous best performance
Fofila PF 1st n/a
Garde Republic FC 1st n/a
Commercial Bank of Ethiopia FC 2nd Runner up(2021)
AS Kigali WFC 1st n/a
Yei Join Star FC 2nd Groupe stage(2021)
Simba Queens FC (Host) 2nd 3rd(2021)
She Corporate FC 1st n/a
Warriors QFC 1st n/a

Venues

Cities Venues Capacity
Miburani National Stadium 60,000
Dar es Salaam Azam Complex Stadium 10,000

Match officials

Draw

The draw for this edition of the tournament was held on 20 July 2022 at 11:00 UTC (13:00 CAT) in Morocco. The eight teams were drawn into 2 group of 4 teams with teams finishing first and second in the groups qualifying for the knockout stages.

Group A Group B

AS Kigali WFC Commercial Bank of Ethiopia FC Warriors QFC Fofila PF

Garde Republic FC Yei Join Star FC She Corporate FC Simba Queens FC

Group stage

The tournament was played in a two groups format.[3]

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.

Time UTC +3 [4]

Group A

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification CBE ASK FPF WQFC
1 CBE FC 3 3 0 0 16 1 +15 9 Semi-finals 5–1 9–0
2 AS Kigali WFC 3 2 0 1 5 3 +2 6 0–2 3–0
3 Fofila PF 3 1 0 2 5 7 −2 3 1–2 3–0
4 Warriors QFC 3 0 0 3 0 15 −15 0
Source:
CBE FC 9–0 Warriors QFC
  • Busser 9', 24', 31 ', 33'
  • Abera 41', 70', 74', 77', 81'
Report
Fofila PF 1–2 AS Kigali WFC
  • Kankidi 4 '
Report
  • Usanase 27', 64'
Referee: Sonia Kore (Ivory Coast)

CBE FC 5–1 Fofila PF
  • Busser 15'
  • Getenet 17'
  • Abera 21', 63', 74'
Report
  • Irankunda 40'
Referee: Shahenda Saad Ali Emaghrabi (Egypt)
AS Kigali WFC 3–0 Warriors QFC
  • Usanase 12', 63', 68'
Report
Referee: Zablon Chief Florentina (Tanzania)

CBE FC 2-0 AS Kigali WFC
Report
Fofila PF 3-0 Warriors QFC
  • Saidi 7'
  • Irankuda 70'
  • Uwenea 50'
Report

Group B

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification SQ SCP YJS GRFC
1 Simba Queens 3 3 0 0 12 0 +12 9 Semi-finals 2–0 4–0
2 She Corporate 3 2 0 1 18 2 +16 6 6–0
3 Yei Joint Stars 3 1 0 2 6 10 −4 3
4 GRFC 3 0 0 3 0 20 −20 0 0–6 0–8 0–6
Source:
She Corporate 6–0 Yei Joint Stars
  • Nabbuma 28', 53'
  • Namata 32'
  • Namiru 45+2'
  • Nambatya 73'
  • Ainembabazi 86'
Report
GRFC 0–6 Simba Queens
Report
Referee: Letticia Viana (Eswatini)

Simba Queens 2–0 She Corporate
Report
GRFC 0–6 Yei Joint Stars
Report
  • Luiz 11', 63'
  • Debora 19', 34', 56', 68'
Referee: Tsehaynesh Abebe (Ethiopia)

Simba Queens 4–0 Yei Joint Stars
Report
GRFC 0–8 She Corporate
Report
  • Nambatya 3', 36', 55'
  • Nabbuma 5', 20', 89'
  • Nakasi 6'
  • Ainembabazi 41'
Referee: Sonia Kore (Ivory Coast)

Knockout stage

Bracket

 
SemifinalsFinal
 
      
 
August 24–
 
 
Simba Queens 5
 
August 27 –
 
AS Kigali WFC1
 
She Corporate 0
 
August 24–
 
Simba Queens 1
 
CBE FC1
 
 
She Corporate2
 
Third place
 
 
August 27–
 
 
CBE FC3
 
 
AS Kigali WFC 1

Semi-finals

Simba Queens 5-1 AS Kigali WFC
Report Mukeshimana 28'

CBE FC1-2 She Corporate
Report
  • Namata 20'
  • Nabbuma 75'

Third place match

AS Kigali WFC1-3 CBE FC
Aregash 63' (o.g) Report

Final

Simba Queens1-0 She Corporate
Corazone 46' (.pen) Report

Statistics

Goalscorers

There have been 72 goals scored in 16 matches, for an average of 4.5 goals per match (as of 27 August 2022).

Rank Player Team Goals
1 Loza Abera CBE F.C. 11
2 Medina Busser CBE F.C. 6
3 Phiona Nabbuma She Corporate FC 6
4 Zawadi Usanase AS Kigali WFC 5
5 Alworonga Debora Yei Joint Stars 4
Favour Nambatya She Corporate FC
7 Vivian Corazone Simba Queens 3
8 Olaiya Barakat Simba Queens 2
Asha Djafari Simba Queens
Pambani Kuzoya Simba Queens
Philomena Abakah Simba Queens
Joanita Ainembabazi She Corporate FC
Mariam Luiz Yei Joint Stars
Charlotte Irankunda Fofila PF
Anita Namata She Corporate FC
Opa Clement Simba Queens
Corazone Aquino Simba Queens
18 Margaret Namiru She Corporate FC 1
Jackline Nakasi She Corporate FC
Joëlle Bukuru Simba Queens
Fatuma Kankidi Fofila PF
Sakina Saidi Fofila PF
Drazila Uwenea Fofila PF
Nardos Getenet CBE F.C.
Aisha Juma Manunka Simba Queens
Diana William Mnally Simba Queens
Dorothee Mukeshimana AS Kigali WFC
Hasabe Gila CBE F.C.
Aregash CBE F.C.
  • own goal
Rank Player Team Goals
1 Aregash CBE FC 1

References

  1. ^ "Eight teams for CECAFA Women's Champions League 2022 in Tanzania". 6 July 2022.
  2. ^ "CECAFA Women's Champions League moves to Dar es Salaam - CECAFA FOOTBALL".
  3. ^ "All set for the inaugural CAF Women Champions League CECAFA Qualifiers". footballkenya.org. FKF Communications. 24 August 2021.
  4. ^ Cecafaonline [@Cecafaonline] (2 August 2022). "CECAFA Women's Champions League 2022 fixture out. https://t.co/TDOdp3dcvL" (Tweet). Archived from the original on 3 August 2022. Retrieved 28 December 2022 – via Twitter.