2023 CAF Women's Champions League WAFU Zone A Qualifiers

2023 CAF Women's Champions League WAFU Zone A Qualifiers
Tournament details
Host country	Liberia
City	Paynesville
Dates	5-13 August
Teams	4 (from 4 associations)
Final positions
Champions	AS Mandé (2nd title)
Runners-up	AS Dakar
Third place	Determine Girls FC
Fourth place	Mogbwemo Queens
Tournament statistics
Matches played	6
Goals scored	11 (1.83 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Oumou Kone (3 goals)

The 2023 CAF Women's Champions League WAFU Zone A Qualifiers was the 3rd edition of CAF Women's Champions League WAFU Zone A Qualifiers tournament organized by the WAFU for the women's clubs of association nations. This edition was held from 5 to 13 August 2023 in Paynesville, Liberia.^[1] The winners of the tournament qualified for the 2023 CAF Women's Champions League final tournament.

Participating teams

The following four teams contested in the qualifying tournament.

Team	Qualifying method	Appearances	Previous best performance
Determine Girls FC	2022–23 Liberian Women's Champions	3rd	Champions 2022
AS Mandé	2022–23 Malian Women's Champions	3rd	Champions 2021
AS Dakar	2022–23 Senegalese Women's Champions	1st	n/a
Mogbwemo Queens	2022–23 Sierra Leonean Women's Champions	1st	n/a

Venues

Cities	Venues	Capacity
Paynesville	Samuel Kanyon Doe Sports Complex	22,000

Match officials

Qualifying tournament

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.

Points in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
Goal difference in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
Goals scored in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
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;
Goal difference in all group matches;
Goals scored in all group matches;
Penalty shoot-out if only two teams are tied and they met in the last round of the group;
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);
Drawing of lots.

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification	ASM	ASD	DGF	MQFC
1	AS Mandé	3	1	2	0	4	1	+3	5	Main tournament	—
2	AS Dakar	3	1	2	0	3	2	+1	5		1–1	—	1–1	1–0
3	Determine Girls FC	3	1	1	1	3	5	−2	4		0–3		—	2–1
4	Mogbwemo Queens	3	0	1	2	1	3	−2	1		0–0			—

Source:

7 August 2023