2006 African Women's Championship

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The 2006 African Women's Championship was the 7th edition of the biennial African women's association football tournament organized by the Confederation of African Football. Originally scheduled to be held in Gabon in September, it took place in Nigeria for the 4th time from 28 October to 11 November 2006.

Gabon withdrew as hosts due to "organizational reasons",^[1] thus CAF gave this tournament edition's hosting rights to Nigeria in May 2006.^[2] Initially, this edition of the tournament was scheduled for September 2006, but it was moved to October due to weather considerations.^[3]

This edition of the tournament also doubled as the African qualification for the 2007 FIFA Women's World Cup. Nigeria won its 7th consecutive title, beating Ghana 1–0 in the final, although both finalists were guaranteed qualification to that edition of the international tournament in China. South Africa's Portia Modise was named player of the championship.^[4]

Qualification

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The original hosts (Gabon) qualified automatically, while the remaining seven spots were determined by the qualification rounds which took place from March to August 2006.

Nigeria initially entered qualification at the second round and was scheduled to play Equatorial Guinea when CAF elected them as replacement hosts, thus that match was scrapped and both teams qualified for the group stage at Gabon's expense.

Format

Qualification ties were played on a home-and-away two-legged basis. If the aggregate score was tied after the second leg, the away goals rule would be applied; if scores still level, extra time would be skipped and the use of a penalty shoot-out would determine the qualifier. The seven winners of the qualification round qualified for the group stage.

Qualified teams

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Qualified

Did not qualify

Did not enter or withdrew

Not part of CAF

Equatorial Guinea made their tournament debut at this edition.

Team	Qualified as	Qualified on	Previous tournament appearancesTemplate:Efn
Script error: No such module "flagg".	Replacement hosts	17 May 2006	6 (1991, 1995, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2004)
Script error: No such module "flagg".	By default	17 May 2006	Debut
Script error: No such module "flagg".	Winners against Tanzania	4 August 2006	5 (1995, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2004)
Script error: No such module "flagg".	Winners against Egypt	5 August 2006	1 (2004)
Script error: No such module "flagg".	Winners by default against Congo	5 August 2006	6 (1991, 1995, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2004)
Script error: No such module "flagg".	Winners against Kenya	5 August 2006	5 (1991, 1998, 2000, 2002)
Script error: No such module "flagg".	Winners against Senegal	5 August 2006	1 (1998)
Script error: No such module "flagg".	Winners against Benin	6 August 2006	2 (2002, 2004)

Notes

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Group stage

Tiebreakers

If two or more teams in the group stage are tied on points tie-breakers are in order:

greater number of points in matches between tied teams
superior goal difference in matches between tied teams
greater number of goals scored in matches between tied teams
superior goal difference in all group matches
greater number of goals scored in all group matches
fair play criteria based on red and yellow cards received
drawing of lots

Group A

Equatorial Guinea arrived at Murtala Muhammed International Airport in a private chartered plane which had no clearance to land, with its players unable to disembark for 3 hours. This left them no other choice than to return home unhappy with the treatment they received by airport officials despite organizers trying to remedy the situation.^[5] However, their first match was played as scheduled.

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