2026 Women's Africa Cup of Nations qualification

2026 Women's Africa Cup of Nations qualification
Tournament details
Dates19 February – 28 October 2025 (2025-02-19 – 2025-10-28)
Teams36 (from 1 confederation)
Tournament statistics
Matches played50
Goals scored131 (2.62 per match)
Top scorer(s) Ghoutia Karchouni
Adèle Kabré
Doris Boaduwaa
Racheal Kundananji
(4 goals each)
2024
2028

The 2026 Women's Africa Cup of Nations qualification was a women's football competition to determine the teams joining the automatically qualified host Morocco in the 2026 Women's Africa Cup of Nations final tournament.

Though CAF planned for a final tournament of 12 teams, reports surfaced in early October 2025 that the final tournament would be expanded to 16 teams. CAF apparently refuted those reports on 25 October by clarifying that 11 teams would qualify, but announced on 3 November that the four teams defeated in the second round that were ranked highest in the FIFA Women's World Ranking of 7 August 2025 would also play in the final tournament.