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Interesting 2022 WAFCON facts

Posted on by CentreCircle
27
Jul
  • South Africa became the third different country to win a WAFCON title, along with 9 times winners Nigeria and two times Champions Equatorial Guinea
  • South Africa playing in their sixth WAFCON Final wins for a first time
  • After losing WAFCON Finals in 1995, Tembisa (2000), Malabo (2008 and 2012) and Accra (2018) Banyana Banyana ends their WAFCON Finals run of losses in Rabat winning their first title
  • South Africa are the first new winners of the WAFCON since Equatorial Guinea in 2008
  • South Africa are only the second African nation along with Nigeria to have their senior men’s and women’s be crowned African Champions
  • South Africa are the first Southern Africa country to win the WAFCON
  • For the first time ever South Africa men’s or women’s team wins six games at a WAFCON or AFCON
  • South Africa are the first team to win six games at a WAFCON tournament
  • South Africa have won five of their six games in Morocco by a single goal
  • South Africa playing against a host nation at the WAFCON for the 7th time won for the first time
  • South Africa were facing North African opponents at the WAFCON for the sixth time, it was their sixth victory
  • South Africa conceded just three goals at the 2022 WAFCON, keeping three clean-sheets
  • Morocco are the third WAFCON hosts to lose a final along with South Africa in 2000 and Cameroon in 2016
  • Both of South Africa’s continental triumphs at senior international level at the 1996 AFCON with Clive Barker and Desiree Ellis at the current competition were done with coaches born in South Africa
  • This is the 3rd time in WAFCON history along with 2008 and 2010 that both teams have scored in the final
  • This was the 8th time that the team winning the WAFCON scored two goals or more
  • Desiree Ellis has now duplicated the career of current 2021 AFCON winning coach Aliou Cisse, like Cisse who lost with Senegal as a player in the 2000 AFCON Final and as coach in the 2019 AFCON Final, then winning the 2021 AFCON. Ellis lost the 2000 WAFCON as a player and 2018 as a coach before winning this tournament with her home country
  • Desiree Ellis is also the 8th coach to win the WAFCON with her country of birth
  • Desiree Ellis become the fourth female coach to lead a country to WAFCON glory, after Clementine Toure who lead Equatorial Guinea to the title in 2008 and Nigerian duo Uche Eucharia and Florence Omagbemi who lead the Super Eagles to glory in 2010 and 2016 respectively
  • Morocco coach Raynold Pedros as a player and a coach has never managed to win a continental title, he lost the Semi-final with France as a player at Euro96 and now the WAFCON Final as coach of Morocco
  • Hildah Magaia ends the tournament as the joint top scorer with three goals along with Morocco’s Ghizlaine Chebbak and Nigeria’s Rasheedat Ajibade
  • Morocco’s Ghizlaine Chebbak was unable to duplicate the achievements of her father Larbi
  • Magaia is the first player since Gloria Chinasa for Equatorial Guinea against South Africa in the 2012 Final to score a brace in the final
2022 TotalEnergies Women’s Africa Cup of Nations

Tournament details
Host countryMorocco
Dates2–23 July
TEAMS12 (from 1 confederation)
Morocco, South Africa, Zambia, Nigeria,
Tunisia, Uganda, Senegal, Botswana,
Togo, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Burundi
VENUES3 (in 2 host cities)
Rabat & Casablanca
FINAL POSITIONS
CHAMPIONS South Africa (1st title)
RUNNERS UP Morocco
THIRD PLACE Zambia
FOURTH PLACE Nigeria
TOURNAMENT STATISTICS
MATCHES PLAYED28
GOALS SCORED63 (2.25 per match)
TOP GOAL SCORERS Ghizlane Chebbak
 Rasheedat Ajibade
 Hildah Magaia
(3 goals each)
PLAYER OF THE TOURNAMENT Ghizlane Chebbak
GOALKEEPER OF THE TOURNAMENT Andile Dlamini
FAIR PLAY AWARD WINNERS South Africa

WAFCON Winners: 

1998 Nigeria

2000 Nigeria 

2002 Nigeria

2004 Nigeria

2006 Nigeria

2008 Equatorial Guinea

2010 Nigeria

2012 Equatorial Guinea

2014 Nigeria 

2016 Nigeria

2018 Nigeria

2022 South Africa 

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