Women’s World Cup Qualifiers: Falconets, Flamingos Draw South Africa, Rwanda

Nigeria’s age-grade women’s national teams have been drawn to face countries that the men’s national team, the Super Eagles is facing in the quest for World Cup qualifications.

The Super Eagles still have World Cup qualifying matches with South Africa, Rwanda and Zimbabwe, the three teams that the U-17 women’s side, Flamingos and the U-20 team Falconets will respectively face in the qualifying for the age-grade Women’s World Cup.

In the draw made in Cairo, Egypt on Thursday, the Flamingos will begin their journey from the second round where they will face the winners of the first-round match of Gabon and South Africa.

In the U-20 category, the Nigeria Falconets also advance to the second round, awaiting the winners of the Rwanda/Zimbabwe first-round clash.

For the U-17 World Cup qualifying series in which four teams are expected to qualify, there are 28 entries.

The four successful teams in the qualifiers will join Morocco, hosts, at the global showpiece set to take place between 17 October – 08 November 2025 in Morocco.

The FIFA U-17 Women’s World Cup will for the first time be contested by 24 nations following its expansion from 16 teams.

The African qualifiers will be played over three knockout rounds of home and away to determine the qualified nations.

The first leg round of qualifiers will be played between 10 – 12 January 2025 for the first round ahead of the first leg return fixtures between 17 – 19 January. The second round of qualifiers which will have been narrowed down to 16 nations will take place between 07 – 09 March ahead of the return fixtures set to take place between 14 – 16 March 2025.

The qualifiers officially conclude in April 2025 when the third and final rounds take place for the eight remaining nations.

The third round first legs will take place between 18 – 20 April, with the final round of qualifiers to determine the qualified nations to be decided between 25 – 27 April 2025.