Nigeria’s Super Falcons will discover their path to the 2028 Los Angeles Olympic Games today when the Confederation of African Football conducts the draw for the women’s Olympic qualifying tournament in Cairo, Egypt.
The draw, which marks the start of Africa’s qualification campaign for the Los Angeles Games, will be held at CAF headquarters by 1pm on Wednesday and streamed live on the CAF YouTube channel.
A total of 35 national teams have entered the qualification race, reflecting the scale of competition across the continent.
The list includes Algeria, Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Comoros, Congo, Côte d’Ivoire, Democratic Republic of Congo, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Ghana, Guinea, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritius, Morocco, Namibia, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Seychelles, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Tunisia, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
CAF has structured the qualifying pathway into five rounds, with only two African teams ultimately securing tickets to the women’s football tournament at the 2028 Olympic Games, scheduled to run from July 11 to 29, 2028 in Los Angeles and other cities across the United States.