2004 African Women's Championship
The 2004 African Women's Championship was the sixth edition of the African Women's Championship, the biennial international football championship organised by the Confederation of African Football for the women's national teams of Africa. It was held in South Africa between 18 September and 3 October 2004.
Nigeria won its sixth title, after defeating Cameroon 5–0 in the final.
South Africa were elected as hosts on 12 December 2003.
Qualification
qualified automatically as hosts, while the remaining seven spots were determined by the qualifying rounds, which took place from May to July 2004. From this tournament onwards, the defending champions does not receive automatic qualification.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, and if still level, the penalty shoot-out would be used to determine the winner.The seven winners of the final round qualified for the final tournament.
Qualified teams
appeared for the first time in the tournament.| Team | Qualified as | Qualified on | Previous appearances in tournament1 |
| Hosts | 12 December 2003 | 4 | |
| Winners against Mali | 23 July 2004 | Debut | |
| Winners against Guinea | 24 July 2004 | 5 | |
| Winners against Senegal | 24 July 2004 | 5 | |
| Winners against Congo | 25 July 2004 | 4 | |
| Winners against Malawi | 25 July 2004 | 1 | |
| Winners against Tanzania | 25 July 2004 | 2 | |
| Lucky loser2 | July–August 2004 | 1 |
Format
The eight teams were divided into two groups of four teams each. The top two teams in the groups advanced to the semi-finals.The teams were ranked according to points.
Results
Group stage
Group A
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Group B
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Knockout stage
In the knockout stage, if a match is level at the end of normal playing time, extra time is played and followed, if necessary, by kicks from the penalty mark to determine the winner, except for the third place match where no extra time is played.Semi finals
----Third place match
Final
Awards
Statistics
Team statistics
Goalscorers
Perpetua Nkwocha was the top scorer of the event with nine goals. In total, 48 goals were scored by 27 players.;9 goals
- Perpetua Nkwocha
;3 goals
;2 goals
- Nabila Imloul
- Françoise Bella
- Stéphanie Mekongo
- Belay Tutu
- Akua Anokyewaa
- Bernice Asante
- Vera Okolo
- Nomsa Moyo