2025 Women's Hockey Africa Cup of Nations explained

The 2025 Women's Hockey Africa Cup of Nations will be the ninth edition of the Women's Hockey Africa Cup of Nations, the quadrennial international women's field hockey championship of Africa organised by the African Hockey Federation.

The winner will qualify for the 2026 Women's FIH Hockey World Cup.^[1]

Qualification

The highest-ranked team in the FIH Women's World Ranking qualified directly for the tournament while the other teams had to play in the regional qualifiers. The top two teams from each regional qualifier qualified for the tournament. The three regions were North-East Africa, North-West Africa, and Central-South Africa.^{[2] [3]}

Dates	Event	Location	Quotas	Qualifiers
	FIH Women's World Ranking		1
Cancelled[4]	North-West Africa Qualifier		2
Cancelled[5]	North-East Africa Qualifier		1
17–24 August 2024	Central-South Africa Qualifier	Harare, Zimbabwe	3
Total			7

See also

• 2025 Men's Hockey Africa Cup of Nations

Notes and References

1. Web site: Qualification System for 2026 FIH Hockey World Cups . fih.ch . International Hockey Federation.
2. Web site: Makhandia . Agnes . AHF introduces new Cup of Nations qualifying criteria . nation.co.ke . . 29 February 2020 . 31 January 2020.
3. Web site: AfHF Presents Roadmap for 2020 . africahockey.org . . 29 February 2020 . 29 February 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200229153520/https://www.africahockey.org/2020/02/afhf-presents-roadmap-for-2020/ . dead .
4. Web site: North West Africa Qualifier for ACN 2025 (M/W) . 2024-08-08 . African Hockey Federation . en-US.
5. Web site: North-East Africa Qualifier for ACN 2025 (M/W) . 2024-08-08 . African Hockey Federation . en-US.