WAFCON 2022: Super Falcons arrive in Morocco to for the 10th WAFCON Trophy
The Super Falcons’ contingent to the 12th Women Africa Cup of Nations (WAFCON) in Morocco has begun camping in Rabat.
According to the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) Director of Communications, Dr. Ademola Olajire, “the team landed in Casablanca on Monday afternoon”
Olajire said, “They have already moved to Morocco’s administrative capital, Rabat where the team will camp for seven days before their opening match on July 4th.
The Super Falcons is drawn in Group C alongside South Africa, Botswana and Burundi.
All four semi-finalists in Morocco will qualify to represent Africa at the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup in Australia and New Zealand.
The fifth-placed team at the WAFCON will also have an opportunity to qualify for the World Cup through a Playoff Tournament scheduled for early next year.
Though the Falcons are three-time defending champions, having most recently won the competition consecutively in 2014, 2016 and 2018, their performances at the last Aisha Buhari invitational tournament hosted in Nigeria, where they lost 4-2 to South Africa in the finals makes so many people doubt if they could replicate what they did in the last three consecutive competition by bringing the Trophy home once again.
