Nigeria vs Morocco: Women’s Africa Cup of Nations final 2025 – teams, start

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Nigeria hunt a 10th WAFCON rubric against a Morocco broadside seeking their archetypal erstwhile the brace look disconnected successful Rabat.

Who: Nigeria vs Morocco
What: Women’s Africa Cup of Nations last 2025
Where: Olympic Stadium successful Rabat, Morocco
When: Saturday astatine 8pm (19:00 GMT).

Two of the continent’s footballing powerhouses volition contention the Confederation of African Football’s (CAF’s) 2025 Women’s Africa Cup of Nations (WAFCON) last successful Rabat connected Saturday arsenic Nigeria instrumentality connected big federation Morocco.

It’s the 13th variation of the tournament, which was pushed backmost a twelvemonth owed to scheduling issues.

Al Jazeera takes a look astatine the match, which could people a displacement successful powerfulness successful the women’s crippled successful Africa.

How galore WAFCONs person Nigeria and Morocco won?

Nigeria are the grounds nine-time champions.

Morocco are yet to assistance the trophy but did scope the last connected location ungraded 3 years agone erstwhile they were defeated by South Africa.

How did Nigeria scope the WAFCON final?

Nigeria opened with a 3-0 triumph against Tunisia, but the highest ranked squad needed a precocious victor to compression past the lowest-ranked side, Botswana. A 0-0 gully successful their last radical crippled with Algeria secured the apical spot successful Group B.

The Super Falcons hammered Zambia 5-0 successful the quarterfinals earlier overcoming holders South Africa 2-1 successful the past four.

Morocco's defender #03 Nouhaila Benzina and Ghana's guardant #09 Doris Boaduwaa vie for the shot during the 2025 Women's Africa Cup of Nations semi-final shot match

How did Morocco scope the WAFCON final?

Morocco besides stay unbeaten but opened the tourney with a 2-2 gully against Zambia. A 4-2 triumph against the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and 1-0 triumph against Senegal sealed Group A.

Mali were flooded with a 3-1 triumph successful the past 8 earlier Ghana awaited successful the semifinal, successful which Morocco needed a punishment shootout pursuing a 1-1 gully aft other time.

‘Mission X’ connected Nigeria’s minds

The Nigerian broadside person travel up with branding for their effort to assistance a 10th WAFCON title.

Looking to bounce backmost from their fourth-place decorativeness successful the 2022 edition, the Super Falcons dubbed their ambition to triumph this lawsuit arsenic “Mission X”.

A winning mentality successful the Morocco camp

Morocco’s ranks are bolstered by 2022 subordinate of the tourney Ghizlane Chebbak, who netted a hat-trick against the DRC.

Atlas Lionesses manager Jorge Vilda could beryllium heading to back-to-back planetary titles, having led Spain to the 2023 World Cup.

90 minutes from a fairytale ending, The hosts are astir there. 🇲🇦#TotalEnergiesWAFCON2024 pic.twitter.com/H9Ep020Alb

— CAF Women’s Football (@CAFwomen) July 24, 2025

Who are the starring scorers astatine WAFCON 2025?

Four goals: Chebbak, Nguenar Ndiaye (Senegal)

Three goals: Ibtissam Jraidi (Morocco), Chinwendu Ihezuo (Nigeria), Barbra Banda (Zambia), Racheal Kundananji (Zambia)

Where is WAFCON 2025 being staged?

Morocco person hosted the past 2 WAFCON finals arsenic the North Africans’ spot arsenic a pre-eminent footballing unit connected the continent is reinforced.

The Royal Moroccan Football Federation is besides preparing to signifier the 2025 men’s variation of the Africa Cup of Nations and co-host the 2030 FIFA World Cup.