CECAFA members Eritrea and Djibouti, Namibia, Guinea-Bissau, and Sao-Tome have withdrawn their teams from the second round stage of the U-17 Women’s World Cup 2022 qualifiers set to kick start this weekend, with the return legs being played two weeks later.The five teams join Kenya in the list of countries that had qualified for the second round but will not play following the latter’s disqualification after FIFA suspended FKF last week.The Ethiopian U-17 women’s national team held their final training session today ahead of the 2022 FIFA U-17 women’s world cup qualifiers first leg match against Uganda on march 4. The team will travel to Uganda tomorrow. pic.twitter.com/IXVxhv7tIU— Ethiopian FF (@footballethiop) March 1, 2022 Eritrea was meant to face Cameroon, Djibouti was set to play Burundi, Namibia was to travel to Zambia for the first leg encounter, Guinea-Bissau had Egypt on the cards, while Sao-Tome had a date with Niger.”Note the withdrawals this time of Eritrea, Namibia, Guinea-Bissau, Djibouti, and Sao-Tome, as well as the disqualification of Kenya,” CAf wrote on their portal while confirming the upcoming fixtures.Barely a day after confirming Kenya’s suspension last week, FIFA, through CAF, took swift action to back their action by confirming Kenya’s disqualification from the qualifier.The suspension by FIFA definitely was to have casualties, and the first one is Kenya Women’s U-17 side.#FIFA https://t.co/h9PlAmwi9i— Mozzart Sport Kenya (@MozzartSportKe) February 25, 2022 Kenya was set to play South Africa in a two-legged clash but the confirmation gives the latter the green light to progress to the next round where they will meet the winner between Uganda and Ethiopia.Following the development, Burundi, Cameroon, Zambia, Egypt, and Niger join South Africa in the next round.Twelve teams will qualify for the next round, before the final phase which will see three teams qualify from Africa to play at the 2022 FIFA U-17 Women’s World Cup in India.
