{"id":74525,"date":"2025-08-29T11:36:44","date_gmt":"2025-08-29T11:36:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=74525"},"modified":"2025-08-29T11:36:44","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T11:36:44","slug":"2026-wafcon-qualifiers-super-falcons-draw-benin-republic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/08\/29\/2026-wafcon-qualifiers-super-falcons-draw-benin-republic\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 WAFCON Qualifiers: Super Falcons Draw Benin Republic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Njoku Chijioke<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) has confirmed that the Super Falcons will face Benin Republic\u2019s She-Cheetahs in the 2026 Women\u2019s Africa Cup of Nations (WAFCON) qualifiers. The two-legged clash will hold between October 20 and 28, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Benin will host the first leg, while Nigeria takes charge of the return fixture. The aggregate winner will secure a place at the tournament in Morocco, slated for March 2026.<\/p>\n<p>The top four teams at WAFCON 2026 will automatically qualify for the 2027 FIFA Women\u2019s World Cup in Brazil, while two additional African sides can reach the mundial via a FIFA inter-confederation play-off.<\/p>\n<p>The Super Falcons, coached by Justine Madugu, are aiming to defend their title and clinch another World Cup ticket.<\/p>\n<p>Their opponents, Benin Republic, defeated Sierra Leone 5-2 on aggregate in the last round and will be seeking to upset the nine-time African champions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Njoku Chijioke &nbsp; The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) has confirmed that the Super Falcons will face Benin Republic\u2019s She-Cheetahs in the 2026 Women\u2019s Africa Cup of Nations (WAFCON) qualifiers. The two-legged clash will hold between October 20 and 28, 2025. Benin will host the first leg, while Nigeria takes charge of the return fixture. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":74526,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,175],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-sports"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74525"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74525\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74527,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74525\/revisions\/74527"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}