{"id":3390,"date":"2026-10-29T14:49:22","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T14:49:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/29\/wafu-zone-b-edo-queens-miss-out-on-champions-league-qualification-after-defeat-to-ghanas-ampem-darkoa\/"},"modified":"2026-10-29T14:49:22","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T14:49:22","slug":"wafu-zone-b-edo-queens-miss-out-on-champions-league-qualification-after-defeat-to-ghanas-ampem-darkoa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/29\/wafu-zone-b-edo-queens-miss-out-on-champions-league-qualification-after-defeat-to-ghanas-ampem-darkoa\/","title":{"rendered":"WAFU Zone B: Edo Queens Miss Out On Champions League Qualification After Defeat To Ghana\u2019s Ampem Darkoa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ghanaian champions Ampem Darkoa Ladies defeated Nigeria\u2019s Edo Queens 3-2, in a rescheduled WAFU Zone B qualifying final played today (Friday) October 29, in Cairo, Egypt, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.completesports.com\/\">completesports.com<\/a><\/strong> reports. <\/p>\n<p>The result means Ampem Darkoa claim the zone\u2019s only ticket to the 2026 CAF Women\u2019s Champions League.<\/p>\n<p>With the game tied at 2-2, Ampem Darkoa scored just two minutes into extra-time from a corner through Mohammed Afishata with the decisive goal to end the tie 3-2.<\/p>\n<p>The original WAFU Zone B final ended 2-2 after 90 minutes before Edo Queens went on to win 4-1 on penalties and were declared champions, booking their place in Egypt.<\/p>\n<p>Ampem Darkoa filed a protest, arguing the game went straight to penalties without the mandatory 30 minutes extra-time as stated in Article 72.4 of the regulations. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Also Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.completesports.com\/wafu-b-champions-league-caf-sets-october-29-for-completion-of-edo-queens-ampem-darkoa-final\/\">WAFU B Champions League: CAF Sets October 29 For Completion Of Edo Queens, Ampem Darkoa Final<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>CAF\u2019s Organising Committee for Women\u2019s Football upheld the protest on September 26 and annulled the shootout.<\/p>\n<p>The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) forwarded Edo Queens\u2019 appeal, but the CAF Appeal Board confirmed the ruling on October 16, ordering the match to resume from 2-2 at the start of extra-time at a neutral venue.<\/p>\n<p>Edo Queens had looked dominant in the earlier qualifiers \u2013 beating USFA 5-1 in the semis \u2013 after losing 2-1 to Ampem Darkoa in the group stage. But this second chance went Ghana\u2019s way.<\/p>\n<p>Ampem Darkoa will now represent WAFU Zone B at the 2026 CAF Women\u2019s Champions League in Egypt from November 1-15. <\/p>\n<p>They have been drawn in Group B alongside defending champions AS FAR of Morocco, Kawempe Muslim Ladies of Uganda, and USFAS Bamako of Mali.<\/p>\n<p><em><br \/><strong><br \/>By James Agberebi<br \/><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Source: <\/p>\n<div class=\"nSourse\">Complete Sports<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ghanaian champions Ampem Darkoa Ladies defeated Nigeria\u2019s Edo Queens 3-2, in a rescheduled WAFU Zone B qualifying final played today (Friday) October 29, in Cairo, Egypt, completesports.com reports. The result&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3391,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3390\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}