2025 Women's Hockey Africa Cup of Nations
{{Short description|Hockey Africa Cup}}
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| tournament = 2025 Women's Hockey Africa Cup of Nations
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| country = Egypt
| city = Ismailia
| dates = 20–31 August 2025
| venues = Suez Canal Authority Hockey Stadium
| teams = 7
| confederations = 1
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| previous_year = 2022
| previous_tournament = 2022 Women's Hockey Africa Cup of Nations
| next_year = 2029
| next_tournament = 2029 Women's Hockey Africa Cup of Nations
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The 2025 Women's Hockey Africa Cup of Nations will be the ninth edition of the Women's Hockey Africa Cup of Nations, the quadrennial international women's field hockey championship of Africa organised by the African Hockey Federation. In March 2025 it was announced that the tournament would be held alongside the men's tournament in Ismailia, Egypt from 20 to 31 August 2025.{{Cite Instagram |user=sa_hockey_men |postid=DG8PSG3Ip7d |title=Africa Cup 2025 | World Cup Qualifier |date=8 March 2025}}
The winner will qualify for the 2026 Women's FIH Hockey World Cup.{{cite web |title=Qualification System for 2026 FIH Hockey World Cups |url=https://www.fih.hockey/static-assets/pdf/qualification-system-for-2026-fih-hockey-world-cups-final.pdf |website=fih.ch |publisher=International Hockey Federation}}
Qualification
The highest-ranked team in the FIH Women's World Ranking qualified directly for the tournament while the other teams had to play in the regional qualifiers. The top two teams from each regional qualifier qualified for the tournament. The three regions were North-East Africa, North-West Africa, and Central-South Africa.{{cite web |last1=Makhandia |first1=Agnes |title=AHF introduces new Cup of Nations qualifying criteria |url=https://www.nation.co.ke/sports/hockey/AHF-introduces-new-Cup-of-Nations-qualifying-criteria/1108-5438436-dpwdsu/index.html |website=nation.co.ke |publisher=Daily Nation |accessdate=29 February 2020 |date=31 January 2020}}{{cite web |title=AfHF Presents Roadmap for 2020 |url=https://www.africahockey.org/2020/02/afhf-presents-roadmap-for-2020/ |website=africahockey.org |publisher=African Hockey Federation |accessdate=29 February 2020 |archive-date=29 February 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200229153520/https://www.africahockey.org/2020/02/afhf-presents-roadmap-for-2020/ |url-status=dead }}
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!Dates !Event !Location !Quotas !Qualifiers |
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|{{n/a}} | align="center" |1 |{{fhw|RSA}} |
| Cancelled{{Cite web |title=North West Africa Qualifier for ACN 2025 (M/W) |url=https://www.africahockey.org/event/north-west-africa-qualifier-for-acn-2025-m-w/ |access-date=2024-08-08 |website=African Hockey Federation |language=en-US}}
|North-West Africa Qualifier | {{n/a}} | align="center" |2 |{{fhw|GHA}} |
| Cancelled{{Cite web |title=North-East Africa Qualifier for ACN 2025 (M/W) |url=https://www.africahockey.org/event/north-east-africa-qualifier-for-acn-2025-m-w/ |access-date=2024-08-08 |website=African Hockey Federation |language=en-US}}
|North-East Africa Qualifier |{{n/a}} | align="center" |1 |{{fhw|UGA}} |
| 17–24 August 2024
|Central-South Africa Qualifier |Harare, Zimbabwe | align="center" |3 |{{fhw|NAM}} |
| colspan="3" |Total
!7 ! |
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See also
Notes
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