MATCH STATS: Egypt face Nigeria in TotalEnergies CAF WAFCON Morocco 2026 Group C
Egypt and defending champions Nigeria meet in their final TotalEnergies CAF Women’s Africa Cup of Nations Morocco 2026 Group C fixture at the Rabat Olympic Stadium on Wednesday, 5 August, with kick-off at 21h00 local time (20h00 GMT).
Match Facts
• This will be the teams’ second meeting at the WAFCON. Their previous clash came in their third group game at the 1998 edition, when Nigeria won 6-0.
• Egypt’s only previous WAFCON meeting with West African opposition was against Nigeria in 1998.
• Nigeria will be playing their 10th WAFCON match against North African opposition.
• Nigeria have won six of their previous nine WAFCON matches against North African teams, drawing the other three.
• Nigeria have never lost to North African opposition in open play. Their only defeat came on penalties against Morocco in the 2022 semi-finals following a 1-1 draw.
• Nigeria have kept seven clean sheets in their nine previous WAFCON matches against North African opponents.
• Nigeria have scored 31 goals in their nine previous games against North African teams and conceded three, all scored by Morocco across two meetings.
• Nigeria have failed to score in two WAFCON matches against North African opposition: goalless group-stage draws against Tunisia in 2008 and Algeria at the last edition.
Egypt – Key Statistics
• Egypt have lost both their matches at the current tournament and have opened a WAFCON with successive defeats for the second time.
• They also lost their opening two matches in 1998, going down 4-1 to both Morocco and DR Congo before losing their final group game 6-0 to Nigeria.
• Egypt lost 6-0 to Zambia in their opening match at the current tournament and 3-1 to Malawi in their second.
• They have conceded nine goals in their opening two games, the most they have let in across their first two matches at an edition. They previously conceded eight in 1998.
• Six of the nine goals Egypt have conceded have come in the second half, all from the 60th minute onwards. All three of the goals conceded in the first half have come from the 25th minute onwards.
• Egypt have lost all three of their matches at a single WAFCON edition only once, in 1998.
• They have lost their last three WAFCON games since recording their only victory at the finals, a 1-0 win over Zimbabwe in their second group match in 2016.
• Defeat would see Egypt lose four successive WAFCON matches for the second time. They previously lost all three games in 1998 and their opening match in 2016.
• Egypt have conceded in seven of their eight WAFCON games, with their only clean sheet coming in the victory over Zimbabwe in 2016.
• They have never drawn a match at the WAFCON.
• Egypt can only progress if they defeat Nigeria and Zambia lose to Malawi. Under the three-team head-to-head tiebreak criteria, Egypt would need to win by at least 11 goals.
• Egypt had failed to score in two successive WAFCON games before Eman Hassan found the net against Malawi.
• Their last two WAFCON goals have both been scored in the second half.
• Egypt have lost their final group game at both previous appearances, going down 6-0 to Nigeria in 1998 and 5-0 to South Africa in 2016.
• They are yet to score in their final group game at the WAFCON.
• Egypt managed five shots on target in the defeat to Malawi, their most in either of their two matches at the current tournament.
• Goalkeeper Maha Shehata made seven saves in the defeat to Malawi after facing 10 shots on target.
Nigeria – Key Statistics
• Nigeria lost their opening match 3-2 to Malawi before defeating Zambia 1-0 in their second game.
• They had conceded in three successive WAFCON matches before keeping a clean sheet against Zambia. Their previous clean sheet came in a 5-0 quarter-final victory over Zambia at the last edition.
• Asisat Oshoala scored the only goal in the victory over Zambia.
• It was Oshoala’s 15th WAFCON goal.
• Oshoala has scored at five different editions of the tournament.
• Her 15 WAFCON goals have come against eight different countries. Zambia are the only opponents against whom she has scored in two separate matches.
• Oshoala previously scored against Zambia in Nigeria’s 6-0 group-stage victory in 2014.
• Nigeria have won eight of the nine WAFCON matches in which Oshoala has scored. The exception was a 1-1 group-stage draw with Ghana in 2016.
• Should Nigeria fail to qualify for the knockout rounds, they will have been eliminated in the group stage for the first time.
• Failure to progress would also make them the first defending champions to be eliminated in the group stage.
• Nigeria have never lost their final group game, recording 12 wins and one draw.
• They won their final group match at 12 successive editions between 1998 and 2022 before drawing 0-0 with Algeria at the last tournament.
• The draw against Algeria was the only occasion on which Nigeria failed to score in their final group game.
• On both previous occasions when they lost their opening match, in 2018 and 2022, Nigeria recovered to win their next two group games.
• Rasheedat Ajibade won all three tackles she attempted in the victory over Zambia.
• Ajibade won nine duels against Zambia, more than any other player.