Benin to host 2025 WAFU B U20 Girls Cup as Black Princesses prepare to defend title – Ghana Latest Football News, Live Scores, Results

The West African Soccer Union (WAFU) Zone B has formally confirmed Benin because the host nation for the 2025 WAFU B U20 Women Cup, scheduled to happen from November 3 to 10, 2025.

The week-long event will deliver collectively a few of the most promising younger feminine soccer skills from throughout West Africa, offering a platform to showcase the area’s future stars and promote the continued progress of girls’s soccer.

Up to now, Benin, Ghana, Nigeria and Niger have confirmed their participation, with further member nations anticipated to finalize their entries within the coming days.

The Black Princesses of Ghana will head to Benin because the defending champions, aiming to retain the title they received through the inaugural version of the event in 2023.

That maiden competitors, hosted in Kumasi, Ghana, noticed the Princesses overcome long-time rivals Nigeria 3–1 on penalties after a tightly contested remaining led to a stalemate. The victory cemented Ghana’s repute as one of many area’s main forces in ladies’s youth soccer.

The WAFU B U20 Women Cup has shortly change into a cornerstone occasion for girls’s soccer improvement in West Africa. It affords invaluable worldwide publicity and aggressive expertise for rising feminine gamers, serving as a key stepping stone towards senior nationwide group alternatives {and professional} careers.

Because the 2025 version approaches, anticipation is constructing for an additional thrilling showcase of talent, teamwork, and expertise — a celebration of the intense future of girls’s soccer within the sub-region.