The West African Football Union (French: Union des Fédérations Ouest-Africaines de Football; Portuguese: União das Federações Oeste Africanas), officially abbreviated as WAFU-UFOA and WAFU, is a sports governing body representing the football associations in West Africa that was founded in 1975 and is a subregional body of the Confederation of African Football (CAF).
It mainly organizes qualifying tournaments/championships for the CAF Women's Champions League and CAF's national team competitions except the Africa Cup of Nations, but also organizes its own competitions, like the currently-inactive WAFU Nations Cup.
Contents
Presidents
K. Tandoh (1975–1977)
Seyi Memene (1977–1984)
Abdoulaye Fofana (1984–1988)
Jonathan Boytie Ogufere (1988–1994)
Dieng Ousseynou (1994–1999)
Abdulmumini Aminu (1999–2002)
El Hadji Malick Sy (2002–2004)
Jacques Anouma (2004–2008)
Amos Adamu (2008–2010)
Kwesi Nyantakyi (2011–2018)
Kurt Okraku (2019–present)
Member associations
WAFU consists of all football associations of West Africa, but is split into two zones by CAF, who cited "organisational issues facing WAFU."
Zone A
Zone B
Competitions
WAFU runs main and qualifying competitions covering men, women and youth.
Major tournament records
Legend
1st – Champions
2nd – Runners-up
3rd – Third place
4th – Fourth place
QF – Quarter-finals (1934–1938, 1954–1970, and 1986–present: knockout round of 8)
R3 — Round 3 (2026–present: knockout round of 16)
R2 — Round 2 (1974–1978: second group stage, top 8; 1982: second group stage, top 12; 1986–2022: knockout round of 16; 2026–present: knockout round of 32)
R1 — Round 1 (1930, 1950–1970 and 1986–present: group stage; 1934–1938: knockout round of 16; 1974–1982: first group stage)
Q — Qualified for upcoming tournament
•• – Qualified but withdrew
• – Did not qualify
× – Did not enter / Withdrew / Banned
– Hosts
– Not affiliated in FIFA
For each tournament, the flag of the host country and the number of teams in each finals tournament (in brackets) are shown.